This week Gavin was learning about the Earth and the Moon in science.  He learned how to turn a needle into a compass.

Austin and Adelaide did a craft where they used a medicine dropper to drop blue and green water (colored with food coloring) on to a coffee filter.  It was supposed to make it look like the Earth but when ours dried it was still white.  Maybe I didn't use enough food coloring...  The kids had fun making them though so it wasn't a total loss.

Adelaide loves Play-Doh!  She plays with it daily which is good in that it keeps her busy and bad in that it makes a mess.  We made this blue Play-Doh together a couple weeks ago.  We put glitter in it  and it's her favorite.  The other day she made this and happily went around the house to show everyone her 'cake'.

Austin works  very diligently in his handwriting.  I think it's his favorite subject!  Very different from Gavin who hated copywork!

Adelaide working on one of her Kumon books.

Here's Austin's copywork page.

Austin and I read a book about the moon and then used Oreo cookies to show the phases of the moon.

Any activity with food is always a winner!

 

 Austin is playing a lot of math games to learn his numbers.

And, we finally finished our Viking ship!

It took a while but the kids love it.  The sail should be in the middle but we used artistic license to put it in the back so all the kids could play in it at the same time.