Week of Feb 25 and March 4

With the battle of sickness almost won, I share some tidbits of the last few weeks around our house. We are continuing to work on our family tree of character adding our diligence apple and working on gentleness. We had a special visiter this past week and had the opportunity to discussed that not everyone believes in Jesus or lives their lives to glorify him and therefor our job is to love them not judge them. Hard lesson to have him understand special when it was family and we love them so much.

Math: Angry birds has become a bit of a obsession for my ds lately so anything angry bird themed he will do..math, language arts, printing..you name it...if it has a little bird or ugly pig he will do it with ease :)

We worked on patterns, counting, most or least, addition, and a dice grafting game.

English: We worked on word matching, making his own words, phonics matching, played with our bottle caps making more words. 

We also tried a trial for reading eggs and he has actually loved it. We will be looking into a full subscription for next year. It has lots of reading games that promote phonics, recognizing sight words, understanding sentences, and building reading skills. 

Science, my ds FAVOURITE subject, We read books about volcanos on "We Give Books",  and watched youtube videos on erupting volcanos. My plan is to do a kitchen volcano this next week. 

We are also starting to learn more about life cycles, as we are getting butterflies and praying mantis this spring to watch grow and study their cycles. 

We looked at the frog cycle and worms as we started out worm farm (which actually lives in my sons bedroom) (YUCK!) 

Our frog life cycle. 

We studies worms, we found out that they have 5 hearts, a brain, veins, intestines, and gizzards. We learnt that they do not have lungs, they breath threw their skins and much more. We used this helpful link with a lot of information on worms. Worm Website

Introducing: Bouvier the Worm and Squirmy the Worm. 

Our worm house. 

One last little bit of science and news, our green house is finished!! We went to the local nursery to pick out our seeds, planted some and now are waiting to see them sprout! We are so ready for spring can you tell?