Learning

Since Caleb has gone back to school, and we've gotten back into our regular routine the girls have been a little giddy, fighty, dare I say it bored? So I decided we need to start doing something a little more structured at home so they would stop hitting each other and to help the days pass in more productive ways. Some friends suggested some good preschool websites and we are off with a learning theme each week.

First Lydia picked space. We read books from the library, looked at a harvest moon, ate phases of the moon into cookies, watched a Tad Math Moon adventure (good) and the Jetson's Movie (I just picked random moon dvds from the library and one was horrible but the girls like the cuddly creatures at the end) of course we talked about pretend and real things about space, we did slow moon walking to the Chariots of Fire theme and played 10, 9, 8...blast off rocket ship space jumping (counting, blasting off and jumping from 'planet' pillows around the house). It was great first week.

Second was BUGS, again library books and Elmo, Diego and A Bugs Life (too old for them), we tried a few nature walks but saw the most bugs dead in the pool, we had an exterminator come and kill fire ants (expensive but perfectly timed), we made ant hills (see above), Lydia made a bug mobile.

Now we are doing dinosaurs and kicked it off with a (free-yay Austin Museum day) trip to the new exhibit at the Children's Museum (see next post)