Differences

Rachel needed to do a Brownie project where she collected 5 weeds and did something nice with them. The girls collected these weeds a while back and they have been drying in my flower press.

Today was the day for making the cards. This was Ruth's creation. I should have taken a photo before I laminated it. :( Hopefully I will remember in the future.

Ruth was a great help today in sorting out Dad's work socks. For some reason I missed his weekly wash and so ended up with almost two weeks of socks in one load. At least I know he has enough for two weeks. :-) She did a great job in matching them up as some of them are very similar.

To do list

Ruth wanted to have the same type of "to do list" as Rachel had - so I got hers done last week. Rachel's are on the top and Ruth's on the bottom (where she can reach them).

Her "Art" this week. A picture
for Dad. She also ended up with
lots of stickers on herself. :-)

It was lovely to see how this week she took over the job of doing the chooks from Rachel (the red lables). She takes them any scraps, fetches the eggs and checks that they have enough food. She is such a big girl already.

Other items on her list are "Tell" when she tells me about the story that Rachel has read to her, "Music" for violin practice, "Computer" - a friend lent us a couple of new games so she is enjoying those and learning a lot. And then she has some items that are not for everyday. I have made enough for every day but for starters we are going to have it our goal to get to them at least once a week. "Baking", "Art", "Read" - at this stage it's just work on the alphabet, "Math" - at this stage just work on recognising the numbers or doing some counting or adding, "Sew" - she loves sewing and I want to try and get her something to do every week and "Clean" - it's nice for her to have a record of packing up or cleaning that she has done.

Giant Paper Poppy

Ruth did a really good job of cutting out.

She enjoyed helping me use the glue gun.

We are all very happy with the end result.
For instructions on how to make them go here.

Tissue Paper Flowers

Ruth really enjoyed making these tissue paper flowers today. She worked very carefully with the folding and then unfolding. I was especially glad she was willing to accept a little bit of direction and help from me without saying "I want to do it on my OWN". At one point she even said "I am not going to get upset when you help me". I am so pleased to hear that. I think she finally realizes that when I want to show her how to do something (if she is not doing it quite right) that I will just demonstrate and then she will be able to continue on her own. I only needed to show her once how to unfold and create the flower and she did the rest "all on her own".

Good job Ruth.

If you want all the directions on how to make these flowers then click here.

1,500 done and other stuff

Ruth completed her 1,500 piece puzzle today.
This is a video of the progress over the last 25 days. I took a photo almost every day. She did about 60 pieces a day. She only had about 30 to do today - so it did not take her long to get some more puzzles out.
A picture of the finished puzzle. I look forward to getting it framed for her room.

And just so you know she does not just build puzzles - here she is with Rachel "blowing dye".
She struggled to blow on her own so I ended up holding the end of the straw and moving it around for her. You can see the effort it took. I thought afterwards that I should have cut a shorter piece of straw for her to use. We will have to try it again another day.
She really enjoyed seeing how the colours mixed.
Here she is on a 100 pieces. 30 pieces obviously is just not enough for one day.

And before Ballet she quickly got started on the round 100 piece. So much for thinking we would have a break from puzzles with the dog one finished. She ended up building at least 230 pieces today.

Mixing dye

Ruth enjoyed her first art project with the dye that she got in the last correspondence school posting. The instruction sheet had not been included, so once the teacher had sent that to us she was so excited about getting started. She had to exercise a lot of patience as I had no idea of what to do with it until the info sheet arrived.

Down to just one tray of pieces left on her puzzle. She gets so excited when she gets to finish a dog. But she can't just sit and finish them one at a time because as she looks through the tray for a specific piece she says "oh - I know where this one goes" and then goes back to looking for the other (which she normally manages to find).

Mosaic

Ruth enjoyed cutting up different colours of card in preparation for making a mosaic.

Hannah woke up before Ruth and Rachel got finished so she got to do a flower too.

The finished product. Well done Ruth. It looks lovely.