late september 2016

at CC (Classical Conversations), the girls give a presentation each week, with a suggested topic.  little man has been staying with me in buddy's class rather than going to the nursery, and he generally does pretty well.  we always pack things in his backpack, but he usually just draws on the maps with dry erase markers, looks out the window, and listens.  and offers his sister moral support, as you can see =)

Rocket Man demo during science time

we have at least one in the family who's not shy ;-)

the girls are taking a Chinese class, and I was excited to see that they offered a preschool class.  after a few tries though, I took him out, as they were using a first grade book and doing a lot of writing.  I did like that his class was taught in Chinese, which the girls' class is not, unfortunately, but they are learning a lot of vocabulary that probably wouldn't come up in our home conversation.

preschool class

at st. joe high school (where the Chinese class is)

 

practicing our calendar and subjects

 

last chance for swimming!

 

 

BLTs

making use of the many pool chemical buckets

 

and uses you would never think of, e.g. campfire ;-)

 

c riding a mini

 

 

meanwhile, we picked berries around the corner

 

 

 

ways I never thought to play with Lincoln logs

 

long chain addition

memory games with Taiwanese phonetics

unfortunately, we haven't been able to keep going with them because it takes us all week to do their class homework

the girls decided to have a 'Christmas is too far away' party, and made gifts for each other =p

they were really quite creative!

last minute weekend trip to stl - welcomed after midnight by appropriate snacks for all ;-)

fun with wigs ;-)

 

 

 

 

walking to an estate sale

 

outlet mall: when you forget to bring a stroller, the double fire truck starts looking like a pretty good deal

 

 

with g&g and uncle n

school outside, preparing our 3 sentence western European country presentation

the girls got some 'help' putting away clothes

 



oh, I've missed you so!

'bi tze' = nose

picking honeycrisps during horse class



CC art lesson on Michelangelo

science lesson on planets, plus one little dude

one of two curiosity apples given to ben by a patient.  the other was all wrinkly like a potato, apparently called a russet apple

*disclaimer: our days are not all smiley as shown, but mommy is not in the mood to take pictures at those times, luckily for all involved ;-)