Homeschool Chronicles-Switch it up!

Because boredom happens!  If you're homeschooling you CAN switch it up.  Even if you're NOT homeschooling, you can add this same concept to your school attending children with respect to homework or studying.  Here's a quick tip on changing your learning setting.  Enjoy!

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{marshmallows} yummy structures

Who does't love marshmallows?  Oh put your hand down, you know you keep a stash in your bra drawer!  So soft and gooey and squishy and sweet and fun!  That's right.  Fun.

The Marshmallow Project:

• 1 bag of mini marshmallows
• box of flat toothpicks (less prickly)
• curious little fingers
• lot's of giggles
• estimated 'focus time': 25 minutes

The girls made their very own marshmallow structures

hmmm...which one should I eat first? 

total focus

happy

to marshmallow & beyond!

stick will you! (no pun intended)

busy fingers & minds

perfectionist Luna

inventive Sabrina

curious Kalina

little hands and little mallows

balancing act

still perfecting her connections

joy

and they're up! 

gimme, gimme, gimme more marshmallows!

okay, fine, I'll eat the ones on the stick then! And she did...

she'd rather collect them on a plate

Luna & Sabrina's, respectively

Sisters sharing {sketching}

We took a field trip to an outdoor mall in West Palm Beach.  My husband works in the area twice a week and for over a month now, I've been lending my car to my mother.  Her car died and she's saving up for a new one.  In the meantime, I do what I can to help her.  It's what daughters do (I guess).

My daughters, on the other hand, had a pretty cool day.  We went to Barnes and Noble and I read aloud six book to them (I love love love Mo Willems and his crazy pigeon).  Sabrina read Fancy Nancy.  Then they counted all the stuffed animals on the shelves, lined them up for a performance and later pretended that they lived during the ice age by escaping the giant dinosaurs and hiding under the Thomas the Tank Engine train table.  They used their resources, that's all that matters.

But the best part of the day for me was watching the two bigger sisters share a bench and sketch in their new 'scratch books'.  A book that has black coated pages and glitter beneath each page as they 'scratch' designs or pictures with a wooden pencil 'tool'.  So amusing for them! Sabrina naturally drew her own pictures.  Luna decided to copy all the names of the stores around her in the open terrace we were in.  Kalina slept soundly in her stroller (thank goodness!)

Two sisters share sketching time (quietly, for once).

One sister peeks over...Hmmm....what's she drawing??

One mama revels in the simple beauty of her daughters sharing a moment...lovely

It was a great day.