Tuesday, September 8, 2009

legos and soup

Well we're all in the recovering phase from influenza that has been at our house for the last week and a half so figured today would be a pretty light day, but we actually got a lot accomplished.  Started out playing with Legos which is always fun for a five year old :)  After he built his creation he'd take it apart one block at a time and made a chart for each color used.  This was a fun activity because he could use his creativity to build then math and charting skills to count and make the chart.  Then we did it again and he had to only read the chart to me (vs counting each block- he had to actually look at it and find that it was colored to line 8 for white, therefore there were 8 blocks.) 

We also talked about nomads for history and made a "cave painting".  We used only brown paint and a giant piece of paper.  Um, his cave painting consisted of "an octopus stuck in mud trying to squirt ink" at something not even on the page.  Not sure if he entirely understood the concept of cave painting that I was trying to convey!

After all the other regular stuff we trekked out to gymnastics since today was the first day of this session- and I figured it would be good for them to get out since we were inside ALL weekend sick.  The little one moved up to the big girl class so it was pretty exciting for her especially!!

We bought some groceries afterwards and decided to make soup.  Pasta e Fagoli and all sorts of extra veggies.  I didn't think about it until after the fact but we should have gotten stuff to make stone soup, so we'll do that next time :)  The kids had never been involved with soup making before and it was pretty fun for them to help cut the carrots, "squish" the garlic (with the press of course!) and add all the different types of beans and lentils.  But alas, it wasn't done in time for supper (beans weren't ready yet) so we'll have it tomorrow instead. 

Oh, and BIG news!  Frankies moved into a new shell.  We had stopped this afternoon at a mom & pop fish shop that we'd not been in before and I figured I should buy SOMETHING so we got several new shells at a whopping 25 cents a pop LOL  A few hours later I discovered that Frankie was in a new shell :)  The kids are so excited, but then again, so am I.

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