In case you need a translation:

One day there was a lizard named Liz.  Liz was a bearded dragon.  Liz lived in a desert.  Liz eats crickets and meal worms.

Not only does he love to read them he loves to write his own.  Here’s one he did a few months ago titled “Super Ferrets”.

Here are Sophie and Sarah making their puppet theater:

Here’s a close up for the home-to-be:
The thing under the tall cactus is a hollow log for the lizard to sleep in.

Here’s another view that includes the heat lamp that will be needed:
(It even has an ON/OFF switch – and just look at all that heat it is producing!)

After the iguana video marathon, Sophie started off making a mobile of her favorite reptiles but then decided it was good enough to save as a Christmas tree ornament.  I can’t wait to see how it looks on our tree this year!

Sophie proudly displaying her ornament:

A dragon:

A snake:

A T-Rex

And of course, an iguana:

All taped to yarn and fastened to an elastic band:

• Name kinds of space: outer space, space for rent, space heater, personal space, etc
• The answer is cheese pizza.  What is the question?:
  What is my favortie dinner?
  What could be used as a tire if it were overcooked?
  What can be round of square?

There are also building activities, which my kids love!  We had some friend over the other day and did one of the bridge building activities.  The kids were divided into two teams.  Each team received the following items to build a bridge:

• 2 chairs
• 1-12in piece of masking tape
• 5 straws
• 2 index cards
• 15 paper clips
• 1-3ft length of string

After building each bridge the teams could test the bridge out by seeing how many beans it could hold.  There was lots of discussion and lots of building and remodeling of bridges.  I think it’s safe to say everyone was pleased with their handiwork!

We’ve been doing ‘school’ off and on all summer but started the school year officially this week.  Every other Wednesday afternoon Parker goes to a friend’s house to play.  I think I am going to take that time to do art with the girls.  We did our first project this past Wednesday.  I saw this idea on another blog I like to read.

Behold, our stained glass window:

Sarah likes to try to find the missing number.  I lay out two rows of cards from 1-10 exactly the same.  She hides her eyes and then I take one away and move all the cards together to fill the empty space.  She then has to figure out what number is missing.  We also do this game with only one row which she and Sophie like to play together.

Sophie has really caught on to odd/even numbers.  I found this printable game online (can’t for the life of me remember where)!  I printed it out on cardstock and we use a die and playing pieces we had laying around.  One player is even and the other plays the odd numbers.

Parker likes to play a game called Corners.  It’s really helped him with his math facts, you have to match like colored numbers together so they equal a multiple of 5.

And what math game would be complete without a snake belt?