2 Day School Week & Math Bags

Kitten has been going out into the horse pasture to pick me these pretty purple "flowers" everyday because purple is my favorite color & "I'm her favorite mommy." So sweet!

This is one of the Math Center bags that I made today for my soon to be Kindergartner & 2nd grader. They're Take It To Your Seat Math Centers by Evan Moor.

You choose several insects for your jar, separate them by type, then add up how many you have altogether. Great practice!

As you can see I didn't take the time to cut out closely around the insects; I might do this later. It only took about 15-20 minutes to make. Everything I need is in the book except the bags (2 for a $1 at Dollar Tree). I also laminated everything so it can be used often. I'll add a dry erase marker and eraser to the bag when it's in our days plan. Best of all these fold flat and fit perfectly in our workboxes.

We only had 2 days of school this week to make up for our sick days a few weeks back. But Kitten wanted to do school on another day, also. She was so cute sounding out her letter ladder blends by herself (we usually do this together).
Here she's circling the pictures that start with the letter U. We'll do more U activities next week and the number 15.


I've been purchasing some of my curriculum for the upcoming school year. The Math Centers was one item; I'll get 12 math activities from this. I also got a reading readiness file folder game making book. I plan on making some of these this afternoon and this weekend. I'll post more next week about out school plans for 2010-2011.

T - Week, Number 14

This week Kitten reviewed the letter T. We ate Twinkies, watched Tinkerbell, counted tulips, and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Finding the hidden T words

This one: I printed off the letters of the alphabet from worksheet.com (you can make this easily at home) and as I called out words she would place a magnet on the beginning letter of that word. She loved it!

Kitten putting her tulips in numerical order.


Moo-Man was having attitude problems this week so we'll be working on that in the weeks to come. He was born grumpy so it's an ongoing process. Hopefully, I'll be posting more about him (good things) in the upcoming weeks. He did his regular Horizon's Math, copywork (writing), and phonics reader, but also a maze, hidden pictures, scissors practice, beginning art practice from www.donnayoung.org, etc. I get disappointed that my children aren't always as enthusiastic about learning as I would like them to be but I hope that will change for the upcoming school year.

Please pray for us as we continue this journey.

S Week

I missed last week because 5 out of 6 of us were sick. Thankfully nothing more than a head cold but enough sinus pain and pressure to keep us from school 3 of the 5 days.
This week was S week with my littlest. I don't have a lot of pictures because it was high drama at my house with my 17 year old daughter getting engaged (though not unexpected still a disappointment). Thankfully we serve a great God and she is in His hands and He will take care of it all. She will never be away from His sight. The situation is being bathed in prayer. (Thank you to all who are praying.)
Anyway, back to the letter Ss. Kitten worked a sailboat and snail maze, put s word stickers on her S page, worked on recognizing the number 13, and practicing her blend ladders (confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com). She also practiced matching her ABC's in a Springtime file folder game (1+1+1=1.blogspot.com). We baked chocolate chip cookies today just for fun and tomorrow she'll help me make pizza's. She loves to help cook, wash dishes, and clean. She's my big helper and a cookie thief.

Kitten dotting 13 apples


Since the weather was so nice earlier this week (Mon - Wed) I let Moo-Man just do the 3 R's and the rest of the time outside playing basketball, jumping on the trampoline, collecting rocks, and playing animals with Kitten. Thur. & Fri. it rained but it was warm so he still played out in the rain. He had a blast! Hopefully next week we'll get back to the plan but I'm thankful that homeschooling is so flexible when necessary. I did run out of printer ink so as long as they arrive by tomorrow and I get everything printed off that I need for the week then we'll be okay. But if not, well hey, we'll still be okay! Yah, homeschooling, Yah God!