Love Tree

Yesterday we made a "Love Tree"!
We decorated Dorians mini tree from christmas.
We cut out hearts, glued and put glitter on them.
Then I asked Dorian who he loved and I wrote the names on the hearts.
He said "I love Mum, Daddy, Wyatt, my cousins Shelby, Meagan, Zoe, Taya and baby Josh!" I asked him who else he loved, he thought about it and I asked what about all your grandmas and grandpas? and he said "yep I love all my grandmas and grandpas." We talked about family and where all our family lives.

Future engineer?

Here is Dorian with his macano set that his Grandpa in Australia sent him for christmas. He really likes building things with it.
 

Dorian wrote more letters!

He did this all on his own last week!
We are so proud of him. We have not done a bunch of tracing, so we are super excited.
When we work on the alphabet puzzle now he says "I already know all that!".
He is very much a 4 year old.
He loves reading now and his favorite books are by Todd Parr and also Where The Sidewalk Ends. 

School Room Photos!

Here are a few photos of our school/play room! As you can see its pretty clean. Dorian has been doing chores and does an excellent job cleaning all his toys up.


 

Helping Hands

Here is Dorians "helping hands" chart.
His chores are cleaning up toys and helping vaccum.
He started chores yesterday and is really excited about them.
He wants to go to playland after 5 smiles.
He got a smile face yesterday!

Also, a photo of Dorian tracing his name.


 

Masterpiece

 

More work by Dorian in December

Here is a few more pieces of work by Dorian.
1- transformer
2- Monster
3- He loves doing home work. He will do pages of this.
4- We have started working on tracing letters. He is finally interested in doing them.


 

Christmas Art

Here are a few things Dorian did in the month of December.
As you can see he used the snow mans scarfs for hands!
One thing he also likes to do now is use alot of different colors on one object.


 

Christmas Holidays

We have been so busy with all the holiday stuff we have not done school in about a week and a half. I guess that is our Christmas holidays from school! We still have been doing loads of fun stuff and Dorian is getting very good at tracing letters and today he wrote L all by himself.
We have been baking cookies which Dorian loves to make and also eat!
Here is a little snowman bracelet he made. We will be back to school Jan 3rd 2007, as thats when public school goes back and we wont have a bunch of extra kids over.

We have been looking at Connections Academy for Kindergarden for Dorian. It is a virtual public charter school. That means that he does school at home, but
we get all the curriculum through the public school and we get to talk to a public school teacher when we have questions. We think this will work out perfectly as we use Calvert curriculum now and the public school system uses Calvert for Connections Academy. Dorian seems to thrive on Calvert so far. There is also planned trips with the other students in ORCA that are in the local area. We like the freedom to take him on many field trips and not be locked in a class room for 8 hours.
We dont know if we will start him in Sep 2007 or Sept 2008.
If we dont think he is ready for Kinder we will keep doing PreK until Sept 2008.

http://www.connectionsacademy.com/state/home.asp?sid=or 

Sorting

Dorian loves sorting things and making patterns. He put all the shapes together this time he also likes sorting them by colors. And then we went outside to look for "winter" things and Dorian tried to catch a big fish. Dorians grandpa came up from California and fixed Ashs guitar and Dorian made up a new song.

(Dorian strumming)

Sooooo farr awaaaaayyyyyy, sooo farr awaaayy, sooo farrr awayyyy.......

 

Autumn

We walked around the yard for things that are Autumn.

1- Dorian found a leaf he liked
2- Leaf eater
3- Sweet boy
4- Shutterbug


 

Gooble, gobble, gobble!

We had craft day at Dorians friends house at the end of Nov. The kids made turkeys with there handprints. They came out really cute. Also, a pic of Dorians flower he planted at a free planting day at a local nursery.
 

Monkeying around at the zoo!

Here are some pics in Nov of Dorian and Ash at the zoo! Ash got Dorian these lil snack cups with cookies and crackers and Dorian loved to carry them around.