Waiting

Last Friday we had our last appointment at the hospital before our baby brother will be here! Here we are waiting to go see him on the big screen (ultrasound) for the last time. It's hard to believe that the next time we see him, we will get to hold him!

The doctor scheduled Mommy's surgery for November 21! We cannot wait to meet the newest little Rieger!

Q is for Quail (and other birds)

Yikes! Sorry that we haven't been keeping up with the blog recently! I imagine that's not going to get a whole lot better while we're waiting on our little brother to join us, but we'll try!

Q week was actually 2 weeks ago. We did all kinds of activities with birds. We learned about the number 3 and covered one with colourful "feathers."

We pretended that we were birds and used "beaks" to pick up "worms" to put in the nest.

We experimented to figure out which shape made the best nest... a plate or a bowl? The bowl shape definitely held the eggs better, which is important!

We read about chickens and then made a picture of their life cycle.

We painted with q-tips in while we practiced recognising numbers. 

We turned our Q into a beautiful queen!

We also had a little fall fun with pumpkins. We predicted that they would sink in a sink filled with water, but they actually floated!

We cut one open to get all of the stuff out of the inside, and our faces in this picture show exactly how both of us felt about that. It was not our favourite activity of the week.

We liked the next part much better... I poured a bit of baking soda in the pumpkin,

And Riley Cates poured in some vinegar. Ta-da! Pumpkin-cano!

Then we wanted to paint our baby pumpkins,

So we got to work on our masterpieces!

We forgot to take a work wall picture this week, which is too bad because our chicken life cycle pictures turned out so cute!

Cards

We take after our Grannie Pammie in our love for reading cards. We read and laughed at cards for quite a long time the other day! It's another great rainy day activity!

Movie Break

Nothing like a movie break on a rainy day after working so hard to get clean rooms!

I is for Insect

We spent last week learning all about insects. We read lots of books about all kinds of different critters and learned many interesting facts. Of course we also had to make a few of our own...

Ants,

Bees,

Butterflies (symmetrical ones--you can only see half here!),

And caterpillars.

Look at that determination!

I also practiced my cutting skills

And tried some new kinds of math. I was doing subtraction!

We had to play Cooties, of course, and build our own bugs.

I always like when food is involved in the learning process. We got to eat Cheetos and see the orange stuff that gets left behind on our fingers. It's kind of like pollen sticking to bees when they fly from flower to flower!

We also tried some honeycomb.

Delicious! We may not like that they sting, but we sure do like what bees make!

The weather was nice one afternoon, so we got to play outside for a bit. We drew some insects and wrote letters on them. Mommy called out a letter, and we had to swat the right bug! That was a fun game!

We also learned about the number 2 and even made one out of yarn. Obviously that was a very exciting thing for me!

And, of course, the wonderful wall of work. We're always so proud to look back on what we studied all week!

Pumpkin, pumpkin

Cutest pumpkins around!

Cleaning

What do you mean we didn't clean up?