Doing it on his own

Edward is starting to write his last name on his own now. He has been writing his first name now for a few weeks with no help and without looking at his name plate. Last Thursday, we were at Kirk's work and he suddenly asked if he could write his name on Kirk's offices dry erase board. Not only did he want to write his first name but he wanted to try to write his last name (this was the first time he had even tried it). I wrote it on the board for him and he copied it. Then at Co-op last Friday he wanted to show his favorite person that he could write his name. He not only wrote his first name by himself but his the first 5 letters of his last name too. I was so amazed. He had no help from anyone. Then this week on Tuesday he wrote his first and last name on a couple of his papers. I helped a little with his last name but it is so amazing to me how quickly he is picking things up.

Pop! Pop! Popcorn!!!!!!!

This week's Curriculum theme is Popcorn! On Monday, we did a Science Experiment with a colored corn cob, that we popped in the microwave. We didn't pop it in a bag, so we could see what it doesn't when it pops. We used that popcorn to make art projects, it was very dry. We were to find out if the colored kernels would be colored or white like regular popcorn. He had to come up with a hypothesis, record the materials and procedure used. We also had to record the results and then wrote our own conclusion. Edwards conclusion was that it still tasted good. LOL! To Cute!!! Yesterday we made popcorn on the stove to show him that you can get popcorn places other than the microwave. We made a popcorn tree. We also made sand art. He loved doing. We made a tree with apples and a flower. This weeks letters are Ii and Jj. Our color is PURPLE. Our number is 7. Our shape is Square. In case your wondering we didn't do our curriculum last week do to the passing of my Father In Law. We just did a little review but mainly just took the week off. We did go to Kindermusik, Bowling, Co-op and Monart. He did a bicycle clinic. He learned the correct hand signals and the rules of riding your bike in our community. He loved learning all these new things.