Where are Ruth and Mary?

Can you find two little girls in this picture?
Bonus points if you can tell which girl is which.

What Dad's do

This is what happens when Dad tells the girls to ride their scooters down the sledding hill.
And Mom said it couldn't be done.

What a Ruth likes

Some of Ruth's favorite's:

color: blue
food: blueberries
music: "Jingle Bells"
activity: going to the Natural History Museum
animal: penguins and dogs
Holiday: Christmas
school subject: reading
person: Mommy
piece of clothing: yellow mouse shirt with a piece of cheese on the back
movie: "Looney Tunes"

Ruth

It has been quite a while since I posted about Ruth, so I thought I would post an update now.
She's in coasting mode right now, not really hitting many milestones, kinda keeping to herself, and has always done well in school, so daily there is not much to say about her. But there is still lot's to tell about here. For example...

For Christmas Ruth got a two wheeled scooter, and she did so GREAT balancing today. She rode all the way to the park and back with no problems, it was really great.

Ruth is learning fractions in math this week, and has gone much further than I thought she would. I am able to give her word problems, and she is writing them down and answering them all on her own.

She is also a really good reader. Her lessons the past two weeks are from "The Tale of Despereaux", and she is reading a good portion of the book on her own with little help from me.

We've never been there...

but we now know a lot about Hawaii.
Mary used the Magic Tree House book "High Tide in Hawaii" as the base for her lapbook.
She learned about Hawaii, read a map, did some Ocean math, and learned about friendship too.
Here is the lapbook she created.

She's really doing it

Mary is really, truly, honestly reading on her own now. Here is the book she read today!!

When homeschooling works

This is proving to be a difficult week for me, so when we got home from the museum, I really wasn't willing/able to pull out all the stops and do a lot of school. While I was working on lunch, the kids sat at their desks with paper and crayons, and they came up with this on their own.

It is a food pyramid, and Ruth drew the different types of food on each line. I think this was her rebellious response me telling her she could not have only a pickle and bread for lunch.


This is Mary's version. Much simpler since she was just copying her sister, but still very nice.