Last Week of School

Our last week of school!  Nathan tried out his new game from a garage sale.

We finished up his Despicable Me unit:

Lily got to do her last week of spelling on the iPad so that's always fun.  :)

Samuel enjoyed his iPad time--playing an anatomy game.

We finished up our plant unit by planting our own seeds:

They grew!!

Our last day of school fun!  Nathan got a preschool certificate and everyone got a little letter and card from me.

The kids brought some show and tell to my parents' house:

Then we celebrated at Orange Leaf with my parents and Brian's Mom:

The holiday weekend included swimming!  Bring on summer!!

Since we had an extra-long weekend, I took the twins to a movie (not Tomorrowland as pictured...we saw Avengers) and the other 2 went to Play Station with Brian.

More summer fun to come!

Week 35

Our results are not easy to see but we did have growth on our agar plates!  Ewww!!!  :)

We started our plant unit that will last the rest of our school year.  On this day, we discovered we could eat a whole plant:

This activity taught about pollination (cheese from our fingers was transferred to other flowers).  

And, we did the popular celery experiment:

Nathan started his own unit on Despicable Me!  We've done a lot of fun things using a printable theme pack.

Lily took her math to the white board in an effort to figure out estimating.  It's been a challenge for her!

We also had a week of hair cuts!  Here's Lily's new 'do:

Nathan's new hair cut, which he LOVES!!  This is also his tablet, which he rediscovered, and has been playing games and learning to write letters.  :)

In other news, we visited Brian's work and got some fun prizes:

The twins did some life skills by preparing supper one night this past week:

Week 34

Nathan had a review week again.  I don't really have a plan of what to do with him now that his letters are over so we are just doing random things.  This is a smack the spider letter review:

In Konos, we had quite a few experiments this week.  We experimented with what yeast does with or without sugar, in cold or warm water and with and without salt.  

We also tried rubbing bread on the ground and then refrigerating or not-refrigerating to see what grows.  Thankfully, nothing grew because Nathan took a big bite of the bread.  Sigh.

Our last experiment is still incubating.  I found a recipe for agar so we made petri dishes to see if we can grow some bacteria.  I hope we get something!

On Wednesday, Samuel, Hunter and I had some time to bond.  :)  We played at a park, went to Chili's and Target and then the boys had some reading/spelling testing done.

Nathan and Lily stayed with my Mom and Magee.  :)

I thought this picture was so funny--Samuel drew it and he first just put an 'S' and an 'M' but then decided to spell our names but his he did backwards--I guess mine could be backwards, too.  :)

Week 33

  Another week of school done! Nathan did a lot of review work this week. 

 

The boys got the pattern blocks out to build different pictures with.

   Our toadstool art turned out in Konos this week!!

   We also made bag of scented rice to heat/freeze. 

   Evenings at the park with Dad:

   These two fight a lot but can bond over some things, like the iPad:

  Last Marion class this week and Papa PJ took us to Menard's to kill time.

   Samuel was able to buy this set he was wanting as a reward for making it through all his art classes. 

   Hunter loved the art class and is very motivated now to continue his superhero art book!

   Brian had his 40th birthday and we took a day off of school to celebrate: