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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Happy Birthday, Katy! - 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Clark is 16 Months
He is taking steps. Often up to 14 in a row. He kind of looks like a toy wooden soldier when trying to walk.
He's getting more demanding. He knows what he wants and isn't very happy if you don't let him have something he wants.
He loves to press buttons (phones, remotes, etc.).
He loves to push things around the house, but as he gets walking down more I can see that being a little less.
He's down to morning and evening nursings and if he asks in the middle of the day is easily distracted by other food, water or something fun to do.
He's not usually quiet, unless sleeping.
He "reads" by looking at a book and yelling sounds and an occasional word.
He loves to be outside and has found that it is fun to be in the grass.
He adores his older siblings.
His hand eye coordination is great. He likes to put Nerf bullets into their proper places in the Nerf gun.
He likes to play with Duplo Legos and can even make them stick together.
He loves to chew on his rag and snuggle his blanket.
He doesn't stop for long and is very "busy" exploring everything that he can think of.
His words are increasing and he can say everyone's name, though not always the clearest.
He thinks airplanes are cool, even if he just hears them.
He loves to eat people food. There are very few things that he doesn't want to eat anymore.
He loves to climb the stairs. He thinks he's big stuff if he gets up pretty far without being caught. He knows he's not supposed to go upstairs, but climbing is just too fun.
He smiles, a lot.
When he goes to the nursery at church everyone is happy to see him. He loves to be around people.
He's getting more demanding. He knows what he wants and isn't very happy if you don't let him have something he wants.
He loves to press buttons (phones, remotes, etc.).
He loves to push things around the house, but as he gets walking down more I can see that being a little less.
He's down to morning and evening nursings and if he asks in the middle of the day is easily distracted by other food, water or something fun to do.
He's not usually quiet, unless sleeping.
He "reads" by looking at a book and yelling sounds and an occasional word.
He loves to be outside and has found that it is fun to be in the grass.
He adores his older siblings.
His hand eye coordination is great. He likes to put Nerf bullets into their proper places in the Nerf gun.
He likes to play with Duplo Legos and can even make them stick together.
He loves to chew on his rag and snuggle his blanket.
He doesn't stop for long and is very "busy" exploring everything that he can think of.
His words are increasing and he can say everyone's name, though not always the clearest.
He thinks airplanes are cool, even if he just hears them.
He loves to eat people food. There are very few things that he doesn't want to eat anymore.
He loves to climb the stairs. He thinks he's big stuff if he gets up pretty far without being caught. He knows he's not supposed to go upstairs, but climbing is just too fun.
He smiles, a lot.
When he goes to the nursery at church everyone is happy to see him. He loves to be around people.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
In School this Week...
Monday: After having most of last week off from lessons I was hoping to be ready for this week, but I wasn't. While each of the kids worked on something they could do by themselves for school, I got our schedule for the week planned. We also went to the library and they were talking about Fall during storytime. Everyone made a tree with fall leaves on or around it.
Tuesday: I had planned a full day of school and then remembered that we were getting together with friends to decorate foam pumpkins and play in the afternoon. We did manage to get almost everything accomplished before we went to their house. We had checked a fall craft book out of the Library so the kids have been perusing it trying to find things they could make. Kent made a Columbus Day craft, since Columbus's birthday is on Friday. Katy made some caterpillars for her and Kaomi. I have yet to look through the book, but I'm glad to see that the kids have found some things they could do on their own, with little to no help from me. They just need to remember to follow the directions.
Wednesday: I had planned another full school day and then remembered that our Friday volunteering has switched back to Wednesday's. I informed Kent and Katy that they needed to complete an English lesson and that we would do Wednesday's schedule on Thursday and Thursday's schedule on Friday. We were gone all day running errands and supper was late.
Thursday: Trying to get back in the groove. Felicity kept wanting to know where we were going and when we were leaving. We stayed home all day and managed to stay pretty much on top of things. Kaomi even did a great job on her reading lesson, even though she was reluctant to read it with me. I even got everything corrected after supper, ready for the kids to pick up and start on Friday.
Friday: Morning started out busy and by 9:30 I suggested Kent and Katy begin their individual work and gave Kaomi her handwriting assignment to work on. Kent was trying really hard to get everything done he needed to, because he is supposed to be going camping this weekend with Jeff. We did a great job staying on top of his school and getting most corrections made or at least corrected by me, by mid-afternoon. I started working on cleaning Felicity's room with her. We didn't get very far, but she was excited to find her play phone that she had been missing.
