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| we started off this month with the finale of our italy unit! grape stomping!! |
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| as gross as this looks, the boys loved the fresh grape juice! |
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| michael is doing sooooo well on his maps!! |
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| kindergartener! |
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| spanish lesson! |
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| when gabriel is finished with his lessons and the boys aren't yet, we review our animals :) |
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| cutting practice |
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| more spanish |
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| color of the month! |
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| a bit too much glue on that R there, gabe... |
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| i'm just so proud of my four year old reader! |
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| art lesson on the porch! |
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| and poetry tea time on the floor! |
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| lots of valentines' crafts |
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| and tummy time with books for the baby |
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| tuesdays are our educational video day. today, the server wasn't working so we watched planet earth on the floor :) |
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| lots of blue lessons |
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| heart sequencing! |
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| counting sticks |
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| a special valentines poetry tea time with leftover dark chocolate torte! recipe coming soon ;) |
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| heart stamping |
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| practicing maps in other ways... this is mv's map of our farm, with his future zoo mapped out as well ;) |
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| more valentines' crafts! |
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| when worksheet time runs into nursing the baby time, mv has to finish up on the floor next to me. this presents a problem as gabriel is already finished and he thinks floors are strictly for wrestling ;) |
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| this kid is struggling with his letters but darned if we don't ROCK our numbers! |
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| but at 2 1/2 years old, i'm not too worried :) T for Toucan in a Tree! |
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| yoga mondays! |
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| a special king's cake cinnamon roll ring for mardi gras poetry tea time! |
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| U for Underwater Urchin |
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| Great Britain unit! |
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| beef potted pie and english peas! |
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| and sticky toffee pudding. mike declared it the best cake he's had in years! |
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| and yes, i totally used the leftover butterscotch sauce in my coffee the next morning. don't judge me. |
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| trying on my grandmother's antique knight's helmet! |
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| big ben craft! |
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| ...so of course, we had to watch part of peter pan :) |
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| coat of arms. i asked them to draw on four of their favorite things and mv's dragon is pretty darn good! |
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| maps |
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| high tea for our finale!!! |
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| as most of you know, i plan the lessons and organize the activities. but when i have an idea, i "suggest" to my mom that she come up with something fun. and she goes crazy and makes it amazing!! |
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| we invited my dad and he only agreed to put on a tie if there was good food :) |
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| i made real clotted cream from raw milk! it wasn't perfect but it was pretty darn close and very good with blueberry preserves on homemade scones! |
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| real sugar cubes! |
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| the boys behaved beautifully with my mother's wedding china but of course, when they were released, jack immediately broke a (minor) candle holder. of course. :) |
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| we even pulled out a onesie with a tie for baby robert! |
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| another fun month in cc! gravity experiment |
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| friction experiment |
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| studying degas, art in motion |
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| monet, impressionist art |
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| morisot, texture art |
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| review games are always fun |
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| practicing our bible memory verse |
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| jack's wooly mammoth presentation |
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| michael's presentation on his maps |
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| orchestra lesson! |
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| paper airplanes and the science behind it! |
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| 1, 2... |
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| ...3!!! |
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| more review! |
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| and we squeezed in a presentation on italy! |
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| a wonderful month!! |
Enjoy them all
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