Kate and Caleb

The older Caleb gets, the more he and Kate pair off. They have some wild times together, but here are a few of their calmer activities:

Kate reading to Caleb

 

“Tree climbing” in a bush about 2 feet off the ground

High Museum

We attended a homeschool day at the High with the Frasers. (Unfortunately) the featured exhibit was Modern Masters, but we still had an enjoyable morning. I think we did quite well considering we were dragging 8 kids 9-and-under through a classy museum.

Sorry no real pictures of the art exhibits. We didn’t have a photo pass…

Moving Targets

“Green” Smoothies

We’re going through a mini healthy phase here. It is surprising how easily berries and bananas mask the flavor of spinach. Kale is a little harder to disguise, but we might be getting used to it.

A snapshot

Once again a simple photo taken on a whim (because the boys got a kick out of their coincidentally coordinated outfits) actually captures so many little idiosyncrasies.

Typical: Nate’s shirt on backwards, Caleb wearing a girl’s belt (it was part of his dog leash), my children outside barefoot on a chilly day, Caleb pointing a nerf gun at an innocent bystander.

Atypical: Caleb’s clothes not on backwards (although we can’t see his underwear…50/50 chance there)

Science Demonstrations

Meg and  Nate did a nice job on their science demonstrations to our homeschool group. Meg made a compass with a magnetized needle and Nate balanced water between bottles by siphoning, adjusting levels, etc. I’ll see if I can find the video clips…

100s Day

There are some things about the “regular school” culture I can’t seem to give up. Like yearbooks (homemade via snapfish) and summer vacation (three months straight with no school!! hallelujah!! who cares if they forget all their math!!) and, in this case: Hundreds day. This is a funny one, because I don’t remember doing it as a child; don’t even remember hearing of it ‘til my college friends student taught. Then it was on Meg’s kindergarten class calendar at Perimeter and she was very excited about it. Only she was sick and couldn’t go to school, so I stayed up until midnight the night before googling “100s day activities” and collecting supplies from around the house so we could do our own. Of course the next year Nate remembered it and asked repeatedly when his hundreds day would be.  Two years later kindergarten Kate probably would not have remembered it, but Meg and Nate kept asking about it. So on (more or less) the 100th day of school for Kate:

estimating various objects, counting to verify, comparing weight, volume, etc.

paper chain with 100 links (things we’re thankful for)

fun ways to “spell” 100 scavenger hunt/contest

how far will you travel in 100 steps?

 

It is fun being a teacher, sometimes.