Some of Our Work - Extensions Galore and Draw Write Now

Big Bro and Little Bro have both been very into building lately.
Ever since Big Bro and Little Bro tried out the extensions with the knobless cylinders and the pink tower and brown / broad stairs, they have been wanting to get these works out again to do additional extensions.

First, Big Bro wanted to rebuild the tower he had made a few days earlier using the mini pink tower and the broad stairs, only instead of starting with the broad stairs at the base, he wanted to try building it with the pink tower as the first piece.
He called this tower "Pink first, just to see what happens"...
Since the end pieces tended to fall off fairly easily, as they are so tiny, he then thought that perhaps if he alternated how he stacked them by twisting them that maybe that would help to make the tower more stable.

He referred to this tower as "Diamonds of Pink and Black"

Big Bro then made several other structures, including:
"The Ostrich"

"The Chichen Itza Boys" ("It's two boys playing with a little replica of the Mexican pyramid, Chichen Itza.")

"The Royal Black...an Arabian castle"

As Big Bro was working on his Pink Tower / Broad Stairs Extensions, at first, Big Bro enlisted the help of Little Bro to be his assistant. This way,  Big Bro was able to stay on the chair while he was building.
Little Bro loved being Big Bro's assistant for the two biggest towers.

Then, when Big Bro switched and did lower-to-the-ground extensions, Little Bro went back to the work he had selected, the knobless cylinders.
He started doing a variety of new extensions as well, first stacking up the red, green and yellow pieces into a tower, and then, adding a few blue pieces to the top.

Little Bro called his tower "B's Tower of Piza"

Big Bro took a few minutes out of his building to come check on Little Bro's progress. The two of them then briefly decided to create something together with the knobless cylinders, an extension they called "The Coral Reef".

Big Bro then went back to his pink tower and brown / broad stairs work and Little Bro went on to do some additional extensions..."Bubbles"

Treasure Hunt...X Marks the Spot"

He then got into trying other extensions...

Little Bro loved doing his take on extensions with the knobless cylinders.
He was completely absorbed in his work.

Big Bro finished out his work period by starting to do some pages from Draw Write Now.

Since Big Bro has expressed an interest in drawing and wanting to learn more about animals, he has started in with book eight, as it features animals of the desert, his current interest...he chose to do the pages about the coyotes and thorny lizards and had a great time learning how to draw the animals, as well as writing some facts about them.
All in all, it was a very busy day here.

 We wrapped things up by spending time at the pool and then, we came home and made some chocolate chip cookie dough...hopefully, we will do some baking tomorrow.

Photo Friday - Knobless Cylinders and Pink Tower / Broad Stairs Extensions

Yesterday, I was finally getting caught up on reading some of the blogs that I just love...

Enjoyed so many of the posts about various works  and projects that people have done this week...

As I was reading the post from Mi Escuelita Montessori, Little Bro happened to be standing over my shoulder and happened to see the awesome photos of the children working on their work...some Knobless Cylinder extensions and a Broad Stairs extension. He was so excited that he got out his work last night at 7 pm for this morning...

When he got up this morning, he got to work and made the Knobless Cylinder extnesions...he got a bit frustrated at first, because it took him a little more time and a little more steady handedness to get them to stack as he wanted them to do.

He first tried to stack them with a rug underneath and then, gave up on that and tried it with just our carpeting. and then, he decided to flip the cylinder storage boxes upside down and stacked them on top. that seemed to work best for him.

As he was working, Big Bro was just finishing up his morning work and decided to get into the action.

He asked Little Bro if he could please borrow the Broad Stairs as he wanted to make a skyscraper using the broad stairs and the pink tower.

They used our mini versions of the Broad Stairs and The Pink Tower for this, by the way, but it still stood nearly six feet tall!!!

Hope that you will enjoy these photos...happy Friday!

A Happy Homeschooling Day

Great day for Little Bro! Went to co-op art class and painted another beautiful painting... worked on color mixing and using a variety of textures...sand, glitter, confetti are all in the paint mixture.

Daddy got home fairly early, so he helped Little Bro with his last work of the day, a new puzzle.

Little Bro finishing a sea life puzzle with Daddy.

Little Bro loved doing a little wooden color game.
Little Bro enjoyed feeding the sharks (adding beads to shark's mouth with spoon).
Little Bro also liked doing the knobless cylinders work.
As usual, Little Bro got right to it and started out doing his morning work in his pajamas.
This is the work he had chosen for himself the night before...also, one of his favorites, another stackable tower.
This one has numbers and items to count as you stack.

Selecting "first morning work" the night before REALLY works well for us!

If you are homeschooling and using the Montessori Method and Montessori inspired materials in your home, I encourage you to give this a try...makes a huge difference in setting the tone for the day.