Pluggin along with lessons

I am very proud of myself and Ryan for sticking to our lessons despite the urge to hibernate for the rest of the winter! Our rhythm here has focused inward as things do during this season. In the mornings Ryan has set up a seating area right next to the heater where he eats his breakfast and listens to his books on tapes. He can easily spend an hour there , but I have noticed if I let me do that, he becomes tired and cranky so we cut it short now and that is helping. Then through out the day he wanders back to his area and listens to his stories. We have also spent most of the week at home with a couple trips to the museums - no visiting friends this week. Again the urge to hibernate!

For our math lesson this week we talked about the number 8 and how many ways you can add to get to 8. We played beanbag games and used our puppets as tangibles for adding. This ended up leading into Ryan playing with his puppets and play table. He has not done that in awhile. I love to see him play with these toys and when he says "mom, I love the puppets you made me" it is all worth it.


Our Alphabet Journey continues this week with I,J,K and L

The prince sees a jester in the distance and approaches him as he is juggling. We practiced writting our J's and I's and wrote a few words for each. Ryan was really into drawing this week.
The prince found a castle where the king invited him inside where he found a beautiful lovely lady picking lavenders. I like that he added the prince on his horse over there on the right.
Math focused on the number 8.
Another surprise was that Ryan on his own got out the beeswax to model. He made this cool motor boat and played with it for a while.

I finally finished the hobby horse I had been working on since before the holidays. Ryan kept giving him kisses - I think he likes him : )