We got the desks together, we got the desks together! I had a busy weekend full of birthday parties, going away parties and events with the kids, so actually, I must give my husband credit for making time to get the job finished for me while we were out and about. I need to find some reasonably priced desk chairs and also
Lesson 1 - Social Studies: Household Poisons - Medicines. Mr Yuk is greeeeeeeen.... Mr Yuk is Meeeeeeeeeean. We continued our Household Poisons lesson by talking about medicines and vitamins, and how you should never play with medicine bottles and never open them yourself, and to always ask first if you want your vitamins. YouTube is awesome! We don't have very many medicines in our house to help show what they are (I could only scrounge up some all-natural cough syrup, Ibuprofen, and our vitamins), so I did a search on YouTube for "Mr. Yuk", and for "Household Poisons", and found a few kid-friendly videos to help illustrate what medicine bottles look like and other items to avoid. I found a few vintage videos, like the original Mr Yuk gem I watched when I was a kid - it was pretty creepy and borderline scary!
Lesson 2 - Math: Sorting by color. We cut out shapes from some scrap colored paper, and then I left her to make pictures by color with the shapes (so I could go do the dishes and get brother some juice while she was occupied). I came back to find this super cute setting she had made of birds in birth baths and a fountain squirting water into the air!
Lesson 3 - Art: Making a Kite. Okay, I have to admit that I was super giddy when I read that the assignment for today was to make a kite! The kids both really liked this art assignment. My daughter drew some cute flowers on her kite, and she even drew their roots under the ground! My son got to try his hand at cutting out a kite too. Then, we took them outside to see how they would fly... unfortunately, our trip outside was pretty anticlimactic because we had ZERO wind (well, maybe a couple short-lived, wimpy gusts, but nothing substantial like the one that sent our carport flying the other day!). We'll have to try it again another day. The kids did run around with the kites and they laughed with joy as the kite trailed behind them!
Lesson 4 - Movement: Flying our kite! The assignment for today was to choose the active-activity. The kids got lots of fun exercise time in, running around with their kites by their side! They weaved in and out and had a kite race.
Lesson 5 - Language Arts: Time to Intentionally Imprint Impressive Ii's, Investing In Improvements, If Inclined
Then, we read "The Enormous Turnip" story. We decided to go out to the garden to see what was ripe right now - nothing enormous, but did find lots of nummy tomatoes! I told her that "Enormous" is an adjective and that an adjective is a word that helps describe something. So, I had her give me some adjectives for the tomatoes we picked. She came up with: Round, Orange, Long (it was a Roma tomato), pointy (it had a pointy tip), yummy, oval, funny (it was a unique-shaped heirloom tomato that looked like it had a face), and sour (that was a green one). Yes, she is wearing a blonde wig.
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