Aidan attracted a bizarre amount of attention at the mall. I am pretty sure mosthave seen team sport outfits before. But people seem to really like Football player outfits. We had teenage girls to bikers chatting and patting Aidan on the back .Oh dear! He is a bit embarrassed here.
We wne to visit a single Mum and her son from a difficult situation whom we have always kept in contact with . The children dressed up ..Mary as a princess and Aidan as a Football Player himself:) Mummy is from England and loathes the scary Halloween tradition here .. but as the children are in t he thick of all of the fun aspects of the week .. I thought it would be nice for them to dress up if they wished. 
Aidan in his element being a leaf monster and letting the younger kids that were around pile leaves on him. He is most amiable. The helmet was from scootering.
On a trip to the local Park we played under this awesome tree. The children always making friends wherever they go. This was a sweet shy European girl.
WHile in AB Mar left her beloved new stuffy "biscuit" the story dog with them. Auntie gathered up some of the children's toys as they often do and sent them to Russia for needy families. Mary got the news with Lilly (her girl cousins) who had sent her own beloved stuffy in its place. A good learning moment. Mary cried but was happy to know that Biscuit is making a Russian child very happy and got to travel all that way.
Mary at work on her Language Arts.
Kids fetched a small jar from somewhere in the kitchen. We have put aside the press and cloth bag filled with our precious ground seeds and wait for the next session.
We wne to visit a single Mum and her son from a difficult situation whom we have always kept in contact with . The children dressed up ..Mary as a princess and Aidan as a Football Player himself:) Mummy is from England and loathes the scary Halloween tradition here .. but as the children are in t he thick of all of the fun aspects of the week .. I thought it would be nice for them to dress up if they wished. 
Aidan in his element being a leaf monster and letting the younger kids that were around pile leaves on him. He is most amiable. The helmet was from scootering.
On a trip to the local Park we played under this awesome tree. The children always making friends wherever they go. This was a sweet shy European girl.
WHile in AB Mar left her beloved new stuffy "biscuit" the story dog with them. Auntie gathered up some of the children's toys as they often do and sent them to Russia for needy families. Mary got the news with Lilly (her girl cousins) who had sent her own beloved stuffy in its place. A good learning moment. Mary cried but was happy to know that Biscuit is making a Russian child very happy and got to travel all that way.
Mary at work on her Language Arts.
Kids fetched a small jar from somewhere in the kitchen. We have put aside the press and cloth bag filled with our precious ground seeds and wait for the next session.
Putting our seeds into a coffee grinder. Assembling the press. This experiment is being taken in steps over months . Lots of anticipation as to which steps will be done next.
Pulling out the sunflower press from the power house kit. The next stage in the process.
Carving some pumpkins ..but most of all time with Dad who ahs been very busy with work commitments and is very tired.
AIG World Of Plants Lesson 2 "WHat is a Kingdom?"
Here is our lovely classical book on Emily Carr's days of teaching art as a young artist. The children loved it. I love to inspire a love for art in them! Underneath is our Science book AIG The World of Plants. On the next couple of pictures you can see the chilren had to read cards with rather long science words on them and classify them. I was Impressed.
As we are just starting into more serious times tables 4's and 5's Aidan started to not be able to mentally know the facts from adding multiples of numbers together. As we need to order some multiplication cards and math helps for this. But I figured that what would really be cool would be for Aidan to be able to just fill in the 4 x's and 5 's times tables for himself on the board. We are now intot the 5's this week. He could get up from doing an equation and after figuring out the answer could fill in the times table on the board. He loves that. Him writing it out and remembering it that way will be in his head indelibly. Did I mention Aidan loves Math! Today he helped Mar with her addition math. 100's He did it mentally and then dropped the answer... Tut Tut you guys. Mary has to do it herself...cute moment. They thought it was grand.
Math in action.What happens when we pull out the multi link cubes for math. We need some more of these actually. These are a few years old now and quite a few less than the 10 sets of 10 that we bought.
Nanny drove out to see the kids and pick out pumpkins.
