August 23 2011

Rhyme Time

I’ve been trying to teach Brooke about rhyming words. This has proved a hard concept to grasp. She fixates on the beginning sounds of the words and fails to notice the similarity between the ending sounds. Example:

Me: “Cat, hat. They rhyme. Cat, hat.”

Brooke: “Cat, cake. They rhyme.”

Me: “No, they have the same beginning sound, but rhyming words have the same ending sound.”

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Then, the other day, we were reading a book. The character’s name was Coop. Brooke stopped me midsentence and said, “Mom! That rhymes! Coop, POOP!”

Did I learn nothing as a first grade teacher? I should have known the key to understanding would be relating the lesson to bodily functions.

Brooke, Caroline, Dallas, Holidays, Madison, Rebecca, Spencer

Santa Pics

It was time for the ward Christmas party and Rebecca asked me to take the pictures again this year.

Brooke, Caroline, Family Fun, Madison, Spencer

Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

Brooke, Caroline, Dallas, Family Fun, Madison, Rebecca, Spencer

Silly People

One application that doesn’t get enough use in our house is Photo Booth. Whenever it’s used raucous laughter reigns. I’ve included both the original picture and the Photo Boothed one. It’s up to you to figure out which one is real life…