tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66288958884137460122024-03-04T22:07:36.903-06:00Training Up A ChildKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-62788423598734130352015-08-17T15:22:00.002-05:002015-08-17T15:22:28.105-05:00First Day of School PicturesWe had an awesome first day of school today! Here are our first day pictures :-)<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-30181100439301861652015-08-12T15:21:00.002-05:002015-08-12T15:21:32.894-05:00An UpdateMy Timehop app today showed pictures from 5 years ago when we were first starting school in our new schoolhouse!! 5 YEARS!! I cannot believe I have been doing this for 5 years!<br />
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And it was amazing to see how much the schoolhouse has changed in 5 years! Here are some then and now pictures!<br />
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The room is not the only thing that has changed!! I was only homeschooling one child 5 years ago. Now I am homeschooling 3!!!! The kids are in 5th, 3rd and 1st this year!<br />
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We are excited to be starting a new history program this year - The Mystery of History! It is world history in chronological order with biblical history (from Christian worldview of a young earth!)<br />
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We are doing Apologia Astronomy for our science and super excited about that too!<br />
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I am putting together my own FUN English/Grammar program that will be interactive and will involve all three kids!<br />
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We are sticking with Pathway Publishers for our reading! I still love that program. We are still doing the Explode the Code workbooks for phonics work. We are still using Singapore Math for our math curriculum. <br />
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The kids will be involved with Salvation Army classes as well. All three will be taking choir. Seth will be continuing guitar lessons and Aaron will be continuing piano lessons. Alyssa will be taking dance and art! <br />
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Our first day of school will be this coming Monday - August 17, 2015!! It is going to be a great year!<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-24781622500439001362014-11-13T19:00:00.002-06:002014-11-13T19:00:38.172-06:00Meet Tuba....I realized that when I did my update on Monday I forgot to introduce our newest pet!<br />
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Meet Tuba.... the tadpole<br />
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He is an African Dwarf frog. It was recommended in our Apologia Zooology 2: Sea Creatures of the 5th Day curriculum! We ordered him in August but due to Texas heat they couldn't ship him until it cooled down (and thankfully they were able two in the couple of weeks of nice weather before it got too cold here...gotta love Texas!)<br />
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Alyssa came up with his name - Tuba!! :-)<br />
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Oh and the fun is beginning - getting ready for our Thanksgiving camping!! I made the homemade cranberry sauce today! I went ahead and water bathed it so that it would keep and that is one less thing to have to fit in the fridge! YUM!!! It has been WAY too long since I have canned! I really need to do it more often! There is such the feeling of accomplishment looking at the beautiful jars of yummy goodness!!! Why didn't I think to make more?!?!? LOL!<br />
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I guess that last bit really didn't have much to do with homeschool...but oh well!! It is our life! :-)<br />
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Until next time,<br />
KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-89516179915638312412014-11-10T15:33:00.003-06:002014-11-10T15:33:54.563-06:00A Quick UpdateHey! Since I haven't updated in a couple of weeks I thought I would post a quick update!<br />
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Things are busy around here as usual! We just got home from a a family Thanksgiving up in Arkansas with Daniel's family! It was such a nice weekend!<br />
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We are gearing up for a week long camping trip with my parents the week of Thanksgiving!! OH MY will it be fun!!! We will be doing fun craft stuff such as Christmas ornaments made from twigs and acorns and such to glow in the dark play dough and slime, to of course smores around the campfire! We will also be doing our BIG Thanksgiving dinner at the camp site!! YUM!!! It will be a full week of FAMILY fun!!! I am so looking forward to this trip!!<br />
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In the past couple of weeks Alyssa has started reading! WHOO HOO!! She has started her first reader in the Pathways reading program and is reading like a champ!!! It is kind of bitter sweet to know this is the last time I will hear my children learn to read! This has been the biggest blessing of homeschool so far! I am excited for other things that I will get to experience with them...but really don't know if anything can top watching your child learn to read!<br />
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I am gearing up for our Truth in the Tinsel for Christmas school. I am also thinking of how to change school up just a bit for Christmas. I really don't want to lose this rhythm we are in too much, but I also want to make it a fun and special time as well! I know I will be able to come up with something (but first I have to get beyond this focus on Thanksgiving week camping trip!... Did I mention how excited I was about that?! LOL)<br />
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Anyways, here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.<br />
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Here are Alyssa's latest letter crafts!<br />
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And her word caterpillar has not filled up HALF of the board! She is really learning a lot of words and is doing VERY well!!!<br />
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Here are a few pictures from our weekend - we took at fun hayride on Saturday during the family Thanksgiving.</div>
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This first one is of Alyssa and her cousin Addison. They have become such great friends!! Every time we saw them on Saturday they were holding hands headed somewhere! Alyssa was very sad to leave Addison Saturday night. But we have decided that they are going to be pen pals! :-) I think that will be great fun for both of them!</div>
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Well, I promise I will have lots of pictures of our Thanksgiving trip!! :-) And of course we still have two full weeks of school and another co-op class to get through before the trip so things will be busy between now and then.<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-86198443071105125042014-10-17T22:20:00.001-05:002014-10-17T22:20:22.434-05:00Friday Creative FUN School - ART DAY!!So, what do you do when a tummy bug has claimed the second victim of your household and you have to cancel your Friday plans?? Well, today at our house we had another creative FUN school!! Today was an art emphasis day - we made Fall decorations for our home!!!! :-)<br />
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Even though I might sound very energetic and excited in the writing of this post, I will be honest and say that I am tired! Yes we had fun and yes I am excited about the results...but this was a lot of work LOL! I didn't plan ANY of it ahead of time. This was all decided last minute when we realized we would be grounded to the house for the day. So, I was having to plan as I went and was trying to figure out what we could do with the materials we had on had. There was some impatience happening when I wasn't "preparing" something for them fast enough and there was a bit of whining as well. I have to also admit that things got a lot better when I finally just let them have at the supplies and let them create something themselves. I also realized that Seth was old enough to show him a picture of something and he was able to figure out how to make it!<br />
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So all in all it was a fun day and we got a lot accomplished and I think, my kids especially, will look back on this day and remember it with fond memories!<br />
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And Granny brought supper this evening and played games with us so that was a nice end to our big day!!<br />
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And since it is creative school - we of course used the creative mode on the camera again :-)!!<br />
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Here are some fun pictures from the day!<br />
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These first shots are of the kids working on their various projects. (and yes they were in their pjs all day...I mean it was a sick day right?!? LOL!)<br />
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Oh - and we got in a little nature study too! The kids found a praying mantis as they were working on their stuff!!! (and were so very excited because they have been watching a Wild Kratts episode about mantises recently and were excited that they could rattle off a lot of different facts about these creatures!)<br />
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So here are our finished products!!</div>
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1st up - our wreath. We actually made the wreath last year. We just added the sign and a couple of details to the wreath.</div>
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Here is our table all ready for fall!! We have my glass pumpkin full of acorn beads - which I have had for several years and LOVE!!! With it we put the modge podge leaf jar that Seth made today! (and looks REALLY pretty with a candle burning inside of it!)<br />
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Here is a view of our buffet table!<br />
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Aaron made this button pumpkin picture!!<br />
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I made this <i>bling</i> sign!! I purposely did not use "fall" colors ... I want to leave this sign out all year so that we can be reminded to always have a grateful heart and that giving thanks is an every day thing...not just a once a year thing :-)<br />
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This sign we made a couple of years ago but the kids made the paper bag trees today (there are two more in front of Aaron's pumpkin picture...they just didn't come out well in that picture)<br />
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Here is a view of our fireplace...<br />
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Seth made this scarecrow!! I showed him a picture (from Pinterest of course) and told him to make it...he did an AWESOME job I thought (oh and the Happy balloon at the top was his own addition LOL)<br />
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Here is our turkey. The kids made the popsicle stick "feathers". I thought he looked quite unique!<br />
