Last night, I greatly enjoyed watching my children delight in catching fireflies. They chased them all over the yard to try to catch them. Arianna got her bug container and eventually caught four lightening bugs.
Arianna was excited she caught a frog. 
Ryan posing with the frog. 
Only a Dad thinks of these things. He suggests putting the frog in with the lightening bugs. They then proceeded to observe the frog and the lightening bugs. I think the frog was too scared to eat. I will have to say that I was interested in the frogs reaction to being in a container with bugs.
Chris received a box from his Mom for his birthday. One would have thought that it was the kids’ birthday. They initially handed the presents to Chris to open. The kids looked so eager to open them that Chris asked if they wanted to help. Not sure if he realized the extent of their “helping”. It began with them just helping him with the one in his hands…then it quickly progressed to them pulling them out of the box and then proceeding to tear into those presents saying “let’s see what Daddy got for his birthday”. After they were done with the presents, they played with the box of packing popcorn. They pretended it was snow. Let’s just say at the end of this fun, there was not a single piece of popcorn left in the box. What a mess! The kids had a blast though. After all of the fun, they learned the important life skill of cleaning up after yourself:)
(Yes Ryan is pretending to be a dog and picking the popcorn up with his mouth…we had to keep reminding him to not put these into his mouth).
I was just thinking...
I am NOT a curriculum junky...
I am just working on my Home Library!
This week in the workboxes...we are continuing our unit on Ears and Hearing. I have gotten so many great ideas from others that I thought I would share some of my ideas for this week… (I have a 3 year old son and a 5 year old daughter)
1) Leading Little Ones to God—Work on our memory verse for this week: Proverbs 4:20
2) Coloring to the Classics: Godly Composers 1
3) Rocket Phonics Bingo Game
4) Sign language letters for cutting and making own name in sign language
6) Kids of the World Foam Activity Kit (bought from Michael’s on sale for $4.99)—Ari loves paper dolls so thought she would enjoy thi
7) Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
8) Yarn and cups to make our own telephones.
9) Puzzle to Color that I bought at Michael’s for $1
10) Glass cups to make instruments using varying levels of water to hear the different sounds
11) Make own Time Capsule to be opened next year
12)Animal Moves (Snakes and Frogs) from Slow and Steady Get Me Ready for Ryan
13) Playdough with tools
14) Moving So Carefully—walk on a chalk line outside while holding a full glass of water (idea from library book-the 2,000 best games & activities)
15) Read Aloud—Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
16) Nature Journal
17) Dinosaur sorting toys for learning more and less and sorting with Ryan
18) Tin Can with Clothespins-Ryan can take them off the sides and try to toss them in.
19)Telephone for teaching telephone manners and working on our own telephone number
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