Another Day of… SNOW!

It was April 14th and it snowed.  Snow in April is… not fun.  : )  So we did another day of Circle Time to distract us.

See this pile of projects behind Mallory.   I love Circle Time.  I love all the projects.  The kids love all the projects more.  However, projects take over my home!

Max had to line up these pictures in the order they happened.

Then he had to pick a number and count out that number of feathers and put them in the owl. 

Counting is way too easy for Mallory so… we practiced some addition.

This is how much snow we got!!  Yeah it is pretty… but not in April! 

This bird unit we are doing has the kids noticing every single bird!  They get so excited when they see one out the window that they have me come quietly to come see it.  I’ve tried to explain that it is almost summer now and we are going to see lots of birds!  They don’t agree with me.  They still get super excited! 

Sweatshirt Weather!

We are starting to experience warmer temps and it feels amazing!  The kids want to be outside every second when it is nice out. 

Believe it or not they can play Frozen outside too!  : )  They use our deck as the ice castle and Mallory runs around pretending to turn everything into ice.  They sometimes even try to get the dog involved into their shenanigans.  Which our dog is not very smart and she doesn’t get it and starts acting like she is clinically ill and running super fast and every which direction with her tongue hanging out so far that she might trip herself.  Yeah.  She’s a beast.  

As soon as it reached 40 degrees outside Mallory has been asking for a campfire.  We still had a yard full of snow and she wanted a campfire!  She finally got her first fire!  Had to be on the patio though because it was way too wet and muddy by our other firepit.

If you give Mally & Max a campfire… they are going to ask for juice and marshmallows to go with it. 

I think I need to start being a bit more of stickler on my kids appearance.  Sheesh!  They are raggamuffin looking kids!  See… I let them dress themselves because they are so fussy about clothes.  They both don’t like blue jeans and they need a certain shirt each day.  So I let them do it.  Matching or not matching.  I attempt to get Mallory’s hair combed each day (but there are days that get missed) and she doesn’t like her hair up so it is down and by the end of the day she is a hot mess.  Max.  He won’t let you come near him with an attempt to do his hair!  Not a chance!  He’ll bust out the ugly cry if you try!  So I don’t try anymore!  And well… this is why they look like this.  Except on Sunday… Sundays I try to steer them into nicer (or matching) clothes. 

Oh hey!  Do you remember this guy?  He would be the guy we call Daddy around here!  He doesn’t usually sit still long enough for me to get a camera shot of him.  But I caught him relaxing next to the campfire! 

We are very ready for more summer nights and campfires!

Tweet Tweet–A Month of Birds

We completed our month of Pond Animals & Bugs and it went so well that I ordered the next month of materials which is all about birds & eggs. 

This month has been really hard to keep up.  We are way behind.  I some how got busy… with I don’t know what.  The good news is the kids love it!!  They ask me to do either “school” or “circle time”.  It is working for both of their ages right now.  Some of the stuff is way (way way way way) too easy for Mallory and some of the stuff is way (way way way way) too hard for Max.  So I take pieces and only let Max do them and then the other is for Mallory. 

Max is very much boy.  So learning for him is so not what he wants to do… unless it is learning about hunting and guns and bow and arrows.  However, I have been able to trick him and he is learning his numbers and counting things and colors.  But the little stinker will only do it when we have circle time.  If we ask him color or shape or to count outside that environment he’ll goof around and won’t do it right. 

I took pictures on the first day of our bird unit.  Each unit they are given a name tag to fill out.

I’m a handwriting freak! Wouldn’t it be so fun to turn her handwriting into a font!!  Then I would have it forever.    

Max right now is refusing writing.  Which he is probably still pretty little for it.  But I wrote his name and I wanted him to trace it – but he wouldn’t.  He wanted me to hold the marker with him and trace it.

They made hatching eggs this day.

Then they got to write with a white color and reveal what they wrote/drew with water colors using a sponge.

Mallory uses only one color.

Max uses all the colors in his paintings.  Every time.