In Between Holidays

It occurred to me today that I completely forgot to do the new post on this blog. 

Since Monday (2 weeks ago) was the 31st, we were able to stretch out our Halloween theme for a couple more days.  Hayden had a great time sorting and counting all the candy that the two of them got on Halloween night.  We made a line graph using all those candies.  It was definitely the most candy the boys have ever gotten, and I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of it all since we missed the boat on donating it to a local dentist's office for it to be sent off to the troops overseas.

The Loot

Graph of our candies - Bubblegum was the winner

We also did a project from The Happy Scientist that involved me telling a story while painting a picture with the spice, turmeric, in addition to using rubbing alcohol and ammonia.  It freaked Hayden out a little bit.  Even after the explanation of why the picture did what it did, he had no desire to hold the picture whatsoever.

We began french lessons this week as well at a friend's house once a week.  Hayden participated really well.  Sawyer was hit-and-miss.  It mostly involves playing while using french words for objects that they are already familiar with.  Since the holidays are here, the focus is on food and cooking utensils now.

For math, we went back to learning about money.  Mostly, I had Hayden learning to count out pennies in groups of 10 so that he learns that 10 groups of 10 equal 100 (cents) or $1.00.  We expanded that to dimes this week.  He had to place one dime for each group of 10 pennies, thereby learning that 10 dimes = $1.00 and 10 pennies = 1 dime and 10 dimes = 100 pennies.  We then used that knowledge to "buy" some toys around the house.  We talked about what was easier to manage - 100 pennies or 10 dimes or 1 dollar bill?

Our "bulletin board" with our money poem and large versions
of each type of coin and dollar bill up to $100.  

For language arts, we did our letter Nn mini book, read some books about the letter N, and Hayden got to work on his Reading Eggs program.  The boys also worked together in matching letters in different fonts to the correct letter box.  Each letter of the alphabet was sectioned off, and there were 5 different styles to find the letters in.  This activity was mostly to encourage them to see that the letters of the alphabet don't always look the same (i.e. Aa, Aa,Aa, Aa).

Hayden playing his Reading Eggs program while Sawyer watches and learns.