Our First Grace Week

This is the beginning of our first Grace Week, per Lindafay's practice.

learning about evergreens on our last nature walk

we found a couple of mushrooms

and these flowers, Engelmann's Daisies, I think

Xander's first nature journal drawing of the daisies

We went to Nick's preschool first thing after breakfast. That was a wild and woolly session, during which the teacher carved a jack-o-lantern right in front of us, polling the kids as to which shape to use for each part of the face. Picture a group of ten three-year-olds having to stay near their mothers so as not to get in the way of the carving knife, while intermittently standing up when the shape they wanted to vote for was called, while also ignoring the misbehavior of children around them. Nick did fine because during the group portion he becomes a bit overstimulated and sits quietly on my lap.

At home, we ate lunch and made plans. Nick went to his independent playtime (his request is always the same, to play with dinosaurs, figures, cars, and trains) and I helped Xander brainstorm activities for his self-directed schooling this week. This is the final list for the week:

• finish Skyrim drawing (based on a computer game Erik plays, started at the preschool playroom)
• Leapster Star Wars Jedi Math
• help cook dinner for Tuesday night - we are having an old classmate of his and her family over for dinner
• play outside
• play ancient Egyptian soldiers (he bought that Playmobil set with his saved allowance)
• the Build-a-Saurus game we borrowed from the program that does Nick's preschool
• read a book to Nick
• go to preschool story time at the library
• the Oh Noah! site from PBS that teaches Spanish
• do puzzles
• draw a picture to send to cousin Bailey
• make a fall art picture using a hole punch and fall-colored construction paper, found on Pinterest
• number worksheets I found on Pinterest
• this weekend, go to the annual Fable Fest put on by the library 

He said he did not want to practice recorder this week, but I may lay it out on the coffee table one day just to see if he picks it up.

reading together last night

happy homeschooler

I have my own list of things to tackle, like blog posts, computer work, house cleaning, finishing How the Scots Invented the Modern World, knitting a lot, making food ahead for our dinner guests, running at least three times, cleaning the dining room chairs, collecting acorns, finishing fall decor, and such.

I made dirt 'n worms, Xander's idea