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Here is our Give Thanks board. This picture does NOT do this justice - it looks much better than it does in the picture. We spray painted two pieces of board yellow with a splatter of red on top. We then modge podged the letters (they are metallic paper letters) and leaves... it really turned out nice.<br />
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Here is our owl and birdhouse. Poppy (my dad) made this bird house for one of our trees outside but the limb it was on came down in one of our recent storms. Well we decided to spray paint it today and modge podge leaves on the roof and put a pumpkin on the front. I then made the owl to sit on the perch. Beside it you can see a yarn pumpkin tha twe made a couple of years ago.<br />
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I just LOVE how this bouquet turned out!! Aaron made all the button turkey faces that we hot glued in the middle of these fall flowers! So cute!<br />
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Here is Seth's button picture - it is a turkey! :-)<br />
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Here is Alyssa's button tree picture :-)<br />
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Here is our piano with all it's goodies.<br />
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Aaron made the paper bag scarecrow all on his own. We made the indian and pilgrim blocks a couple of years ago.<br />
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Seth made this paper bag scarecrow and the pumpkin and turkey block were made a couple of years ago.<br />
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Ok so that was our creative ART day!!<br /><br />
I figured since it has been a couple of weeks since I posted that I would post a few other things that we have done over the last couple of weeks!!<br />
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LOOK at Alyssa's sight word worm!! Man is it growing!! She is doing so well with her reading. We are just a couple of weeks away from her starting her first reader!!!<br />
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We talked about sea turtles and added little egg carton sea turtles to our ocean box.<br />
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This last Monday was a very rainy Monday morning. As soon as I opened the school room Anna ran in and decided she was not going back out there! (she thankfully has found a spot up under the porch where she can get out of the rain...but still decided she had enough of that). She laid on a blanket at the door and SLEPT the entire morning...I mean she was OUT! She did not hardly move! In fact Alyssa was putting all kinds of blankets and stuff on her and it did not phase her one bit.<br />
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Alyssa completed a couple more letters for her alphabet book too.<br />
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Well I think that is it!! I am going to bed - I am tired!!! <br />
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KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-72442535771822870262014-10-03T14:55:00.000-05:002014-10-03T14:55:43.468-05:00Friday Creative School!!!Ok - so I tried something new today that I think we will continue to do as the school year progresses! :-) We were actually home today with no plans! We don't normally school on Fridays because we have co-op classes every other Friday so I thought it would be just easier to schedule all Fridays off. But there are <i>some</i> of the non co-op Fridays that we don't have any other plans...so why not have some FUN school, right?!?!<br />
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Today we focused on Reading! I have ideas for math days, science days and even history days in the future! :-)<br />
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I gave the kids different challenges and got pictures (YAY!) of them doing these challenges. When I went to take the first picture I realized my camera was on creative mode (takes several shots - using different creative filters for each shot). I went "oh no! It is on creative mode!" and Seth replied "well, it is creative school...maybe we need creative pictures!". Oh how I like how that boys thinks! So all the pictures were taken on creative mode and I chose the best one for each picture to put on here! <br />
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So I will explain each of the challenges below and then post the creative pictures taken for those challenges!<br />
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BOYS CHALLENGE #1<br />
The first challenge I gave the boys was to find a short book to read and then when they were done to create one of the scenes with their legos!<br />
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The first picture shows them reading their books!<br />
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So Alyssa's first challenge was to spell all the sight words she has learned so far using her flashcards and letter tiles. (oh and we set up a table outside for her to do this on).</div>
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When Seth finished his Lego challenge he came out and helped her finish her challenge.<br />
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BOYS CHALLENGE #2:<br />
For the boys second challenge I made a book title scavenger hunt! I came up with 6 different words to find in book titles (boy's name, animal, a place, a color, a number and a verb). They could look on any of the bookcases in the school house or in their bedroom to find book titles that fit these categories! And I got the excitement I was hoping this caused. When Seth yelled out "OH WOW! I didn't know we had this book!!" I realized that my goal was accomplished. I wanted the boys to look and see and remember all the different fun books that we have to choose from! :-)<br />
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For Alyssa's second challenge we set out a letter tile for every letter of the alphabet on the table set up outside. She had to go on a scavenger hunt to find items that had beginning sounds of as many letters as she could find!</div>
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I was really impressed with her creativity. She used a little crocheted blanket that she had as a 'quilt' for Q. You can also see in this picture her piece of broken plastic for P and rope and rock for R.<br />
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In this picture you can see her ball for B, cup for C, doll for D and flip-flop for F.<br />
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When the boys got done with their scavenger hunt they came and helped her finish. They finally decided to spell words for the letters they couldn't find anything for. They spelled 'egg' for E, 'up' for U, 'x-ray' for X and 'zoom' for Z. Oh - and Alyssa also found a yellow cup for Y. <br />
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Ok for the last challenge I told the boys to get a book and their timer (they each now have a timer that they use for school) and to find 4 different places outside to read at for 10 minutes. This gave them 40 minutes of reading! :-)<br />
Alyssa was just told to take her books she likes to look at and find several different places outside to look at them at.<br />
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Our creative school day isn't quite finished. We are going to finish it tonight with star gazing!!! :-) We had a cold front come through last night so we are going to have a super clear night tonight - on a Friday night when we don't have to worry about waking up early tomorrow!! The kids are so excited about this!<br />
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So I am going to rest for now...my allergies are still giving me fits! It didn't help to be outside all morning but it was just too pretty to NOT be outside!! And I wasn't going to let allergies get in the way of memories being made today!!! :-) <br />
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KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-49638176523896457452014-10-02T14:47:00.000-05:002014-10-02T14:47:10.666-05:00So it has been two weeks since last update...So, I didn't get an update in last week. It was a busy week! We had a super busy Thursday getting ready for a super busy Friday that consisted of our homeschool co-op classes and then leaving from there for our trip to Huntsville for the weekend to meet my new nephew! :-)<br />
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This week hasn't been normal either. I ended up back at the doctor yesterday :-( - I still had a sinus infection hanging on due to allergy complications. In fact we didn't even have school yesterday. After my appointment I came home and napped and took it easy for the afternoon. After a month of this junk I am just ready for it to go away!<br />
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Anyways - but we did get some stuff done this week! Here are some photo highlights from the last two weeks.<br />
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The first picture is showing the inside of our doors. This is where we have set up a new spot for our biblical character building morning discussion! I have gotten several character building items from Doorposts. I have had them for a while but just haven't figured out how to work them in yet (and yes I will admit that they got put in a drawer and forgotten about for a while). But I have taken them out and have decided to put them into practice :-)<br />
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The first one we are doing is the 'Go to the Ant' chart. I have put each trait on an ant with each question for that trait from the chart. We are talking about a different trait each week. We look at the scriptures and discuss how we should answer the questions. Then as we finish the trait I am also starting an If-Then chart (right side of door) - for any items of disciplinary nature. If I see that negative action happening then there is a stated disciplinary action that will result. (for example - our first trait was 'Serving God'. One of the questions were 'Are you only working when someone is watching you?' so on the If-Then Chart we have added 'If you are slacking on your work and suddenly spring into action when you see person in authority (Mom, Dad, Granny) watching you THEN you will have to do extra work'. ) I got the If-Then idea from Doorpost's If-Then chart - just making ones that are applicable to the character study we are learning.<br />
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I am also using my 'Instructions in Righteousness' as another resource to help learn these traits.<br />
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I am excited about this character building lessons for the kids!<br />
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And Alyssa has completed 3 more letters in her alphabet book over the past two weeks.<br />
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We had an exciting week this week! We had our first field trip of the new year. We went to the Perot museum on Wednesday!<br />
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We also finished 'The Silver Chair'! We have two books left in the Narnia series. We will start 'The Magician's Nephew' on Monday. After much research and gathering information from many others who have read the series, the general consensus seems to be that if you don't read 'The Magician's Nephew' first to read it before reading 'The Last Battle'. So that is what we are going to do! I even made a Narnia timeline to give the kids a visual of where we are going with this next book to help them see that we are stepping back to the very beginning. I am excited about this book! We have all loved this series!<br />
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Alyssa made another letter craft. (looks like something was on my lens...)<br />
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We talked about walruses and added a walrus to our ocean box.<br />
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Here are some pictures from the Perot field trip! Of course I was too busy play most of the time to get pictures...so once again we don't have too many pictures from our day.</div>
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Ever since we started reading the Narnia series all three of my kids have become completely infatuated with lions! They said I HAD to get their picture with this lion!</div>
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And then Aaron went to the computer and wrote mom :-)<br />
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And then Alyssa wrote a g for Granny. :-)<br />
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Aaron had fun building a robot car and then figuring out how to control its clamps and movements to play a tic tac toe game.<br />
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Today was a complete OFF day for us!! WHOO HOO!! We don't school on Fridays - mainly because every other Friday we have our classes with our homeschool group so we decided a long time back to just not school any Friday! And today we had NO PLANS!! I even was able to sleep in this morning (I am still battling this head cold/sinus/allergy - whatever this crap is - so the sleep felt SOOOO good for me!) Anyways after lunch the boys and I had fun tearing up some broken electronics (toys, remotes, phones, etc) to remove the circuit boards. We are going to use them in the Snap Circuits class I am teaching! I am showing the kids the correlation between their snap circuit parts and the parts on actual circuit boards! SO COOL!! :-)</div>
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Well - that's it for this week! I hope everyone has a good weekend!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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WOW! It's been another full week since I last posted!! </div>
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We had a good week of school...despite this momma having a bad allergy flare up that developed into a sinus infection (went to dr today so meds should be kicking in soon and I should be feeling a lot better)!! But I didn't let that stop us from getting our school done! We trucked right along!</div>
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The kids are doing awesome. Seth is doing well with his 4th grade vocabulary work and reading! We have had some issues with him not wanting to concentrate on his work...so he has had to continue school in the afternoon when the others are off and playing...but he is getting better. We will get through this :-)! He is becoming SUCH a big helper though at night after supper! All the kids have been given nightly chores to do after supper. His is to do the dishes and clean the kitchen. He does it most nights without even asking! </div>
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Aaron is almost halfway through his LAST 2nd Grade reader and then he will move right into 3rd grade reading!!! This boy reads like a CHAMP! I am so proud of him! He does very well on staying on task and works to get all his items checked off so he can go enjoy his day!</div>
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Alyssa is ROCKING Kindergarten! Her sight word caterpillar grew by two more words this week (yes and no). She is doing very well writing her letters too! She also completed two more letters for her alphabet book!</div>
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And I guess I am going to go ahead and make the announcement! We have a new family member!! We have another 4 legged member! </div>
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Our sweet Anna (Alyssa named her - from Frozen of course) showed up at our house Tuesday night of last week. She had no collar and it was obvious she had not eaten in a few days at least. We were not looking at keeping her at first (I swore I did NOT need another mouth to feed!). We even called Animal Control on Wednesday morning to come get her (we are almost on first name basis with them...we get a lot of dumps out here). The animal control officer called later that morning and said he was delayed due to another call and it would probably be the next morning before he made it out. By the time Daniel got home from work we we were realizing what a good dog we had. She sat outside at the door of the schoolhouse the whole time we were in there! The kids were riding her like a horse and she wasn't caring one bit about it!! She is so gentle! </div>
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Anyways - Daniel convinced me that maybe it would be a good idea to have a big dog on the property...she might be a good guard dog and she seems like such a good dog!</div>
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And she has so far proven to be an AWESOME dog!! She is very lovable, gentle, even tempered! She seems to adore the kids!</div>
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We haven't let her in the house yet because she is HUGE! But I have let her in the school room. She comes in and sniffs around a bit and then lays down and takes a nap LOL!</div>
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So...introducing... Anna - our gentle giant!</div>
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Oh - and Daisy is not real happy about this new family member but she is adapting :-) I have a feeling they will be great friends before long. :-)<br />
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Tomorrow is guitar practice again :-) And then Friday is our first enrichment class for the next semester!!! We are so excited about that!!! I am teaching all 4 periods again! :-) The kids are super excited about their classes and hanging out with their friends again.<br />
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Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-62889232125885059492014-09-03T14:38:00.001-05:002014-09-03T14:38:25.517-05:00A Quick Update Well it has been a short week this week! We did not have school on Monday due to it being Labor Day! :-) And I have been battling some sort of allergy/head cold/congestion crap all week :-(<br />
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But we had two good days in the school room regardless. And we have guitar lesson tomorrow (Seth) and Aaron and Alyssa get to have school at Granny's (like they do on most Thursdays).<br />
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Anyways - here are a few cute pics from the week. <br />
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Alyssa made her F fish this week :-)<br />
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We added dolphins to our giant ocean box<br />
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And Alyssa's sight word caterpillar grew!! :-) She now knows the 8 basic color words!! GO ALYSSA! And we have started putting two letter sounds together! </div>
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Things are going well! All of our curriculum is working for us, at least for the moment. :-)<br />
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Here are some picture highlights (yes I know they are mainly from Alyssa's stuff...but she is the one doing the fun stuff right now! LOL!!)<br />
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So last Thursday Aaron got to go to work with Daddy all day (he had a dental cleaning and Daddy decided that he could just spend the day with him). Anyways - we didn't have guitar practice that day so we actually had school at home. Well, Daisy, our nana dog, did not like the fact that one of HER children were missing!! She stayed in the school room all morning (which she NEVER does) acting very sad that there was someone missing. You should have seen her leap to the front door when she heard Daniel's truck pulling into the drive that afternoon.<br />
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Ok - so Alyssa has started learning her sight words this and she is doing AWESOME! She has learned six color words - red, yellow, orange, purple, blue and green.<br />
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Here is her showing off her page on the day that she learned the first two (red and yellow)!<br />
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And here is her sight word caterpillar - it is growing!!! :-)<br />
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She has done a couple more letters for her alphabet book as well.<br />
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Tomorrow is our first guitar lesson of the last semester for the year. And then Friday we are having a summer reading celebration at a splash pad!<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-38060908405940886412014-08-20T15:09:00.000-05:002014-08-20T15:09:01.281-05:00A Quick UpdateThings are going well with school! We are about to have two weeks behind us already!! WOW!! Last Thursday we did "road schooling" because we decided to take a last minute camping trip so we we could be with daddy on a job he had out of town! We even got in some nature journaling on Friday :-)! Here are some pictures of that!!<div>
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On the left side of the pages she is completing an alphabet art picture for each letter (I pulled ideas off of Pinterest)</div>
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On the right side I found free printables - they were actually letter of the day sheets - but they had all the elements that I wanted to include. There is one for each letter. On some of the letters the color picture on the right side will match the animal on the left...but not always...<br />
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Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-81448409673572929172014-08-08T16:48:00.001-05:002014-08-08T16:48:22.705-05:00Ready for the New Yearok - so the last time I posted it was May and I said that we were trucking along and were planning on schooling through the summer... well... that didn't happen LOL! We were SO BUSY this summer with vacations, and church camp, and VBS, and birthdays, and so on and so on that we never had time! When we were home we were recouping from one trip and getting ready for the next! But I can't complain too much, because even though we did not do school, I never heard the "I'm Bored." and "I have nothing to do" complaints - which was the main reason why I said we were going to school through the summer.<br />
