This week is a kind of fun week for us. Because we are trying to be sure and watch our athletes in the Olympics, and activities outside of the house, we have decided to mix things up a bit. There will be very little traditional style learning this week. For example, today the kids made their valentines for their grandparents, and wrote their monthly letters. In case you are wondering what I am talking about, I decided as a part of random acts of kindness, they would write their grandparents a letter each month. This serves another purpose as well, practicing writing skills for my fourth grader. I am really pushing the writing this year for her. To me she still has a long way to go, but has improved so much. She only has two more letters on her friend list, and then monthly letters to grandparents. So, I will be looking for some new writing prompts for her. On the plus side her spelling has improved immensely.
Then we watched some Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing. Caitlin's skiier made it through, but we didn't get to see that yet, and DJ's snowboarders were not in the slope style, but we did get to watch a young man named Sage, from the USA take the gold in that event. How exciting!
Then, after lunch, we were outdoors doing yard work. The lawnmower would not start, so I planted some of the flowers I bought last Friday. My new tire garden is coming along, I need four more tires, and they need to be painted. We got some raking done, and picking up sticks and garbage blown around from this nasty Winter. A lot of my plants were damaged this Winter, it has been so cold. They have been trimmed back and are already starting to come back, bigger and better I hope. I planted Peonies, Bleeding Hearts, and some fruit bushes today.
Caitlin, and I, painted the cabinet nobs in the kitchen black, added a nice touch, and I started working on her special birthday plates. I will share those later.
Last week we started the Virtual Tour of the United States, with Alaska. I need to find some info on the Exxon Valdez spill for them to ponder. If you want to add the tour to your Geography lessons, you can follow along on my Pinterest board. This is actually to go along with our popsicle stick game to learn the states and the capitols. We continue our other History work as well.
I have not yet decided for tomorrow, but will probably be similar to today.
Then we watched some Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing. Caitlin's skiier made it through, but we didn't get to see that yet, and DJ's snowboarders were not in the slope style, but we did get to watch a young man named Sage, from the USA take the gold in that event. How exciting!
Then, after lunch, we were outdoors doing yard work. The lawnmower would not start, so I planted some of the flowers I bought last Friday. My new tire garden is coming along, I need four more tires, and they need to be painted. We got some raking done, and picking up sticks and garbage blown around from this nasty Winter. A lot of my plants were damaged this Winter, it has been so cold. They have been trimmed back and are already starting to come back, bigger and better I hope. I planted Peonies, Bleeding Hearts, and some fruit bushes today.
Caitlin, and I, painted the cabinet nobs in the kitchen black, added a nice touch, and I started working on her special birthday plates. I will share those later.
Last week we started the Virtual Tour of the United States, with Alaska. I need to find some info on the Exxon Valdez spill for them to ponder. If you want to add the tour to your Geography lessons, you can follow along on my Pinterest board. This is actually to go along with our popsicle stick game to learn the states and the capitols. We continue our other History work as well.
I have not yet decided for tomorrow, but will probably be similar to today.
