Great Work!

Matthew went out of town this past weekend, so I used this time to catch up on pictures and do a LOT of school to fill in the time. So I have pictures from the past two units of Little Hands to Heaven (our preschool curriculum) work Grace and Julianna have done, a bit of Jayden's work from today, and maybe a picture of Evie...

I'll go in order from oldest to youngest...

Jayden -

handwriting,
















copywork,
















and a project to see what foods are made of mostly water and mostly fats... she chose pancake, candy, orange, and cake and found out that pancake and cake are mostly fat, an orange is mostly water, and Smarties candies are neither.








Grace -

First her letters: D - dirt, E - elbow mac, F - playdoh? but it was fun!











Now two of her art projects:

First is Joseph in the desert and his brothers didn't recognize him (ie, he was hidden from them) - she drew a tiny Joseph, covered him with a post-it and painted with a glue/water mix and then sprinkled sugar over the glue for sand.




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Next, we studied about Moses. This is where she cut grass out of green construction paper, glued it down, cut out an oval for the basket they put baby Moses in, and then glued it among the grass in the river.






Julianna -

her letters, again with the dirt, elbow mac, and playdoh...












Her hidden Joseph in the desert








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her finished Moses in the river and she was singing our Fingerplay "baby in the basket float float float" at this point she was floating :)








And Evangeline on her first birthday, complete with a bruise!

The Birthday Month

We are now in the midst of birthday month in the East household. That combined with a beautiful spring have lead to little formal schooling, lots of work, and a huge amount of outdoor play!

I think we've managed to fit in one week's worth of curriculum in the past month, but we've worked on baking and icing cakes, designing cakes, making birthday presents, looked at the calendar every day, and have learned how to act in social situations :) We've also had dentist and doctor appointments where we have seen x-rays and have talked about lots of science!

And like I said, plenty of outside time! The girls have been outside at least 6 hours every day, and sometimes more than that. They have been reading nature books and finding things in our yard, pioneer books and pretending to be pioneer children and thinking of what games they may have played, and have caught butterflies. We also got to witness flying ants come out of the colony and take flight yesterday!

We are also trying to plan a field trip/vacation, and we are thinking maybe Washington, DC. I'm also thinking that might be too much and we might do better to do something in the mountains. We'll see where that takes us.