The sun is finally out again, and although we’re not really feeling it’s warmth just yet, we wanted to enjoy the rays nonetheless. One of the things that the kids love to do in our backyard when they aren’t playing on the swing set is to climb “Boot’s Mountain”. Part of our yard is a steep hill that goes back into the woods. The kids run up to the top where the woods meet the yard and declare that they have climbed Boot’s mountain (named after an episode of Dora). I decided that we could have a quick and fun lesson that not only let everybody go outside for a short while, but also incentivized the kids to come back in before we all froze. I tell the kids after naptime that we can all go outside for a little while. You would have thought I told the kids that we were going back to Disney World for the joy that they showed. First we’re going to pick out some balls to play with. We go over to the ball bin and look inside. I ...
I am teaching my kids everything from math to reading to manners, and blogging about our weekly thinking cap adventures.