School Fun

January was WONDERFUL!  After a month of viruses, pregnancy issues (normal ones), car craziness (see our family blog), and holidays it felt SO good to have school as normal.  I was an especially wonderful momma because I included several messy activities during the month, including at least FOUR paint days (we're usually doing pretty good if we have TWO for the WHOLE year) one of which used permanent ACRYLIC paint.  Oh yeah!  Here are some of our more fun/ artsy activities from last month.

Abby has loved being included with her own activities.

Annie painted some sun catchers.

Alex made a birdhouse.

Everyone moved onto watercolor at some point the same day.

Abby loves to color.

 Logan made a goal to read the unabridged version of '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' this month.  It was a good challenge for him, but he did it!

 Abby posed for a picture because she always wants to be included.

 Alex painted his birdhouse on another day, and apparently I failed to take a finished picture.

More suncatcher art.

Logan did some experiments with a rock kit.

Aquadoodle on another day.

Mid-January I found a gingerbread man kit at the store for $1.  Gingerbread decorating/ building is one of my favorite Christmas activities, and one that we missed out on this year.  So I bought the kit and we decorated gingerbread men during school one day.

Abby just wanted to eat the one she and I made.

Another fun activity was building a human body model while learning about our bodies.  Meet Aaron/Erin whose gender changes based on which child you talk to.