tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52274107381053530812024-03-05T10:47:21.444-05:00Our Day in SchoolLife throws you surprises!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05753706958667698293noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-20656048642512012132013-03-07T14:39:00.003-05:002013-03-07T14:39:39.784-05:00Math Trays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have found with my middle two girls that math just doesn't come easily. They need lots of reinforcement and many opportunities to add and subtract over and over. Their A Beka worksheets have been helping them quite a bit but doing worksheets over and over again can get old. I decided we needed a little change up to our normal morning work. Last night, through the help of pinterest, I put together 5 math trays for all three of my younger girls to work on this morning.<br />
The pink tray: Gum Ball adding and subtracting plus a graphing and coloring.<br />
The green tray: Dice addition<br />
The blue tray: Addition questions were on each clothes pin and the answers were on the popsicle stick. They clipped the clothes pin onto the correct stick.<br />
The purple tray: Creating their own addition questions with correct answers using numbers on each clothes pin.<br />
The yellow tray: Subtraction flashcards and a graph that contained the answers along the bottom. They had to write the question into the correct graph square.<br />
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The girls were able to complete all their trays before lunch. Dragonfly needed some assistance from me but the other two worked independently. It is great that the three of them have all reached a point that I can use the same trays.momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-70445960471728506082013-03-01T11:43:00.000-05:002013-03-02T11:43:37.996-05:00Butterflies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We started working on a new pin for Keepers today....Butterflies. Today, we discussed the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle and then did a fun art project to reinforce what we read about. </div>
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The older girls added alot more detail to their plate. They turned out really cute. Then they created their own butterfly on a color sheet I had printed out for them. I didn't end up getting a picture of any of them.<br />
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We finished our butterfly fun with a cute snack.momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-32059379464139603872013-02-20T11:47:00.000-05:002013-03-02T11:48:17.091-05:00Turtle<div>
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On our walk, we found a turtle floating in our lake. Because this turtle didn't swim away, the girls were really able to get a good glimpse of this turtle. It has been fun living by a lake and really getting to educate the girls about the nature around us. Our lake is full of many animals and birds that have migrated here for the winter. </div>
Life throws you surprises!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05753706958667698293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-88157489046234208262013-02-19T17:19:00.001-05:002013-02-19T17:19:18.858-05:00Space Center<div>
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Connector straws. The girls learned how to create all different shapes and designs.<br />
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Dragonfly got to climb the wall for the first time. She was so excited! She made it about halfway before asking how to get down. </div>
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It is always exciting to get together with friends for fun and games. I truly love so many ideas on pinterest and I think the site has helped me plan so many creative things for the girls to do. We decided for one of our keepers meetings to have some fun Valentine games and heart shaped snacks to go with our study of birds. I found 3 minute to win it games that I thought would be a lot of fun. </div>
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Game number 1: Get as many mini marshmallows into the cups in one minute.<br />
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Kids started by throwing one at a time until they realize that throwing handfuls increased their odds of making the marshmallows into the cups.<br />
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Game number 2: Get as many conversation hearts out of the bowl and into a cup using only chopsticks in one minute. (there are Xs on each heart to keep the kids from eating them. The black mark meant they were poisoned!)<br />
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Game number 3: Make the tallest tower you can in one minute without it falling over.<br />
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In between games and while waiting for their turn for the next game. We got in a few photo ops.<br />
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Will does not seem thrilled!<br />
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We got them all lined up to receive a cup of marshmallows. As with all things, there is always something random we create. This time we decided to have a marshmallow war before tossing all the dirty marshmallows.<br />
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I didn't get a great picture of the marshmallow craziness but they had a blast with it.<br />
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Then inside to chill out a bit. Emily provided everyone with a story.<br />
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Our last project for the day was to make a bird feeder. I found a cute idea for stringing popcorn on garden wire. The kids could then shape them anyway they wanted and hang them on a tree.<br />
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We had such a fun day.momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-78422889884638519092013-01-31T11:54:00.000-05:002013-01-31T11:54:04.981-05:00Pretend Play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the girls were done with school for the day, they decided to hold their own school with their stuff animals. Butterfly thought hers about Northern Alabama and then read them a story. Ladybug read her mini ladybug a Hello Kitty story and then proceeded to use this story to share the gospel with her ladybug. I love listening to their imaginations at work. This is also a great time for me to evaluate what they are learning without having to quiz them on it.<br />
