Wickham's House of Learning: What a creative morning we have had!

Wow, what a creative morning we have had! Bryleigh wanted to start school early this morning so we began by making Angel Tree Toppers!

Bryleigh wanted flowers on her tree topper

Tracee loved being able to color her angel

Here's the finished project. They did good for their first time!

Then Bryleigh made Gingerbread house Christmas Cards

Here's one of the many she made.

Then we decided to make Christmas Sugar Cookies

Bryleigh put the egg in and here's Tracee pouring in the butter

They couldn't wait for the cookies to bake!

Then it was school work time. Here they are working on their schoolwork for the day

Bryleigh enjoys her new 1st Grade workbook :) Today she learned about opposite words, weather words, & action words.

The Sugar Cookies turned out so good...

and according to Bryleigh, they were delicious :)

Finally...we did a lesson on Zhu Zhu Pets...that's right...I realize now, after homeschooling for awhile, that you can literally make a learning lesson out of everything!! We found out that Zhu Zhu Pets were created by Russ Hornsby. The name, Zhu Zhu, comes from China and in chinese it means "little pig". Zhu Zhu comes in 9 different characters. Here are Bryleigh & Tracee playing with their Zhu Zhu Pets. Bryleigh has the Zhu Zhu pet "Patches" and Tracee is playing with the "Kung Zhu" type. They have thoroughly enjoyed our creative morning!

We took a break for lunch, then Bryleigh finished her schoolwork and I put Tracee down for a nap. It was now time to make Christmas Kool-aid Popsicles!! Bryleigh loved making the popsicles, especially when she was able to drink the rest of the kool-aid :) Now we are just waiting for them to freeze!