The Science of Social insects

We have been learning about flying insect lately and today was all about the social insect...the bee. Here we made toilet paper bees and of course Vincent had to be the artist he is and add a flower and legs etc. I just love how you can incorporate crafts and art into science.

Chores and Savings

Aren't these cute. The bags were 100% done by Raquel, but the houses, well they were done by MOM! This is our new way of saving money. We got the plans from Doorposts. Each house represents a certain saving, like spending money is the store, the house is dowry. Each chore they do gets a certain dollar amount and at the end of the week I pay them a percentage for each house. So 20% for tithe etc. they love this and it has made doing chore worth while for them.