Home Schooling Summary for Last Week

This week we did the usual reading and math practices in A's workbooks - long vowel sounds are high priority these days. Brother M has also started doing the old preschool workbook activities because he does not want to be left out. The exciting activity this week was our volcano -- another gift from our buddies who were visiting last week. I know, we're so spoiled!

The volcano kit was awesome. It included a mold and plaster to make the volcano shape as well as enough ingredients to "set it off" about 10 times. We did it on Monday night for FHE and then again on Thursday when the cousins were at our house. 

 We stayed WAAY back the first time we set it off...

And then got to look closer on subsequent eruptions... 

 We had a lesson at the nature center this week on conifers vs. deciduous trees.

We made necklaces with leaves of conifers, did crayon rubbings of them, and then went outside to collect more examples. This is a good time of year for an activity like this because it is very obvious which trees are evergreen -- since they are the only ones with leaves. 

Little brother S very kindly got absorbed looking out the windows while I helped big brother and sis with their projects.

Big sister A also had her art lesson this week and made clay whales based on what they learned about the different types of whales last week.  She also had gymnastics.   Wednesday we went to the Tot Ice Skate time for them to practice what they learned in their first lesson and then to another lesson Saturday morning. I think the practice session really helped them because they went into lesson 2 with a lot more confidence.  Ice skating might turn out to be a long term love for big sister A. She counts down the days and is always really excited to get out on the ice.