Wednesday- 11/7/07

YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lyna read her first word ever all by herself today!!! She sounded it out and then put it together and read the word BAD! I am so proud of her and excited that the method we are using is working after all! We didn't do much else besides letter recognition/signing and reading today, but what an exciting day!

Wednesday- 10/17/2007

Today, for art, we made a garden stone. This turned out to be a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. It turns out that the stone mix dries remarkably fast, so you have to do everything in super sonic speed which just doesn't work well with a playful, energetic three year old! We had fun though, made a big mess, and learned a lot!

Wednesday- 10/10/2007

Today was SO much fun! I woke up with a nasty cold, so I figured it was going to be a crummy day, but, at least in the schooling department, it has went really well. Circle Time was fun and we incorporated a scripture lesson today. Lyna paid attention really well for that. Then, we had our art project, which was just a ton of fun. I am so glad that I decided to do it! We built a fairy house! So, here are some pictures. I didn't get a lot of pictures of us actually making it, as it was a pretty involved project and needed constant supervision, but there are some of the finished project.
(Everyone knows you HAVE to wear your fairy dress if you are going to build a proper fairy house!)

Wednesday- 10/3/2007

We had a great day of school today. It was kind of a lazy day because our art project was not near as involved or time consuming as some previous ones. We did Circle Time and then, this afternoon, we made elephant ears and an elephant trunk. We also had to make, per Lyna's request, some elephant toes. Apparently, she did not feel her costume was complete without them. By the way, the pink is her crown and she is the queen elephant!

Wednesday- 9/26/2007

Well, I had grand plans for a very cool art project (making an actual doll), but Noah was sick last night and I got hardly any sleep, so plans changed. I looked around online this morning and decided we would make paper dolls instead. We got kind of a late start on Circle Time (and we got to have a special guest, Daddy!) and then immediately did our art project. It went really well! Lyna loves the dolls. I would still like to make the doll at some point, but I am thinking maybe for the end of the year project? Anyway, here are some pics from today...

Wednesday- 9/12/2007

Circle Time went well today, Lyna was a little restless, but we made our "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" book and finished all of our rhymes. For our art project we made a Ballerina Fairy Tutu. It was pretty time consuming, but really easy. Here are some pics (and yes she does wear her gymnastics outfit every day!)...

Wednesday- 9/5/2007

Today, we started Circle Time a bit late (Mommy went off to the Farmer's Market, completely forgetting about it!). But, it went well. We drew our fairytale, Sweet Porridge, into our own book and (very surprisingly to Mommy) Lyna already knew the story by herself (we have only went over it for 2 days). We also did our art project today. We made apple prints, so pretty much we painted with apples. Here are some pictures (please excuse the odd editing, but Lyna was a little scantily clad while painting, for good reasons, and this is the internet!).



And the finished project...