Still Learning How to H'learn

Formal learning has puttered along for the last couple of months, sputtering and coughing with nothing too exciting to report, but here are the snapshots I found on my camera.

I took this because oft-neglected Luci was thrilled to finally have "work" to do.

The Pip learns to skip-count.

Susannah Wren is a dreamer.  It takes her an hour to wash a small stack of dishes because she spends the time thinking and looking out the window as she sloooooowly washes.(  "It's so relaxing, Mama.") Math and science follow suit, and I sometimes take pictures of the things I uncover in her books.

Older artwork before it's recycled: paper collages.  (They just drew an animal and then ripped paper scraps to fill it in however they wanted.)

I loved how these turned out.  We used this blog post as a starting point.

Susie didn't like how her owl looked, so she added a mouse and a rat, which improved it to her satisfaction.

Spring means we hit the books outside.  They keep their hands busy while I read history.

Sometimes distractions crop up, though.

These chickens bowling together, for instance...

Mostly, though, from pajama-clad reading first thing in the morning to pajama-clad reading last thing at night, reading is king.  That covers a lot of my lack as a teacher-mama, or so I hope.