Week Three Complete

Here was the real winner of the week:

 

The last thing we did before daddy got home today. This is just before it descended into complete chaos, but the girls had a great time.

I think we spent less time overall on school work this week, but maybe not. It feels that way, maybe because it was less effort this week. The flow was good.

The plan for the rest of the evening is Halloween cartoons, maybe some hot chocolate, make some cupcakes and my make shift (easy and at the bottom of this post) Alice Spring's Chicken recipe with curly fries and green beans.

What worked:

Counting candy and cookies worked great for math. Tamarin had a good time and that was pretty much all we did on Thursday was math. It kept her happy for hours.

I enjoyed allowing myself to go off topic more this week. Since I didn't have a huge plan I was able to adapt to what the girls wanted to talk about. From eardrums to frigate birds. Never seen a frigate bird? You should, google male frigate bird for some neat pics. We discusses eardrums on the wing from my memory, but I thought I would include a link to a drawing better than mine :p

What didn't happen and needs to:

Moon science...... the package of oreos disappeared while I wasn't looking. By the time I realized this it was merely a package of chocolate wafers......

Still can't bring myself to do circle time... I don't know why I have so much trouble with this.....

What didn't work:

Sewing.... the only way this is going to work is getting the other two to nap and keeping Tamarin up.

The bingo sight word game I got for Tamarin is not broken down by age. There's a nice jumble of stages on each sheet. It'll be put aside till later next year or so.

I decided there was no point in pursuing a gymnastics class, when I have Capuchin in November we'd be out for most of the year anyway. Why spend the annual fee for only 2 or 3 months of classes. However I did get a good lead on a basketball league for Tamarin. She played in the spring and enjoyed it. We'll see if that pans out.

Everyday:

Circle Time! Do it! Whether you want to or not!

Tamarin- Write day, month, time, sentence, sprout progress, Lemur- encourage her to draw an animal in her book and sprout progress, Howler- draw whatever she wants :p Maybe draw some different lines or shapes and try to get her to mimic.

Chart the moon every night.

Read picture books every day as usual till they are bored.

Reading:

Read chapter book 2 times a week with Tamarin.

Encourage Tamarin to read BOB books. (Decided to take a break from them this week, hopefully she will be excited to see them next week)

Tamarin- Sight word games or crafts twice a week, Lemur- similar game/craft with letters

Writing:

Help them story book and let them illustrate

Write a B Sheet (more of a vocabulary thing, but whatever)

Tamarin- practice writing f and t, j and g, Lemur- Practice writing B and 2

Math:

Write a 2 Sheet

Think up at least two gnome math equations (didn't have to mess with gnomes, it was all about candy this week)

Get Tamarin to count and write up to 20 as a refresher. I'm going to incorporate the candy we got from the parade. We will sort, count and write it out. Lemur - worm hole game. I forget where I found this, but you print a handful of apples on a page and draw holes in each from 1-10. Then you cut pipe cleaners into little green "worms". They have to match the worms to the amount of holes. (pushing worm game to next week, realized Tamarin will want to do it too. I need to find my apple template and make some higher numbers for her)

Season related:

Decorate October in the calender

Finish collecting things for Fall season table

Fall craft, Probably something from here or leaf people/animals

Science:

Moon - one of the science experiment books (pg6)

Moon craft, one, two

Learn about mountain lions and what to do if we see one.

Talk about hibernation, I have a few books on the subject if I can find them.  (This would have been useful had I been able to find it pushing to next week.)

Music:

Tamarin - Piano, Chloe and Anna - drum rhythm (I will start Tamarin's piano back up eventually)

Arts and Crafts:

Sewing

Marshmallow art

Just for fun:

Messy Twister  

Easy Alice Springs Chicken: adapted from a very complicated version in a make alike book.
However much chicken you want to cook, cut into slices.
Equal parts Honey and Honey Mustard, splash of garlic powder. Enough to cover the chicken well.
It is a little better if you soak the chicken in the fridge for the day, but not mandatory.
Dump chicken and syrupy concoction into pan and cook until done.
Cook up some bacon, shred some cheese, cover chicken liberally and voila, easy alice springs chicken.

I have omitted the mushrooms over the years because of the girls, but cook some sliced mushrooms up with the bacon... mmmmm..... bye.