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The morning was so busy with a bunch of activities that I thought a little chill time was in order. I had a Brave unit study pinned that I thought would go perfect with our afternoon. The girls brought out pillows and blankets and got cozy to watch the movie while I printed off worksheets for them to complete afterward. The worksheets covered math concepts, geography, crosswords, writing, and coloring. This was a great way to finish up our day of pinterest fun.<br />
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I really enjoy random days of fun. Most school days are planned out and business needs to take place. Although, I do find it funny how much we accomplished today and how much the girls learned through outside of the box/random activities. We went over math, science, geography, art, writing, grammar, history, handwriting, reading, and spelling plus the girls got to create a yummy breakfast. They did all this without even realizing how much work they were accomplishing because they were having too much fun!momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-27695482914061859742013-01-25T16:30:00.000-05:002013-01-25T16:31:04.461-05:00Pinterest Fun Morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have at least 300 pins on my home school board. We have done quiet a few of them but there are so many that are just random or haven't really gone with anything we have done in the last year or so. I decided this morning that I would just start from the beginning of the board and if there was a pin we could do because I already had all the supplies then we would do it. </div>
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We started with paint bags to practice spelling words or just for drawing. Butterfly and Ladybug wrote each of their spelling words from this week and Dragonfly wrote words she knew how to spell.<br />
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Then the girls decorated their construction papers with their name. These papers will hold rings for each book they read. They are very excited about this. I look forward to posting their progress.<br />
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The last project we worked on was an art project using glue, salt, and food coloring.<br />
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I think they turned out great!</div>
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This was a book that I read several times as a kid. I don't currently have the book but youtube had a video reading of it...PERFECT! So we watched the video clip and then the girls filled out their own <u>I am as </u> worksheets.<br />
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They came up with some clever things. Butterfly is as loud as Papa....that one was my favorite.<br />
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We finished the morning with watching several other video clips that I had pinned. Topics covered were pronouns, time, George Washington, Martin Luther King jr., and writing lower case b and d correctly. This was such a great and creative way to spend the morning. I hope we will be able to do quiet a few days like this and I may actually get through all of my home school pins.momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-79455268912839229662013-01-25T15:58:00.002-05:002013-01-25T15:58:51.896-05:00Monkey Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love Fridays and desire to make them a fun day. Sometimes our schedule allows for lots of fun and sometimes, we have to get caught up on schoolwork missed throughout the week because of other activities going on. Currently, my three younger girls are a week ahead on their schoolwork. We have all been doing so well with the change in curriculum and schedule for school. The girls have been working so hard that today we were able to have a really fun day.<br />
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We started the morning by making gingerbread monkey muffins. The mix was given to the girls for Christmas and today was the perfect day to make them. This was a yeast mix so the girls got to see bread rise.<br />
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We set up an assembly line in order to put the muffins together and so everyone had a task to do. This also works on working together and being patient.<br />
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Ladybug was in charge of making dough balls.<br />
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Butterfly dipped them into butter.<br />
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Dragonfly rolled them around the cinnamon and sugar and then placed them into the muffin tin.<br />
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They were so proud of their final creation!momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-76934598288805648322013-01-18T00:03:00.000-05:002013-01-21T00:04:25.626-05:00Keepers: Cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, we finished up our keeper's pin for cookies. We split the girls up into three different groups. Group 1 made press cookies, group 2 made sandwich cookies, and group 3 made bar cookies. Instead of making a bunch of cookies none of us could eat (we are all doing a low sugar/no sugar diet), we looked through our Trim Healthy Mama cookbook and found 3 cookies that would fit our needs.<br />
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Princess Flower and Butterfly made chocolate peanut butter cookies.<br />
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Cami, Ladybug, and Dragonfly made peanut butter chocolate bar cookies.<br />
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Juliette and Emily made ginger snap with a cinnamon cream cheese filling.<br />
