Pfingstons Learning: Building Critical Thinking

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Budding film producers!

Andrew and Sarah have been working on this film. Andrew wanted me to "edit out the fingers and hands" but since I don't have that kind of equipment - please forgive the fingers and hands. Andrew is acting camera man and sound effects, Sarah manipulates the playmobil figurines.

The story and set up is all their own - I just handed them my camera and let them go at it! Hehe -

Today they are working with finger paints.

And for quite a while now, Andrew has been wanting to make boats. He even layed out the design and the color swatches are the colors he wants the boat to be.

He wants me to help him make a REAL boat *couph*, but I explained we don't have an axe.

Anyway, we'd thought we could build a smaller scale boat with a plastic soda bottle and finger paint.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday not a lot happened. At least in the regard to the kids day.

I went with my hubby to meetings and then we had to take our sick baby boy (ok, he's 3) to the ER because of a cold triggered asthma attack.

When I asked my mother, a.k.a. the babysitter, what if any learning was done she said - well no, since 3yr old was so sick they just mostly watched cartoons. So whatever Dora the Explorer was teaching yesterday. And Sarah made scrambled eggs in the microwave and toast for herself. Home economics?
And Andrew spent hours using wooden blocks to create a town. Using cars to drive around. We didn't get a picture and this morning - by the time my mom tells me about it -it looks like it was hit by Hurricane Irene.

Today we are off and running. Sarah has been watching videos and talking about orangutan mothers in captivity and them learning to be mothers. Followed by Anaconda Hunters video and talked about poisonous vs non poisonous boas and snakes. She likes to study snakes. She also left me this note:

It's actually an improvement to her spelling and sentence structure. Her improvements are that the first word is capitalized in the sentence, all the correct letters are in "love" and *almost* in the right order - before it was spelled "lavo" or some such combination. And "mom" is spelled right and not capitalized - before it was "Mooomy" or something similar. This is *IMPROVEMENT!*

And then she worked on a "to do" list - she drew boxes and numbered them, then drew the "to do"s for her day. Let's see what she if we can figure it out . . .