Our New Writing Center

Skyler needed a writing center so last weekend I made one on her art table. The crate full of books in the background are art books from the Come Look With Me series. I used her handwriting without tears wood pieces and letter cards. Every week that we change her letter a different one will be posted up top, this week happens to be I. I printed some insect writing paper off line since it matches our "insect" theme. I used the handwriting without tears letter cards from homeschool share to add in there. Her fat pencils and handwriting without tears flip crayons finished it off. For more pics click here. She had a blast when she came home and found it.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

MY BABY IS A DAISY GIRLSCOUT!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday, a day early

Week 7

What a very full week we had. Everyday we do the add a number to the 100 chart and go over the alphabet chart of course. This week was letter U the theme being the 5 senses. We started the week off with hearing by making instruments. We made a wacky guitar, a shaker, a drum and sand slides. She had a ton of fun and was very possessive of them. We matched texture letters to pictures and played with The Magic School Bus Arnolds Ear playset. We of course read teh Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum as well. We did our My Fathers World cut outs pictures to add in the ABC lap/notebook. I mostly use pieces for that from homeschool share. On Tuesday we talked about touch and made oobleck. This was fun and messy and she loved it. She played with her cuisenaire rods and we read Here Are My Hands. Wednesday was sight and for that we played with kaliedescopes then made one of our own. Thursday was for smell and we talked about good and bad her list was great.
Bad good
garbage candles
dumpsters cake in the oven
kitty potty pizza
poop little girls lotion

She was su cute thinking about these. Friday we had a field trip to the Children's Museum. To finish up our week we had a taste activity. Unsweetened chocolate, lemons, plain chips, and fruit snacks. All in all great busy full week and even a slide show to show off! So I hope everyone else had a great week and we are enjoying My Fathers Worlds K so far. The boys did the normal reading, writing, math, language, spelling and as well all the while driving mom nuts!!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Yes the red will wash out!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

YUMMY!!!!

Continent Boxes and my Asia box

Continent boxes are really cool. Continent Boxes are sort of like treasure boxes- one for each continent- which contain maps, books, and artifacts from the countries on that continent. I have made an Asia box and I think it turned out pretty cool. There are images of Asia on the top and all over the sides I placed flags of the countries in Asia.

I love the Come Look With Me Art Books so when I saw the Asian Art I had to add that too. Of course you cannoy dare talk about Asia without chopsticks!

The map of Asia and the picture packs are of course about Asia. The packs contain famous landmarks, animals and plants.

These are books one for Japan and one for the Asia continent I found.

Of course my wonderful cool china learning pack is included that I purchased here. There are more pictures of mine here. I would love to buy a learning pack like this from every continent I think they are great. I have yet to make the other continents but this is a great start.

My new kit!!!

To learn more click on the image. I bought one a while ago while we were in the middle of moving and just recently opened it and explored. This thing is well put together and my kids LOVE it. They thought it was the neatest thing in the world to actually have stuff that came from China. They really loved the money and even the envelope itself was a big hit. I wish I had really looked this over before and blogged about it cause she did a great job!!!

The real interest in buying this is to add to my Asia continent box that I am working on and will blog all about that later. This kit is really cool and I hope anyone who buys one that their kids love it as much as mine!

Our 2nd week of school Aug 17-21

Back to school cookies and they were yummy!!! Skyler studies the letter M this week for moon and we read so many moon books I think I am good for many years to come on that subject!! The boys continued on with math and started spelling this week. It was a pretty peaceful week that we finished off with a nice long walk Friday night and building school buses at Lowe's this morning.

Our first week Aug 10-14

While alot of this week had been alot of review they did some new things too. Like baking sunbread what fun that was!! They also went to get checked for new glasses. We took alot of pics that you can find here. All in all I would say a great first easy week back. Skyler will finally complete her My Fathers World K and the boys starting out easy with just some math.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Life is kinda like a puzzle....

Some people have theirs all together, perfect all the time. Some are O.K. with ecleast keeping the pieces somewhat together. Others kinda fall apart over time when you just get busy. You get to involved with T.V. or blogs maybe? Before you know it the house is a mess and your school schedule has fallen apart. LOL. So I have decided that untile I get all my pieces half way organized it is time to take a break from the blog world for awhile. I am gonna miss seeing everyones blog and updates, but I have some over hauling to do here.

I hope everyone has a blast with school and staying organized. I think I love blogs a bit too much. Take care all.

A B See W

The A B See from HSBAPOST.COM
This week I chose W. W is for waterfall the really pretty peaceful one at the Indiana State Museum. While you can't see in the pics there are tons of pennies and dimes in the water as well and they gave off these tiny sparkles in the sun and it was just so pretty.

Homeschool Memoirs

This week use the ABC’s to describe your character, your life, your homeschool, and your family. Next to each letter of the alphabet put a word that describes you or has something to do with you. It was very amusing and a bit tricky. Once you actually get to a letter your mind goes blank!

This will for sure take me awhile!!!! I will have to work on it bit by bit

A affectionate

B believing

C

D debate

E energetic on occasion

F friend

G

H hopeful

I

J jolly sometimes

K

L

M mommy

N never ending cleaning

O organizing or ecleast I aim to

P photographer

Q questioning of everything

R

S

T tired

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

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My Little Kids!!!