James and Aria: Update before we head out to Houston

We're leaving tomorrow and will be back on Sunday. We have appointments set up with several potential schools for Sasha. We'll also be looking at what the options are for houses... We need to figure out a lot of things, like do we rent or do we buy?
We'll give an update of our situation when we get back.

In the meantime, here are the latest of Sasha!

Slicing strawberries for breakfast:

and green beans for dinner:

Some school pics (taken by her teachers)
I love this one. Can you see the love between these two? Sasha loves Julia!

Table-washing is an important Montessori activity. It helps children learn to attend to an entire sequence of visual motor tasks:

The children handle geometric solids under the cloth and try to guess what they are. Here Sasha is saying "ovoid!"

The Montessori math curriculum begins with concrete and gradually moves towards more abstract math concepts. Because children take in knowledge through their senses, these beads are a good way for children to visualize and hold quantities. She is presented with one bead, ten beads stuck together, (as seen below), 100 beads, and a cube of 1000 beads.

Building a bird feeder with Daddy:

Making play dough roses with mommy (I remember when my mom taught me to make these when I was a little girl)

Making a shopping list. Sasha loves practicing her writing. The Montessori method encourages writing phonetically to begin with. I got a great video of her spelling out words phonetically while writing her shopping list. (link on right)

The days have been getting warmer and warmer, and as they do, we find more reasons to be outside. Sasha and I walked to "pick up" daddy after he got off the bus coming home from school:

At Baha'i class they talked about the equality of men and women. Their art project was to decorate a bird who's wings represent this equality. One is the man, the other is the woman, and not until both are equal can the bird fly.