Early this week, I stopped at Michael’s craft store intending to buy $2 worth of wood for a DIY project. I finally made it out of the store $18 later by begging my son to not let me look at anything else. One of my impulse buys was sand for our sand tray. DJ had accidentally spilled all the sand a little while ago and although I had more white sand to fill it, I just wasn’t inspired to do…
Did I just write that? Are we finished with four weeks already? Wow has this month flown by. DJ did a lot of great work this week but the one theme you’ll see throughout is trucks. Very little schoolwork would get accomplished without the cooperation of DJ’s trucks. Oh, well in this case his airplane was keeping watch. This was an exciting thing to watch, at least for me. DJ successfully completed the Teens Board! He can now count from…
Wow. For some reason, DJ decided to take a tour of nearly everything on his shelves this week. Note that we are still NOT doing school in any formal sense of the word. But that doesn’t seem to stop DJ. Here is a list of all the activities he chose to do this week in no particular order: M&D Pattern Blocks & Boards Guidecraft Feel & Find shapes Little Blue Truck Book Knobbed & Knobless Cylinders Golden Bead Subtraction Sandpaper…
It has been a full three weeks since I last posted! That’s the longest break since I started this blog just over a year ago. The lack of blog posts is mostly because we’ve been doing a lot of this… DJ was also in a wedding last week. It was an interesting experience trying to explain “wedding” and “marriage” to a 3 year old. He started to understand at one point when I explained mommy and daddy are married. Then…