Liam’s been experimenting with his own creations with his Legos and K’NEX. This is his latest design, a robot with moving joints.
The man had a cat. Sam had a cat. The cat sat on the man and on Sam.
Mat is a dog. Sam is a dog. Mat and Sam are dogs.
Mom nods at Dot and at Tom.
What?
Oh, nothing. Those are just sentences that Liam has been reading to me lately.
What to do when your littlest wakes up at 5:30AM?
Suck it up, go downstairs, and let him play Super Boy for hours, of course.
What to do when it’s beautiful outside?
Dance around being a combination Iron Man/gardener. Also take a pee on a tree, but we’ll keep those photos private.
or….
Pick up every single stone in [...]
As you know, we’ve decided to focus on “the sky” for our next 6-8 weeks of nature study. Although this was initially an overwhelming prospect for me, I’ve gained a little perspective over the last few days and think I’ve come up with a list of areas to work from that will satisfy [...]
OK, first I’d like to point out that when I comment on the blog, my husband’s photo shows up in my profile. I have no idea why. But since I’ve got some new readers to the blog as of late, I just want to assure you that I’m not in fact a man.
Liam’s [...]
Challenge 4 encouraged us to choose a focus for our nature study. Trees, or flowers, or mammals, or birds, or insects…. you get the idea. The idea is to find one area to focus on for 6-8 weeks and foster real familiarity with that topic. I had a few suggestions to offer [...]
Yesterday we were all geared up for another nature walk. This challenge’s assignment was to find something that piqued Liam’s interest, observe it, and hopefully follow that up with a drawing in his nature notebook. The walk started out well, and he showed some interest in a number of different birds we saw [...]
or, rather, the passing of the tractor…
Today the kids and I took a walk along the canal to complete #2 of the Outdoor Hour challenges. This time the focus was using words to describe what we see, hear, and feel. It was supposed to be a quiet walk, in which we could really concentrate on our observations. Unfortunately, [...]