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We had a rather unusual lunch - lobster tail, crab legs and shrimp. Isn't that a weird thing to eat on the 4th? We had actually wanted to have lobster when we studied lobsters at the end of 2nd grade, but it was a bit expensive. We went by Publix to buy a watermelon on the 3rd and they had a ton of their seafood 1/2 off!! 1/2 off fits the budget. :0) Wes was the only one that cared for the lobster and crab. Lyndal and I loved the shrimp.





We finished the meal with the very American Ben & Jerry's. :0) A total splurge day that was VERY yummy! :0)

How did you spend your 4th?

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Alina made an ant counting book.



To see more, click the link.We had marshmallow ants for a snack one day.



Alina and Cohen made an ant out of Styrofoam. Here they are painting. As you can see, they are taking their task very seriously.





Completed ants.



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Our first artist to pick back up with this year was El Greco. El Greco was known for “stretching” out the people that he painted. Here's an example. Notice how elongated the arms and legs look on this guy.



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Lyndal's activity was to draw an elongated figure. First step was to pick out a picture from a magazine. She chose an American Girl doll baby.



Next step was to cut the figure into pieces. Our cutting wound up being pretty symmetrical and therefore our elongation didn't work very well. I think the elongation would have worked better to do only a few cuts on the legs and arms. Live and learn....



Then trace the figure.



Last step was to fill in the outline any way she wanted. Lyndal opted to get really creative and draw the insides. :0) The inner workings of her figure were very complicated. She explained every part to me. :0)

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Her first set of blends were written on ants.



For her Bible verse page she glued sand to make the ants and letter A look like they were in an ant hill. We talked about how we can learn from watching ants. We talked about how she could do things without being told, just like the ants. We also learned about the different jobs that ants have (the queen ant, the ants that take care of the baby ants, the ants that protect and the ants that find food).



To see more, click the link.She learned about the different parts of an ant.



She also made a list of things that she can do without being told.



No study on ants would be complete without a real ant farm. Here she is putting the special sand into our ant farm.



Here's the farm.





We had the most difficult time catching ants from the yard. We only have 2 big ants that are doing ALL the work in the tunnels. I'm wondering if we need to try and catch some more to help them. All the other ants are just walking around not doing much. We've also had some die.

Day 2 we have a few tunnels.



Alina is starting this book for Bible. Lyndal did it at this same age and loved it. It's like an activity book and stresses skills to be learned at this age (coloring by number, matching, etc.), but is all centered around creation. We have some others about Jesus that we will do this year as well.

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Here he is doing some lacing beads. He has had his eye on these for a couple of months now, but I kept telling him he had to wait. He was thrilled to finally use them.



He absolutely loved getting to use the glue stick all by himself to glue apples on to his letter A.



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For the color blue he got to use scissors (much to his delight) and cut out blue construction paper. He then used the glue stick to glue the blue pieces of paper to a white sheet.





All of the kiddos are enjoying our new markers. They are all scented. Does anyone else out there remember when these markers came out? I remember them from elementary school. One of the day care workers brought them to show us. I thought they were the coolest thing ever. They all smell so very good.



Enjoying Play-doh.

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