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Counting 100 Froot Loops

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This coming week the kids are finally celebrating the 100th day of school (a bit belated due to snow days) so Owen’s weekend homework was to count out 100 small things to bring to class. Since both kids HAD TO HAVE Froot Loops but it turns out neither really like them, we use them whenever we can for art and school projects (you may remember them on his disguised Thanksgiving turkey). 🙂

Counting out one each in 10 cups.

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Thankfully it didn’t take that long to put 100 pieces in the cups one at a time. 🙂

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Along the way I tried to teach him a little bit of math—reinforcing counting by twos, fives, and tens and how counting by tens relates to beginning multiplication (4 x 10 = 40 is the same as counting 10-20-30-40). We’ll see if it sticks. 🙂

Star of the Week

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At Back To School night, we had to sign the kids up to be Star of the Week—basically an “about me” board to share with the class—and I was able to grab the week of his birthday. So this weekend we worked on it. I had asked him to think about what pictures he wanted to use, but that was too broad. So I started asking him about specific pictures, but of course he wanted every picture I suggested. So I just picked a bunch of good pics and then once I saw the actual instructions (the theme turned out to be more “show why your child is a star” vs. a general About Me page) we concentrated on four areas:

  1. Owen is a master builder (Legos).
  2. Owen loves his friends and family.
  3. Owen is a great big brother.
  4. Owens loves to play in the water.

I printed out all the pictures and text and had Owen cut them out (which he did pretty good at, but we need practice on cutting evenly around things). Then I arranged most of the pictures—but let him do all of the gluing (which was an exercise in frustration—plus I see now how kindergardeners go through a zillion glue sticks).

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Then he wrote a few sentences about things he liked. He did really well with the Star Wars and Family sentences (even using his pinky to allow for spacing between words) but then kind of lost it when it came to the Lego sentence… But overall, still an awesome job!

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I have a feeling it will end up with more stickers on it by the time it goes to school Tuesday… 🙂

Catching up on school work

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I’ve been very bad about scanning and posting Owen’s schoolwork/homework and art projects as they come home…so these are not really in any particular order, except I guessed on the dates and they’re all from about Thanksgiving to the end of the year. 🙂

The robot-like creatures are from a video game he plays with daddy and the numbers above them are their “health” in the game.
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At the time he told me what this was, but we’ve both since forgotten.
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This was from months ago, but I just took a picture of him with it this morning. It’s a playground he designed.
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I love this monster!
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Better pictures of the satchel he made for the Thanksgiving Feast.
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He came home with this turkey and honestly, the vegetable- and God-feathers threw me. One, he dislikes vegetables and two, we are not religious (and there has been no discussion of religion of any kind—not on purpose…it just hasn’t come up) so we were confused as to how he’d come up with being thankful for both those things. We asked him and he did the shrug-his-shoulders answer. I was thinking maybe he brought home the wrong turkey or took someone else’s feathers (because they didn’t really look like his handwriting) so I actually emailed his teacher! Turns out, after more subtle questioning, he just borrowed ideas from his classmates and copied some of the things they wrote!
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Owen was VERY excited about the Hour of Code and everyone got a certificate! (The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.)
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Mom, notice the bubble light? 🙂
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They learned about all different holiday traditions…
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Letters, Patterns, and I am thankful for…

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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.

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Owen came up with these all on his own. We helped a tiny bit with the spelling but that’s it.

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Halloween Schoolwork

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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

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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)

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They had a whole project with pumpkins:

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Shape Graph, Colors, and a Puppet

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I love seeing all the stuff he brings home! The first one was (as best as we can gather) some type of game where the teacher put a random assortment of shapes in front of everyone and they had to color in what they were assigned. The other one was him reading the colors and knowing what they were and a puppet of himself that we could get NO story on.

“I had none rectangles.” 🙂

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ABCMouse Level 4 Graduation

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He has had an on again off again enjoyment of ABCMouse this summer, but lately he’s been ON again so he’s almost finished with Level 4. We told him he’d get a prize if he finished the level before school started…and as he saw his percentage complete increase, he got more and more excited. Earlier in the week he was at 77%. Today he was at 99%.

And then moments later…

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Congratulations, Owen!

The last part of Owen counting to 100.

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He was doing SO well on his own that I started recording…and then he kinda lost it a little bit…but finished with some help. You can tell he was getting VERY excited about getting to 100. 🙂

I don’t think he’ll have a problem mastering the Kindergarten first quarter expectations of counting to 10. 🙂

Owen loves ABC Mouse!

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So, we’ve been seeing commercials for ABCmouse.com for quite some time, plus Owen has some apps on the phone that are by ABC Mouse. I thought it would be a good thing, but honestly…Owen has never used a computer, our desktop is too hard to get to easily so we’d have to set up a laptop downstairs, then teach him how to use a mouse, etc., and lastly, pay the monthly fee and hope he’d use it. So it just never got done.

Fast forward a few months, and Tom brought it up again. So I just signed up for emails and quickly realized that they always send out deals. So I waited and waited…and finally there was some deal (I honestly don’t even remember what it was—maybe half off) so I signed up. And then we were getting the house ready for flooring and then we were on vacation and then we were cleaning up after the flooring…and I was getting annoyed because I had paid for it and we weren’t using it! Every time Owen had “free time” he was playing with his Legos or watching TV or on the weekend he’d be playing his video game.

So today after breakfast I declared it was time. I said “Owen, do you want to try ABC Mouse?” And got a resounding happy YES! So Tom set up my laptop at the kitchen table, hooked up his wireless mouse, and we started. (Big whoop, it took all of five minutes!) I was a little concerned that Owen would have issues with the mouse because A) he’s never used one (and he’s very used to the touch screen of the iDevices) and B) sometimes he has issues with fine motor control. But he did pretty good—the only mouse button somewhat tripping him up was the center scroll button so I told him just to avoid that button…but within about 10 minutes or so he was USING the button correctly (the laptop screen isn’t quite big enough so it helps to scroll). Wow. I was floored.

And he flew through the first few lessons and was thrilled to be earning tickets and white stars and prizes for his hamster and aquarium (on the site!). He probably sat there for 20-30 minutes! Then just like that he was done. And he complained that it was too easy. I told him I know it was too easy, but we started him on stuff for younger kids just until he got used to how the mouse worked and how the website worked. I told him when we did it again it would be for older kids and he was cool with that.

So fast forward about an hour and he was ready! I had moved it from age 2 to age 4 and he loved it! I wish I could watch over him as he does everything so I can see what all is involved, but I like that he’s doing it by himself and I don’t HAVE TO watch over him. He did say that one page was too hard so I replayed it so I could see what it was but by then he was already DONE and couldn’t give me a clue why he had thought it was too hard. (He had completed it, though, so it wasn’t too hard to finish.)

So, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that he keeps enjoying it!