J's clay creations

Here are J's clay creations made in her pottery class so far this semester. You can't really tell from the picture, but one side of her mug is a slanted. ;) But this is good start as this class is for 3rd-5th graders and I think she's doing just fine. She has been using her own hand made and hand painted mug a lot. I'm sure she'll also find some good use for her heart container as well.



I didn't realize she has been keeping a journal about her pottery class as well. She wrote about how she made the heart clay container and about it's sometimes hard to paint her pottery.

While J is in pottery class, Prime takes a 5 in a row class which is a unit study class. He wishes he can take pottery class too which I plan to let him in the fall. This is the picture he brought back today. Cute, eh? I'm not sure what the cat has to do with Florida, but supposedly that's what they are learning and reading.

Sweet Mother's day cards

The kids made cards for me on Mother's day. Here is Prime's. These are printed from Jan Bret's website. The minute the kids saw it, they wanted to make cards and spent quite some time on it.

This is J's (above and below).

Christmas part 1- Presents

These cards are the first thing to be opened on Christmas. These are J's card for everyone in the family. Click on the photo if you want to read the message. They are full of love. :)



J shows off her handmade wrapping paper and inside were her drawings. W's gift not shown.


W boy also gave me a sweet card. In his card, he said," Dear Mommy, I love you. You are so, so sweet. You are also very beautiful. I am going to be considerate when you are sick. Love W."

Blockus/Qwirkle were from our good friends, S/G. We plan on playing them tonight!! :) Thank you! Twister is a present the kids got from mommy and daddy. They played with them immediately after getting them.

Below are the handmade gifts the kids picked out at the Steiner school Bazaar. Hand folded stars(the kids punched the holes, and J put the string on so it would hang), handmade ginger cookie (yum!), marbles with hand sewn bag (J practiced multiplication/division with those marbles along with other games she invented to play with W), and a mobile made of origami birds. There is also a pair of handmade slipper J picked for I.

What a fun Christmas morning! Here is wishing everyone is having a wonderful Christmas.
PS. As if all this is not enough, they will get more presents from relatives later. We feel so blessed.