Turtles

Baby was awake while we did school this morning. First he hung out on the floor, playing.

Edmund's "Sticker and Paste!" book finished up the stickering part and we've moved onto the pasting. I think this is his favorite book, because no coloring is involved. And he likes glue.

Somehow his glue stick is now a white glue, instead of the color changing purple he had before. He said, "can't see any glue on it!" as he rubbed it all over. Yep, that purple stuff is great. We traded Valentine's purple one for his white.

We went over our "Touch and Feel" Farm flash cards. Edmund likes them, I like that they have suggestions on the back of the cards. Today we just identified everything on the cards. He did really well with the vegetables. The broccoli was "rice", the lettuce was "salad", and he doesn't know what a pea is. Pea's aren't my favorite, so we don't eat them often. And when I cook rice, it has a handy steamer tray on the top of the cooker. I like to make things easy and throw broccoli up there to cook at the same time. But I'm pretty sure he knows the difference.

Valentine read her first book, start to finish. It's the first in the "Bob Books, Collection 1: Begining Readers and Advancing Beginers". They have a simple drawing with a few easy words on each page. This one is about Mat and introduces his friend Pat. Mat sat. Pat sat. Mat sat on Pat... We've been reading two pages a day, adding on each day. Most of it's from memory at this point, but she's getting the idea of how sounds go together to form words. As you can tell from the picture, she's just thrilled. Not. Maybe I should have given her the award stickers that come with the set before I took the picture. Because she was thrilled about the stickers.

Baby has since moved to his jumper and is getting tired.

Our devotional was on baby turtles. I cut out turtle pieces from green paper and they glued the pieces onto the "shell" to make turtles. From the looks of it, Edmund's is IN its shell. Valentine's has a face. She's a big fan of coloring.