Feb 1st and 2nd

Yesterday, Georgia decided to take out her rock collection. She looked at each rock's size, color, shape, texture, pattern, and density. She decided to sort them by color.

The girls also played with playdough and made some interesting things. Georgia made a plate of spaghetti with sauce and meatballs. Olivia made the same, and some animal shapes with cookie cutter type tools.

Olivia organized her jewelry box and tried some on.

She also played BoggleJr. There is a set of cards with words on them, and blocks with letters on them. She needs to spell the words with the blocks.

Earlier in the week, the girls picked out some things to buy with their Christmas money. Georgia ordered a plush gemsbok and sperm whale. Olivia chose a plush fennec fox. (some of their favorite animals) Georgia's gemsbok arrived today! We are still waiting for the other two to arrive.

We also learned about syllables. Georgia worked on math. We use the Singapore text and workbooks. She also wrote another paragraph of her research paper and read some of her magazines. (Big Backyard and Highlights)

Another activity we do with Olivia is what we call her "Label Activity". We did this with Georgia when she was younger as well. What we do is write words on pieces of paper and tape them around the house. The word "lamp" is taped to a lamp. "Door" is on a door, etc. Olivia will think of other words for her label activity and we will write them out and stick them where they belong. Then we go through the house and she reads the labels. And yes, there is one on the toilet!

Tonight we are going to watch The Shaggy Dog that we got in the mail from Netflix.