Seasons/Calendar (Orderliness Unit)

Accomplishment of the week: 

 

COS tied her shoes (successfully!) 

for the first time all by herself!!!!!

The rest of the learning really paled 

by comparison, but we'll share anyway.

Below:

COS figures out the complexities

of the calendar...by DOING it.

Here, JSS is giving me a look like, "Seriously?"

when I shared with him how to spell FebRUary.

On our Winter day, we made pine cone bird

feeders to hang outside to feed the birds.

We also made snowflakes, which now

decorate the kids' bedroom walls.

Our longest project...

making a sundial, which took ALL DAY LONG.

It works, too!  We used it the next day to tell time!

We had a special tea time on Thursday afternoon.

Simon took JDS and two of his friends to a college

day a few hours from here, so we had tea, read

some in our read-aloud book and had

a great time (AMS and me) introducing

tea time to JSS and COS, who've not really

grown up having it like JDS and AMS did.

Here, COS is definitely NOT enjoying the flavor 

of the tea BEFORE adding honey.  :)

AMS read aloud to us from

Pippi Longstocking.  That girl

is a hoot!  She had tea in what we'd

read the night before, which is what

gave us the idea to follow suit this afternoon.

An experiment we did in the 1/2 bath 

(no window in there) while learning about the seasons.

Interesting fact, your shadow is LONGER

in the winter than in the summer.  Can you guess

why?  A clue is given in this photo, where JSS

is the sun and COS is providing the spin for our Earth.