Bean Mosaic

G says, "This is the best picture in the whole entire world!"

Math Game

This link was passed along to me recently and it seems to have some fun math stuff on it. It is sectioned off by grade level, K-6. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/

Bob Books Set 1

G-man finished set 1 of his Bob books yesterday. Now he can read 12 books! I had him choose which book he wanted to read to me today, and of course, it was book #1, Mat. He did very well with it though. :-)

Cat Toilet Training - Step 2

Well, Kiki has been doing well with using the CitiKitty for the past few days, so today I initiated stage 2 of the training sequence. There is now a hole in the center about 1"x1.5". We put her up on the CitiKitty after punching out the hole, she explored it, stuck her paw down in it as far as she could reach, and got it wet, then jumped down off the toilet. I'm hoping this isn't enough to scare her away from using the CitiKitty. It'll be interesting to observe her throughout the day today.

Aww...it's a no go. She didn't like the change we made, so she pooped on G's floor. We covered the hole with tape, and she's back to pooping on the Citikitty. We'll try again, with an even smaller hole in a week or so.

Insect Unit

Last week we learned about insects. The main things I wanted G-man to get were that insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts (head, thorax and abdomen). At the end of the week we made a model of a ladybug using a small balloon and paper mache. When it was dry, we popped the balloon, cut the paper mache part in half length-wise, and painted it and decorated it to look like a ladybug. G-man wasn't too into the paper mache part, but he liked decorating.

Fish Prints

Here's a picture of the fish prints we made during our fish unit. We read A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer and did several fun activities with a fish theme.

1) We played Go Fish.

2) We used goldfish crackers as manipulatives for adding and subtracting.

3) We talked about the food groups and made a book with each page representing a different food group. We cut out food pictures out of the newspaper ads and glued them to the correct page of our book.

4) We talked about fresh water fish and salt water fish and found areas of fresh water and salt water on a map.

5) We made fish prints.

6) We read the stories of Jonah and of Jesus feeding 5000.

A Name!

We have FINALLY decided on a name for our kitten! From this day forward she shall be known as Kiki. After all that deliberation, we finally came back to the name G-man had originally chosen.

Also, an exciting little side note: We bought a CitiKitty cat toilet training kit and it arrived yesterday. This morning Kiki had her first successful poop on the toilet! I really hope the CitiKitty works for us! It would be SO NICE not to have a litter box at all!