The pattern he saw was the window with the panes. He kept trying to draw the actual window and it wasn’t going well. I finally asked him what shapes he saw and he said “rectangle – line – rectangle – line” so I told him to DRAW that. 🙂 The second set is pumpkins.
Owen came up with these all on his own. We helped a tiny bit with the spelling but that’s it.
They had a unit on squirrels and acorns. I’m not sure why nothing squirrel-related got sent home (maybe it’s in their art books that stay at school).
I’m behind in posting Owen’s school work, so here’s some from around Halloween.
He had to list and draw five orange things: crayon, orange, bib, pumpkin, trick-or-treat basket
I used the wrong send-home sheet for the orange assignment, so this sheet was things to do with Halloween: pumpkin, bat, moon (the C thing in the upper left is his first attempt at the moon)
They had a whole project with pumpkins:
I don’t want to be eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. Please help disguise me and bring me to school.
Owen did this all on his own.
Having fun! (Katie refused to take off her frog PJs so we left them on.)
Gramma Jean and Grandpa David babysat so we could go out for dinner. This was happening as we left…
And the driveway was full when we got home.
I turned my back for 10 seconds while her and Owen were at the table coloring…and she had managed to not only get the top off the marker (which she hadn’t been able to do before) but also try to eat the marker. This is Tom showing her in the mirror.
Realizing she did a naughty thing:
This came home in Owen’s backpack today. I was trying to figure out the words (?) on the top (blop? brb?), but then he told me they’re NUMBERS. Well of course, then it was obvious. With an extra 9, a backwards 7, a missing 5, and an extra 2. 🙂
Me: 1, 0, 9—
Owen: NO! 10!
Me: Oh, yes, you’re right, 10!
🙂
Since we have time in the morning before school, I had Owen make a birthday card for Tom. He’s doing well with letters, but we just need to work on keeping it on a straight line. 🙂
It was also just supposed to be Happy Birthday but since the first happy went a little wonky he wanted to try again. 🙂
The heads are, in order, daddy, Owen, and Katie (you see she gets the big eyelashes)! The other circles are the cake.
Lately, out of the blue, Katie will ask to color. She can even get up onto (and off of) our bar-height dining room chairs by herself so she’ll climb up there and wait for you to bring her crayons and paper. 🙂
Apparently I missed giving Owen a kiss when I dropped him off Monday morning, so this was the artwork he wanted to do at school (the MOM was missing and he told me on the way home he had to add my name):
Later in the week, he really missed me again and did this one:
I love my eyelashes and hair. 🙂
Owen desperately wanted to go out and draw with chalk, so out we went. He is big into writing words (well, letters and numbers) and trying to spell things, so this was the first thing I saw—can you see it? Right by his feet: STOP 🙂
Then, what follows STOP? GO! (He’s finishing the O.) He spelled these on his own!
Then he was talking about hopscotch so I drew it for him. I showed him how to play and he understood but after trying it for a few minutes he said he wanted to go back to his way. 🙂
It’s a blurry pic but I caught him mid-jump.
Then it was back to chalk, where he drew…a snowstorm! And a snowman!
This is one area Katie definitely differs from her brother—she loves drawing at a much younger age! She saw the chalk sitting out and wanted to use it…so we went out to the driveway and she Had. A. Ball.
The tongue is out!
“Here, mama!”
She was scooting all over, legs and feet going a mile a minute…
And then she’d lay her face right down on the driveway…
She was covered.
Then she stuck her hand in the exhaust pipe and was covered in black. 🙂
She did this by herself! No prompting from me!
From school recently…
I found this while cleaning today. I love the big eyes and little legs.
I’m not exactly sure what this one is.
One area in which she’s NOT like her brother at this age!
She colored for awhile at the table, then it was on to the water art.
And a great photobomb by Charlie!
These were from the first part of March but I forgot to post them.
This should have been posted on 2/19 so I will move it there eventually.
This past week’s theme at school was the letters T & D—for teeth and dentist. So this was the project with marshmallows:
From the school week of 2/3/14. I snapped these pics at Owen’s Valentine’s party today.
The first one got a snowman with a hat and the sun. I think he said the other was a girl race car. 🙂
I told Owen to draw a heart, interested as to what he would do as I don’t think he can draw a heart.
Owen: Okay! I’ll trace around the outside!
Smart kid.
This is the rainbow Owen drew way back here—it finally came home!
I had to give her paper because unbeknownst to me she was being creative in one of her books. 🙂
The Letter T I get, but Owen swears the other one was “shapes” — but I just don’t see it. 🙂
I thought I posted one of these already but I couldn’t find it, so I either didn’t tag it correctly or I forgot. 🙂 These were done with marbles. I’d love to see the mess of them being created.
A Gingerbread Man and the letter G in marshmallows and Froot Loops.
