End of Week 9/9

We started our day today out with a grammar bingo game. It was review for Cub and practice for Crawdad. Taz enjoyed just stacking marker pieces. :) Cub won 3 times and Crawdad twice. They actually managed to talk me into Smarties as prizes, mostly because we were out of mini marshmellows, which is what we usually use for things like this. Fortunately, Smarties at 9am didn't have an adverse effect on anyone (except me, because we ran out before I got any!).

 

It can be a little difficult to do your work when you have a 40 lb Taz hanging on your arm, but he made a valiant effort. :P

Cub did a charcoal sketch of surgical tools used during the early Middle Ages. Yikes! And I thought modern medicine was scary!

 Cub started The Giver this week. He began a chart comparing that world to ours. The project will run the course of the book. I posted a picture (right) of some of the books that Cub is reading for history and Bible. The cross in the middle is the "stained glass" he made this week as his history project (studying the early church). Taz got in on the action.,of course. :)

Her picture is below. She said it was a picture of her (the little one), me (the pink one), Cub, and a can of tomato sauce. Um, maybe it was a plug for spaghetti for supper? :-P

Crawdad took a few minutes out of his math time to help Taz write some numbers. She was having a hard time with 6 and 4, although she seems to have 8 down nicely. :) I LOVE the table where they are sitting. I think it may be the most useful thing Papa Bear has ever bought me. It's like having a dry erase board as a table. The kids can just use dry erase markers to do lessons (or draw pictures) directly on the tabletop. I seriously love this thing. Did I say that already? :-P

Back to his own lesson. He learned least common multiples and greatest common factors this week.

This is Crawdad's history project. Crawdad is studying Early American history this year, and this is his Indian blanket.

He told me that you couldn't see the design of the blanket very well in the other picture, so he wanted me to get a close up. I especially liked the little blue cows in the rows directly under the row of suns. :)

Eating chocolate chip cookies and reading Basil.

You have got to love this child's fashion sense! She decided that since they both had Hello Kitty on them, the black Halloween shirt matched the turquoise shorts. I'm not sure what the logic was with the pink polka dot socks and the sparkly purple shoes. Giggle. :)

Crawdad is practicing long division. This would not be especially noteworthy, except that he decided to do it on his own on his free time. Weird kid. :)

Digging through the colored pencils looking for something that resembles bronze for his Roman shield drawing.

Taz and I playing a counting game. You were supposed to roll the dice and then put that many strawberries in the basket. She understood the counting part just fine, but she's still a little fuzzy on the concept of structured game rules. Oh well, it was fun counting practice. :)