Letter of the Week- T

One day, while waiting for Ryan at New River for his math class, I brought along some paper, crayons, clipboards and a Tree field guide to help us identify some of the Trees that were on the campus. We made some leaf rubbings, bark rubbings and found out that the campus has quite a few white oak, sugar maple and flowering dogwood Trees (among others, these were just the ones we identified.) We brought home our pages and put them in a book.

Time--time outside. When it's not raining, the days are warm and beautiful, we can't help but go outside and play and play, and play some more. Cold winter days will be here before we know it!I felt a bit guilty sending the little ones off with Barry on the trip to the family gravesites until I read that a part of TJEd's core phase goals are to connect with family and understand familial relations and our part in a family....thus what began as a day off for me (and time alone with the older kids) turned into a purposeful 'school' outing for the little ones. They had a wonderful 'field trip' to see the gravesides and learn more about ancestors.

(Spending time with Connor, Cailin and Ryan, and working more personally with them with their school work was a wonderful day for us too.)

When they came back I tried to help them make sense of all the people they heard about and the graveside markers they saw. We created a four generation geology sheet-- or family tree to see how everyone connected to them. We then created a this colorful autumn paper tree for a fun project. Liam got to identify more letter T's and Delaney had some penmanship practice.
Delaney's Life of Fred math book coincidentally had us dicsussing and learning about triangles. So we had some fun making triangles with rubber bands on a peg board and......
making more with paper to create interesting paper sculptures....ah, mountains!

We had fun, could have done so much more and probably will later....for now, though we're finished and Through with this letter.