October 2-6

I swear we are on the road to completions lately! Following up on Trinity’s math workbook finishing Emanuel wowed us with his Addition book being done! Well done my boy!

Sleepy smile and all

We have also started our story starters with the twins… I am hoping we can make up a nice series of stories all by the boys written by themselves. I simply check the spelling and correct it underneath. I am finding their creative spelling quite amusing!

I need to type some of these out… not too bad on the mistakes even!

It was rather exciting to actually finish our Lions unit! The assembly was not the quickest but we had a blast doing it! Be sure to check out our resource post HERE.

With October comes Halloween so we had to work on our black paper drawings. This time we are working on smaller images to include in our garland making.

Thursday was another rainy day so out came the rainy day fun bucket, folder games and anything else I could think of to spread across the floor and get the kids playing and learning and keep them from fighting!

Emanuel is working hard on his math! Friday had us working on the BIG math book… the same I did with the twins (a Canadian book), it is rather interesting to see how he picks up on some things faster just for watching his older brothers!

He even drew his own skull thanks to Art for Kids… again check out their link on the right side of my page.

Egypt made another showing with another story.

And Echo built us a house!

Our weekend was a special one! First Saturday of the month – HOME DEPOT! This month the craft of choice was airplanes! Talk about fun!

They were so excited I couldn’t get the pic to focus!!!

Gavin made me a slurpee out of Legos too!!

Sunday School had the twins bringing mustard seeds home in tiny adorable jars.

So not the most exciting weekend… but we make do and make memories! Oh… and eat a melon fresh out of the garden! 

And we are back to the dinosaurs, though admittedly this is a PRE Christmas, 2012 dinosaur! I promise a return to the regular daily blogging but the backlog of dinosaurs… gotta share! Enjoy!

Quite the mouthful! Add that to the fact that it was a totally armoured nodosaurid, that last of the family, and it is hard on the tongue! Emanuel chose this one because of all the plates and spikes. He felt it looked like it would be VERY safe out in the wild. And really, this herbivore was quite capable of foraging safely.

This 4 legged dinosaur lived in North American and was first discovered in our home province of Alberta, Canada. It was found in the Late Cretaceous period and was closely related to the Edmontonia. (Maybe another we should check out and add to our Alberta found dinos?). It ate low lying plants and while it was large to us, was really a medium sized dinosaur. Our first video is from I’m a dinosaur.

The second video is simply a visual on the make up of the dinosaur’s skull, brain, olfactory and such.

And now for our links! There is a brief fact section on EnchantedLearning HERE. Kidsdinos.com has the charts and maps HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a great image of the skull HERE. Animal Planet has the article the mentions the Edmontonia HERE. DinosaurKing has some facts HERE. Canadian Museum of Nature has a terrific artist’s rendition of the dinosaur HERE. And of course Wiki has their article HERE. I would suggest the artist’s rendition for the print out, though we had to take a miss on it as our toner is too low. 

All smiles