Week of September 13, 2015

It's been cooling down and we've been taking advantage of the beautiful weather!

The kids have been making "booby traps" in the garden with the gourd vines and picking miniature gourds.

Pattern blocks have been a favorite toy recently.

Audrey was very proud of her line of squares.

Our tiny monarch caterpillars have grown.  The girls enjoyed watching them and picking milkweed leaves for them to eat.

We found a huge monarch caterpillar out in the garden.

Both girls started dance this week and they were so excited!  Katie started tap and ballet for her 3rd year of dance.  Audrey started her 1st year with ballet.

 Thursday we had all the kids over.  We played outside and Miss Naomi found a turtle.

We have been learning about animal and plant cells.  The kids made jell-o and candy plant cells.  We talked about the different parts of a plant cell and the kids put each of theirs together.

 Daddy and his girls relaxing Thursday night.

Daddy and the girls made biscuits saturday morning.

We went to our little town's parade and carnival.  Katie liked riding the cars but, Audrey wasn't into riding the rides.  They both loved the parade!

Katie has started reading the past week or two.  Several months ago her Daddy had promised her a lamp when she read her first Bob book.  So Saturday we went to pick out a lamp.  She was so excited!  When we got home from the store she wanted to write and illustrate a book so she could read it that night with her lamp.

Her book and lamp...so proud!

On Saturday our caterpillars made chrysalises.

Sunday Papa and Tina came over.  Audrey wanted to go out on the swings.  They are her favorite right now.

Week of September 6, 2015

We had Monday off of CC this week for Labor Day so we enjoyed a day home.  We took advantage of it and made cookies!  The girls were so excited to bake chocolate chip cookies.  While they were baking they made their own cookies out of playdoh.

Monday afternoon, during nap, Katie wanted to play with her pattern blocks and teddy bear counters.  She made an airplane out of the pattern blocks for the bears to ride in.  She had an elaborate story about a bear going to visit his grandma.  Then she made the grandma's house and a bus for the bears to ride in.

Tuesday we had the boys come over.  The kids did their normal routine...CC memory work, math, a little phonics and writing.  Then, of course, lots of playing!

Tuesday the girls got a letter from Grandmother and Grandfather.  They were so excited to get their own mail and carried their cards around all afternoon.

We went to a fun little park on Wednesday.  We played on the playground and watched the fish and crawdads in the stream.

The milkweed in our butterfly garden has lots of monarch caterpillars on it.  We brought two into the house to raise so we could watch them more easily.

 The ones we brought in started out very tiny but, have grown to 3 or 4 times this size already.

Thursday all the girls' friends came over.  We did our normal school then, we talked about how to draw a caterpillar.  For lunch we made a jell-o animal cell with a chocolate nucleus and mitochondria sprinkles.

Our little caterpillars are growing fast and eating lots of milkweed leaves.

Saturday we went on a bike ride to the park.

Sunday morning the girls and I had our traditional muffin breakfast.  Then, we went to Grandma and Grandpa's church for grandparent's day.

After church we went back to Grandma's.  The girls wanted to go see the neighbor's chickens and turkeys.