Tuesday~ Milk day

Well it's now day 2 into our homeschooling venture. Tristan is feeling TONS better and is fever free so he was thrilled to get to do more with cows! We read a book called Cow that went through the day in a life of a cow, right down to getting milked and shipping the milk off to the factories. Tristan thought that was really cool. We also counted the cows on each page, and other animals when they showed up. Tristan is VERY in to counting anything and everything right now, even if he doesn't get it right everytime.

He wasn't really interested in reading another cow book, he would rather jump on the trampoline instead.

Next we discovered squares. We found a square hot pad, a square Wheat Thin and a square flash card. We counted the sides on them. Tristan keeps trying to call them triangles but is slowly getting used to calling them squares. We then went outside to find more squares. Right out side the door we found tiles that were square so we carried one around to find more things that were the same shape as the tile. It was kind of hard to find things outside but we found squares on their points in the fence.. lots of those! We also found that the dog's water dish had 2 squares for the water to go into. Then we did some raking. Tristan has his own rake and the leaves are starting to fall so we raked a few of them out of the flower bed.

We came back inside and found more squares in our hallway because we have new tile in there. Tristan then counted the squares while driving his firetruck over them in circles.

We read a book next called Autumn Leaves. All the leaves here are changing so it was fun to see the different colors in the book. We went back outside to look at the leaves we just raked and picked out a green one, a yellow one, and a brown/dead one.

After lunch we placed the leaves under paper and colored over them with crayons to make fun leaf decorations.




After nap time we'll make some squares out of something and just hang out and play with his new trains that he got from my secret mommy!