January 22-23
Two more days and the kids are still settling into the routine of Daddy leaving each day and this is him leaving around lunchtime. The following week is going to take further adjustment! But it is a good adjustment.

We get creative to fill the time! I think those are zombies and ghosts on there???
So in the meantime I am packing our days with learning… and while the kids are not always on board we are seeing progress in many things. Just need to get science pushed on into our weekly schedule on a more regular basis. I cannot wait until it is warm enough to order our ants. We did get our time in on a special two part Wild Kratts. Dolphins AND Blowfish. I think we all learned a bit!

Blowfish

Dolphins
There was some spontaneous paper crafting with all 4 of our big kids… they made crowns!

Zander and Gavin

Emanuel

Trinity
And then Trinity and Emanuel took the stickers Aunty Karyn brought for us from Dollarama and made special space pictures…

Space… the final frontier
Add in the boardgames and we played our way to education.

Candyland for 2
Oh and the progress on Gavin’s Lego hour creation!!!

Legoland Gavin style
I treated myself to another snack thanks to Karyn – beloved Cheezies… bliss!!!!

CHEEZIES
On Wednesday we celebrated another month of reading… Emanuel got his first pizza coupon for working each day on sounding out and writing out a new word. I am so proud of their progress! This Pizza Hut sponsored program is great!!

NOM NOM
But before that lovely dinner we had a few things to accomplish… Starting with a more simplified how to from Art for Kids – a ladybug, note Zander’s hand holding his!

Lovely scene!
Gavin spent some quality time with his baby sister playing HER version of Skylanders… some sort of weird noised back and forth with various figures that would then end up in the line again!

So sweet with her big brother
And then there is our scissors practice – Trinity is getting rather pro with her S snake from Activity Village!!

All by herself!
And to round off our creativity Zander made a rather amazing sailing pirate ship out of Legos!

VERY yellow
It feels good to see them independently create a little more! And to see some passion in our work.

Daddy and his little darling
That’s so cool Zander, great drawing. I LOVE how your hand is holding the ladybug!