Their Two Favorite Subjects: Math & Science

Maddy and Kenna love math and science. They are still playing with the kaleidoscopes they made at Maddy's birthday party.

By the way, they dressed themselves today! Kenna must be wishing for snow with her snowmen pants. Maddy just wanted to wear her print capri pants and her North Carolina shirt. At least Kenna's shirt matched her pants. Maddy's pants are pinks and purples; her shirt sleeves are red.

I've always had a hard time explaining to my daughters why there are dress rules. Out of the 6, 4 of them at a very young age have demanded to know "just who made up that dumb rule". When I didn't have an answer, I finally gave up. So don't be surprised when you see Afton and Kenna wearing a set of patterned pants with an entirely different patterned shirt...their reasoning is "See that green stripe? It's the same color green as this green polka dot." Nor should you be alarmed when you see Maddy running around in her white sparkly dress shoes all winter. 2 of our daughters, I had trouble keeping clothes on at all when they were little, so I'm just thankful they are willing to get dressed and keep their clothes on! And well, on the bare feet. What can I say? I am probably to blame there. None of us like having to wear shoes. As Maddy has said, "It's a Redneck thing and we're a Redneck family." Haven't an answer for that statement either. All I can do is smile.

 

 In math today, Kenna learned about pictographs. She graphed the number of boys and girls living in our home.

While I was helping Kenna with her pictograph, Maddy sorted a bag of change. We worked on coin values, counting the coins, and then determining the monetary value of each type of coin.Our lesson today was centered on nickels and counting by 5. She has counting by 10's down pat...we ran out of dimes when she hit 200.