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All the cookies turned out awesome! We enjoyed eating them while watching movies and playing games later that evening.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-82581077469708149492013-01-17T23:44:00.000-05:002013-01-20T23:45:04.975-05:00Back to A beka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With PF, I used A beka and I have been using A beka for Dragonfly but for last year or so I found that Math-U-See was working better for the other two. This year, however, I was finding that the girls were showing some gaps or weren't remembering topics they had already mastered. After much consideration, I decided to order A beka math books for Ladybug and Butterfly. I think they have been enjoying the worksheets for the most part but I am certainly seeing how many gaps are in their math education. Specificly we are finding that it is easy to count by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s when you start from the very beginning but when you are asked to count by 2s starting with 32, I was receiving crazy looks. I have been excited to get all the girls on this curriculum and I hope that it proves to move all the girls ahead in their math skills.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-33735687599595012812013-01-16T23:46:00.000-05:002013-01-20T23:46:23.139-05:00Princess Flower's Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The girls really love the silly stories of Amelia Bedelia. Apparently so do other kids and teachers use these books to cover many different lessons in the English Language(lots of ideas on pinterest). There is now a new series where Amelia is a little girl. I put a bunch of books on hold at the library which have served as our independent reading books this week but I saved one particular book to do a fun activity with.<br />
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I read Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie to them and then the girls made their own apple pies. I didn't bring any pie pans with me so we made hand pies instead. I bought several different apples so we could look at the differences in apples.<br />
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The girls each took turns using the apple slicer to slice up their apple and then I cut them into small chunks.<br />
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They added cinnamon, butter, and truvia to their apples and mixed everything together.</div>
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They enjoyed putting the mixture onto their pre-made pie crusts and then folding them over and pinching them.</div>
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We put them in the oven and they tried to wait patiently. While they waited we talked about the words in the book that had multiple meanings and also about the meanings of figure of speech sayings.<br />
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Then they finally got to enjoy their pie. This was an awesome way to have an English lesson!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-1757077638926637562013-01-08T22:00:00.000-05:002013-01-09T22:02:03.425-05:00Marshmallow Snowmen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are in the process of eliminating sugar from our house. It is great when I can use food that we aren't going to be eating for school projects. I found this project on pinterest and thought it would be perfect to use up some of the mini marshmallows that I had in the pantry. This project was perfect for working on fine motor skills, cutting, and drawing circles.<br />
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I have always loved putting together puzzles. My mom has always picked out great puzzles for us to do during Christmas. One year, we even had a puzzle with our family picture on it. I really want to do that one day but for now there are plenty of fun puzzles at the store. I found this cupcake puzzle at Barnes and Noble and knew the girls would love all the colors. Although, I ended up working on it the most, the girls came by and were so proud when they found where a piece went. I am hoping if we do puzzles more often they will really get into them. Already I have another puzzle on the table and started.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-64386479258333199032013-01-04T21:50:00.000-05:002013-01-09T21:51:21.127-05:00Snowman Snack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During this month, we will be doing fun activities around snow/snowmen. My girls don't care much for cream cheese so we just left the bagel plain. Pretzels, raisins, and carrots made up the rest of the decorating fun.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-89121463608465989652013-01-03T21:46:00.000-05:002013-01-09T21:47:10.111-05:00Keepers: Cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We started our pin for cookies. What better way to start then with chocolate chip cookies! Everyone got to contribute to making the batter and placing the batter on the tray.<br />
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WOW! They looked and smelled so good. We bagged them up and put them in bags to give to our builders. This will go toward the girls' pin for others.<br />
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We also started the character study of charity and memorization of Psalm 100.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-14954054395670930602012-12-20T22:58:00.000-05:002013-01-05T22:59:57.347-05:00Polar Express Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our second planned fun day was a Polar Express theme. Again thanks to pinterest, I had many fun ideas. My sister created a few of her own. We started with everyone decorating boxes to create a train to sit in while watching the movie. <br />
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PF did a great job decorating the front of the train.<br />
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Then each of the kids decorating a stirring stick for the hot chocolate they would have later on. <br />
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When we got to the part of the movie, where the kids were served hot chocolate, we paused the movie and all the kids came upstairs to have their own hot chocolate.<br />
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Following the movie, we had sugar cookies for the kids to cut out, bake, and decorate. <br />
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Dragonfly ate quite a bit of the dough as she went along. <br />
