We have been busy the last few weeks.  We are taking this week off to celebrate Thanksgiving then we'll have two more weeks of school before Christmas Break!

 

Austin has been working on addition facts.  Here we played a matching game where you had to find two numbers that equal 10.

Austin and Adelaide made jet packs (foil covered cereal boxes).  I forgot to get a picture of the final jet packs but they really liked them.

Adelaide has almost finished her two-year-old books.  Austin has finished his kindergarten math book and has started first grade math and he will finish kindergarten language by Christmas break.

Austin made a jester to go with the knights we have been learning about this month.

Adelaide loves Play-Doh and plays with it almost every day.

We just started an advent Bible study using the Jesus Storybook Bible.  The kids used Duplos to make a Tower of Babel.

Then we learned about God's promise to Abraham and did a craft to help us remember.

 

Gavin has finally finished his feudalism diorama.  It took a while but I think it was worth it.  Gavin had fun planning each box and deciding what to put in it to be as accurate as possible.

 

 

Last week Austin worked on recognizing numbers in different ways.  I put out some coins and he would tell me how much they were worth.  Then he would show the number on his abacus and on place value cards.

 

Adelaide has a puzzle she likes to play with that has three bears on it that you can change their outfits.

Austin and Adelaide have been learning about stars and they did a 'glittery, starry night' picture.  First they put silver glittery stars on a black poster board I cut in half.

Then we added lots of glitter!

Then, after the glitter dried, they glued on glow-in-the-dark stars.

They have enjoyed having their pictures in their rooms at night although I got the stars at the Dollar Star and they only glow for about five minutes which is a little disappointing.

Adelaide has worked on this alphabet puzzle.

This weekend we went to a Civil War battle reenactment for the Battle of Westport.  The boys really enjoyed it!