Friday, April 8, 2011

THE MAN

We have been working on being obedient and nothing seemed to be working so we decide to hold a competition...nothing boys love more than a good competition!

How it works...
1. They decorated a piece of construction paper with their name and the word 'obedience' on it.
2. Hung it on the wall next to their chore cards.
3. When any adult catches them being good they put a sticker on their chart...we don't publicly praise them or brag that they got a sticker.  They seem to like to be surprised when they have new stickers anyways.  (I actually stopped the public praise b/c Treyton would go into hysterics when someone got praised and he didn't...public praise in this house is more of a pain than a help).
4.At the end of the month they count up all of their stickers and who ever has the most gets to be THE MAN for 24 hours.

What THE MAN does:
The man does no chores, gets to choose what he/she wants for meals (including ice cream) and if needs anything someone who is not the man has to get it for him. THE MAN gets to go wherever they want (within reason). He/she also gets to sleep wherever they choose for the night.  They get to wear the crown also.


This worked really well the first month and Trace got to be THE MAN for March!
The best part of being the man for him was kicking dad out of his bed to sleep in his spot and having ice cream for dinner!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tot Spot

Picking up pom poms




Picked up the tongs, pom poms, and set of 3 colored cups at the dollar store...best $3 I ever spent!

We also sort other things with scoops into egg cartons and any other variation of sorting!


sorting them into the correct cup

and dumping them out


Bingo dabbing the letter M (M is the only letter we work on right now, getting ready for name recognition)


Park day!

Just...

hangin'...

around!

Weeee!

Duck observation

Do they prefer popcorn or bread?  Bread


Are there more ducks...

or geese?
geese


What do geese and ducks do when chased by a bunch of boys?  ......


What we have been up too


Morning warm ups...literally.

Reading


Coat of arms



Sorting bugs

The letter M (recognizing her name)

Story starter pictures

An entire 1st grade workbook in 20 minutes...what to do with this kid and his brain?!

Putting away her socks Hiding from Mom

Nature Walk


The gangs all here! (Our friends Ben, Bryan, and Ethan)


And we're off!

Looking for dog poop bugs, tracks, and animals.




Found some bugs!



And some river otter tracks.



And a big hole that they swore was a bear's bed!