Weeks of Jan 14 & 21st

Making muffins..my two little helpers!

Things are slow moving this January, there is still so much going on and we are doing so much outside the home, twice a week I have a "stay at home" day where we literally don't leave the house except for P.E. outside play or walks. I love these days there is a lot to do that day so it's not a "rest" day by any means...but really once you have children are there ever "rest" days???
I worked today and last sunday which leaves little time to blog. So here I go slamming two blogs into one.

For Science we have been working on plants and animals, what they need to live. As well as we talked and watched videos about global warming, wormwood astroid (interesting topic for a 5 year old) , and of course our growing baby. Isaac is back at his body anatomy books, he is fascinated with the body... this week we are driving and he says "Mom, do you know that a part of my body is called the epidermis? " I can't believe his little desire to learn about something that I would never expect him to be interested. :)

Counting and color matching pompoms

Math- We have been working on our Right start math, working on partitioning and recording tens. He is really liking partitioning. I think we will start to work on partitioning up to 20 this week. 

My boy doesn't love to print but he's doing well. We do a lot of mini books which he does enjoy and doesn't realize that we are practicing our printing skills as well. 

We also started a Thankful book this week, every day after bible and our devotions we talk about what we are thankful for, then we record it in our books. I originally thought we would do a 30 days and see if he enjoys it and he's been asking to do it on the weekends so we might keep it around to build gratitude. 

Isaac's continues to develop is understanding of prayer and his relationship of God. He tells me often of things or people that he's prayed for. He told me last week that he prayed to God that he would love him forever and he said he actually felt God's heart when he said it. (aww.... brings tears to my eyes.) 

Thankful books!


Rivercity Gymnastics 

This past week was literacy week, so we participated in some of the activities. We visited Rivercity Gymnastics, played at the local children's museum, and joined in on the fun at the literacy festival. 

We are always doing some sort of craft, most of the time it's what they want to do and it's called free craft and I end up with the huge mess :)

This was string painting. 

Hard working boys digging and building obstacle courses. 

Along with outside time, walks, swimming, dance, gymnastics we are constantly doing something that will rid them of their energy!! heehee! 

Back to School week of Jan 7th

Wow, what a holiday!! it was hard to get my brain back into school mode.
After all the goodies, sledding, tubing, skating trips, with hot chocolate and more goodies it's hard to actually start thinking about school and no goodies ;)
We had a slllloooowww start to this week, my DS wasn't as enthused to do school either. Thank goodness it's only kindergarten and that he loves to learn with everything he does (give lots of opportunity to teach without actually "teaching".

We have started this term off with gymnastics, swimming, dance and Awanas again. This time around he is in the older group of gymnastic which hopefully for him will turn out to be a good decision.

This week we did a unit on our five senses, he really already knew them but enjoyed playing games around the house about our senses, finding things by using our 5 senses plus we ate our snack using our eyes, nose, fingers, ears, and mouth!

Our 5 senses snack!

We could hear the crunch, see the ants on the log, feel the bumps and slippery celery, smell the celery, and taste the PB, ants & celery.


My ds is enjoying making mini books right now, he will make his own and he has made each family member one which he drew all the illustrations and had words to go with them. So cute! He puts so much thought in to the books and what the person will feel when they read it.

We covered a unit on Rescue helicopters. We crafted making helicopters, we did math work sheets covering addition, we read about them and covered all the jobs of rescue helicopter, when they are needed, where they fly to, who they help, and what kind of people are in them. We discussed that Kamloops has rescue helicopters for the hospital, for search and rescue, for fire fighting, and police. They all have different jobs but they are all there to help someone and are doing a very special job.

Petting the animals at the wildlights

My ds has enjoyed earning points on his Raz kids account with every book he reads. We are still doing our weekly trip to the library to get new stories we read through out the week.

My ds is slowly growing and maturing. It has been amazing to see him work through some really struggling challenges in the last few weeks, but we are happy to say that he is learning to control his body more, learning that our actions affect those around us, and he is becoming a bit more relaxed in his own skin. Which is such a beautiful sight!

Isaac creating his own marble creation

Our family is growing and we are excited to announce that we are expecting our third child in July, with this there is such a great opportunity to learn about families, changes, babies, the human body and all the amazing things that happen while growing a baby.
Together, we have been reading my daily pregnancy journal everyday as well as we watch the development stages on babycentre.com with detailed movie clips of what is happening with the baby. The boys are fascinated and are getting excited to see my belly pop out a bit more each week :)
The boys came with us last week to the midwife and we were able to hear the heart beat. We talked about what a midwife does and what her role is in this pregnancy and within this community. We discussed what a healthy sounding heart beat means and that there only seems to be one :)

This was such a great growing opportunity for us and our family! We are all so excited!