Another week in the books.

Our week started with Chandler wanting to move his desk to his school room.  He feels his brothers are too distracting to him.  I didn't necessarily agree, but agreed to give it a try.  So we moved his desk and chair into his room, and equipped it with all of the necessary daily supplies.  As it turns out, he barely uses his desk and prefers to lounge in his bed to do most of his schoolwork.  Hmm, not what I had in mind, but I told him that his work needs to be done, and done well, no sloppy handwriting, etc, and as long as that is happening, I guess it is fine. 

Cooper is continuing to do well with the MFW Adventures program.  This week we studied Christopher Columbus and his trip west.  We enhance the information by reading a few books about Columbus, watching a short video on BrainpopJR.com, and watching the video by Nest Family Adventures about Columbus.  Cooper created the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria out of clay, and our plan was to  head to the river on Friday to set sail for the West.  There's no pictures of them sailing because I made a mistake of using air-drying Artist clay...it dries BRICK-hard...so they sunk straight to the bottom..um, yeah, there was no sailing happening there!  Cooper was understanding, and said he learned that ships used to sink all the time back on the old days :)!

Max loves to do his school work and is doing well with MFW Kindergarten.  This week he learned about the letter "M", which was review for him as he already knows "M" and it's sound.  After all, it's the first letter of his name!  But we are in no rush  so we reviewed "M", by painting a Moon, making "M" out of Play-Doh, coloring "M", using Starfall.com, and doing a cut-n-paste worksheet.  He watched the Letter Factory DVD called Word Caper.  It's the third in a series of videos by the makers of Leap Frog about letters and letter sounds.  He loves those DVD's and actually picked this one out from the library.  He also learned about the moon this week, and we read several books wtih a moon theme.

Friday, we did a bit of schoolwork in the morning, although Fridays are typically our light day, as we tried to be done early so we can have the afternoon for fun.  We headed to Dick's Sporting Goods to find a football thing that Chandler needed for his uniform.  Since I am still not that familiar with alot of the stores in Asheville, I thought maybe the Mall would have a sporting goods store.  So we headed to the Mall around the corner from Dick's Sporting Goods, which was a complete waste.  Ended up ordering the piece online once we got home later that day, should have just done that from the beginning!  We stopped at the river on the way home to attempt to sail Cooper's ships.  This time I knew enough to have them wear their suits.  Even though the ships were a complete fiasco, we spent a couple of hours at the river, playing.

Saturday we basically spent all day at Chandler's football game.  It was a HOT day, and it doesn't help to have to sit on metal bleachers for 4 hours.  His team lost but I got a decent tan from the event, so ya know, it was a win for me :)!

The other big event that happened at our house this week is that Max got stuck between his bed and the window one night.  Huh!?! Yeah, it happened.  Remember my previous post about how good Max is about following the rules, so I trusted him on the top bunk.  Though this situation was not his fault.  I woke up in the middle of the night to hear Max screaming and crying, so I ran to his room, with Chris right behind me.  At first, I was a bit confused, because I couldn't see him.  But his voice was coming from his bed.  Then I realized he WAS up there, but between the wall and the window.  From the first night of being on the top bunk, Max had decided he wanted to sleep with his head at what I considered the foot of the bed, which is where the window was.  The bed was as close to the wall as possible, so there was no danger of him falling in by the wall.  We had also pulled up the strings from the blinds by the bed, so there was no danger from those.  We thought all was safe.  But apparently, if the blinds were pushed up against the window, like when someone falls against them, there is just enough room for a 4 year old's body to fall down and get wedged.  So there he was, squished just tight enough between the bed and the window that he couldn't get out, but wasn't going to fall all the way through, thanks to his big Bosket bobble-head.  I got up to the top bunk and pulled him, while Chris got underneath on Cooper's bed and pushed him at the same time.  Poor Max, he wasn't hurt, but of course, scared.  He spent the rest of the night in Cooper's bed below (because of course, Cooper had found his way to my bed by that point of the night).    Needless to say, we rearranged the room so that bunkbed was no longer near the window, but only had wall all along it. 

At that was our week!

Chandler doing his school work.

Where Chandler is supposed to be doing his schoolwork.

Max and Cooper doing schoolwork.

Max with his Moon for the letter "M".

Chandler and Cooper messin' with the slime Chandler created for science.  He was learning about Metalloids.

Max working on "math", counting bears and matching them to the number.

The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

Enjoying the water.

Chandler at the football game.

New room arrangement, beds moved away from windows.