Things have been fairly busy on the homefront as we gear up for another great year of homeschooling! Andrew is now in Grade 1 and hopefully we can get Jansun in Kindergarten…if not…will continue to do what we do until we can register him. This year’s schooling will be relatively different for us as the kids are now ready to take on new adventures.
Andrew has decided to learn piano…as to which method (Suzuki or European???) we still haven’t decided yet. So far, he has learned to play Mary Had a Little Lamb and is starting to learn to play Twinkle Little Star. He enjoys playing his songs but not so much the theory. Andrew also enjoys going around the house “playing” tunes on his recorder.
Cibo has become our little princess who loves to dance and sing. She looking forward to her weekly ballet/tap classes and loves to twirl and sing around the house.
Jansun has yet decided what he will take..he really wanted to do basketball but nothing is available for his age group until the New Year.
We wanted to get the kids into yoga but unfortunately the times conflicted with their other schedules. We hope that Jansun will think about learning piano as he too learned Mary Had a Little Lamb with very little instructions and mainly on his own. Jansun is definitely a self taught “learner”. Many things he does surprises me … without formally being taught how to write his Alphabets, he is able to learn on his own and he also learned how to count on his own as well…largely due to the influences of his brother.
Our little baby Soleil is doing lots of things these days….she definitely lets us know what she likes and dislikes. Some of her favourite foods include pears, apples and veggies. She does not care for papayas, bananas and plain ol’ rice cereal. Soleil is quite the adventurous these days crawling to explore her small world which includes every grain of tidbits that fall on the floor!!! She is also quite the chattery type…yes and one of the many “babbles” she says is “mum mum” :p The older kids can’t wait for sister Soleil to grow older so they can play with her…or get hair pulled by her )
Here is a photo of the aftermath of the attack of Soleil on our computer!
So far this year Andrew has come up with many ideas as to what he wants to learn…some of his learning plan ideas include..building a remote control car, a remote control robot, skating, counting past 100, reading a chapter book by himself, sewing, etc…Okay, mom will have to stop procrastinating and start working to put these projects together for him!
We just finished a Safety City course yesterday and Andrew seemed to have picked up most of the valuable information regarding how to cross the street and riding a bike.
We also had a good time helping Baba making dumplings and enjoying eating them afterwards.
We also made chocolate chip cookies too! Here is our favourite chocolate chip recipe:
Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
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“Everybody wants this recipe when I take them in for a carry-in. To make them award winning, my daughter, Tegan, made them for a cookie baking contest and won a red ribbon! You can use any flavor pudding you like for this recipe.”
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PREP TIME 15 Min
COOK TIME 12 Min
READY IN 1 Hr 40 Min
Original recipe yield 6 dozen
SERVINGS
* 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking soda
* 2 cups butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
* 4 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
* 2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour and baking soda, set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown.
Finally, our bug hunting adventure faired quite well, the kids learned a lot of new bugs, and we also learned how a fly sticks onto our ceiling. We also played our “metamorphisis”(spelling???) bug game where the kids pretended they were different types of bugs that you can find in our backyard. We also tried to put a cookie trail for the ants but it seems the ants are not interested in mom’s homebaked cookies. So we were not able to see how ants are able to communicate with other ants when they find food treasures. However, we were able to find lots of ladybugs and Andrew even had one climb into his shirt! Our bug adventure this week seemed quite fun!
Looking forward to next week’s activities….what do you do for activities in your spare time?
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