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The bad part about us ending up not being in the school room was that I never "closed out" the year. Also I had my list of books and workbooks and stuff that we were going to need for this year that I had planned on buying throughout the summer, and realized a couple of weeks ago that I never did that!<br />
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So the past few weeks I have been busy closing out last school year and planning this school year! I am excited to say that I am done and we are ready to start school on Monday!! YEA!! I am SOO ready to get back to our normal routine! :-)<br />
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For the most part things are going to stay the same. Seth is in 4th grade (WOW! Can you believe that?!?!). He will be doing Pathways reading for 4th grade. There is also an intensive vocabulary curriculum that goes with that and he will be doing that as well. He will also be in Level 3 Singapore math. And he will continue in his Explode the Code. <br />
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Aaron will finish the last 1/3 of his Pathways 2nd grade reading and then will move right into 3rd grade reading! He is in Singapore Level 2 (which is actually for 3rd grade!) and he will also be moving right along in his Explode the Code.<br />
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The boys will continue to do Learning Language Arts Through Literature Level 3 together.<br />
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Alyssa will continue her Kindergarten that we started in May (well I say Kindergarten, she will actually be doing Pathways 1st grade curriculum...she is more than ready for it!)<br />
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We will continue Beautiful Feet Early American History all together. And we are also doing Apologia's Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day for science for all 3.<br />
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We have 3 books left in the Chronicles of Narnia series. We will start reading The Silver Chair on Monday!!<br />
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I have some pictures to show you of what I have done different to the room this year. There was a suggestion in the Apologia science book of having your child make a 3-D ocean box that they will be filling with sea creatures throughout the year. Well I decided to make a HUGE ocean box and found some really cute ocean animal craft ideas on pinterest to put in our ocean box (the book mainly had instructions for clay figures to make...I thought this might be more fun). I thought since I was having that box that I would just decorate the rest of the room in Ocean theme as well!<br />
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First picture is of Alyssa's Corner! I am so excited of this little space for her! I am trying to make this a very special year for her (well, and for me too, since this will be my last time to teach this age )-: ) And the world map below really doesn't go with her stuff - I just didn't have anywhere else to put it.<br />
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Here is the bulletin board I put over my desk. I am working on crocheting a fishing net that I want to hang probably from this corner with fish in it and stuff...I will post pics when I get it complete. I know it looks kind of plain right now.<br />
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Here is the big ocean box! I can't wait to see it filled with our ocean creatures. I will post updated pictures as we fill it.<br />
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Here is a close up of the paper in the middle of the box - our theme verse for science! (sorry - didn't realize the pic was blurry...but didn't feel like getting another one right now)<br />
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Here is my filing cabinet. It is starting to look in rough shape so I covered the door fronts in sea blue duct tape and added fishies. Didn't quite come out as cute as the picture in my head but it works!<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-14512306141226302892014-05-20T14:24:00.001-05:002014-05-20T14:24:22.441-05:00Alyssa is in KindergartenWOW! I am not doing a good job at all keeping this blog updated! <br />
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We are trucking right along! We have made the decision to homeschool at least a portion of the summer. The kids will be off almost the whole month of June due to vacation and trips. But I am hoping to get in at least a couple of weeks in July and then most of August. I mean - if we are home we might as well get school in. It is a lot better than being stuck in the house (because it is too hot to go out) and hearing "I'm bored" all day! Plus, like I told the kids, we only school in the mornings anyway!<br />
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And let me tell you - since I made that decision - the whole pressure of having to be finished with everything by a certain date has been lifted from me! I am no longer trying to put "school year" labels on things...we just go when we finish and then start the next thing! (and as I look at things I see that we are on track...if not a little ahead so we are GOOD!) :-)<br />
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With that, Alyssa has started Kindergarten! She has been begging me since her 5th birthday in April to start! I was trying to hold off but realized - why? If I am not doing the "school year" labels then why not start her now. So we started last week and she is LOVING it! I have to admit that I am too! I don't know if it is due to the fact that this is my third time to do kinder or the fact that this is my last kinder so I am trying to savor it....probably a little of both! :-)<br />
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I am not doing a good job of getting pictures of school. I did try to get some pictures though to show Alyssa's first days of kindergarten. And I have a few others that I found on the camera :-)<br />
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<i>(working with Granny on her history journal - she does history and science with the boys (has been for a while)... sometimes she listens just as well if not better than the boys and can answer more questions sometimes too LOL!)</i></div>
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<i>(Aaron got my phone the other night - he was being silly wearing my sunglasses!)</i></div>
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Oh - and Aaron is now 2/3 way through with 2nd grade reading!!!!! :-) we are taking a break for the summer to do some light literature studies! He is going to start with Magic School Bus book 1 (Dinosaurs before Dark). He is super excited about that!</div>
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Seth is fixing to finish his study on Squanto, Friend of Pilgrims and he is going to start a novel study on 'Because of Winn Dixie'! :-)</div>
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-71128171558088658222014-03-11T11:14:00.001-05:002014-03-11T11:14:09.427-05:00Aaron is becoming an artist!Quick post to share some of Aaron's drawings that he is doing in his animal drawing class in co-op! He is LOVING this class!!<br />
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Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-1780328490227167402014-03-03T16:53:00.000-06:002014-03-03T16:53:48.118-06:00New Plans!!We continue to rock along in our school year! Aaron just completed his first reader for 2nd grade reading!! He will go ahead and complete the second one (which at the rate he is going he will finish it by the first of May!) After that he will start his Summer reading (more on that in a minute).<br />
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Ok - so I am once again trying to get in some history into our school days. My original plans for this for the year kind of fell through and just didn't click I guess because it was very easy to neglect and not do... to the point that we weren't doing anything. But I went looking through the resources I had and have come up with Early American History projects and so far we are having a blast with them!!<br />
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We started with talking about Christopher Columbus. I used my resources that I still have from Adventures in My Father's World. We watched the Animated Hero Classic video about Christopher Columbus and made some drawings (from Draw Write Now) of Christopher Columbus and of his three ships). Right now we are doing projects about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims. I am using a scholastic make and learn project ebook that I had purchased some time back for these. That book has good synopsis material to use as teaching material and I am supplementing it with the My Father's World resources. After this we will spend some time talking about the Indians (I have a couple of Scholastic project ebooks for that) and then we will move into colonial life. I would to like to continue to find resources like this as we move, at a slow, leisurely pace, through American History. The kids LOVE the hands on aspect of the project and I really think it will help them to retain the information.<br />
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I have even cleared off a shelf for us to put our projects. Here are some pictures of how I have decorated our shelf and some of our first projects.<br />
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<i>and here is the "new world" side showing America after they landed on the Mayflower. We had fun comparing and contrasting the two.</i></div>
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The kids are enjoying this so much that they asked if we could do same thing for science! So we are taking a break from Apologia science and going to start talking about animal habitats and doing projects for that. Let me say that we LOVE Apologia and will continue to use that book...but it is a lot of reading...and I think, especially right now since they are still young, it's ok to take a break from that and do some "fun" science!! I am also using Scholastic ebook project books that I have already purchased. They also have some fun experiments and stuff to explore further with! Today we started with caves (didn't get pics - I will have pics for my next post). We made a cool "peek through" book on 'What lives in caves?' I even found some pictures of stalactites and stalagmites online that I showed the kids as we talked about what a cave is and what it consists of. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to start our experiment of making stalactites. When we come back from spring break (which is next week) we will make a cave diorama! </div>
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I have cleared the top of the other bookshelf for our animal habitat projects. Once again, I will have pictures of that in my next post!</div>
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So, at the beginning of the post I mentioned "Summer reading". For the first time at Watson Christian Academy we will have summer school. :-) And before you start telling me how mean and cruel I am, hear me out!</div>
