Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Start of 2010


The year has gotten off to a pretty good start for us. We started back with our school work on Jan. 4th. The kids have all been working really hard since then and we have been able to get a lot finished. We've also been having some fun too! Here is Papa ( Randy) before going to a funeral for one of our friend's mama. I was on the road that day to pick Aaron and Heather up from their trip to VA.




I babysat my Jacey one Sunday.  After church we snuggled up for a nice Sunday nap.  Kristen thought it would make a good picture.  There is nothing sweeter than a baby to snuggle!





Momo had some fun doing a science experiment one day.  She was learning about how some whales swim in the arctic waters.  For this experiment she filled two glasses of water but one was left plain and one she added some salt into. 







Stirring in the salt.

The next step was to place both glasses into the freezer for an hour.  She discovered the salt water did not freeze like the plain water did.

While the experiment was going, she worked to finish her whale pocket book.


Kristen was working on her  math.  This unit was on geometry.



Momo doing some language arts.  I think I caught her off guard in this one.

While we were working at the table, we noticed we has a few little visitors at the back door!


I guess this guy was on guard duty.  He was perched up on the grill!

Momo finished the chapter on whales in her science and placed all the notebook activities onto her pages.  She loves doing this at the end of each chapter.



Here she is working on the whale pocket book trying to finish it up.


This is the completed book!



Pocket 1

Pocket 2


Pocket 3 - This one has a model of a baleen. 

A close up view of pocket 2.


A couple of the pages in the "As Big as A Whale" booklet.



Pocket 4 - This one had an activity using homophones and a ( Haiku) poem activity.


Momo's poem.



Penelope and Luigi just "hanging around" in their new tank!


Here is Maggie, doing one of her favorite things.....snuggling up on the couch with her blanket!  She isn't really fond of cold weather.




4 comments:

Julia said...

I absolutely love those pictures of you and the baby napping... there is nothing better than baby snuggles!

Rhonda said...

Awww such sweet photos. I really enjoyed looking at Momo's whale pocketbook. She did a great job on it.

Jolene (South Africa) said...

Great pics, I love snuggling with Katie, nothing better than a baby snuggle. Well done Momo on the great work you did on the whale pocket book

~Jenn~ said...

Momo did fantastic on the whale pocketbook! I think I may have to borrow the salt water experiment before too long!