Half-Day

With this being Easter break week for many public schools....my kids are still doing school.  They are not too thrilled...but they are only doing half days.  And we are doing lots of fun stuff too....

Why?

Well with Odyssey of the Mind we always get a bit behind on our schoolwork....so if we want to get out of school early for a nice long summer break....we have to keep on chugging through the spring.

However....we do have the week off co-op so our work load is down.

We did have an Easter Egg Hunt (or twenty) on Monday during "recess".

I even put candy in the eggs (I usually don't).

For Art we've decorated ceramic Easter eggs....

Of course we dyed Easter Eggs, which TWINKIE BOY told his speech teacher we had NEVER done before?????

What...

ONLY EVERY YEAR FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS....UGH....glad I'm making a lasting impression....I made sure to get a photo of TWINKIE BOY dying his Easter eggs so I could have proof when he is old and tells his kids how deprived he was....and how his mom NEVER let him dye Easter eggs :)

So even though my kids are acting like I'm torturing them....they are actually having some fun and doing a little school!

For math today we did JELLY BEAN MATH....

ALL the kiddos enjoyed this....

THE BABY....sorted jelly beans by color

The Twinkies counted out Jelly Beans to correspond to the number in their egg cartons...

The GIRL made a Jelly Bean Graph of the different color Jelly beans...

THE BOY had to find the ratio of each color jelly bean present in his set of 50 and then reduce it to it's lowest form

FINALLY....their favorite part...they got to eat the jelly beans!

except for THE GIRL...who discovered she did not like jelly beans....but she hid hers on Daddy's pillow for a sweet surprise....because Daddy does like them :)

SHHHHHH.....

she doesn't want him to know who they are from!