the lloyds: January 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Building Olympus Mons

Bubby finished up his study of Mars last week with a project. He was anticipating building his Olympus Mons model for DAYS.

A Salt Dough model, some baking soda, dish soap, vinegar and red food coloring and here we have it:

He decided towards the end that the lava wasn't red enough. He added some more food coloring and here is what he got:

Quite honestly, it looked a bit like a crime scene by the end. =)

His review: "That was the most funnest thing I ever did in all of my life!" Yep .... off to work on grammar! =)

Friday, January 16, 2009

Bubby often tells us some random math fact .... like while driving in the car he'll say, "Hey Mom, did you know if you add those 2 signs together you get 42?", or something like that.

Today, it went like this:

"Hey Mom, did you know our family is 93?"

I'm thinking ..... er, how is our family 93? I couldn't figure out where he was coming from. I think he could tell by my speechlessness I wasn't going to get it.

"Yeah Mom,see:
Daddy __
+ Mommy __
+ Fancy 12
+ Me 9

= 93

Yeah .... makes perfect sense.

This boys mind works in the strangest way. =)

Monday, January 12, 2009

A Bit of Paint Can Make it All Better

With Bubby, any amount of writing is just plain TOO MUCH. It is really the only battle we have. He hates to have to pick up a pencil. Period.

Why this never came to me sooner, I don't know, but I have recently started letting him paint some of his assignments. Yep ..... anything. He even has painted his math facts a time or two.

Today, he needed to make the title page for his chapter on Mars in his Science notebook. After a long morning of copywork, language arts worksheets, and math work, I knew I might be in for a meltdown. I decided to be proactive. I pulled out the paints and the science notebook and he happily worked away.

I wish I would have thought of this A LOT sooner. =)