February 4-10, 2013

We had a lovely week full of bike riding, work books, fort building, roller skating, building, drawing, dress up, and a new board game.

After a few weeks of riding her balance bike every few days, Rainbow Girl is balancing! She is so very proud of herself.

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

We continued on our moon lesson this week, drawing the next three phases with chalk on black paper.

We were invited to a roller skating birthday party for one of Rainbow Girl's best friends. The kids had never been skating and were very excited to do so.

Rainbow Girl kept the skates on for just a few minutes. After falling five times, she was done with it. It was very hard to hold both of the kids up for them to skate with just my two hands. She took her skates off and spent the rest of the party running around the rink in her socks. The rink was very open and had no problem with that. There were walkers and even a couple folks with strollers out there.

Sugar Bear on the other hand has my brother's skating genes. He fell down a few times, but got right up again and was skating on his own very well. 

The time came for the sock race. Sugar Bear did not know what to think about it, but was interested. The race began, and he took off with the other little kids. 

Then the big kids started catching up...and Sugar Bear sat down in fear of being trampled.

We love The Ladybug Game! It is a simple game that is a great way to practice math concepts. When reading the very mixed reviews on Amazon, I did hesitate to order it, but I am so glad that I did. When we play it, we play it two or three times. Each game lasts around ten minutes. It is simple enough that Sugar Bear can play with us with assistance- although he has not made it completely through many games- he gets distracted and moves on to something else. 

A few months ago, Rainbow Girl was given the book Ladybugs, an excellent book about- you guessed it, ladybugs. (Another by Gail Gibbons) She learned so very much about the cute bugs and was very pleased to play a game based on them. 

During the game, the players collect aphids, which ladybugs eat. Rainbow Girl was super proud that she knew that, and explained to me that aphids damage plants and ladybugs eat them to help the plants. 

It is a very cute, educational, fun game and I definitely recommend it for kids ages 3 and up. I am sure we will play it for a few years to come.