Happy Halloween

This has been an odd week.  CJ, Eliza and Rich were all sick.  Now I am sick too.  We did a lot of stuff this week.  We learned about bats, and did a lot of activities with the letters and numbers.  We are going to review and finish stuff on Monday.  We went to playgroup yesterday and didn't have a chance to make our bats.  So we will review what we have studied already, and continue on to our new letter, number, shape and color on Tuesday.  This weekend we are going to make some special Halloween treats, and the kids are going to help us with the recipe.  Cooking has so much good math to teach the kids, as well as general life skills.  They helped me make pumpkin scones this morning.  I think Rich and I will spend some time this weekend planning some fun activities with the kids.  We have a fairly normal week coming up, but no playgroup again.  So Friday we will do a cooking project and a craft, yet to be planned.  I just hope the kids will all be feeling well enough this week to be happy and attentive.  CJ, when he doesn't feel well does not want to do anything he is told.  Eliza spaces out some when she doesn't feel well, so all in all, it was not easy to do school work this week.  Instead we learned through games and books, music and certain tv shows.  This weekend is all about fun, no overt learning.  In other words I am not worrying about teaching them anything this weekend.  We are just going to gorge on candy, dress up, watch fun Halloween shows and listen to scary music.  I am going to watch the Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride.  We carved pumpkins, Lightning McQueen for CJ, and Tinkerbell for Eliza.  They look great, and I will post some pics after Halloween.  Have a safe and enjoyable holiday guys!