Day 5

This morning when I woke up my two year old, Jade was already awake and ready to start her day. I started my coffee (I can't live without coffee and I'm a coffee snob). While it brewed I started opening up our school room to give it a chance to breath in the small amount of cool air our mornings produce these days. As I opened up the door that leads to our backyard Jade walked out. As I began to turn away I hear her exclaim, "Wook at dat Mom!!! Wook at dat!" I walk back outside to find her pointing in amazment at the morning sky. The picture below is what Jade was showing me. Even to her this scene was extaordinary. It looked completely different than the rest of the sky this morning and it was set directly out our door for us to see. Had we have walked out our front door we may have missed it completely. It was the kind of scene I needed today as our week wound down. To me it was a gift from God for my job well done. It wasn't there in time for the big kids to see. Just me. I was lucky to get the picture with how fast it faded as the gentle breeze blew it into abstraction.

Today I am posting more than just our paintings. I took pictures through the morning of the activities we participated in. I thought it would be neat for those who read the blog to see that we do more than just paint.

Joey took this picture of Eden and I. We have been doing our circle time outside since the weather is warm when we get up.

Brothers. Notice Mystic in the back.

Jade spreads out the nuts we use in our game.

Here have one......

If you read my blog yesterday you know about the game Eden and Joey are playing here. So funny to watch them do this. Eden could pitch for the Majors with her feet!!! She can get a nut all the way into the middle of the street using her foot with her eyes closed! Weird talent, but hey.....

4x4 is 16, 4x5 is 20....While they recite their times tables they have to pass the nuts from hand to hand and from one to the other. It keeps the rhythm.

We play a game similar to the electronic Simon game, but with maracas. Everybody needs maracas!!!! Its a game to help stimulate the memory because a whole sequence is done by one person and the other has to copy it. It's fun and Eden stumped me several times. Thank you Lisa for the maracas!!!!

See the concentration! The kids are better at this than me.

It took Joey a couple tries yesterday to get the feel of the game, but today he loves it!!

Ring around the rosey.....Just a way to get Jade involved

Writing our Bible verse on our painting from yesterday. It's our way of reviewing the lesson from the day before and a way to practice our cursive writing.

More writing....No classroom is complete without a cat sleeping on the table. Make yourself comfy, Mystic!

Our lesson today was the fifth day of Creation when God populates the earth with every type of fish and every type of bird. Our paintings are of the birds in the sky.

Here is Joey's painting

My painting

Eden's painting