Life's good when you're Nicholas...

I cannot begin to tell you how thankful and blessed I am to be able to homeschool, especially when it comes to Nicholas. He's simply not ready for an academic kindergarten. In the shelter of our home, however, he's free to explore and learn at his own pace, which is alternately slow and completely frenetic.

Some themes this week were the fairy tale Needle, Shuttle, and Spindle, the letter N, heavy and light and long and short, and winter.

Sewing a little pillow for one of his animal friends...

Making beeswax icicles to decorate the sleepy bears' cave on the nature table...

Making a letter N from pieces of yarn...

Building a home for winter animals from blocks...

Making long and short playdough worms...

Red wet-on-wet watercolor paintings after a story about little red berries who were born to decorate a bare winter garden...

Begging everyone in the house who can read to read another chapter... another page... another paragraph of Harry Potter.


Exploring heavy and light with the balance...

I hope you had a happy week full of playful explorations as well!