week 18

 Sunday - Today was Valentine's Day.  I always try and make today a special day for the kids. We have heart shaped waffles and I fill a bag with goodies for them.  I included art supplies in them so the kids spent several hours painting today. Mike and I enjoyed doing yoga together in the basement and enjoyed soaking in the hot tub in the morning.  We played games, enjoyed chocolate, and watched The Princess Bride together in the evening.

Maddy's Valentine's Day Canvas painting

Caiden's art project

annual heart waffles

Valentines day surprises 

Monday Today was president's day.  It was also our day off of school.  I did read to them the weird but true book on presidents.  We played Pit, Monopoly, and Clue.  Caiden's Eureka kit came in the mail today so he enjoyed working on building a printing press.  Maddy worked on writing a comic book. We also went for a hike today.  The kids enjoyed left over Valentines Day waffles for lunch.  In the evening we just started watching the X-Men series in order.  We started with the Star Wars movies and then we did The Marvel movies in order and we are currently working our way through the X-Men.

President's Day read alouds

Maddy working on her comic book

Monday has become game day!

Caiden building a printing press

outside time

Hiking behind our house

V-Day left overs for lunch

Pandemic series continues with the X-Men

Tuesday -  Today was Fat Tuesday.  We went to Marge's and got Paczki.  We came home and watched some YouTube videos on Mardi Gras and the kids did a writing assignment on it as well.  We also decorated Mardi Gras Masks.  In science we are talking about sedimentary rocks.  We made some out of candy today which was lots of fun. We also cut open our rock project that we started last week.  I also included a picture of Westin working on his writing.  I hardly ever take pictures of the kids working on their reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, math, reading, typing, or handwriting.  But we're constantly working on these things.  Instead of writing all that out each day I just said we finished school and it means all of that. Caiden is still working on his printing press and having a lot of fun putting it together.  I worked on putting pictures into frames today and Westin had swim and Maddy had horse lessons.  In the evening I had the kids help me declutter the toy bin.  It felt good to get rid of the stuff the kids don't play with anymore.

Fat Tuesday paczki

Marti Gras Masks 

Marti Gras mask fun

Sedimentary Rocks 

rock project 

The boring stuff I never take pictures of.

Working on his printing press

Westin's swim lessons

Maddy's horse lessons

Our pictures I ordered finally arrived.

Decluttering the toy bin

We got 2 big bags of toys out! 

Wednesday-  We had a relaxed start to our day. Caiden finished his printing press, which was so exciting and Maddy fixed her American girl doll that had lost her leg.  When we finally got started with school we did our igneous rock experiment which the kids loved.  In history we are talking about Genghis Khan and the Mongols.  It felt good to have a slow day at home.

Printing Press 

American girl doll surgery 

Igneous rock experiment 

starburst igneous rock experiment 

waiting for the" rocks" to cook

Igneous rocks

Science tastes so good.

Thursday - We talked about Metamorphic rocks today in science.  We continued to talk about the Mongols in history. The kids all made Yoda's today just for fun. Westin also enjoyed some puzzle time today.  We had a nice slow day today. 

Metamorphic rocks 

Metamorphic rocks 

Puzzle time 

Yoda helping with math

Saturday