Week 8

Nathan learned about the letter 'P' this week.  We played with play dough:

We made patterns, but he only wanted to use the green bears.

And, we popped popcorn and read some popcorn-themed books.  Pretty tough stuff!  :)

Samuel and I did a little different math this week.  We focused on place value and I think the change was good.  He made a "ones place" and a "tens place" guy, which was a HUGE success with him.

We then practiced place value using different methods all week.  I downloaded quite a few sets of activities from Teachers Pay Teachers for this and that worked out really well.

For our Konos work, we studied the solar system for our last week of focusing on orderliness.  We had a lot of fun using a unit study from Teachers Pay Teachers again.  We put planets in order:

Painted the moon:

And played memory:

Hunter got 1 day off of school this week because he had to have 2 teeth removed.  He's in high spirits for this picture, showing off his laughing gas mask:

But it was a different story when he got home.  Thankfully, the visitors, the presents and the medicine made his day better.

We spent our "recess" grocery shopping on Friday.  We stopped for a quick snack in Target--half a personal pan pizza and a free cookie from the bakery. :)  It was a great end to the week.

Next week is going to be busy but I have a few different things planned to really focus in on some topics the kids are struggling with.  We'll see how that goes!