Teamwork!

Getting from one room to another like this:

Daddy and Mommy were pretty impressed.

World Travelers

Here's a new, fun, geography activity we have discovered:

We travel the continents and oceans by plane, train, or automobile (depending on which continents we are hopping to).  Here's how it works:  "So, Malachi/Karis, how would you get to from North America to Asia?  Be sure to tell me what oceans and continents you are crossing as you go."

All I had to do was lay the map down o the floor with some vehicles, and before I could instruct them in what to do, they started doing it themselves!

While Brother and Sister Slept...

 Malachi enjoyed airplane-flying today...

...and observing a very busy spider.

We decided to try to throw a bug into the web and see if the spider would eat it.  As I walked down the porch steps to get the bug, the spider's web actually caught me and I ended up tearing the whole web down in the process.  That spider was working so hard too! 



Wild Dogs

Continuing our study of mammals, we focused on wild dogs today.

The favorite animal of the day was wolves.  Here is one in his den with a wolf pup:

Here is our howling wolf pack:

Malachi was a little upset to learn that there aren't very many wolves in North America, and maybe none at all.  However, he was delighted to make these wolf puppets as a substitute for the real thing: 

We ended the day by calling Pap-Paw in Mississippi and asking him to tell us the story about when a coyote almost got one of his calves (we can never hear that story too many times!). 



First Farmers: 2000 BC

In History today we learned about people who lived around 2000 BC.  We compared how they lived with how Stonge Age hunters lived (we learned about them last week).  Life progressed in several different ways between the two time periods.  One way was that the people we studied today had learned how to make clay pots.  So, we made our own "clay" pots:

Asher preferred to make balls and Karis preferred to make pancakes.

Our pots, pancakes, and balls ready to be put in the kiln:

Then we painted our creations:

Mommy ended up making the pots for Karis and Asher, but everyone did their own paint job.

Karis' pot: 

Asher's pot:

and Malachi's original piece:

Just for your information: farming, herding animals, and  bronze tool making were other marks of progression during this time period which lead to permanent housing and a less nomadic lifestyle.