Ethan completed his regularly scheduled work for the three r's. He made a Venn diagram comparing marshes and ponds as part of his geography assignments, categorized characteristics of angiosperms and gymnosperms in science, and read all of the frog books I got for Alex's theme this week. He also finished Heart of a Samurai and was thrilled to get Swallowdale from the library.
Alex actually enjoyed one or two of his workbook pages and suffered through the rest. He explored the math concepts of patterning, measuring, and counting, wrote me lots of notes, teleported and time-traveled with his own Trio creations, and learned about frogs and toads for science. The highlight of that theme was probably the frog egg ice pops he made with me. At the end of the week, he sat down to tell me about what he remembered about frogs. This is unprompted his narration:
They can jump.
They have smooth skin.
Some have round fingers. They are tree frogs.
Some have webbed feet.
Some have claws for digging.
Toads have bumpy skin.
They're tadpoles when they're babies.
Baby frogs have legs and a tail and are called froglets.
Frogs have slime.
At this point, I asked him if he remembered why frogs have slime. He thought for a moment, then said, "Because they're mostly for boys?"
Ben tried to get Alex to run away from me so he could play pirates, listened in on most of our frog books, built lincoln log houses, teleported and time-traveled with Alex, and declined to wear a shirt most days.
They all started back at AWANA with our church, loved spending the weekend with their cousins, and had a blast at the Central Wisconsin Children's Museum with some friends.
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