Ruth and School

 Ruth has really enjoyed projects recently. For a couple weeks she was in a kite building phase, then it was a learning to roller-blade phase, then a short tinkering phase and most recently she's been working on an "Under the Sea" book that she's typing and illustrating. She's also mastered multiplication for numbers zero through five and ten. The other day Will was counting how many legs are in our family and he miscounted and said there were 9 legs. Ruth was super happy to tell him that 5 x 2 is 10 because there are five people and we all have two legs. She's also been working on money and adding with money and decimals. She still reads like a champion and has blasted through several books, most recently she finished "Ella Enchanted," so we could watch the movie. She has thoroughly enjoyed going to her weekly science class so she can chat and make friends (she was ecstatic last week because another girl asked her to stay after class and play at the playground, which of course we did). She has also been showing tons of interest in cooking and baking and made several batches of cookies completely on her own. She also has been practising chopping and dicing vegetables. Ruth has also really been embracing her big sister roll, which is something I've really tried hard to work on with her (she tends to be more bossy than nurturing...wonder where that came from?). She also loves playing games and making perler bead designs to show off to her friends at church.

 Ruth had the great idea to make a teapot out of an old water gallon and a water bottle. We used the hot glue gun to make the spout...and then we just had to have a dress-up tea party! We just had a MAAAAHVELOUS time!