Weekly Wrap up

Lots of photos this week as we had a very busy weekend.  With hubby home from work I find I can have more time with both Rocket Boy and Ladybug while he gets time with Jellybean.  

I found a great free curriculum online and had great plans on following this with the kids, I only ended up spending one day on this, but I will go back to this when I can, most likely over the summer when Ladybug is home from Kindy. 

We made rain inside a jar

 

Ladybug started swimming lessons, and even though it's not required she had to have a swim hat and goggles just like her big brother. 

 

We made mail boxes and post cards to post into the mail boxes. 

Painted glass doors with shaving foam paint. 

Had fun with some science experiments.

 

Washed cars for some pocket money.

And of course Ladybug had to help with some baking.

And that was just our weekend.  This week was Rocket Boys first swim safe session.  Swim safe is swimming lessons every day for the 5 day week, as this would most likely wear out Rocket Boy I decided to keep this week light, I had lots planned but after the first day I decided to ignore those plans and just let Rocket Boy lead the way.  He did complete some 'book work' but only when he decided to.

Rocket Boy did really well with his swimming, while he's been attending swim lessons for a couple of years how, he has only been improving at a snails pace with weekly lessons.  This week with swimming every day he finally mastered his 'rainbow arms' and is moving from level 1, up to level 2 for next session. 

The hardest part of swim safe was keeping Ladybug and Jellybean happy.  After meeting another homeschooling family with a child the same age as Ladybug and seeing her wonderful bag of tricks she had to keep her boy occupied, I went home and copied some for the next day.  We had play dough and some toys, books, straws and shapes for sorting, a colouring book and crayons and then we even risked bringing the iPad one day as well.  There was a playground at the swimming pools as well which Ladybug LOVED but as it rained several days during the week we weren't able to use it every day. 

    

I started an alphabet box, more on this to come. 

Made some cloud dough with flour and baby oil which Ladybug enjoyed playing with and did really well at keeping it in the tray and off the floor. 

 

Rocket Boy only did some work on his Math U See curriculum on Monday before swimming, completing lesson 11 - Unit Bars.  He has been waiting to be able to use all the different unit bars since we first started this program. 

Ladybug started letter F from the Letter of the Week program.