K,K, King, Keys, Kandy?

Can you guess what letter we studied this week?

Thanks to Aunt Jocelyn, we now have these great sandpaper letters!!

We also made letters with our play-dough.

Karis told me this was a letter "G".

Malachi and Karis made king crowns, but Asher was really the only one to wear them. Hail King Asher!!The favorite math activity was fishing for numbers.

Of course Malachi had to catch every single fish before moving on to the next activity. And Karis had the idea that "Black Little Bear" would want to eat some of the fish, so Malachi and Karis snacked with him. (Yes, Karis really is taking a bite out of poor purple number 2.)

Malachi put our Sandpaper Numbers in order. (Thanks again, Aunt Jocelyn!)

We traced 6 K,K,Keys onto paper (then we had to use the keys to unlock things).

Placing the correct amount of buttons in each numbered slot:

In Science we discovered air pressure. Here, Malachi is trying to blow a tin can over. He and Karis discovered that they can't blow a tin can over, or a book over because their air just goes around the object.

When I asked Malachi why we could blow it over with a balloon, he said, "because all the air goes in one spot" = air pressure!

We recorded our findings by drawing glue lines (with glitter) around pictures of our objects to represent the air that couldn't blow them over.

In geography, we made a map of the area in front of our house. Even Asher participated.

Karis is adding flowers to the flower box in our front yard.

When our map was completed, mommy hid treats outside and marked the spots on our map. Here, Malachi and Karis are studying the map to find the location of the surprises.

Pinpointing the spot:

Success!

Tons of candy right before nap time which never happens= two very happy children!

Only by the grace of God, another successful week completed!

Easy M Week

This past week we learned about the letter "M", but we didn't do many fun activities. Services at church every night for the first part of the week made it hard to get prepared for the next day and made it had for the kids to get moving in the morning. So, we took it easy this week. Despite a slow school work week, we did have a few highlights... Mommy's number one highlight was when Asher and Malachi played together with the legos with no screaming or fighting for at least 15 minutes!!! Asher is usually breaking whatever Malachi is making and Malachi is usually having a heart attack in return. But not this day... :)

Counting teddy bears on our number line:

admiring and contemplating the graph we made with our teddy bears:

I don't know how well videos from my camera will work, but here are the kids reciting the verses we have been memorizing. God is so gracious to allow our children to begin to understand the truth in these passages... they have been talking to us and to each other about when they are being peacemakers and when they are not.

While Karis spent the day with Aunt Mel and Uncle Yancey, Malachi had work to do. Here he is hammering his new nails into a box,

and painting the box with his new paintroller.

Yummy, Yummy!! We met Uncle Yancey and Aunt Mel at Cracker Barrell for supper on Saturday while daddy was at a USM football Game.

Today we went to visit our friend Jordan Kabore' who had his tonsils and adniods taken out. We brought him hugs and a few little toys to cheer him up. He was a little out of it, but we got to say hello, at least.

That's all for this past week. Hopefully we will have a little more excitement next week. We are studying the letter K for Karis and we all know how exciting she is!

We spent Labor Day at Gooseridge Farm (a.k.a Pap-paw and Mam-maw's house)

Here is Asher and mommy riding the horse. He was a little nervous. Good thing Uncle Yancey had the reigns and walked us very slowly.

Asher was right at home on the four-wheeler. He loves to drive.

Karis ended up riding with mommy on the horse too, but here she is being brave.

Malachi would have taken off on his own, if we would have let him!

Cooling off in the shade...

We had a great time over Labor Day, but we were back to work on Tuesday having more fun. Here are the B-sound balloons we made. All the pictures on the balloons begin with the "Buh" sound. Our science experiment worked this week. Maybe that can be attributed to the fact that we did it while Asher was sleeping. We played with bottles, straws, and balloons underwater and watched the bubbles escape into the water. Air is everywhere!

Of course a big bucket of water led to the idea of making soup for lunch...

Then we recorded our scientific findings...

The highlight in math this week was number recognition: making birds with a specific number of feathers.

Malachi is so excited about the worm we made for his bird to eat (it's hanging out of the birds mouth).

Of course Malachi had to make a nest for the bird the next day.

We had lots of fun learning experiences this week, but being beavers was our favorite! Here are our two beaver buddies:

If you are really quiet and look very closely, you might see a little beaver swimming up his underwater tunnel to get into his lodge to sleep.

Well, that is all the highlights of our week. We'll see you all next time!

Our little students hard at work...

It is hard work getting those caps back on the markers...

so Asher mostly just played.

The highlight of Karis' week was getting to work with the surprise school supply box from Mam-maw.

Karis counting fish.

She resorted to puzzles when the schoolwork was too much for her...

or she just whined.....

Malachi's favorites were playing with pattern blocks,

and making a neatly sorted army of teddy bears.

BUT the best part of the week was when we studied the difference between frogs and toads and got to hop like toads,

and leap like frogs.

Every good school needs playtime.

In science we had a few mishaps with the experiment so we ended up just playing with bubbles.

This is the scene of the failed science experiment. #1 cause of problem: the monster dressed in red.

Our little "readers": Asher....

and Karis. She is studying her biology homework. Not sure why it had to be done while sitting in a box.

Lastly, a few fun pictures.......

Next week: Buh-Buh Birds, and Beavers.