Past week

I worked last week so not many photos. The kids did pretty well with the folder system for their schoolwork. The weather has been getting colder and colder and so much wind lately! Don't like that at all!! here are a few pictures from the week.

Guess it's time to EAT the gingerbread house, well houses, some friends gave the kids a second gingerbread house.

It looks yummy.....


Does it taste yummy???

Th general verdict was that Gingerbread houses are more fun to make than eat. The kids didn't like them much...the birds and squirrels outdoors are enjoying them now though!

Below was the funniest paper I got back last week. Colin wrote i need help! on a math problem.


Turned out his problem was how can I know what shape the park is and how many sides it has, kids in the countryside don't tend to picture square shaped parks so finding the area was impossible to Colin's way of thinking!


I had to create this:


The dreaded 'I lost my folder-Folder', Tristan lost his Wednesday folder so will be the first owner of this dreaded folder until he finds Wednesday. Mind you I haven't shown him it yet, it will be a silly surprise when Wednesday rolls around again.

It has been soooo cold. negative temperatures, wind. I feel bad for the birds some of the look so cold. Keeping the feeders filled for them maybe it helps a little.

This little one sat on a low branch for ages and I was about ready to go outside and see if he/she was ok when finally it flew off.


I got lucky with this cute picture below, a bird is looking. It can be hard to photograph them through the window.


I spent most of Saturday getting the kids work for next week ready and looking over what they did last week. The things that are going best is work they do on the computer. We will have to make ski season more of a computer school time I think. The boys didn't really like the various crafts I put in the folders each day. Hayley was the only one who did each days craft. I guess I will not take the time to do some much of that, it took awhile to print out all the crafts and activities! Tristan did like the winter people paper dolls. He and Hayley have printed out many more paper people and clothes from www.makingfriends.com and have been making them all weekend the kids have always enjoyed that site.