Friday, February 12, 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010

DONE!

So, other than a block of advent posts from 2008 which I will eventually get to, I am finally done switching over my homeschool blog to this address. I look forward to blogging our homeschool adventure much more regularly and hope to be able to link up with other blogs and share ideas. This journey is certainly rewarding, but it is also incredibly exhausting. What a great "age" to live in where we can all be so connected and ideas so readily available!

Gallon Guy

I'm usually really bad about doing crafts. I try to have one slated per week, but so many times they end up being ones we're doing "just to do them," and with 4 kids 5 and under, I'd rather not deal with the mess, time and hassle of that. However, this one made sense to me. I could see the benefit to doing it. So we made Gallon Guy: You need one large piece of paper, 4 smaller rectangles, 8 smaller squares and 16 even smaller squares (hint: start with the smallest squares and work your way up!) We used different colors for each so they would stand out.






There he is! I maybe should have labeled the pieces AFTER Matthew glued them all together - some of them you can't see the words anymore, but it adds character. And he's serving his purpose! Daddy asked this morning, "Matthew, how many quarts in a gallon?" Without hesitation (and with Gallon Guy nowhere in sight), Matthew answered, "FOUR!"

(Matthew loved Gallon Guy so much, he made a Gallon Guy mii on the wii.)