Fairy Party

Isabel will turn six on Sunday so this afternoon she had a Fairy Party with her friends. Once Isabel's three friends arrived, we first had to put fairy dust (glitter make up powder) on our cheeks. Before learning about fairies, I sprayed fairy spray (lavender air freshener) in the room. To teach them that fairies are not only pretty but kind, I read them the story, A Fairy Went a-Marketing by Rose Fyleman. I then read the poem A Fairy in a Jar by Margery Stockseth and they each drew a fairy in a jar. Here is Isabel's.

Since fairies like to play games the girls colored butterflies and played pin the butterfly to the flower. We then ate fairy cakes (pink cupcakes). Fairies love to dance, so each girl got a magic dancing wand and pranced around the backyard to music.

Lungs

Today we learned about the lungs.

Here is Luke's body.  I love it how his bladder is falling out the crotch.  Isabel's is pretty funny too since she used girly decorative scissors to cut out her lungs.  Sylvia has only one of her lungs for some reason and she drew a happy face on it.   As you can see we still have some more main body parts to go but we are getting there.

Today Luke finished his Super Bouncy Ball Two and is already planning a third Bouncy Ball story.  Who knew a bouncy ball could have so many adventures.  Isabel takes forever to do her math, the sole reason being she insists on drawing each number in a pretty bubbly way.  I still need to do more reading with both of them today.  Maybe Joey will be up to it.  Does anyone have any suggestions on books for boys?  I have trouble keeping Luke supplied with books to read.  He is too fast.  He likes fantasy or adventure.  Let me know.

School at the Car Dealership

Our van had an appointment today for a lot of service that I knew would take a while. Having Joey take the van in, taking the van in without the kids, or going home while the service is being done are all not options. To make the most of our situation, we bought some Costco hot dogs (I think I have mentioned Costco hot dogs way too many times on this blog) and brought our bag of school with us. For two and a half hours, we ate lunch and got our school done. It was great and I didn't even come close to strangling anyone ("anyone" includes my children or the service people!)