lunches!

we've been keeping up with the muffin tin lunches. noah's been getting one too because he wants everything the same as big brother. :P

yogurt, organic cheese-its, bacon
apple slices, granola, carrots

leftover fried rice, granola, peanuts
carrots, yogurt, chicken

noah stealing nicholas' lunch. don't worry. he didn't eat the peanuts ;)


and just like noah has to do everything like nicholas, nicholas has to be just like steven.

felt balls

we've been making felt balls like crazy. today, we dyed some in kool-aid.

you put a little water in the bottom of a pot. colander goes in the pot, balls with dye on them go in the colander. steam for 20 minutes.

red, blue, purple and yellow
they are all koolaid except the blue. the blue is regular food coloring. it didn't dye as well as the koolaid.

our new collection on handmade wool balls.
(now we can get rid of some plastic ones!)

noah discovering that some balls make noise and some don't.

fun with wool

today's muffin tin lunch was on a mozz cheese, golden grahams, crunchy granola thingies, baby carrots, and a turkey and cheese roll-up on a homemade tortilla.


this afternoon i got a pound of wool roving from my friend kellie at mindful life shop. first, we watched a few videos on youtube of sheep being sheared. then we watched a video showing how to make a felt ball (part 1 and part 2). we made the inner core the same as in the video. we don't have any felting needles so we used regular wool yarn and big needles.

ran out of yarn!

felting the yarn.

felting the yarn didn't really work but that's ok! we can still play with them!

last 2 weeks

last week, nicholas started 2 new workbooks. one for math and one for phonics.

the math book is one that i made that goes along with chapter 3 - counting to 20 in AAA math. he should be done with it by the end of this week.

the new phonics book is a lot more advanced than the one he just finished. there is a lot more writing. the last book had him just writing one individual letter multiple times everyday. the new book has him writing multiple whole words every day. he's doing really well with it.

we skipped animal of the week last week because i was sick on tuesday when i usually put it together. one day, we made bread instead. he learned a little about yeast and how it eats sugar.



noah help too.



while the bread was rising, we made an apple pie too.



bread and pie!



one day, instead of a montessori transfer activity, nicholas transferred meatballs.





we started doing some yoga this week too. nicholas really likes it. it's fun!

here's the video.

it started out clean....

but did not end that way.

muffin tin lunches

in an effort to get nicholas to eat more different foods, we've been putting together muffin tin lunches. it's fun!

celery, clementine, mango
organic honey & bran cereal, blueberries, extra sharp cheddar




blueberries, baby carrots, clementine
raisins, goldfish pretzels, regular goldfish

animal of the week - eagle

Bald Eagle

day 1 - intro - we used this pattern to do a perler bead craft -

day 2 - animal -

what do they eat? fish. they glide just above the water, snag a fish with their feet and fly off to eat it. they also eat dead animals. By eating dead animals, they help with nature's clean-up process

do other animals try to eat them? no other animals try to eat bald eagles

what is their skin like? they have feathers.

what color are they? adults have a white head and tail, solid brown body, and a large, curved, yellow bill

hatch or born? hatched. eagles nests are called aeries (AIR-ees). they build their nests at the top of very tall trees so their eggs stay safe. The female lays 1 to 3 eggs. The eggs take between 1 to 1 1/2 months to hatch. Both the male and female will take a turn of sitting on the eggs. After hatching both the male and female feed the hatching's until they learn to fly.

what are they like as babies? babies are called eaglets. they are light grey when they hatch then turn brown. when they are 4 or 5 years old they start to look like an adult eagle. they learn to fly at 11 or 12 weeks old.

can they be a pet? no, they are too big and dangerous.

what size are they? their wingspan is 6-8 feet and they weigh around 7-15 lbs.

other description? they have VERY good eyesight. bald eagles are one of the largest birds in north america. each eagle has 7,000 feathers.

do boy and girls look different? girls are bigger than boys.

habits? Bald eagles may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used for 34 years and weighed over two tons.

day 3 - habitat -

land, air, sea? they fly through the air but they can also swim. they use their wings to swim through the water.

what is their habitat like? Bald Eagles live near large bodies of open water such as lakes, marshes, seacoasts and rivers, where there are plenty of fish to eat and tall trees for nesting and roosting.

what other (of the same) animals live around them? they live in groups called kettles. they also mate for life but prefer to fly around alone.

What other (different) animals live around them? all kinds of north american animals. they eat small animals though so they have to be carfeul.

where do they live on the map/globe? north america. about half of them live in alaska.


http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Baldeagle
http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/baldeagle.html
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/falconiformes/bald-eagle.htm
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/index.html
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/www/critters/eagle/826572782.html#18