Thursday, D enjoyed making "broth" just like one of the pilgrims served to an Indian named, Massasoit, who was sick. He used a coffee filter to be the "stomach" and a cup to represent the small intestine. He used water for "broth" and we saw how quickly it went through the stomach and entered the small intestine.
He then crumbled crackers into the water to symbolize solid food...
...and saw that it didn't go as fast through the stomach! So when you're sick - it's best to have liquids (water, juice, broth, so nutrients can enter your body FAST!) :o)
He enjoyed eating broth out of homemade chicken noodle soup that we had twice this weekend (gotta love leftovers!). :o) He referred back to the story - and even told his daddy (who was sick this weekend) to drink lots of water & eat broth!K's Do It Carefully page from Thursday...She cut out various objects and sorted them by gluing them in the correct box: "building a bird house" or "cleaning inside our house."
Yesterday was co-op and what a busy morning it was! D is enjoying his ASL class - learning to sign the alphabet, count to 10 and his name. His other classes are the Human Body and Native Americans ~ he came home with a paper skeleton he had glued together (said it was easy ;o) and a tiny tepee he constructed. K loves her preschool class - her highlight was playing "house" with her friends. And C, well, she's not doing well in the nursery...she'll learn.Today while I worked with D, the girls spent a few minutes putting small straw pieces into a large, empty Parmesan canister...one of our "busy bag" activities.
D had to listen to an excerpt from his fantasy genre book (The Cricket in Times Square) and then draw what was described in the excerpt I read. Two characters wore Chinese robes..."it was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon and stars..." (the robe he drew on the left) and the other (pic on right) "was blue and green, covered with pictures of fish and reeds adn water lilies." Thankfully we had the computer on and searched for a picture reeds & water lilies so he could remember what they looked like...
For math today, he chose 12 unifix cubes to be "hens" and had to roll the die (thankfully I have one that goes from 1-12) setting out that number of "hens." He then gave each "hen" 2 "eggs" (small marshmallows) and had to figure out how many eggs were "laid" altogether...he's doing great job with the 2 facts for multiplication!!! He breezed through 3 worksheets today! I'm loving Singapore - does a great job teaching the facts with lots of practice, examples & word pictures/problems rather than just memorizing them! 
To go with his history today, he moved cows from an "island" while I moved them to the "mainland" in 3 minutes - he beat me - kept his cows on the island faster than I could move them off! We read about the Dutch settling in New York City (New Amsterdam as they called it) and brought some sheep, cows & pigs but kept them on the island for awhile as there weren't pasture areas on the mainland. :o) Of course, C and K had to join in on the fun after the "race" was over!
K is still working on reading number words (we're not writing them at all - we'll do that next year after she learns to write). :o) Today, she had to pull out the words from a bag and then do that number of a certain action...clapping 3x when she pulled out a "three"...
...twisting around "eight" times...she was dizzy after that one!
Her happy grin - just being silly!
Touching her toes "ten" times!
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