Monday, January 16, 2012

First Big Snow 2012




Cullen has been taking the dog and kids to the forest preserve lately in the warm weather but a few times in the snow. This time I joined them with coffee and my snow pants I was toasty warm. We are trying to have more fun outside and get away from computers and TV. It's been great for the kids to wander around. They still find things to fight over like who's going to pull the sled or ride down the hill first but they can cooperate sometimes.

Challenge


"Poppy" Book 2 in the Poppy Series by Avi

Carys is in the gifted reading program for now. She is challenged to maintain reading and writing skills but also she is given special projects. She had to develop a board game based on the Poppy series books. She needed a bit of guidance mostly because her great ideas were too big for the short time we had left on Christmas vacation. Here we are testing it out.