He also graphs the weather- you can't see it well in the picture- but the top line is "Sunny" the 2nd one says "Cloudy", then windy, rainy, snowy, then the bottom 2 are less than 50 degrees and greater than 50 degrees. He just places a paper square in the correct weather boxes each day- then we evaluate- "wow- there's been 3 more sunny days than cloudy days so far" or "there's the same number of days warmer than 50 as there are colder than 50"
We are counting the days we've "done math" Doodle makes sure we have the same of craft sticks- 1 stick for each day we've done Math. (LOOK!! Another use for Craft sticks!) 
Then count out that SAME number of cubes, and determine whether it's an odd or even number
Each day we also add a number to our number line- counting the math days- odd numbers are yellow- even numbers are green. Multiples of 5 are circled in purple, and multiples of 10 have a orange square around them.
Then we count out that same number (this day was 25) in change- Doodle found some different ways to make 25.
Oh- and one more fun game from Math Their Way (This one is in their Newsletter- page 8- called Zurkle) We added our twist- and since Doodle had practiced counting by 10's he had a bunch of cubes already arranged in groups of 10. I would ring the bell, when I ring it- he adds a cube to the 1's side. When he gets 10- he connects them, and moves them to the 10's side. When I knock on the table, he adds a group of 10. Then he reads how many 10's and how many 1's he has on his chart. "5 tens and 6 ones- 56"
I left the camera sitting on the table- and found these pictures on it:
We saw the animals, rode the zoo train, walked all around and explored. We went at his pace- if he wanted to spend 10 minutes watching the giraffes, we could do that, and if he didn't care about the kangaroos- we could say "yup- there's the Kangaroo, let's go see something else."
And the Tortoise was great! Doodle studied Turtles and Tortoises a few weeks ago.
I'm sure Tigers will make it into the "I want to study lineup" before too much longer- this one was pacing back and forth along the fence.
It was great fun watching the Black Bears play.
Thanks Doodle for a fun date! I love you! I'm so glad you are my boy!
The Hole in his mouth- 
Sunday afternoon we went for a Sunday Drive out to the Bird Refuge. We enjoy going to the Bird Refuge- they have a great visitor center (which is closed on Sundays- so we didn't go in this time) Here and here are pics from a couple other times we've been there. (Sidenote- I love Sunday Drives! We put the kids in the car- listen to a book on cd and just drive!- Never know where we'll end up- sometimes we have a plan sometimes we just GO. A few weeks ago we ended up way out by the Great Salt Lake in Promontory.) Sunday afternoon we headed out towards the Bird Refuge- as we had heard that the Tundra Swans were here during their migration. There were THOUSANDS of Tundra Swans. We rolled down the windows and listened to them. It was amazing! We tried to get a picture of a few that were closeby. Not a great picture, but oh well.
Here's Roo's first entry- a Killdeer
And Doodle's picture of a Robin. I think he did great!
All done- Delicious
Only Problem- they were too hot to eat before Bedtime....Ssshhh! Don't tell Eric and Natalie I gave their kids Pumpkin Pie for BREAKFAST! (it's kinda healthy right? There's a vegetable in there)
Micah's Pumpkin Pie Recipe
It's so simple- yet he realized quite quickly as we were playing with 7 today- if he has 4 inside he has to have 3 outside- every single time. If he has 6 inside there has to be 1 outside. With 7's 6 and 1 go together, 5 and 2 go together, 3 and 4 etc.. Then we played a variation on this- where I'd put some under the cave, and he'd have to guess how many are under there- but knowing I have 7 total- he was pleasantly surprized when he knew the answers. (Of course with Doodle- anytime I plan a game- he has to throw his little "twists" into the game- so we played with a dice to tell us how many to put under the cave- I'm okay with that- rofl- but I think his favorite part was zooming the dice across the floor to me!)
Another fun game was with the geoboards and rubber bands. I have a pattern of a geoboard in a plastic page protecter- and use a dry erase marker to make a pattern on it. Then he tries to copy the pattern onto the geoboard with rubber bands. This was surprizingly tricky for him.
Overall I'm pleased, we are having fun, and will be starting lots more fun Math Their Way games in the coming months.
Roo was in Heaven. They let him climb up and look in the cockpit- and see all the instruments. As he moved the stick back and forth the parts of the wing and tail moved, and he was SO excited! 
After the trip to the Airport- we make a quick stop at the small park/zoo- Doodle was hoping to see the turtles- but unfortunately there are "off display" until the weather is nicer (along with Roo's favorite, the monkeys) But the coyotes, foxes, and bobcats were awake and wandering. Usually they are fast asleep when we stop in there. 
All three kiddos watching the ducks. It might be a small zoo- but it's cheap and a ton of fun.
It is a sweet rhyming story about a boy who imagines what he would do if Jesus came to his house. It talks SO perfectly about the Golden Rule- and about how when we are serving others we are serving God. So we hit on quite a bit in the way of scripture stories.
"Mom- you can't be this old- cuz it's as big as I am"
He had a FUN time with his experiment- and he'd set the timer to know when to go back out. He was thrilled to show his experiment to Dad.
Since the story has pictures drawn in black with just a bit of red for accents- Roo painted a picture with Red and black paint. 
Here's Doodle's Week- He really really really wanted to learn about Turtles. Ok- whatever- But there's no FIAR stories about Turtles- so I was scrambing (I can put together units- but I really prefer to stick to what's been done) But we learned about Turtles, and he is making an animal notebook. Here's the first pages in it- All the lapbook compontents are from Homeschool Share 
The next pages are his copywork sentences- I just LOVE Startwrite for handwriting- I pick a sentence from the books we are reading- type it in to the startwrite program and select the font- I use HWT (Handwriting without tears font) it's simple, no frills, and what we used when first learning how to write all the letters. Then I print the page, and it's ready for Doodle- he copies the sentence (we're working on using capital letters and periods where they belong- throwing in a little grammar as well). The funnest part is when we are reading the story- he LOVES to listen for his sentence. 
