Halloween at Ashley's school

On Friday before Halloween Ashley's school arranged some nice party for the kids. A lot of game stations, games, crafts. They had so much fun there!

Ashley 4.7

Mostly just pictures. At this age there in nothing huge happening every months or two. Everything slow and steady.
She loves school and Karate. Most of her days spent there. Sometimes we go to karate  5 days a week...
She is very sweet and loving if she is alone, but together with Emily she is trying to be better at everything, but can't due to age and she gets upset easy. Crying a lot, whining and just needing more attention. She is very sweet and good at school, until some body gets on her way or infront of her in line. Then she turns into little monster and pushing every one away.
Loves Jeremy! But doesn't have patients to play with him :)
Finally took a picture of her daily schedule at school and menu for last month. Not bad :)

Focus week 2 - math

We started with the multiplication table. First just some basic understanding that 3x3 will be the same as 3+3+3. Thank you to Pinterest where I found a lot of different work sheet and material how to learn it the best way.

Here is the best way to explain multiplication in a few different ways.

Build-a-bear field trip

Ashley's first field trip and first bus ride! She loved it!
As a class they decided to pick a dog and not a classic bear. And they called her Ariel! Now each child one at the time will be taking this dog home for a weekend, take her places and take pictures to share at school later.

Focus week 1 - Science

Starting this year I decided to do even more work with Emily at home. Well, not just Emily, Ashley too, but mostly Emily. I have a book started already where I am planing different topics for different weeks. We will focus on 1-2 big things each week, sometimes maybe even for 2 weeks. As of right now its all going well, we did Science first week and now doing Math. But I will cover Science a little more.
Science week we split into 2 parts

1. Matter - this one she started at school and we continued at home. 
2. Stars and planets - we did camping on our backyard and it was perfect time to get out telescope out and learn some more about planets and stars. 

                                                                             

SCIENCE

First day of school 2015

I can't believe both of my babies are now at school. Nobody running around the house, screaming or playing. Just me and Jeremy, who is also bored with out his sisters. Emily was usually playing with him during the day.
My 2nd grader and Pre-K student.
                                               

                                                  

Math for 1-2 graders

Emily loves math! Probably more then anything else at school  and we are working on it with her all the time, even during her summer break. There are a lot of different work books you can get, different printable pages etc. But we have our 3 favorites and I will talk a little bit about them.

Math Bingo