Lions and Lambs

Just like March, the Ingram kids can start out like lions but end up being lambs all in one day or even in a morning and sometimes even over the course of an hour!  We had a wild morning with biting and crying and pushing and shoving and ended up having a great school session with counting and reading and writing and creating flowers for our number wall.
We figured out today that Ford keeps getting stuck in his counting because "fifteen" makes absolutely no sense.  In the Math-U-See program, Rachel has gotten so confused because he likes to say "one-ty one, one-ty two, one-ty three, one-ty four, one-ty five, etc."  We just skip over that part with her because she understands the teen numbers.  I'm thinking Ford might do better with this concept because he is trying to count with this idea, so he just skips from 14 to 16 because there is no "five-teen". Hopefully, by Friday we can bust through 15 and make it to twenty, but we'll see.
We read a few books today about Spring and looked at all the spring flowers and spring colors and then we made our own spring flowers.  We colored popsicle sticks green to be the stems and then took coffee filters and used markers to color them with spring colors.  After they colored the filters, we sprayed them with water and made some really cool designs to be the flowers.  Since they each made one, we had three flowers, so Ruby wrote a 1 on her flower, Rachel wrote a 2 on her flower, and Ford wrote a 3 on his flower and we put them up under the number 3 on our wall.
After eating a quick snack, we loaded up for story time.  We had a great time at story time talking about bananas and owls.  The kids made owl puppets and did a little puppet show in the puppet theater at the library.  We came back home and played and ate lunch with Vanessa and the boys and the kids were super good.  Now everyone is resting or sleeping and the calmness of those lambs has taken over the house.  We're planning to get outside once everybody wakes up because the weather is beautiful!!!  I'm thinking we'll be heading out on a family walk when Papa gets home!