10 We’ve been doing that I haven’t been blogging about
1. Playing in the snow.
2. Going on a tour and workshop at the local Federal Reserve Bank. Interesting stuff. We actually got to see (from a distance) the huge vault and the machines loading the money in and the workers running the machines to determine what gets shredded. We even got to take home bags of shredded money. And, my favorite with field trips–it was FREE!
3. Jordan and Alex discovered the BONE graphic novels. Alex read the two we have in a day and is ready to go spend a g/c he recieved on as many more as he can afford. Since he RARELY reads completely without prompting, this is BIG.
4. Aubrey finished her final project for her community college class in graphic design. It looked quite nice and she ended up with an A for the class.
5. Playing in the snow.
6. We are fostering a puppy who came to us to try to cure her of her bossy, bratty ways. She is, um, a challenge. But cute and loving.
7. TIMEZ attack. Got the full version and it is really helping both of the kids. Alex and I have also been playing lots of mythmatical battles. And we’re working on fractions–equivalent, reducing to simplest form, adding and subtracting fractions of different denominators…..
8. In science we’re starting a casual, somewhat strewish chemistry unit. Right now we are reading Horrible Sciences Chemical Chaos and yesterday Jordan and Alex created something out of a formula in the book. It ended up being salt dough, which led to making salt dough ornaments.
9. We’re busily trying to finish the home improvement project that completely closed down our living room since Thanksgiving so I can move stuff back in so I can have Christmas for my family over here.
10. Last, but not least….Playing in the SNOW!!!