Adeline woke up on Saturday morning and somehow convinced Rob to let her make up her own recipe for a cake and bake it. He convinced her to add the essentials (flour, eggs, baking powder, etc) to her idea of a cake made of sugar, oil, chocolate chips, craisins, and cereal crumbs. After they baked it, they frosted it in a butterfly design. I'm pretty sure Adeline can get Rob to let her do anything. She is definitely daddy's little girl. The cake wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either. The kids each ate 2 pieces though.
Another baking adventure. This time we used a real recipe and made cookies. Adeline has mastered cracking and egg all by herself, and Bobby isn't bad either, but still needs a little help.
Since Adeline always has grand ideas of things she wants to build, we decided to start teaching the kids some simple machines. Here is our lever and fulcrum experiment. The kids thought it was great that they could lift daddy off the ground all by themselves.
More simple machine practice with a very simple pulley. You can't tell from the picture, but they have a basket with stuffed animals in it. Its their animal elevator.
More animal elevators. We're actually planning to make a real pulley system with the kids when we make curtains for the playhouse windows.
This was actually a couple weeks ago, but these tide pools were perfect for a lesson on landforms. The kids learned the difference between a lake, a river, and island, and a peninsula. Mostly we ran through the tide pools naming them "princess lake" or "ballerina island" and "the Bobby peninsula." We also saw a few dolphins while were were there and talked about dorsal fins.
A trip to the park included an "adventure" in the forest. The kids were most excited about finding this vine. I guess it wasn't poisonous since they didn't break out in rashes, but I was slightly worried at first. Maybe we (I) should have a little lesson on identifying poison ivy and poison oak and other plants you shouldn't touch.
The kids wanted to make clay one day so we made salt dough, baked it, and then painted it. They loved it.
A few un-photographed things we did this week were more maze pages, Adeline learned to spell and write her name all by herself, Bobby has been learning to play baseball with Rob, Rob and Adeline diagramed atoms and talked a lot about planets and gravity, we've been reading a lot of books, practicing counting money (I have a feeling it will be a LONG time before they master this, but they always want to count money when we find coins around the house), lots of drawing and coloring, and a lot of time to just play. So this is what homeschooling looked like at our house this week.
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