A New Year's Interview with Charger, age 6

Continuing with our New Year's interviews, today is Charger's turn.  You can read Mini Cooper's here.

Self portrait-Charger was NOT into this, lol!  There are actually two drawings here because he drew the one to the left and I asked him to try a little harder.  The one to the right was his 'try harder.'  

Real portrait

When is your birthday?  November 18th

Who is in your family?  Mini Cooper, Mom and Dad, Mustang, and Explorer

What is your favorite color?  Yellow

Who is your best friend?  Dawsyn and Brayden (which I found interesting since we haven't seen them in months, lol).

What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas Eve (I asked why, but he refused to tell me.  Maybe it's because that's when we usually open our family gifts?)

What is your favorite activity?  Playing video games

What is your favorite animal?  dog

What would you like to be when you grow up?  builder or superhero

Where would you like to go on vacation?  Scotties (local fun spot with roller skating, laser tag, arcade)

What is your favorite thing to learn in school?  How to tell time

What do you like for breakfast?  Blueberry shredded wheat (organic kind)

For lunch?  PB & J

For dinner?  Mac & cheese

Dessert?  cookies

What is your favorite restaurant?  McDonalds

What is your favorite toy?  Legos

What is your favorite game?  Lego Batman II & Happy Wars

What do you like to do for fun at home? Play xBox

What is your favorite book?  Where's Waldo

Who is your favorite fictional character?  Robin (from Batman)

What is your favorite song?  Bob the Builder theme song (I may need to teach them more music!)

What is your favorite video/movie?  Lego Ninjago

Who is your hero?  Dawsyn and Brayden (I love them, but I think my kids don't understand what a hero is, lol)

What was your favorite part of 2013?  Getting presents from Santa

What do you wish for this new year?  Have a birthday party at Scotties and invite Dawsyn and Brayden

I have one more to share-Mustang's.  I hope you are enjoying these as much as I did!

Happy New Year & God Bless!

Lisa

Montessori Monday with Charger

Charger has been completely in to language the last week or two.  He stops me in the middle of playing a game to say B!  Ball starts with B!  Or how to spell a word.  One night, as he was going to sleep, he yelled down asking how to spell moon.  It's pretty fun to watch.

It started when I brought out the sandpaper letters.  

He has been doing sound sorts over the last few weeks.  

M is for music box :).

So, today I pulled out the Moveable Alphabet to see what he would do.  His first word was 'jet.' 

Dog was next.

Followed by duck.  He was spelling the animals from Word World, lol.  Now, he didn't know that duck ended in -ck.  At first he had duc because those are the sounds he heard.  But, having seen duck written he knew that it was missing a letter.  He tried l because he knew it was a taller letter.  Finally, I just told him.

Then he ran out of words that he could think of (he was very excited and having a hard time concentrating), so I grabbed some CVC objects and he used those.  Sun and bib.

Pan is on top, ant he came up with on his own.  I did have to help him 'hear' the sounds, but he figured them out on his own.  I was very proud of him and he was so excited!!  We have been spelling words all night, I'll have to come up with more for tomorrow!

Other things that Charger has been up to:

Practical Life:

Lacing people beads.

Lacing transportation sewing cards.

Lacing shape beads (are you seeing a theme?)

Cutting food. 

Dry pouring!  He never chooses pouring, but apparently this little set attracted him.

Mathematics:

Number rods

And extensions.

He really gets into his work.

And is very excited when he completes it.  I am so thankful for the Montessori Method because I can tell you he would NOT sit still and learn these concepts with worksheets!

Table top rods.

Introduction to addition.

Spindle boxes.

He also worked on cards and counters, but I don't have a photo of that.  I am not sure if we will move forward yet or not.  He CAN count to 10, but he gets bored or distracted and just starts quickly placing his counters or spindles.  This usually results in boxes 8, 9, and or 10 having the incorrect number of counters.  We may keep working on it, but for now all he wants to do is spell anyways :).

Sensorial:

Geometric presentation tray blindfolded.  

One day, we tried the experiment of rolling a marble down the brown stairs.  I wish I would have had my camera that day, because he LOVED it.  He liked the musical part, but just rolling the marbles kept his focus for a good 45 minutes!!  

So, those are some of the highlights (or at least the things I caught on camera).  I am very interested to see where the next few weeks take us!

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless!!

We're linked up:

Wordless Wednesday-The Fix it Men

Over the weekend Charger 'helped' his Grandpa and Great-Grandpa 'fix' the air conditioner.

Our Country School: 2010-2011 Pictures

Today was our first day of school!!! Wow is Summer over already? That was fast! It has been almost a year since I updated the pictures of Mustang and Charger, and 6 months for Mini Cooper. I thought it was about time I took some new ones. Plus, last week my husband and FIL got out the big, old, rustic farm wagon and it was screaming for a picture shoot. With three kids age 4 and under, you never know quite what you will get, but I was pleased with the results :).











God Bless!

Handsome Man

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This past weekend we found some adorable little tools at a yard sale. All of 1.00 total and we had many a smile and many a 'drilled hole' from our new tool man, Charger.

*Please excuse the carpet, Daddy was up in the attic and some of the insulation falls down when you go up there and Mommy hadnt vacuumed yet.

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