I don't think I took any pictures of school stuff this week.
Tuesday: I had planned a full day of school and then remembered that we were getting together with friends to decorate foam pumpkins and play in the afternoon. We did manage to get almost everything accomplished before we went to their house. We had checked a fall craft book out of the Library so the kids have been perusing it trying to find things they could make. Kent made a Columbus Day craft, since Columbus's birthday is on Friday. Katy made some caterpillars for her and Kaomi. I have yet to look through the book, but I'm glad to see that the kids have found some things they could do on their own, with little to no help from me. They just need to remember to follow the directions.
Wednesday: I had planned another full school day and then remembered that our Friday volunteering has switched back to Wednesday's. I informed Kent and Katy that they needed to complete an English lesson and that we would do Wednesday's schedule on Thursday and Thursday's schedule on Friday. We were gone all day running errands and supper was late.
Thursday: Trying to get back in the groove. Felicity kept wanting to know where we were going and when we were leaving. We stayed home all day and managed to stay pretty much on top of things. Kaomi even did a great job on her reading lesson, even though she was reluctant to read it with me. I even got everything corrected after supper, ready for the kids to pick up and start on Friday.
Friday: Morning started out busy and by 9:30 I suggested Kent and Katy begin their individual work and gave Kaomi her handwriting assignment to work on. Kent was trying really hard to get everything done he needed to, because he is supposed to be going camping this weekend with Jeff. We did a great job staying on top of his school and getting most corrections made or at least corrected by me, by mid-afternoon. I started working on cleaning Felicity's room with her. We didn't get very far, but she was excited to find her play phone that she had been missing.
I don't think I took any pictures of school stuff this week.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Being a Mom is Tiring
This morning I was awake around 6:30. Up by 7 to get dressed and have my quiet time. 7:30 Clark is ready to get up. I nurse him while I check my e-mail and let him down. He's in the kitchen in a flash. Katy got Felicity up while Clark was nursing. She came and snuggled with me when he was done. I put Clark in his booster seat and get Felicity and his breakfast so I can do my morning chores. Kent, Katy and Kaomi are already working on their chores. I take my vitamins, load and start the dishwasher, start a load of laundry, pour cereal and milk for Kaomi, get the apple butter started in the crockpot, fix my breakfast and sit down by Clark to eat it. He wants to get down so I let him down, it's about 8:45 am. I finish my breakfast, Katy brings Clark back the the living room, he was interrupting her piano practice. He turns on the TV, I turn it off. I start another chore and he is back in by the piano. I bring him back to the living room and block him in by his toys. He decided to get in the game cabinet and get out the cards. I put them away and block the cabinet door better. Felicity wants to play with him, but she decides they are done being "trapped" and lets them both out. Clark wants to read the library books, he can't quite get them off the shelf yet so he settles for some books on a lower shelf. He looks at the covers and leaves them on the floor. Then he realizes I left my bedroom door open and he's in the bathroom before I can chase him down. I bring him back to the living room and try to get him interested in a truck. He decides to look out the window. Then he's in the game cabinet again (it is off limits, but he's determined and we haven't quite got it through his head yet that he isn't allowed to get in it). I pick up the cards again and he's in my bathroom again. I left the door open, again. I bring him back to the living room. He's in to the piano again. I bring him back to the living room, he finds a piece of paper and decides it is trash and takes it to the trash can. Before I catch him, he pulls trash out of the trash can. I clean it up and take him back to the living room. He sees some board books and takes off to look at them. I finish my chore and the living room and kitchen are trashed and its only 9:05 in the morning. I'm tired and there goes Clark into something else. We haven't started school yet: Katy's having trouble with her piano practice, Kent is trying to clean the game room and Felicity is running around with her baby, high heels and getting into her own mischief, Kaomi is upstairs. By 9:15 am I put Clark back in his bed and put some music on. Now I have a messy house, school has yet to start, I need to bake gluten free muffins for Jeff to take on Kent and his camping trip. There is so much still to do and my day has hardly started, but I could use a nap, which won't happen and Felicity wants lunch, even though she just finished breakfast about 30 minutes ago. I'm off to try to keep my sanity and somehow get everything done that has to be done and it would be nice to get something extra done as well.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
October Sewing Project - Curtains
We have been using a sheet in our eating area to block the sun in the evening. There are already curtains in that window, but the sun likes to shine in the top window when we are trying to eat supper and makes it hard for whoever is facing the window to keep their eyes open.
We've talked about getting a shade of some kind to put there, but so far we haven't decided exactly what we want. I decided to take the queen size sheet and make curtains that can go behind the ones that are already there and can be easily opened in the morning and shut when we need to block the sun.
The sheet we have been using tore a couple of months ago, so first I mended the tear and then I mended a couple small holes that had come from something else. Next I laid the sheet out on the floor and carefully lined the long edges up. Then I cut up the fold in the middle of the sheet. I finished and hemmed the cut edges.
Then I purchased an expandable shower curtain rod and made large pockets in the top of the new curtains to slide them onto the rod. These curtains actually touch the floor, so I am trying to decide how to shorten them without cutting them, as they could actually make fairly decent drapes at another window. I was thinking maybe I could do something with velcro. If you have any ideas feel free to share them with us.
This project didn't take very long and having a day to designate working on it made all the difference in the world. I could have easily finished it in part of one day, but wanted to get the curtain rod first to make sure I made the pockets big enough to be able to slide back and forth easily on the rod.
Our kitchen area looks much nicer now, rather than just having the sheet thrown over the top curtain rod and curtains for a sloppy half-hearted attempt to block out the sun.
We've talked about getting a shade of some kind to put there, but so far we haven't decided exactly what we want. I decided to take the queen size sheet and make curtains that can go behind the ones that are already there and can be easily opened in the morning and shut when we need to block the sun.
The sheet we have been using tore a couple of months ago, so first I mended the tear and then I mended a couple small holes that had come from something else. Next I laid the sheet out on the floor and carefully lined the long edges up. Then I cut up the fold in the middle of the sheet. I finished and hemmed the cut edges.
This project didn't take very long and having a day to designate working on it made all the difference in the world. I could have easily finished it in part of one day, but wanted to get the curtain rod first to make sure I made the pockets big enough to be able to slide back and forth easily on the rod.
Our kitchen area looks much nicer now, rather than just having the sheet thrown over the top curtain rod and curtains for a sloppy half-hearted attempt to block out the sun.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Happy October!
On October 1st we went to the Frank Buck Zoo.
We stopped to see the flamingos first. They were quite active and one was even being social strutting up and down the fence line in front of us and making quite a bit of noise. We took a close look at their feathers, since we have been learning about birds in science.
The Military Macaw put on quite a show for us as well.
Ginger, the new baby, female Giraffe. The zoo traded one of their male giraffes named Nelson with the Zoo in Pheonix, AZ.
Feeding Maui, the other giraffe.
The barred owl flew at the cage while we were there and perched on the wire showing off his wings.
The black bear was up close and awake.
Trying to get a picture of everyone. This was take 11 and probably the best one with everyone with their eyes open and kind of looking up.
We finished at the zoo right around noon, so we went back home to eat our lunch this time. We had bread, cheese and fruit on these squirrelly, Octoberish plates.
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We stopped to see the flamingos first. They were quite active and one was even being social strutting up and down the fence line in front of us and making quite a bit of noise. We took a close look at their feathers, since we have been learning about birds in science.
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Trying to get a picture of everyone. This was take 11 and probably the best one with everyone with their eyes open and kind of looking up.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Goals for October 1-6
This week I am planning a lighter week. I would take the week off of school, but if we continue with English we will be sure to finish when we would like to in the Spring and if we continue with reading it just helps a little as Reading has been harder for me to work in for Kent and Katy everyday.
Goals for October 1-6
Monday:Trip to the Zoo, Write a Letter, Order Produce Basket, Animal Craft (or Tuesday)
Tuesday:English, Reading, Play Outside, Sewing Project, Write a Letter, Correct English and Reading
Wednesday:English, Reading, Play Outside, Bake and Clean, Midwife Appointment, Write a Letter, Correct English and Reading
Thursday:English, Reading, Clean, Chiropractor Appointment(Kaomi), Play Outside, Sewing, Write a Letter, Correct English and Reading, Animal Craft
Friday:CLC work in classrooms, English, Write a Letter, Play Outside, Make Lesson Schedule for next week, Correct English
Saturday:Pick up produce basket, Sort and take care of produce, Work around the house, Play Outside
We will see if we do everything, but hopefully the little break from school will have us ready to start up again full swing next week.
