Toothy news

You've had a molar growing for some time now, way in the back, on the left & bottom. I have no idea how you say it in actual dental terms, but it's in the back, it's on the left and it's on the bottom, So There!

6 Year Old Molars

Grade 2 Week 4

How can school be anything but delightful with such a sweetheart around?

We've been trying to do least one round of "board games" before school, and the one we have been doing has been PictoFeud, which is really quite interesting.

We also got a few other apps off of the Windows 10 store, which are for making animations that are akin to flip-book cartoons.

Here's a glimpse of my notes for class...

as well as some of the things we do online..

This week we learned about various construction projects that were done during The Great Depression, like the Golden Gate Bridge,  the Empire State Building and the Hoover Dam.

We are still working on the introductory part of this year's science work, namely Scientific Methods.

You love doing experiments, even if they're simple and done in our kitchen.. this week we did one on the different densities of liquids.

We used food coloring to color our plain water, then made observations using cooking oil and thick dark soy sauce.

We also borrowed a bunch of books from the library, although we didn't get to go through as many as we would have liked to..

Here's looking forward to this week!

You just couldn't help yourself

At the library, I'm usually the one who picks the books that we borrow every week.  One day, you come to me with one of the books with this wide grin on your face.  You go, "Mummy, isn't this just sooooooo cute??!?!?!! Even the emoji is cute!!!"

Just another brilliant culinary outcome

Jaxon : "Mommy, the egg looks weird."

Mommy: "Er, Okay...."

Jaxon: " TAKE A PICTURE! TAKE A PICTURE!"

Artists galore.

You have always loved drawing, scribbling and drawing comic strips or making animations.  They have a program on the library computers where you get to do some digital art, and it's one of your favorite things to do there.

These next pieces of art were made by a local teenager, Lyric Kincaid,  whose art was made into vinyl decals and put up on the glass walls around the library. I mean, wow!

The Sniffles

It may be just a placebo effect or whatever, but we like our Vicks Puff Tissue Paper when we have the sniffles...

Bible Class Art

a.k.a Masterpieces drawn on the class whiteboard while daddy & the ladies are chatting after class.

Marvel heroes, Iron Man and The Hulk.

Grade 2 Week 3

We revised the history and significance of Labor Day last week.  The fact that children worked in factories, and that this was later outlawed, fascinated you.  You wanted to know at what age you were no longer considered a child.  We looked it up on the internet, and found out that in the middle ages, children as young as 7 could be tried and executed for crimes.

YOIKS.



We use a bunch of online textbooks, and use vast resources the net provides to supplement our studies.

We still use conventional methods as well, of course, and I would like to think we have a healthy balance.

Of course, we have distractions as well - both for you and myself.  Like when we observed this road runner that had landed on top of the container one  day, or how you arranged your "friends" to attend school as well; or when I use some of the time when you are doing written work to organize my grocery list.

I hope I am doing a good job with this, because some days I feel like I am letting you down, not being a trained teacher and all, but you are blessed with curiosity and willingness to learn.

It wasn't all classroom learning either.  You participated in one of the many activities the library offers, and this week they were making elephant ears like Horton's.

We also stopped by the playground at a church nearby, and you made a few new friends.
:)

Also, I thought I would put this here instead of starting a different post..
library books we/you read this week.

The Breakfast Series...

Just in case you were wondering many years later what your mom served you for breakfast when you were 7, well, here it is.

Yogurt with fruit and chocolate granola, with waffles & bananas with orange juice.

Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich with Granny Smith fries and almonds.

Waffles with jelly and a squirt of whipped cream, banana with a dash of chocolate syrup and Fuji Apple fries, with orange juice.

Toasted Raisin bread with Bananas, Apples & Milk.

Strange, I didn't get any photos of cereal topped with cut up strawberries, because that's what you eat in the  mornings at least 2 to 3 times a week... Hmm.

No worries, I'm sure I'll be taking  more breakfast pics soon.

*hugs*

Snake Skin

A few months back ( yes, I'm still catching up on posts ), I found a molted snake skin in the yard.  We're used to seeing these, living out here in the country, and you were not intimidated at all to pick it up and inspect it..

One of the best places to Hang Out in Abilene

The Abilene Public Library, where else :)