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Summer school will not be like our normal school year...it will be more relaxed and more "fun" than "normal" school! We will be on a very relaxed schedule because we are wanting to get in a bunch of camping, and we have a big trip in June planned, and we will have park days and stuff with our friends...so we will NOT have any type of a rigid schedule. BUT on the days when we are home we might as well be productive right?!?! (and kids behave SO MUCH better when we are on our routine).</div>
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Literature Studies - Seth is going to be reading 'Squanto, Friend of Pilgrims' (we read it aloud together last year but he is going to read it on his own now and is super excited about this), an abridged verison of 'Tom Sawyer' and an abridged version of 'Huckleberry Finn'. I am actually writing the literacy units to go with the books, which will consist of vocabulary and comprehension questions by chapter. But this way he is keeping up his reading skills as he continues to focus on comprehension, as well as learning new vocabulary (and practicing using a dictionary to find meanings of words) etc...</div>
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Aaron will be reading Imagination Station's 'Voyage of the Vikings' as well as the first books in the Magic Tree House series (he is SUPER excited to start these). He will also have literacy units like those described above that he will complete as he reads his books.</div>
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We will continue our history projects and our animal habitat projects.</div>
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We will also throw in some math games so that we keep fresh on our math skills!</div>
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At this point that is all I have planned. See? Sounds like fun, right?!?! :-) </div>
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And of course I will also be planning out our "new" school year during the Summer as well. Those who know me know that for the past 2 summers now I have used that time to plan out our school year! Now every year I have had to tweak and change as I go...but it seems to be much easier to do that when the majority of your year is planned in advance :-) It has worked well for me and I plan to continue in the same fashion!</div>
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And it is getting about time to have Alyssa "dive" into school since she will be turning 5 in April - YIKES!!! </div>
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Well we are rocking right along in this new year! Things have been SUPER busy lately! Seth is doing a public speaking workshop for 4H. He also starts guitar lessons through the Salvation Army next week. He is super excited about that!</div>
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The kids are still working on learning the recorder and doing well (our biggest issue is ME working in practice time but thankfully they are smart fast learners).</div>
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We went on a field trip to the Perot Museum last week and had a blast!! Here are a few picture highlights from that trip.</div>
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Then this week we went to the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park (see I told you - we have been crazy busy!!) Here are some highlights from that trip :-)</div>
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<i>This penguin pair were roaming the place while we were there! We got to pet them too!</i></div>
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So the kids are getting super excited about our new semester of co-op that starts next Friday! I am looking forward to a change of pace with the classes I teach - I am doing a couple more classes for Alyssa's age group :-) (and of course still doing a science class for the boys age range - we are doing Magic School Bus Science this semester!)</div>
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<br />But with the younger classes come more "art" stuff....my classroom has been looking like an art room lately. In one of the classes the kids will be learning alphabet, numbers and shapes etc with animals! On the first class we are going to read Eric Carle's 'Animals Animals' (thank you Karen Hare for the book if you are reading this!!!). We are going to use Eric Carle's art technique to make a cover for a book that we will be making with all of our activities for the semester. To do this I needed to texture paint some tissue paper!</div>
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Here is my tissue paper hanging to dry.</div>
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And see that AWESOME WONDERFUL wooden gadget with the two hooks!! Seth made this for me one night when he was playing with Daddy in the shop! It was his own invention and he was so excited to give to me. I am so happy that I found the perfect use for it - it helped me to make a double rowed drying rack for these tissue papers!! :-)<br />
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Here is another shot of the tissues hanging to dry! We also decided to do these for our homemade valentines that we are making for friends for Valentines this year (there are a group of 57 kids that are exchanging valentines - kids are having a blast making them!)<br />
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And here is my finished example of the Eric Carle art!! I am so excited to see how all the kids' turn out!<br />
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I am also doing an Exploring Literature class for those young ones as well. The first class we will be reading 'Joey Ran Away' and here is our kangaroo craft we are going to do! :-)<br />
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I have to share this next picture :-) Seth's Draw To Learn Proverbs lesson was from Proverbs 8:12-16 and it stated for him to draw a picture of his country's leader and pray for wisdom for him. Well, he chose to draw this country's first leader - George Washington! I loved it!! </div>
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And Seth is learning his times tables - oh boy!!! He is not happy at all about memorizing them! I finally found a cool app that we tried out today and he is loving it! After about 20 minutes on his app he about has his 2 and 3 facts down!! :-)<br />
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Well as I type this it is snowing outside! Probably won't be enough to amount to anything but it is sure pretty coming down! We are trying to stay warm!! I am so thankful that my hubby found an AWESOME deal on a 150 gallon propane tank and installed a gas heater (with a thermostat) in our school room!! No more having to run out here at 6:30 in the morning to turn on some heat in this FREEZING room!! It now stays at a good constant temp and we stay nice and toasty!! I have to say - it has been one COLD winter!!! Hopefully that means it will be a BEAUTIFUL spring! :-)</div>
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Well we started back to school this week after a two week Christmas break! Christmas was a bit different this year. Daddy got very sick with an infection in his chin and then I came down with strep throat and an ear infection on Christmas night :-( This kept us from going to our Lucas Christmas celebration. But my parents came up the next weekend and we had a very nice time with them and the kids and I will be going down soon to my parents to complete Christmas with my sister and her family and my grandmother. This has probably been the longest, most drawn out Christmas ever, but oh well! We make the best of it!</div>
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But the kids have made a very easy transition back into doing their studies. I think some of it may be due to the fact that I have decided to have soft instrumental music playing while we are doing school. I know it has helped me for sure and kids (especially Aaron) have commented several times about how much they like it! (and in case anyone is interested I use Pandora and have been playing the 'Classical Musical Melody Radio').</div>
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If kids are having trouble focusing, or are agitated, or just hyper I am planning on putting them on headphones with pure classical music ('Classical Radio' on Pandora). Aaron was having one of those mornings the other morning so we tried it out on him. This boy LOVES classical music.</div>
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Of course, being a homeschool family, some (or a lot) of the Christmas gifts have an 'educational' quality about them and the kids have been loving playing with their new Christmas gifts!</div>
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Our family gift was a computerized telescope!! This thing is AWESOME!! It's our own little robot. You type in where you want to go and it moves around until it gets you there! We found more in the first 20 minute session we had out with it than we have found to date! We are looking forward to many stargazing opportunities with this gem!</div>
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Seth got a Snap Circuits kit and has been playing with it A BUNCH! He is doing really well following the directions to make so many things such as working sirens and even an AM radio (that surprisingly picks up a BUNCH of stations!) I am looking forward to even bringing this kit to co-op to share with the kids there (Seth has given me permission to do so.)<br />
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Aaron got a Smithsonian dinosaur dig kit and he is enjoying being a paleontologist. It is a slow process but he has finally revealed the spine of the dinosaur and excited about excavating the entire thing (oh and he wants the classical music volume turned up while he works on it LOL!)<br />
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So Alyssa is showing more and more that she is ready for some "real" school...so I am presently easing her into it by finding a lot of hands-on activities for her (I am already finding that she works best with hands on).<br />
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I printed off the alphabet and had her dot paint it using a q-tip and washable finger paint.<br />
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A friend gave me a set of wooden colored shape beads and I have printed off sequencing cards and easy addition cards and she has really enjoyed these! She asked to do this a second day this week!<br />
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Here is one of the addition cards. I set out the magnetic numbers and had her put the answer for the total number of beads on the card when she was done.<br />
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For a while now I have been making up "letter stories" to help the boys remember phonics rules... today I made up one for Aaron as he was learning the "oi" sound. I was inspired to go ahead and actually put the story on paper with graphics and am planning on going ahead and putting them all on paper and making a Letter Stories book for the kids. Seth even informed me today that he would like the book too - that it would help him "review". :-) I am excited about finally getting this done!!<br />
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Here is a screen shot of the one I did today.<br />
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The boys reading is going GREAT!! Aaron completed 1st Grade Pathways (that he started Jan 2013) before Christmas so we started 2nd Grade Pathways this week.</div>
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Seth will finish his 3rd Grade Pathways the end of January. Instead of trying to move on to 4th grade Pathways I have decided to do a literature study! He is going to read Farmer Boy!! I about fell over when I got the study guide and workbook in and found out that it so closely follows the method of the Pathway readers we have been using!! I like that it will be a challenge for him and will really enrich his vocabulary!! </div>
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And I already got the lessons planned out and it will take us right to the end of our "school year"! (Even though I am looking at schooling at least 1/2 of the summer...but that is another discussion for another day)!!! </div>
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I think we were meant to do this study because everything about it is fitting right into place!!! This EXCITES me!!! :-) </div>
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CHRISTMAS SCHOOL!!!!</div>
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So this afternoon I kicked the kids out of the schoolhouse and locked the door! They are not allowed back in until December 2nd!! When they come in on December 2nd they will see that it has been transformed into Christmas School!!!! :-) I had so much fun decorating and getting it all ready!!</div>
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It has taken a couple of weeks to get everything planned out and I am so excited! </div>
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First off - I purchased Truth in the Tinsel and am so excited!! I have adapted it to work for our schools days (we have 12 school days before Christmas break) and have figured out some other activities to do as well.</div>
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I purchased an advent calendar - actually this is the one that the kids picked out.</div>
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To make it go with Truth in the Tinsel I used label sheets cut up to stick over what they have so that we could put our verses and pictures... as seen on one of the windows below.</div>
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We are going to do the ornament templates (and we will be making a few of the ornament crafts as well). So I printed out templates for each kid, colored copies of the picture clues and notes to go with the scripture readings and put them in an envelope for each day. Here they are all ready in a Christmas basket, along with our bible.<br />
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You will see in the next few pictures the tinsel that is hanging around the room. I thought I would take Truth in the TINSEL literally and we will be hanging our ornaments we make on tinsel. I went to the dollar store and got 3 different colors of tinsel (so each child will know which one is their's) and hung them up on one side of the room. Each day when they color and cut out their ornament we will attach it to their tinsel. (So by Christmas their tinsel will tell the Christmas story)<br />
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I am so excited about our read aloud for December - we are reading a book I remember as a child - "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". We will be finishing up Charlotte's Web the first week of December (and we have so so enjoyed it) and then we will read this one! </div>
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I made several Christmas packets for the kids to work on for Christmas. The first one are their verse tracings! For Thanksgiving I did thanksgiving verses where I wrote the verse with a highlighter and then they traced them - Seth doing cursive and Aaron and Alyssa doing print! This worked really well! (especially for Alyssa - I was so proud with how well she traced her letters. For Aaron and Seth I thought it would be a good change of pace for practicing their handwriting and cursive). Since it went so well for Thanksgiving I decided to do the same thing for Christmas! Their verses each day are from our scripture readings from Truth in the Tinsel for that day.<br />
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Here is the cover I made for each one of them.<br />
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Here is an example of Seth's cursive tracings.<br />
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Here is an example of Aaron's print tracings.<br />
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And here is an example of Alyssa's tracings. You will notice her letters are bigger and it is not the full verse...just enough for her to practice tracing her letters. :-)<br />
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I have really been working on trying to get Seth to write more. We have been working on fun short creative writings. I thought it would be fun to do some Christmas stories and found a great resource on teacherspayteachers.com. I decided to make Aaron a copy too and see what he can come up with!!<br />
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Here is the cover...<br />
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And here is one of the pages...<br />
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I also made special math packets for December! I decided to find some Christmas themed worksheets that would be review for what Aaron is learning. For Seth, we will be introducing multiplication and working on 2 and 3 times table with fun Christmas worksheets!!<br />
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Both of their covers look like this...<br />
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Here are some pages from Seth's book...<br />
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And here is a page from Aaron's book.<br />
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And I also made packets for the boys that were just fun activity pages - mazes, dot to dot, word searches, coloring sheets, etc...<br />
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I even made Alyssa a book of fun worksheets for her to work on! Letter tracings, dot to dot, what is different/what is the same worksheets, color by number, etc...</div>
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We will still be doing our normal reading lessons! I want to stay on track with them, especially since Aaron is scheduled to finish his 1st grade reading on December 16th!!! (remember he started in January last year with 1st grade reading). He is so excited!!! He was jumping up and down at the library the other day because I was getting him 2nd grade level books and some of them were chapter books! </div>
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Here are some more pictures of other decorations I have done around the room!</div>
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Here is the white board above my desk!</div>
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Here is a view of the big white board. You can't tell in the picture well but those are jingle bells strung across the top. There are ornaments down each side as well.<br />
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Here is a close up of my Santa - he is hanging in the middle of the white board! I thought he was quite appropriate for the school room. :-)<br />
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Also I put up around the room the handprint Christmas trees that the kids all made at church last year as my Christmas gift :-). Here is Aaron's...<br />
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and Alyssa's!<br />
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Here is our angel sitting in the window (which is covered right now so that there are no peelers!)<br />
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Here is our truth in the tinsel basket with a couple of goodies in front of it...</div>
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and a mug of fun Christmas pencils, sharpened and ready to use!<br />
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Here is a cute sign on the door!<br />
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And this is not Christmas - it is just our good 'ol Scentsy warmer - but it will be filled with Christmas scents making the room smell like Christmas!!!</div>
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I think it will be a very fun month of school!!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-27318078941760593562013-10-02T15:22:00.000-05:002013-10-02T15:22:02.420-05:00Yeah...it's been a while...what can I sayHey everybody!<br />
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Yep! It's been a while since I have posted on here! That should tell you just how busy we have been!! Things have been crazy!! School is going great - we are trucking right along!<br />
<br />Things are fixing to start getting really fun because my mom-in-law has offered to be a "teacher's aide" for a couple of days a week - and I have gladly taken her up on that offer!! She is on vacation right now but plans on starting when she gets home and we cannot wait!! She will truly be a lot of help!<br />
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Too much has gone on to tell you everything. And I have not been very good at all at taking pictures. But here is what I have pictures of to highlight.<br />
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At the end of August we took a field trip to River Legacy Park. This was a nature center nestled in the city of Arlington! It was a really neat place. They had a lot of trails to walk on and explore. They had tons of turtles too! And thankfully we had a break in 100 degree weather that day so we didn't melt! YAY!!<br />
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We are having so much fun with our Science curriculum! I am LOVING Apologia!!! I am also throwing in some "fun". We are drawing some animals (using Draw Write Now) and the kids are loving that!! They make such a cute addition to their science notebooks!<br />
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<i>We made an Animal Kingdom flip book that we are completing as we go through the book! </i></div>
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<i>Here is our grizzly bear. (They thought that mine needed to go on a diet LOL)</i></div>
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<i>Here is Seth's grizzly bear.</i></div>
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<i>Alyssa's grizzly bear</i></div>
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<i>Aaron's grizzly bear</i></div>
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<i>Here is our panda bear</i></div>
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<i>Alyssa's panda bear (she said her's needs to go on a diet LOL)</i></div>
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<i>Aaron's panda bear (he decided to draw mountains around it since we wrote that Pandas lived in the mountains.)</i> </div>
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We have started co-op again!! Unfortunately we missed last Friday's co-op day due to Daddy and I being out of town. But we had a blast on our first day!! Here are some pictures of the boys making SUPER bubbles in Mad Scientist Class. </div>