Goals for October 1-6
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We will see if we do everything, but hopefully the little break from school will have us ready to start up again full swing next week.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sunday Evening
In the dimly lit room a cacophony of sounds is like music. Felicity is singing and clip-clopping in her dress up shoes. She stops to dance and spin with her baby. Katy and Kaomi are talking loudly and emphatically about the Lego houses and people they are playing with. Kent is totally engrossed in the book he is reading on the love seat and probably needs better light to read with. Clark is pushing around a truck that the wheels click as he drives all around, stopping to read a book or play with something else before continuing on with his truck. Jeff is sitting on the couch working on his computer and I am sitting in my chair reading something on my computer. Soon its time to pick up. The noise changes to the banging and clashing of toys being thrown into their containers. The master bedroom door closes and soon we hear Clark fuss. He closed himself away from the rest of us. Jeff goes to open the door for him and grabs him to play with him on the floor. The drawback is that he needs his diaper changed, so Jeff doesn't want to wrestle him. Katy got her finger hit with a toy so there is a wail of hurt. She's fine though. Jeff stayed laying on the floor and Clark goes and starts giving him kisses. Then Felicity wants him to roll over so she can walk on his back. Clark comes to see me and says "hi" sticking his face into mine. After I say "hi" back to him he says "bye-bye" and goes over to give more kisses to Jeff.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
In School This Week...
Monday: Library Day! Everyone was excited and worked quickly on their individual work. We were a few minutes late to storytime, due to some children not following directions and getting ready to go when I said to. Sometimes this results in us not going at all, so I was glad we were still able to go. We finished completing EVERYTHING by 2:30. Kent had his piano lesson after quiet time, as well.
Tuesday: I really wanted to do art with the kids last week, so we caught up on that first thing this morning. It involved paint and mixing colors and making a kite. We'd been learning about Benjamin Franklin, so we glued our kites to a dark background to be the stormy sky. Everyone had fun (me too, since I usually do the projects along with them). After lunch, since we already had the table covered and a mess made I decided to go ahead and complete this weeks art lesson as well. It was making a cave with wolf tracks leading up to it. It goes along with Wednesday's history reading, so we will look back at them tomorrow after we read history. Everything else flowed along well for school, though with the messy table I didn't do much school with Kaomi.
Wednesday: We started off with the pledge and a missionary story. Then we read history and Kent and Katy moved on to the things they could do without my help. Kaomi and I worked on reading and math. Felicity chose to look at animal cards from her preschool box. I think we've gotten our money's worth on those cards that I found in the dollar section at Target this summer. She loves to look at all the animals and tell or ask me what they are. Then we read more Peter Cottontail and talked about how animals get ready for winter. Then Kaomi made a snowy paper with some paint and some snowflake stickers that I had set aside to do something special with. Felicity wanted to do the paper too, so she joined in. Kent finished his individual work early, so he got to have a break while I was still working with Kaomi and making lunch.
Thursday: Today started off with grumpy kids. We were supposed to get together with some friends, but I decided that today wasn't going to work for that and we canceled. I'm not sure what was up with Kent, but even though he was grumpy he finished all of his school work before lunch except reading which he had to do with me. Katy went to bed grumpy last night and didn't wake up happy this morning. She had an attitude all day, therefore her schoolwork performance wasn't very good. Kaomi was so grumpy I sent her to bed after a failed attempt at school. Felicity was fine for most of the day, but got grumpy after her quiet time and stayed that way until Daddy came home. She didn't take a nap.
Friday: Katy had a fever late last night although she was fine all day. We didn't want to spread any germs or have her feeling bad while we were out, so we stayed home and didn't go to work in the classrooms at church. We did a history review. Kent and Katy completed an English lesson, filled in more of their timelines, and worked on their history maps. Everyone was busy coloring pictures this morning. Kaomi wanted to learn how to play Old Maid and Katy and Felicity joined us. We are planning a light week of school next week, so it is good to tie up our loose ends today. I also made sure that all the papers to be filed in the kids binders were placed where they belong.
Tuesday: I really wanted to do art with the kids last week, so we caught up on that first thing this morning. It involved paint and mixing colors and making a kite. We'd been learning about Benjamin Franklin, so we glued our kites to a dark background to be the stormy sky. Everyone had fun (me too, since I usually do the projects along with them). After lunch, since we already had the table covered and a mess made I decided to go ahead and complete this weeks art lesson as well. It was making a cave with wolf tracks leading up to it. It goes along with Wednesday's history reading, so we will look back at them tomorrow after we read history. Everything else flowed along well for school, though with the messy table I didn't do much school with Kaomi.
Wednesday: We started off with the pledge and a missionary story. Then we read history and Kent and Katy moved on to the things they could do without my help. Kaomi and I worked on reading and math. Felicity chose to look at animal cards from her preschool box. I think we've gotten our money's worth on those cards that I found in the dollar section at Target this summer. She loves to look at all the animals and tell or ask me what they are. Then we read more Peter Cottontail and talked about how animals get ready for winter. Then Kaomi made a snowy paper with some paint and some snowflake stickers that I had set aside to do something special with. Felicity wanted to do the paper too, so she joined in. Kent finished his individual work early, so he got to have a break while I was still working with Kaomi and making lunch.
Thursday: Today started off with grumpy kids. We were supposed to get together with some friends, but I decided that today wasn't going to work for that and we canceled. I'm not sure what was up with Kent, but even though he was grumpy he finished all of his school work before lunch except reading which he had to do with me. Katy went to bed grumpy last night and didn't wake up happy this morning. She had an attitude all day, therefore her schoolwork performance wasn't very good. Kaomi was so grumpy I sent her to bed after a failed attempt at school. Felicity was fine for most of the day, but got grumpy after her quiet time and stayed that way until Daddy came home. She didn't take a nap.
Friday: Katy had a fever late last night although she was fine all day. We didn't want to spread any germs or have her feeling bad while we were out, so we stayed home and didn't go to work in the classrooms at church. We did a history review. Kent and Katy completed an English lesson, filled in more of their timelines, and worked on their history maps. Everyone was busy coloring pictures this morning. Kaomi wanted to learn how to play Old Maid and Katy and Felicity joined us. We are planning a light week of school next week, so it is good to tie up our loose ends today. I also made sure that all the papers to be filed in the kids binders were placed where they belong.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
A Mess
Yesterday it was like this:
School went fine. We painted. Felicity was crying over everything. Lunch ended up on the floor, with a broken pot handle and a hole in the linoleum. I'm not really sure how. I was trying to add the cheese sauce to the pasta and the next thing I know it was on the floor. There was enough pasta left in the pot for the kids to eat cold with their veggies by the time I finished cleaning up sometime after 1:00 pm. I ate veggies with dip.
Afternoon school went fine and I was starving by snack time. We had apples with peanut butter sauce.
I was really looking forward to supper. I was making broccoli and eggs. In between changing diapers and being a mom the eggs were not edible, so I sprinkled the cheese on the broccoli and gave the kids broccoli and buttered bread for dinner. Jeff came home to a plate of broccoli with cheese at his spot. I ate my broccoli and some trail mix.
I was rather disappointed. I mean, who wouldn't be after two ruined meals, a hole in the linoleum and the pot I use the most with a broken handle.
Later I ate some crackers with peanut butter.
School went fine. We painted. Felicity was crying over everything. Lunch ended up on the floor, with a broken pot handle and a hole in the linoleum. I'm not really sure how. I was trying to add the cheese sauce to the pasta and the next thing I know it was on the floor. There was enough pasta left in the pot for the kids to eat cold with their veggies by the time I finished cleaning up sometime after 1:00 pm. I ate veggies with dip.
I was really looking forward to supper. I was making broccoli and eggs. In between changing diapers and being a mom the eggs were not edible, so I sprinkled the cheese on the broccoli and gave the kids broccoli and buttered bread for dinner. Jeff came home to a plate of broccoli with cheese at his spot. I ate my broccoli and some trail mix.
I was rather disappointed. I mean, who wouldn't be after two ruined meals, a hole in the linoleum and the pot I use the most with a broken handle.
Later I ate some crackers with peanut butter.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Bountiful Basket #6
This week we ordered an organic basket (on left) and a conventional basket (on right) and 9-grain bread.
We've been enjoying our baskets and having lots of produce to eat raw or use in recipes both old and new.
This week so far we have had bananas, apples, yams and carrots in our beef stew, and cucumbers.
I'm looking forward to making some kind of gluten free dessert with the limes, if you have any ideas please let me know what I could do with them in the comments. The pears are ripe now, so we are looking forward to having them with lunch tomorrow. I'm planning on making some guacamole, as well.
Monday, September 24, 2012
22 Weeks
Just thought some of you would like a picture of "Swimmer".
This pregnancy is going "just like the textbooks", as my midwife says.
This pregnancy is going "just like the textbooks", as my midwife says.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
In School This Week...
Monday: I had everything ready for the week to start this morning. It sure is nice to have Kent and Katy be able to look at what they should be accomplishing for the day/week and know that they can work on their individual work without me having to look it up and tell them what they should do several times a day. Their schedule also shows them what they need to work on directly with me and what we will be working on all together. It was smooth sailing today and everyone was done with their school by quiet time. Clark and Lissie were fussy all day.
Tuesday: Morning came and I was going to make sure I had the kids work graded, before they started knowing that it was a busy day. They were anticipating the day and started their school before they ever came downstairs, oh well. I was invited to a luncheon with some other ladies from church and the kids got to spend some time away from me. They had fun and I had fun. Kent and Katy also did a great job doing their individual work and actually completed it all before the end of the day. Kaomi got to practice following the directions on a color by number sheet and she did a good job staying in the lines while coloring.
Wednesday: We started off with our together work and then I did reading and thinking skills with Kaomi. Kent and Katy worked on some of their copywork and History, while I corrected Monday and Tuesday's work before they tried to continue on. It's so much easier to correct mistakes right away rather than make the same mistake for several days in a row, so we made a point of correcting anything that needed to be fixed before moving on in that subject. We all went outside during lunch break as well. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day that wasn't too warm.
Thursday: We didn't start altogether this morning, because Katy was working on her piano practice at starting time. Kent was assigned to read Proverbs 2 and choose a verse that he thought was interesting. He chose Proverbs 2:3-5. Then he went to work on correcting yesterday's school and beginning his individual work. Katy finished her piano practice and read Proverbs 2 and chose the same verses Kent chose to share with me. She didn't know which ones Kent had chosen. Kaomi started off her math with measuring. We used a gold plastic coin as our standard of measure for several items. Then she measured the sides of the table using Duplo Legos as her standard of measure. Then she moved on to practicing tracing her letters properly on an erasable page. After Lunch we read our science and everyone pretended to be a bird by trying out different types of flapping their wings.
Friday: We worked in the classrooms at church and went to Kroger. After we returned home Kent and Katy completed corrections from Thursday and English.
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Tuesday: Morning came and I was going to make sure I had the kids work graded, before they started knowing that it was a busy day. They were anticipating the day and started their school before they ever came downstairs, oh well. I was invited to a luncheon with some other ladies from church and the kids got to spend some time away from me. They had fun and I had fun. Kent and Katy also did a great job doing their individual work and actually completed it all before the end of the day. Kaomi got to practice following the directions on a color by number sheet and she did a good job staying in the lines while coloring.
Wednesday: We started off with our together work and then I did reading and thinking skills with Kaomi. Kent and Katy worked on some of their copywork and History, while I corrected Monday and Tuesday's work before they tried to continue on. It's so much easier to correct mistakes right away rather than make the same mistake for several days in a row, so we made a point of correcting anything that needed to be fixed before moving on in that subject. We all went outside during lunch break as well. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day that wasn't too warm.
Thursday: We didn't start altogether this morning, because Katy was working on her piano practice at starting time. Kent was assigned to read Proverbs 2 and choose a verse that he thought was interesting. He chose Proverbs 2:3-5. Then he went to work on correcting yesterday's school and beginning his individual work. Katy finished her piano practice and read Proverbs 2 and chose the same verses Kent chose to share with me. She didn't know which ones Kent had chosen. Kaomi started off her math with measuring. We used a gold plastic coin as our standard of measure for several items. Then she measured the sides of the table using Duplo Legos as her standard of measure. Then she moved on to practicing tracing her letters properly on an erasable page. After Lunch we read our science and everyone pretended to be a bird by trying out different types of flapping their wings.
