Owls and I love you's

I don't think I ever documented the fact that we decided to wait and send C to kindergarten in the fall of 2012.  His birthday is only about a week before the Maryland kindergarten cut off and I had originally planned on delayed entry but decided to give homeschooling a shot this past year anyway.  He was simultaneously going to a preschool program (nature school) two days a week.  Based on how his transition into that program went...plus everything I had read, heard from others, and my just plain "gut" feeling, we went ahead and stopped official kindergarten at home and are letting him have another year as a preschooler.  Well, sadly (or rather not sadly...for those of you who know how it went down we would no longer want him there anyway) C is no longer attending nature school.  He has been fine with it and hasn't even asked about it once since I told him that we wouldn't be going back.  For that I am very thankful!  The whole situation was a big mess and I was afraid the outcome would hurt my little boy's sensitive spirit.  But, he's doing just fine.  Between now and kindergarten I'm making a more conscious effort to have some focused "learning time."  Although, with my kiddo the more work I do to disguise the fact that he's actually learning something, the less it feels like work for him and the more enthusiastic he is.  It's tricky business.  ;)

Here are lots of pictures, plus some bonus videos, of our week of Owls and I love you's.

Gathering "o" items in his backpack during our letter hunt through the house.

Sorting his "o" objects into categories.

 Fingerprint owl project.

We made lots of yummy owl snacks throughout the week.

Another fun snack!

Pinecone owls!

Working on his shapes owl.

Not pictured are all the owl books we read.  We had a ton from the library!  We also read some Valentine's books and talked about the upcoming holiday.  Which he keeps calling Thanksgiving. :)  Here he is with our heart crayons!

 Our final owl snack...

 ...owl pellets! 

 Showing off his Valentine's heart owl and his shapes owl.

And here's a peek at some of the games we played during the week...