Aug. 25, 2008

We had a lot of fun doing school today. In history they start out the first half of the year by going to every continent and learning about a few countries in each. Today we flew to Australia. We were all running around the room pretending to be in an airplane. They had worksheets of pictures of a suitcase that we colored and glued to a manila folder, and a passport that we put their pictures on. After we read a story and some info about Australia, they colored and cut out some animals that are found there, and I hid them around the living room. They went around finding the animals and taking pictures of them, which they then glued into their "suitcases". We also listened and sang to the song "Kookaburra" on the CD that came with the course. There's a song on it for every place we go, and a song to help them remember all the continents (8, right Allison??).
Here is Alex taking a picture with his telephoto lens of the koala (taped to the lampshade) for history. (read post)

Here's where we do school. These are the boys in their school uniforms:). The calendar is the orange thing, some of their work is hanging up, and positive affirmations (I can do hard things, etc) are above their desk, the organizer has art supplies and school supplies, and the blue poster is tracking the temperatures as they drop for the fall. The boxes on the floor is some of their curriculum and supplies they sent us.

My only baby who takes a pacifier

She's growing! This was one of my favorite outfits on her. It's for preemies and doesn't fit her anymore now that she gained 2 lbs!

after the car accident...

the kids at the art museum.

Here we are doing school.

Nathan is starting to like to play computer games more. This is Diego's Dinosaur land or something like that.

Alex got to choose his birthday dinner. He chose ribs and a batman cheesecake. Todd put yellow food coloring in white chocolate for the top, and the bat is out of blackberry sauce.



Ryan and Dad are buffalo fighting, and Alex and Nathan are the riders: