First of all: I had taken pictures of the boys doing these activities but had accidentally deleted them instead of sending them in an email to my blog... so they are lost forever. Oops.
Second of all: We are super behind in our Mother Goose Time lessons. Last week we had long days and nights with practices and performances of Mr A's play, Peter Pan. It was so amazing to watch him on a real theater stage and sing and dance. However, it put a damper on our education. I also went to train at Warfighter Academy a few days and had to drive the boys back and forth from family. This week, I spent packing up food for our house to get fumigated for termites. So, our days have been full.
Finally, this morning, I squeezed in a few activities. But because our routine has been fuddled for quite some time, it sure was a hassle. These few things lasted all of 10 minutes.
I had this fun little game laminated and stapled the seahorse pouch onto the larger picture. Mr Z had a great time stuffing Daddy Seahorse with his babies. Mr A didn't want to take the babies out to pick a new number card, so he ended up with all 8 babies in the pouch by turn #2.
More Math workbook for Mr A. He prefers this one over the More Literacy book. First we cut out the ruler on the seahorse page. I explained how to line up the end near the #1 to an end of the seahorse. And Mr A measured all the seahorses. He was quick to see which inch was accurate for each seahorse. Although, he was discouraged and ready to quit after his 4 looked more like A to him because it wasn't good enough.
I know it will be a struggle to get him to complete tasks in the future. He wants things to be perfect the first time and if it isn't to his standards, he gives up. Ugh, How do you encourage him to keep trying?
Next, Mr A cut out his sea sponges from the next page in his workbook. The directions were to put them order from smallest to largest and he did it in less than 15 seconds, I think.
Mr Z colored his Seahorse page... a little bit. Lol. He did a fine job trying to trace the tail.
In the 10 minutes that it took to do all of these things we learned that seahorses are poor swimmers, the are actually classified as fish since they use fins to swim where they can and breathe through gills, the males carry the eggs until they hatch, they usually mate for life, they can change color to camouflage and their tails are strong to hold onto anything to keep them from drifting away with currents.
In the 10 minutes that it took to do all of these things we learned that seahorses are poor swimmers, the are actually classified as fish since they use fins to swim where they can and breathe through gills, the males carry the eggs until they hatch, they usually mate for life, they can change color to camouflage and their tails are strong to hold onto anything to keep them from drifting away with currents.
