We woke up early as usual and looked out the window to see the weather. Snow? Where did the snow come from? The forecast, and the current weather on weather.com said nothing about snow. Surely this snow wouldn't last long, and wouldn't stick at all since it was warn the day before... Well, it snowed for a couple hours, and did stick! Using the snow on the picnic table and all three cars, we made ourselves a very respectable little snowman, complete with a carrot nose. The kids were thrilled that a snowman was possible.
Rainbow Girl suggested we bring some black paper out and collect snowflakes to look at- a suggestion in one of her books; It's Snowing by Gail Gibbons. It really was neat and we could see the detail of the different flakes of snow.
Once we got inside and everyone had changed out of their damp clothes, hot coco was requested. (Well, Sugar Bear requested blueberry tea.) Armed with hot beverages and marshmallows, we watched the movie "The Snowman" together.
A few weeks ago, I ran across a great wooden bead set at Goodwill. I have hesitated bringing it out because, frankly, I didn't even want to think about Sugar Bear throwing them all over the place and having to clean them up.
After nap on the snow day, I decided to give it a chance. I pulled out the set, some hemp twine, and watched...and waited. In reality, waited for the mess to happen. I should have had more faith! They both did wonderfully. Sugar Bear threw a couple beads once, but then cleaned them up and went right back to stringing. I was very proud of how they did and their finished necklaces are beautiful!
On Tuesday, I had planned on working on our Valentine's Day projects. I signed up the children for a card swap in which they each make five cards, we mail them out to the swap hostess, and closer to Valentine's day, they will each get five cards back. On top of that, I had signed up for another Waldorf craft swap, this time with a Valentine's Day theme. (These are becoming addicting, I'm currently signed up on a few!) I decided to make cute little peg people couples with needle felted hats, wood burned details, and water color painted bodies. They turned out delightfully and I can not wait to see what treasures we will get in return for them!
Later that afternoon, we met up with one of our very favorite families at the Science Museum. Daddy even came along! We had a delightful afternoon exploring and learning. Both of the children love the interactive section. In this section, they have a big bubble blowing machine, huge foam building shapes, physics games, and many other things. This visit, however, Sugar Bear's favorite part of the whole place was the blood pressure machine- or as he called it, the "arm squishing machine".
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| This in how big my little squish is right now! |
Wednesday was a super fun homeschooling day. We woke up, had breakfast, did some laundry, had a team bath, and put house coats on. (Homeschooling #1 perk- It can be done in jammies....or even naked!!) We did our opening verses and candles and started our lesson. The lesson of the day began with talking about what we might do and/or bring back if we went and lived with fairies for a year. It was a very interesting discussion! Rainbow Girl would learn several fairy skills and would come home with rainbow silk wings and a big pot of fairy dust. She then drew a magical picture of just that.
After the lesson, we took down the Play Doh. (As you can tell, Sugar Bear is taking full advantage of Homeschooling Perk #1) After Play Doh time, we had a board game extravaganza that lasted for several hours and was quite fun. :) The extravaganza ended with lunch time and naps for everyone.
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