Learning Update

We're still busy around here. I'm amazed at how many states he is learning. I'm not quite sure HOW, but he knows quite a few. Here's his updated "States He Knows" page:

Each day we just added a few. (the different colored states are for each day we added new ones to learn.)

This next picture was the challenge of coloring the states with only four colors and not touching the colors together. He had to start over once and I told him the trick. He liked it. I wasn't sure whether he would since he's not too thrilled with coloring. But, I think it was the challenge aspect of the whole thing. :-)

Navajo sand painting:

Didn't that turn out great?!?
It was much harder than we thought it would be. Glue is not easy to work with! We found the trick was to dab a little bit, then use a popsicle stick to paint the glue where we wanted it to go. We also learned that we needed to start in the middle, then go out so that the sand didn't get on the other colors. And, the hardest part was to WAIT until the first color was dried until we did another color. It took a lot of effort, but we think it turned out really cool. (Oh, by the way, we did not dye our own sand - we just bought it at walmart! I did read to him how we were supposed to do it so that he could understand the process. It just made me even more thankful for pre-dyed sand!!)

It's Thursday already- as far as our schedule is concerned we are still working on Wednesday's work. I am hoping we can have a little time this weekend to get caught up so that next week we can look forward to the easy Friday!!!! I miss those weeks where I felt like we were ahead. :-)

I'm hoping to get a nature walk in either today or tomorrow. We'll see...