Day and Night World Map

So, lately I've been really a slacker about school. Right now we are still waiting for Luke's math book so I declared this week, "track break." But I do so love the unexpected snippets of everyday learning. Today Luke was imagining that the earth from space at night would look really neat. So we got on Google images and checked some pictures out. We then looked at this day and night world map.  Luke asked why the nighttime part is shaped like a "U."  I got down the globe and explained (as best as I could) about the earth's tilt and how if you are far enough north or south, depending on the time of year, the sun might be up for months or down for months.  While Isabel was at her dance class Luke and I were watching a Discovery Channel documentary about the ice hotel in Sweden.   Coincidentally, it showed and talked about how they had to build the hotel in the dark a lot because the sun was only up for a few hours and that for a month and a half it wouldn't come up at all.

Isabel and I got our Signing Time DVD's from the library!  Watching a sign language DVD with my daughter is school I can definitely do while I am having a lazy week.

Child Psychologist?

Today was the last day of MOPS for the Spring. The next MOPS meeting will be in September. I had a great time as usual talking with friends, eating brunch and listening to a great motivating speaker. My kids love it there because they always do fun crafts, lessons and activities. As I've said before, MOPS is a group for Christian moms with preschoolers. Our meetings are held at a Baptist church and I am pretty sure that a lot of the moms are Baptist. I am the only mom there that is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormon). All of the women have always been very friendly and never judgmental, but being only one in my faith and with all of the weird things that people think about "Mormons", I can't help but wonder what they think of me.

So point is, I was part mortified and part amused today when I picked up my kids from their classes and on one side of Luke's paper he drew a book titled "The Book of Mormon" and then on the other side he drew a guy with a gun and spikes all over. Later I asked Isabel what they were supposed to draw on their papers and she said, feelings. Maybe I better take that picture to a child psychologist. Hehehe.

Finger Paint

I am always so proud of myself when I let Sylvia get into paints, glitter, etc. She LOVES being so hands on, but it is such a pain for me to clean up the craziness she creates with it. She had a little too much fun yesterday with these (thank goodness washable) paints.

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