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We are doing a fall reading challenge with our co-op friends!! There are a couple of fun challenges involved. One of the challenges is to see how many different places you can read. It is a bingo sheet of all different kind of places and you have to see if you can complete the whole page! I got some cool pictures of Seth reading under a tree and in his favorite "chair" (which is in a tree that he loves to sit in).<br />
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And Alyssa enjoyed reading to her doll one morning!! <br />
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We are planning a super exciting field frip for April 2014!! It is an interactive concert with the Dallas Symphony!! The curriculum was written by Carnegie Hall. There are several songs during the concert that kids will be involved with - either by singing along with, or playing recorders. I took this as an opportunity to teach them (and myself) the recorder. We are having a lot of fun with this! :-) I know they will for sure be able to at least play one of the songs with their recorders!! It is quite possible they will be able to play all of them though. They are catching on to it that quickly! <br />
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One day I wanted them to all go find a place by themselves and practice the notes that we were learning. I got pictures of them in their "spots". <br />
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We finished Mr Popper's Penguins! We all LOVED the book! We watched the movie one evening and decided that they probably didn't read the book at all before making the movie!! Everything was so different! I think the penguins was the only thing that was the same in both!! Kids did giggle during the movie and the movie was very clean but afterwards we all decided that we liked the book much better than the movie!<br />
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We are now reading The Jungle Book. Here are some pictures of some of the artwork that the kids have been working on during the reading.<br />
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Unfortunately our cub scout group has dismantled due to the latest ruling from the Boy Scouts of America. We were very sad about this at first but have since decided to join 4H. We are very excited about the possibilities with this organization! There are so many different things you can do through this organization. I am still very much a newbie in trying to figure it all out. One thing that I really like about it is that it is for boys and girls so I won't have to find something separate for Alyssa to do. <br />
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Ok - I think that is all I have for now. I have come to the realization that it will not be possible for me to update this blog weekly. I will just try to update as I can!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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<br />Well school is off to a good start! For the most part things are going very well!! The kids LOVE our science curriculum. I am loving the English and the gentle approach it takes. It has already spurred some great conversation!<br />
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Seth is having a rough start with reading...just because he is dealing with the "I don't wannas". We are trying to work through that. We will get through somehow! (It is my life's mission right now LOL). We are going to the library tomorrow afternoon. I am hoping and praying to find some books that will spark his interest and light that fire for reading! I know we can do it. We just need the right spark!<br />
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Wee are all LOVING reading 'Mr. Popper's Penguins'! I have never heard so many giggles through the reading of a book. I sometimes find it hard to read because I myself am too busy giggling.<br />
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Yesterday and today the kids did their watercolor penguin picture during our reading time. They sure did enjoy that!<br />
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Alyssa's (she watercolored for a good 30 minutes - can't you tell! LOL)<br />
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and Seth's! He was so excited. He did all his crayon work with a white crayon and was excited when it showed up through the watercolor.<br />
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I had some other pictures from the other day...well I thought I did...until I realized today that I was taking pictures without a card in the camera! UGH!!! Thankfully I noticed today and was able to capture them working on their watercolor pictures!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-83587028243227508202013-08-14T13:16:00.000-05:002013-08-14T13:16:09.642-05:00First Day of School!!Well we survived our first day of school!! :-) And I must say it was an AWESOME day! I really could not have asked for any better! The kids were well behaved and they did well on their work after being on a break! This is one happy teacher/mommy!!! :-)<br />
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And of course I have some pictures to share of our first day!! :-)<br />
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Alyssa did VERY well today!! She loved her new puzzles (today she worked on matching mommas and babies). We did several lessons in her workbook because she just wanted to keep going and she is grasping everything so well. She colored and read books and was quiet all morning! GO ALYSSA! <br />
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Here is Seth working on his reading using his ipad (I found an app where I can record my voice and a white board with text, pictures, markings, etc... kind of, in a way, clones me to free me to work with another child!) He did very well on his independent work today!! His handwriting was good and his reading comprehension was good today. GO SETH!! <br />
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Here is Aaron working on his reading workbook. He was so excited today and so eager to learn. It is fun to watch!! <br />
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I also had to get this shot of Aaron working on his math! He was counting pigs today! :-)<br />
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<br />Here are all three of them ready for the science lesson to start!! They were coloring a picture of a jaguar today while I did our reading of our lesson. <br />
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It was a fantastic day!! Hopefully that means it is going to be a great year!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-22695213082654534402013-08-13T17:22:00.002-05:002013-08-13T17:22:16.539-05:00First of School Pictures!!We are ready for the start of school tomorrow!!<br />
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Yesterday we went with Daddy and saw the new movie Planes!! It was a very very cute movie!! We also took the boys to get hair cuts!<br />
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Today we did "orientation". We discussed the schedule that I want to try. I explained to the boys how their checklists will work and we talked about some of the new stuff we will be doing.<br />
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We also did our first of school interviews and pictures!<br />
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Enjoy the pics!!<br />
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<br />Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-8194965973695680782013-08-06T10:49:00.000-05:002013-08-06T10:49:07.955-05:00Watson Christian Academy 2013-2014 School Year Starts August 14th!!WHOO HOO!! I have decided that our school year will start next Wednesday, August 14th! :-)<br />
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My mom is coming today and we are going to have a fun week with her. We are going to hit the Half Price Books and the teacher stores and will make sure I have everything I need!! :-) Monday I will have one more day to get things lined out.<br />
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Tuesday we will head to the library to get our first set of books and then Wednesday we will start class!! This will give us 2 days for our first week - 2 days to figure out our new routine! I am excited and ready to start!! <br />
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Aaron is ecstatic to start too!! And I really think Seth is too, he just doesn't want to admit it LOL!!! But he just doesn't realize how much fun we are going to have!<br />
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Oh and speaking of books - I have lists for both boys made up of books to read. All of these books are on the AR book lists. We don't have access to the AR quizzes of course, but we are using www.bookadventure.com (put out by Sylvan Learning Center). All the books on the lists have a quiz on that site! I have come up with a prize list of prizes they can choose from with points they earn from their quizzes!!! I am really determined to help my boys develop a love for reading! I am hoping that this will help with that! <br />
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So you should start seeing regular posts again from this blog as we share our school adventures. I am very excited about this school year (can't you tell??)<br />
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Until next time,<br />
KellieKelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628895888413746012.post-35350859761781007312013-08-02T15:31:00.000-05:002013-08-02T15:31:32.080-05:00Gearing up for our new school yearHey everyone!! It has been awhile since I have been on here since finishing out our last school year!! I have been super busy gearing up for our next school year and I am proud to announce that I am about ready!!! :-)<br />
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I am very excited about our next school year and I thought I would share some of that excitement with yall :-)!!!!<br />
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First I thought I would show you, through pictures, some of the things that I have done for this next school year.<br />
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Probably one of the biggest things I have done is gone through our huge library of books and color coded them according to reading level. (Suprisingly I only have a small stack of books that I could not find a reading level for anywhere...). I rearranged all our bookshelves in the school room and the boys room so all books are shelved by reading level.<br />
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As you can see from the picture below I also put a laminated key of what grade level each color means on each of the bookcases. <br />
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Here is a close-up of the 1st grade reading level shelf. The yellow tab means that it is a 1st grade reading level book. The pink tab means that there is a quiz on www.bookadventure.com for that book. I covered all the labels with clear packing tape to help secure them to the books.<br />
