Sugar Crystals

Our science project for this week is growing sugar crystals. Here is our jar of sugar solution with a string hanging down into it for the crystals to grow on.

And here are our sugar crystals 2 days later:

Jugglers

Today we made these juggling balls to go with our FIAR book. We filled balloons with rice, then cut off the neck of another balloon and stuffed the first balloon inside upside down to secure it. We then practiced our juggling skills...Daddy proved himself the Juggling King!

Stylized Trees and a bit of Korean

This week we are reading The Clown of God for our FIAR book, and we made stylized trees like the ones in the illustrations out of play-doh.

We also made a model of a little juggling man. :-)

Totally unrelated, but later we ate dinner at a terriyaki place, and the woman who works there taught us how to say thank you in Korean: (com sah mi dah).

Saturday School?

When G woke up this morning he said, "I feel like doing some kindergarten". I told him that it is Saturday, our day off.

"What?! Why? We can't do any kindergarten today?" He was shocked that kindergarten wasn't on the list of things to do today. I suppose I could put something together for him; a little handwriting practice or a science project. :-)

Week 2: Storm in the Night

This week's FIAR book was Storm in the Night. We talked about storms and clouds, and oddly enough, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky all week. They will roll in soon enough, and when they do we will be there scoping them out and identifying them by type. We also reviewed onomatopoeia, discussed story setting, and talked about what grandparents were like as children. We even made our own cloud for science!

Our Bible story for this week was the fall of man. We learned that Adam and Eve brought sin into the world when they disobeyed God.

Explode the Code Online

I just signed up for Explode the Code Online through the Homeschool Buyers Co-op. I think it'll be a nice alternative to book reading for phonics. G seems to like computer games, so hopefully this will be one he will enjoy. I'll have to post an update on how we like it after we start (our start date is September 22, I believe).

Free Time with Colored Pencils

Colored pencils are probably the most exciting thing about starting kindergarten in G's world. He asks to use them almost every day. Today he drew a picture of himself in a hot air balloon with Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Erik looking on. As he explained his drawing to me, he pointed out that he had used the cross-hatching technique to make the hot air balloon basket look like a real basket (you can see it best on the right side of the basket). We had talked about cross-hatching last week while we were reading A Pair of Red Clogs, and I was impressed that he remembered that.