The kids captured me in a candid way:)
Mary's gymnastics class did up a class picture for them all.
I gethered up books Aidan had been reading for pleasure and finished and also Mary put in a fw to show what she had finished. SHe is currently a bit into CHarlottes web chapter book and planning on reading some historical mystery books . The children have many Great Illustrated CLassic books and a continous feed of llibrary books. Aidan is very interested in Science and Animal world facts and Mary in stories and chapter books.
We went outside in to the crisp Fall sunlight and tried getting some shots.
Mary decided to try experimenting with our grapes . She was seeking to create a grape perfume by using some oil (as she had made real parfume with oil at a VBS in WA a few months before) Lots of fun . Mary made some connections and my real perfume seemed to be heavily used in the concoction. The more she added the better the parfume got:)
We are doing an experiment with the garden. Trying to beat Old Man WInter and see how long we can keep that last Squash plant going. It is still alive and it is the beginning of Novemeber and very chilly at night. We have learned that Seasons are important and that plants are sensitive to their environment.
Kellen got in on it as well.
Mary gathered some also, but found the gourds wet and clammy with surprise slugs and other garden treasures.
Well in the last few weeks we a have been busy WInterizing the garden and gathering the last of the SUmmers bounty. We could label these first pics .."The gathering of the Gourds"
Pulling out the sunflower press from the power house kit. The next stage in the process.
Carving some pumpkins ..but most of all time with Dad who ahs been very busy with work commitments and is very tired.
AIG World Of Plants Lesson 2 "WHat is a Kingdom?"
Here is our lovely classical book on Emily Carr's days of teaching art as a young artist. The children loved it. I love to inspire a love for art in them! Underneath is our Science book AIG The World of Plants. On the next couple of pictures you can see the chilren had to read cards with rather long science words on them and classify them. I was Impressed.
As we are just starting into more serious times tables 4's and 5's Aidan started to not be able to mentally know the facts from adding multiples of numbers together. As we need to order some multiplication cards and math helps for this. But I figured that what would really be cool would be for Aidan to be able to just fill in the 4 x's and 5 's times tables for himself on the board. We are now intot the 5's this week. He could get up from doing an equation and after figuring out the answer could fill in the times table on the board. He loves that. Him writing it out and remembering it that way will be in his head indelibly. Did I mention Aidan loves Math! Today he helped Mar with her addition math. 100's He did it mentally and then dropped the answer... Tut Tut you guys. Mary has to do it herself...cute moment. They thought it was grand.
Math in action.What happens when we pull out the multi link cubes for math. We need some more of these actually. These are a few years old now and quite a few less than the 10 sets of 10 that we bought.
Nanny drove out to see the kids and pick out pumpkins.
The kids captured me in a candid way:)
Mary's gymnastics class did up a class picture for them all.
I gethered up books Aidan had been reading for pleasure and finished and also Mary put in a fw to show what she had finished. SHe is currently a bit into CHarlottes web chapter book and planning on reading some historical mystery books . The children have many Great Illustrated CLassic books and a continous feed of llibrary books. Aidan is very interested in Science and Animal world facts and Mary in stories and chapter books.
We went outside in to the crisp Fall sunlight and tried getting some shots.
Mary decided to try experimenting with our grapes . She was seeking to create a grape perfume by using some oil (as she had made real parfume with oil at a VBS in WA a few months before) Lots of fun . Mary made some connections and my real perfume seemed to be heavily used in the concoction. The more she added the better the parfume got:)
We are doing an experiment with the garden. Trying to beat Old Man WInter and see how long we can keep that last Squash plant going. It is still alive and it is the beginning of Novemeber and very chilly at night. We have learned that Seasons are important and that plants are sensitive to their environment.
Kellen got in on it as well.
Mary gathered some also, but found the gourds wet and clammy with surprise slugs and other garden treasures.
Well in the last few weeks we a have been busy WInterizing the garden and gathering the last of the SUmmers bounty. We could label these first pics .."The gathering of the Gourds"
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