When I uploaded the photos from my phone I had a sweet, little collection of what our life looks like on a typical Friday. (minus the pizza and Sienna at dance class, of course.)
In the morning the wee ones like to cuddle and watch The Magic School Bus on Netflix while I make them breakfast and briefly write what our day will look like on the whiteboard. We have a regular rhythm to our days, but I also like to write down in more detail what we will be learning about for the day. Forest has been waking Sienna and I up between 5-5:30 a.m. on most mornings. It is still quite dark outside when we begin our days.
On this particular morning, the kitties were playing with something on the floor in Forest's bedroom. I thought at first it might be a bug, but it turned out to be a frog! I captured "Hopper" as Sienna named him and put him in a mason jar. Sienna and Forest watched him for awhile and then, after it got lighter outside, we released him back into the wild.
We decided we would have bagels for breakfast from Haggen's, since we also had plans to drive and observe three different types of communities: suburban, urban and rural. Sienna is learning about these in her Social Studies class at the co-op we attend and had to do a project about it.
I didn't know she snapped these photos of us in the car, but I was happy she did!
When we went home, we did some projects to go along with our read aloud Little House in the Big Woods. We read the first two books in the series a few years ago, but Sienna doesn't remember them very much. So, we are re-reading the whole series together and using them for our Language Arts curriculum. We are also doing writing, spelling/word study and independent reading during Language Arts. Sienna is working on a big project connecting her life today to Laura's as a pioneer.
On Friday, she made a corn cob doll, just like Laura's first doll.
Of course, Sienna really gets into the learning. She had to dress up in her most pioneer style dress. This is Sienna with her corn cob doll, Susan. Laura's doll is also named Susan.
Later, Sienna worked on her Social Studies project.
Forest likes to do "school work" with Sienna. He is finishing his bagel from breakfast and helping Sienna finish her work.
Between the next photos, many more things happened. Sienna hung some drawings of deer skins in our living room to play "Little House" and we ate our lunch together. Forest had his afternoon nap. I made pizza dough while Sienna finished up her school work.
Then, we hurried off to dance class. Sienna is learning so much more this year in dance. She already knows the five positions in Ballet and she is learning lots of new Tap steps! We are also happy she is taking her dance class on Friday afternoon, so we have more freedom on our Saturdays.
While Sienna is at her dance class, Forest plays across the street at the elementary school on their preschool playground. They have lots of slides and play houses.
Then when we get home, Daddy has assembled our pizza and is just getting ready to bake it for dinner. The day is nearly over, but what a busy day each day is for Sienna and Forest!
