Homeschool Projects

We've had fun with our homeschool lessons. The boys always amaze me at how much they know and can remember. One of our topics was our five senses. For art day we made this collage of items to represent each of our senses; sand paper hands for touch, jingle bells for hearing, googly eyes for sight, licorice for taste, and a cotton ball with body spray for smell. They turned out super cute! Oh and I have to give credit to Pintrest for this idea. I wanted to teach senses so that we could make this!

 Samuel was fascinated with the feel of sand paper.

 William wanted to "smell like dad" so he got daddy's body spray.

One thing I did was that worked great was to use the boys color for their background paper. That way there's no question as to which project belongs to who.
When I was trying to cut the licorice the boys we're jumping up and down trying to get a piece. While I was getting the glue ready for Samuel, he snatched up his mouth piece and ate it! Little stinker.

Skeleton Q tips

 William was the only one who did this craft. But he really loved it! We only learned a few bones in the body but he enjoyed learned how the body "stays together and strong."

William LOVES playing games!! Everyday he asks to play a game. I found a new deck of cards and he played war with us and by himself. I taught him how to play even and odd war, where you add/subtract the cards and one person gets the even the other gets the odd total. Although it takes longer he enjoys playing it "mommy's way."
Another game we play is Make 10. We lay out nine cards and he adds any combination to make ten. Royals are ten and we disregard the jokers. He does really good with this! One time he played he used up all the cards! Some of the combinations he came up with surprised me, like instead of using two bigger numbers to make ten he used four small number cards to make ten.
William enjoys playing these different games and is so proud of himself and what he can do.