And the fun continues! We made a special day trip to a farther-than-normal children's museum. It was definitely worth the drive!
Adeline experimented with a giant instrument. She plunked out Mary Had a Little Lamb.
This was a crazy ball and tube room. You could put the balls in lots of different holes and then help move them around with gears, air power, gravity, pulleys, etc.
Poor Sadie. All day we were fighting keeping her pants up. The elastic that tightens them broke.
The kids could raise and lower themselves with this chair.
Another activity in the ball/tube room.
At this station, you put balls into a giant blower and they bounced around in midair.
There was a neat dinosaur exhibit. The dinosaur's moved and roared. Scared the pants off Sadie! (hahaha, get it?) :)
Adeline created a dinosaur model.
Then she flipped some steaks at the Dino Cafe. Half of the cafe was for carnivores and the other half for herbivores.
This isn't a great picture, but Sadie cracks me up.
Walk like a dinosaur!
The kids did a scratch art craft. Adeline didn't understand that she was scratching off the black to reveal the color underneath. She excitedly told me about how when one girl used her stick it made red, but when Adeline used that stick, it made yellow. She had a whole pile of sticks next to her trying each one.
This was the bubble lady! What a neat show! She experimented with creating bubbles that weren't round (which, of course, she couldn't do), then made this square bubble inside the "skeleton." She also made a slinky-type bubble that went from one side of the table to the other, then sucked into itself slinky style. She wrapped a kid in a bubble and made hundreds of tiny bubbles with a tennis racket. I want her job!
We can't escape a children's museum without a little face paint.
And for the fun of it, Happy Halloween!
Adeline's bag had a cute cookie design on the other side. You'll just have to take my word for it. :)
Sadie-bug loves to read!
And Adeline loves to ride her bike! She rides in circles in the driveway before we start schoolwork. She tells me she is riding her bike to school.
One more lesson that naturally appeared - this time in the laundry room!
Adeline thought the kittens needed their house decorated.
And that's a wrap! We've done a lot of not-as-exciting schoolwork in between all the photos. Adeline's reading has really taken off. She's always bringing me things she finds that she can read. I'm not sure who is more proud, Adeline or me.
We spent this morning doing some applied schoolwork. The kids helped bake chocolate mint cookies and spinach lasagna rolls for a friend of mine who is in need of some TLC. We got in math with the measuring and counting, science with the baking, reading with the instructions and a whole lot of teamwork! Not to mention a dose of character building as we talked about the importance of loving and helping others. Our regular lessons followed in the afternoon, but mornings like this make me so happy we have chosen to homeschool.
Well, I have procrastinated cleaning up the kitchen long enough. Hopefully the next post isn't a month from now! :)
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