Where to even begin with this busy week?
Goodbye April –> Hello May!
April 29th – May 5th
On Sunday both our girls made their first holy communions.
*swoon*
Misc Fun:
Yesterday, we took a beach trip and had a visit with good friends in Pensacola. There was a Crawfish Festival going on, and we spent the whole day enjoying the lovely weather.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiXKnj4AOXB/?taken-by=cosmic_montessori
^^good and spicy
Gorgeous Emerald Coast.
More Misc (though not as much fun):
Feigning sleep at our 8am…
Just one doctor appointment this week. Popped in to the derm for them to say, despite the biopsy, we don’t know what the rash is, but here let us prescribe the same thing your ped did a year ago. I have my own suspicion that her heart med may be triggering the rash since they both started around the same time. Will have to follow up with cardio.
Violin:
The kids had their Spring recital today. Yesterday, Josie was feeling fine; this morning, her eyes were puffy, and she wasn’t quite her cheerful self. She worked incredibly hard on her Harry Potter piece this semester, so it was a little frustrating she wasn’t feeling 100%. But I’m so proud of how she did. Her SLP and OT even came to watch — how sweet is that?!
Mary really nailed her piece. Mike needs a little work focusing, but I feel like his interest and concentration is finally coming around. Fingers crossed.
(I am SO pregnant)
Mike:
Mary:
Josie:
Now we are just focusing on orchestra with an impending concert later this month. Then the girls move on with their Suzuki books. We’re planning on sending them to some music camps this Summer as well.
Language:
Mary chose handwriting work every day. She spent a heck of a lot of time writing.
On Monday she worked to finish her fish research paper she’d started last week. However, she got stuck on cursive lowercase letter f, and that frustrated her to no end.
So she got out the green board and practiced them.
She worked with her cursive Handwriting Without Tears workbook. (I really like them. I keep a couple available, but they’re totally optional).
And so she wrote…
And she wrote…
And wrote…
And…
Wrote…
Until finally the frustration was long gone.
I’m so pleased she worked herself through this. She really had a huge self-motivated transformation — I feel that is exactly how Montessori education is supposed to unfold.
We did some grammar work. Nothing too involved.
A big baby IN a big belly — 36 weeks!!!!
Using the Waseca Everglades mat (I rearranged these shelves because I can’t help myself tinkering with everything while nesting).
Hey we ate those yesterday.
Mike loves matching the wooden critters and plants. Really a versatile mat from Waseca Biomes. I recommend!
Josie did some of our “new baby” grammar work.
Lots of Waseca Reading program (can you tell we like Waseca Biomes?)
Little bit of reading. Mike is getting pretty good.
Mary is way better than she wants to admit. Very, very hesitant reader but I still haven’t pushed. Super hard, but I am resisting.
I know Josie did some free-writing about mermaids, but I think I neglected to take photos!
Mary read a book about a duck and decided to make a book about a duck.
Glueing feathers from my pillow…
D words.
More Language:
Lastly we finished “Poppy” (all 3 really got into the story actually, but Mary LOVED it and would not stop talking about it). We just started Harry Potter book 3 on Audible tonight.
Math:
Josie was ON FIRE this week.
That friends, if you cannot tell, is the thousand bead chain. It is extremely long. Josie worked on it several hours and completed up to about 500!
Contentedly working. It’s currently still on the classroom floor in hopes that she wants to finish it — we will see how she feels about it on Monday. RIght now though, 11:30 Saturday night, I am going to call it official; she is definitely sick. I can hear her coughing from down the hallway. Everyone pray there’s no regression and its a mild cold.
Organizing arrows
She did complete a few other chains this week prior to this monster work — with no trouble whatsoever.
Also more snake games:
Josie did so many addition snakes. She did phenomenally!
Mary did some subtraction snakes as well.
Geography:
Sensorial:
Mary rearranged the pink tower and brown stair. That was that.
Preliminary:
Obviously all three kids can roll a mat as its one of the starter Montessori works. But I thought the care she put into this was really sweet.
It makes her proud which makes me proud!
Practical Life:
Mary refreshed the flower vases. She also cut some roses that Grammy gave us for the violin performances.
She did a fantastic job!
Just in time for our Kentucky Derby celebration. Mary’s horse won the run for the roses. Go figure. Lucky number 7.
If you think this is a lot of photos (you’re correct), then the number on my iPhone roll would stun you.
Told you it was a busy week! Getting it all in before baby. Would appreciate any and all prayers for a safe delivery. Plus our car has decided to have engine failure just today (this oddly happened to the car we had in the weeks before Mikey was born too). Hoping its repairable and something we can afford. We owe much on this car still for it to be acting up so badly but staying positive. Deep breathing. Lots of stress Braxton Hicks. 😉
That concludes this weeks madness! Have a blessed week ahead. I am ready for Summer!
