Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Band Weaving



Miss M has jumped on the band weaving wagon. She got a kit this week and is learning very quickly how to make fun friendship bracelets for all her friends.

Pumpkin Pie

For Project Friday this past week , Miss M was given a recipe. She had to double the recipe, and gather all the ingredients accordingly. This task tested her skills in FRACTIONS, and following directions. It also included  home economics/life skills. She did a fabulous job, and they were very delicious.



New Addition

 Her name is Sandi, and yes she's a Chihuahua. This is a brave new adventure for us, but hopefully it will be a good one. One that will teach responsibility, and distract the little electronic addicted minds in our house, and  direct them to more wholesome activities.
 
 

Monday, January 13, 2014

Sight Words & Reading


As we all know, sight words are an important part of the learning to read. As Mr. W becomes more confident with each word his ability to read stories by himself gets stronger and stronger. We started off with list and flash cards, and now have moved on to using these colourful popsicle sticks to keep things interesting and fun. Some times we play games with them to mix things up a bit. One game is to randomly pick 5-7 sticks out of the pile. Lay them out and try to make a funny sentence out of them.


Cuttings

Mr. W is always asking if he can grow different things, so when our Begonia plant got neglected over the holidays, and was looking a little worse for wear, we took a cutting of it. We stuck it in a blow of water and placed it in the window sill to get as much sunlight as possible. We are keeping track of its progress to see what happens. We will keep you posted with updated photos of its growth. The purpose of the experiment is to see if you can grow a Begonia from a cutting.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Pattern Blocks

Here are a few pictures of the kids creations they made out of the pattern blocks after math one day.






 Mr. W is really proud of  this beauty. He design and build by himself this awesome house for his lego guys that he got for Christmas. The building materials he used were wood popsicle sticks and hot glue.