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Ladybug lasted until the very end with the cookie decorating. She was covered in flour!momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-33860644425877095802012-12-18T22:44:00.000-05:002013-01-02T22:44:48.361-05:00Grinch Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was having so much fun on pinterest finding fun things to during December. I came across several fun themed activities for the movie "The Grinch who Stole Christmas". I thought this would be a perfect thing to do while visiting family in GA. My sister was on board as well. We made Grinch cookies, Grinch fruit kabobs, rice crispy treat trees, and Grinch punch! <br />
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The kids each got to decorate their own tree with M&Ms and sprinkles.<br />
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Evan skipped the decorating and went straight to eating. <br />
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After all the snacks were ready and decorated, we headed down to the basement for the movie. I have always loved the cartoon so that was the one we watched. <br />
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I did have worksheets for the kids to do following the movie but they were having so much fun with their cousins that I didn't want to bother with having any extra work. I figured it was more important to have play time and soak up the sun outdoors.momofbugshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02902444726783095108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-53341763985704756622012-12-07T15:45:00.001-05:002012-12-07T15:45:49.168-05:00A Reading From Dragonfly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-48864978630076075422012-12-05T19:57:00.001-05:002012-12-05T19:57:23.194-05:00Dance<div><p>In American Heritage Girls, the girls just started earning the dance badge. Today they were exposed to Irish dancing and ballet. They all absolutely loved Irish dancing. I will be looking into classes they can take this winter. I have always wanted my girls to be interested in Irish dancing so I am very excited!</p>
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PF: ......a cat ran on top of them followed by a barking monster who grabbed a dozen cookies. Poor Grammy had to start all over again because the left over cookies were covered in dirt from the monster and cat. She was about to throw them away when she had an idea. She stuck them in the blender with lots of bird seed and blended it. When it was done Grammy threw it outside for the birds and then she hid in a bush. Birds came along and started eating when all of a sudden their feathers fell off and they floated up like balloons.<br />
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Butterfly:....there was a knock. Grammy opened the door. A little boy was on the porch. He started to say good afternoon my name is Russell but before he could say the rest Grammy asked Russell if he would like a cookie. Russell said "yes please". Grammy stuffed the cookies in Russell's mouth. She said good-bye. Russell didn't say good-bye because his mouth was too full. <br />
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Ladybug:.....there was a monster at the door. The monster took all the cookies. Grammy tried to get them but the monster ate them before she could.<br />
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Dragonfly:......a monster came and put all the cookies in his mouth. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-71716476347295983922012-12-03T00:33:00.000-05:002012-12-05T00:33:23.527-05:00Tree Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For our day 3 activity, we did our best to make paper strip trees. They didn't exactly come out looking like the best trees but it was a great activity to learn measurement, longer and shorter. <br />
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Everyone agreed that PF's looked like a Christmas bell instead of a tree. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-77192477269372022482012-11-30T14:18:00.000-05:002012-12-05T14:19:18.810-05:00November Wall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We enjoyed many Thanksgiving related projects this month. We focused a lot on being grateful for things in our lives and complaining less. The girls have really started to enjoy word searches. I have been focusing alot more with Dragonfly on her coloring skill....really filling a picture in and not scribbling. Also using different colors instead of just her favorite.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227410738105353081.post-16968627731815680512012-11-30T14:07:00.000-05:002012-12-05T14:08:08.495-05:00Field Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tracy and I took the kids on a field trip to Burritt on the Mountain. It is a beautiful place with a mansion. We took a tour of the mansion after making sure we got a picture of the kids. Forgot to do our traditional picture in front of the van. The tour guide in the home was full of info about the doctor that once lived there and about the area. People used to flock to the area for the natural springs and stayed at one particular inn. The mansion burnt down shortly after it was built and there were pictures of it on fire. They rebuilt the home within a few years of the fire. <br />
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I love this picture of the kids....so many personalities! <br />
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Looking out over the city of Huntsville. It was fun to point out the big Rocket for the space center. <br />
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We walked around the property which they have now made into a small town from the early 1900s. There wasn't alot going on during the day but the kids had no problems entertaining themselves. When we got to the Chapel....they took turns up on stage singing made up songs or Christmas carols. <br />
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We are really looking forward to returning again. They host many classes and do home school days. This should add alot to our study of American History. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425009735791675377noreply@blogger.com0