This was our last week of school before our two week spring break. We didn't officially take a "break" this winter, so we will be taking two full weeks off. We will be traveling to south Florida (where I was born and raised) to see my parents, and then heading center state for a surprise trip on the way home.
I am TIRED at the end of this week. Sometimes I feel like I just go, go, go. You know what I mean. I often wonder what we really accomplish (this increasingly interest led life is still a little hard for me to wrap my head around!), but when I put it all down in a weekly wrap-up I can see that we've been BUSY!
The above collage shows one day of our week that was especially productive. We made a huge trip to the library (I actually had to take the basket from our family room and haul it into the library!).... one of our favorite books we checked out was Jabberwocky. This is one of my favorite poems, and I think the kids enjoyed it as well.
GMan has started cursive! I stumbled across Cursive Writing Made Easy and Fun in the Scholastic Store for just $.99! It is a wonderful download and I've been printing a sheet each day for G to complete. He loves the exercises and is inspired to learn. When I went searching for the link again it looks like the book doesn't exist in the Scholastic online store, but it is available through Amazon. I was so pleased, however, with all of the downloadable books Scholastic has to offer. The Scholastic Store wins my Favorite Resource this Week! Both children have been working with money. GMan is working with basic counting of money. Miss B is making change and doing word problems. She even got some very real world experience one night this week when she went with her dad to work the concession stands at the baseball field! It doesn't get any more practical than that!
Lots and lots of hands-on learning occurred this week. We are loving the Nebula Ball... lots to be learned from this, and I need to research some lessons to go along with it. For now, the children are enjoying experimenting with it - I've left it plugged in and available all week for exploration.
We finished the Louis Pasteur unit study, which was a home run in my opinion! We are now watching mold grow on a plain banana, and also one with yeast on it... and we have bread in a bag that we're trying to let get moldy as well. Each day we observe a little and write down our findings.
Miss B made some yummy St. Patrick's Day treats! I am witnessing her growing independence and maturity by leaps and bounds. She is nearly as tall as I am and is just growing so fast.
In the above collage you will see a newspaper article about Legoland Discovery Center opening in Atlanta. We learned quite a few interesting tidbits from this article, and it was so sweet of our pastor's wife to drive this article to our house one day this week.
It has also been very warm here, and since it's nice and light in the evenings, GMan and his dad have been throwing the ball each evening. It is one of my favorite things just to sit on the porch and watch them... it's a great time to count my blessings, of which there are so many.
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