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I also labeled each of the desks. I am not assigning desks to a kid because we will be moving around during the day. Instead I got three different colors of the new colored/patterned duct tape that is out. I put a strip across the top of each desk. Then I put a strip across each pencil box that will live in the desks. I also put strips on glue, scissors, pencils, etc that will stay in each box. Supplies are assigned to the desk, not the child. We will see how long we can keep this organized. :-) <br />
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I thought I would throw in the picture of this desk - to show you we move around during the day. This desk will be for whoever is doing their "alone" work while I am working with another one at the white board (on the opposite side of the room).<br />
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I have made daily schedule sheets for Seth and Aaron this year. I laminated the sheet so we can wipe off and reuse each day and got a clipboard for each to keep their sheet on. This sheet will have their daily schedule for the day that they can check off as they go along. I will write in page numbers, or other specific information. Seth will be doing a lot more independent work this year so he will be able to follow this sheet to know what he needs to do next. I am also giving Aron some independent work as well.<br />
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This sheet also includes their morning and afternoon chores. I am really excited about this and am hoping that this works well for us.<br />
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<i>This is a view of the back - it lists his chores (with space for me to put extra chores) - also on Seth's there is space to write in his current spelling words that he is working on.</i></div>
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I also put a whiteboard above my desk that has everyone's schedule listed. The hardest thing about planning this school year has been figuring out how to fit in the one on one time that each child needs - and what the other two will be doing while I am having one on one with one. I <i>think</i> I have a schedule that will work for us. The good thing about using a whiteboard though - you can easily erase and redo if need be. <br />
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I got different colored magazine holders to hold each of the kids' books. Each color represents a kid - it is where they can come and easily get the book they need (as they follow their schedule). The black empty one on top of the other little dresser will be where they will put their work that I need to look at when they are done. <br />
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You will see on the shelf underneath the magazine holders are their notebooks - they each have a notebook for science, geography, and literature read-alouds.<br />
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Here is a look inside the read aloud notebooks I made. Basically these are items they can do to keep busy while I read. I learned last year that they listen so much better if they have something to do with their hands while I read.<br />
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For each story I printed off a title page - a picture from a cover of the book.</div>
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I then printed off coloring pages that they can color. <br />
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I also tried to find fun mazes or dot-to-dot pages for each book that the kids can work on.<br />
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I also included a watercolor page for each book. These were printed on cardstock and I made instructions for each. For example - for the watercolor page for Mr. Popper's Penguins I put instructions to make feather designs with crayon on the penguin and then paint the picture with watercolors.<br />
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I also put some type of mosaic or paper cutting exercise for each book as well. For Mr. Popper's penguins they are going to do a mosaic penguin. I put a bag with their construction paper and then put instructions with a sample picture. The next page is a blue piece of cardstock that they will make they mosaic picture on.<br />
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By the way here is our list of literature books that we will be doing for read-aloud this year:<br />
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And yes we do plan on watching the movie for each of these after we finish the book :-) I also have a sheet in the notebook for each book that is a compare and contrast the book to the movie. (just forgot to get a picture of it).</div>
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I printed off some of the notebook pages from Apologia that I want us to use.<br />
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I also bought the book 'The Complete Book of Animals'. I had already purchased it when I thought I was doing my own stuff so decided to still use it in their notebooks. It has nice colorful pages. There are short readings and questions that go along well with the Apologia book. I purchased a copy for each boy so I tore out pages and added them to the notebook at the point we were talking about that animal.<br />
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I also printed pages that are half lined and half blank because the kids really enjoy the Draw Write Now so I thought we would do drawings of the animals as we go along. I have purchased all the Draw Write Now books that have animals in them.<br />
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We are also doing US Geography this year and I have made the kids notebooks for that as well.<br />
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As you can see I put some extra workbooks in the front inside pocket - these are fun workbooks that have dot-to-dot, mazes and word searches for each state. These are just for filler the kids want to do them.<br />
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I also put a US Map in the front.<br />
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We are "loosely" following the primary trail from Geography Matters Trail Guide to US Geography. We are following the state order that is in the book and we will be doing a few of the activities in the book.<br />
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For each state I have a print out of the state map - we will be putting the capital city, rivers, mountains, etc on this map.<br />
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Then I have a "fun" map of the state that the kids can color. I also have the book 'Eat Your Way Through the USA' and each week we are going to strive to make some of the fun recipes in there - this will be the night that the kids can help me in the kitchen!<br />
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We will also be learning basic map skills. I got several Scholastic e-books on map skills that I printed out and put in the books for us to work on along the way (we will be doing 2 days of state study and 2 days of map study each week).<br />
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I am proud to say that all those notebooks are put together for the ENTIRE year!! YAY!!! All we have to do is complete the pages that are in them!! <br />
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For bible we are doing 'Adventures in the Bible Lands' from Ornament Publications. I thought that it would go well with our "map study" year. We will be going through the new testament stories as we map out where the events happened on our bible lands maps. <br />
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The boys will also be starting the 'Draw to Learn Proverbs' from Notgrass Company.<br />
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Other subjects that we will be doing:<br />
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Reading - boys will still be doing Pathways!!! (there is nothing better in my opinion). Aaron will be completing the 2nd half of 1st grade and then starting 2nd grade. Seth will be doing 3rd Grade.<br />
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Math - We will still be doing Singapore Math - we love it! It works for us! In fact Alyssa will be doing Singapore Kindergarten.<br />
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Handwriting - we are doing Simply Charlotte Mason this year! YEA!! Seth will be doing the Print to Cursive and Aaron will be doing the Child's Copybook Readers.<br />
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Spelling - Seth will be doing Simply Charlotte Mason's Spelling Wisdom!! I really love the concept they use and really think it will work well with Seth!<br />
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English - we are doing Queen's Homeschool Language Lessons. Alyss and Aaron will be doing Language Lessons for Little Ones (Alyssa will be level 1 and Aaron will be level 2) and Seth will be doing Language Lessons for the Very Young.<br />
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Alyssa will also be working on Christian Liberty Press's k workbooks as she will be learning her letter sounds and how to write letters and numbers, and by the end of the year working on sounding out short words! <br />
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I think that pretty much covers everything. We will be sticking in nature study where we can. Kids will be getting their art through the Learn to Draw Proverbs, along with the drawing during science and watercolor and paper cutting during read aloud time.<br />
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Oh - wanted to show you my planner I made for this year!! Here it is set up by my desk (using the Pinterest idea of using a recipe holder to stand it up!)<br />
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I am still doing the "post-it note" style planner (but I have everything typed up and printed out on different colored paper - so I tape it to the areas). It is a two page layout - here is the left side of week one.<br />
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I also found another neat page on pinterest - It's a 'Peek at the Week' - where I can write priorities for the week for school and home, schedule (I will put our outings, appts, etc), and note area at bottom to list materials to prepare, emails, phone calls to make, errands to run, etc. What I did was print it on cardstock and laminate it and will use dry erase fine tip markers to write on it - that way I can wipe off and move to the next week without using up a bunch of paper!<br />
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Oh - and I thought I would also throw in a picture of our big maps we got!! We have a US Map (that we will use as we do US Geography) and world map (that we will use this year to show where the different animals that we are talking about live in the world).<br />
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<br />Well I think that is all I have to share for now!!! I am so excited to get this school year started!! We are looking at starting Monday August 19th!!! YAY!!!!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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