Weekly highlights--4/27

From my previous post you can probably guess that none of us really wanted to do lessons this week. Especially since I watched the other two babies Monday. That just kind of threw our whole week off. But we did manage to get a little done this week.

Monday Delores hopped up at the counter and said "can I do lessons?" Like I'm really going to deny her the opportunity to do lessons on her own. I had placed the miniature knobbed cylinders and our language boxes on the counter to prevent baby fingers from losing and/or tearing up the materials in this picture.


And here's some practical life experience as she spreads butter on bread.


Tuesday, I lost my voice. All I could get out was a whisper. This made it very interesting. I didn't want to try to round up the girls for lessons in the living room so I just took the lessons to them. It actually worked out okay that I couldn't speak. I find myself talking too much when I'm trying to present something anyway so this made it very easy to just say what I need to and that was that. They also had to listen very carefully and pay very close attention to catch what I was saying. Almost a win-win situation, except that it was extremely aggravating. But I got to experience what it is like for mute people for 2 days.

Open and closing boxes from Hobby Lobby intended for Lydia.


Our "F," beginning sounds basket and alphabet puzzle by Melissa & Doug. Each time they learn a new sound they get another puzzle piece and slowly fill it up. It gets them excited every time they get to put a new piece in the puzzle and they revisit the sounds they have already learned.

Wednesday I decided we were all too sick to have our Freeday and go anywhere so we had a short lesson period.

Trying out our new sound bottles. I'm not 100% happy with them though so I'll do a separate post on those when I've modified them a bit.



Working on "F," worksheets.

They were more interested by the new porch being built on our neighbor's house than doing lessons though.


Thursday, was a repeat of Wednesday.



Except that we found a dead baby bird outside and we spent a lot of time discussing and mourning and looking at the poor bird.



Today I needed to get out of the house so I took the girls to the library for story time and we've just been taking it easy. That's really all there was to this week.