Week 3!

Practicing letters in corn meal!

This week was C for Colors

We experimented with primary & secondary colors using colored water & pipettes - great for fine motor control too!

We read Little Blue & Little Yellow - they hugged until they were green!  Then we painted with wet on wet watercolors & made our own green pictures

Hiding from mountain lions in our tent!

Abraham found a little praying mantis friend :0)

Auberon & Adelina also found a little critter - a wooly worm!

Matching our little rainbow men to the rainbow colors

I will miss you all next week while I'm at the Wild & Free homeschool mom conference  - but I know you'll have fun with Jenn Finley too!  See you soon!

Week 4, end of June

A tree frog was hiding in our mud kitchen supplies! We studied his suction-cup feet & yellow legs then watched him climb/hop all the way up the giant oak tree! We talked about camoflage, amphibians, & hibernation....

This is a mystery bug - he was huge

This fabulous shady spot is perfect for volleyball & badmitten

I love that they all have each other to play games - sometimes it's hard to find enough people at home to play

Bry got to visit this week & was so helpful with the younger ones :0)

Bry's cousin Ruth also got to visit this week! One family was on vacation so we had a few openings :0)

Day 5 - Field Trip to Landmarx!

Fascinating embroidery machines

Printing our own Countryside Playschool t-shirts! Reagan got to go first ;0)

Zach had to show his muscles first!

Rita wasn't so sure....

Allana

Rachel

Rebecca

Josie

Rita

Malachi getting a lift from Emma

Miss Julia

Miss Shannon

Ta-da!! Zach & Ben

Friday's class at Landmarx with St. John's Cathedral in the background

 

Writing Thank You notes

Rebecca making another pillow :0)

Some pretend play....these guys still love to dress up

oops, upside down, but lovely thank you notes for landmarx

King Zach

I think Rebecca is carrying the King's scepter on her newly finished pillow

Running back to Landmarx to deliver our thank yous

Rachel helping Malachi with a mostly deceased butterfly

Allana peeks out of a cool fort (or beaver dam??)

Thank you again to Landmarx Inc. for the wonderful fieldtrip & customized t-shirts!  We all had a great time :0)

Session 2 Day 2

Priscilla, Simeon, & Malachi love the trains!

New playdough - even the older ones still love to squish & experiment with it!

We found 3 birdnests in one tree!

Grrrr - tomato 'horn' worms have been eating our plants!  But we've eaten several green peppers & cucumbers from the Countryside Garden....