Friday: We worked in the classrooms at church and went to Kroger. After we returned home Kent and Katy completed corrections from Thursday and English.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Clark's First Step
This morning Clark was playing with the TV remote and I asked him to bring it to me. He reached his hand out with it toward me and took 1 step toward me. Then he realized that he wasn't touching the couch anymore and to the floor he went. Then he brought me the remote with a big grin. Knowing he was obeying Mommy made him smile, waiting for the good job and thank you he knew was coming when he handed it to me.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
In School this Week...
Monday: I really would like to have Monday's off from school. So I can recoup from the weekend and be fully ready to start back to school Tuesday through Friday. Since that isn't currently able to be the case we had a rough start to our week. We are in Unit 9 this week. Kent and Katy had some corrections to make from last week, so we worked on those first. We went to the library since storytime was starting up today. Then they each completed an English lesson. Kent did Math, Katy did Cursive, we did History and Storytime together. Kaomi practiced writing and learned how to write "g". She also thought about big, medium and small in her math. We checked "Goldilocks" out of the library for a story to go along with her math.
Tuesday: I still haven't caught up, so we're winging it today. It's a good thing Bigger Hearts for His Glory has the plans laid out so easy, even for days with no prep. We did science reading and Kent and Katy did their notebooking page about Benjamin Franklin. Kaomi and Felicity colored a picture of Benjamin Franklin with a kite. Kent and Katy both worked on Math, Reading, and other individual work. We finished our storytime book, Seabiscuit. Usually, we really enjoy the books we read for storytime, but this one seemed to have evaded our interest. While I found the story interesting and learned more about the history of horse racing, I think the book was just a little bit on a higher level than my kids were ready for (I'm reading to K, 2 and 3). Maybe it would have been okay for just Kent. Usually they ask questions to help them understand something better, but there were very few questions this time around and they really didn't want me to read it each day at storytime. They are all excited that we are done and now we can read something more fun for the rest of the week before we begin a new book next week. Kaomi's reading lesson was a longer one so I opted to only do half of it today and we will do the rest of it tomorrow. She is doing well, but becomes overwhelmed easily in one sitting if it is long or she struggles even just a little bit with something. She was also excited to read more in Peter Cottontail. We didn't get to math, so she asked Daddy to help her with her math after supper.
Wednesday: Kaomi had her well-child visit first thing this morning, so we started school when we returned home. We learned more about how a printing press worked in Benjamin Franklin's day and stamped each child's initials with a letter block and stamp pad on a paper. We wrote a letter for English and worked on Math. Kent and Katy also had poetry and other individual work for the day.
Thursday: We kicked off our school day with Bible time followed by Science. We tried to make static electricity and failed, but then we moved on to talking about progress and robots and programing robots to do what you need them to do. The three older children practiced following directions blindfolded trying to take a piece of candy to someone else who was stationed at the door. They had fun and the un-blinfolded children had fun watching the one who was blindfolded trying not to run into any obstacles. I didn't think to take any pictures until after we were done. Kent and Katy moved on to English and other individual work for the rest of the morning. Kaomi worked on reading and math. Then we read more Peter Cottontail and she tried to draw Reddy Fox pretending to be dead. I ended up drawing a sample on the whiteboard, then she did her best to draw her idea of what my sample looked like. In the afternoon we started a new genre for storytime and reading. We are working on historical fiction and our new storytime book is Understood Betsy. I realized today that we must have been behind on our last storytime, when I thought we were a couple days ahead. Oops! We should have been starting this book on Monday. That's okay we'll probably catch up with no problem. Kent and Katy started their new books for reading today as well. Since their reading gets spaced out a little more with them, I am trying to start the same genres around the same time. Kent will pick up his missed genres from this year, next year since I have him on a two year schedule to complete his workbook. Kent's book selections are for 4/5 reading level this year. I'm thinking that I may do the same thing with Katy, but I will let her read the genres we missed covering this year, as she will have a different set of books to read next year. She is on a Level 2 reading and will be on Level 3 next year. I worked on math with Katy this afternoon, then she had a review to complete. This week we got behind on her math so we will try to get caught up tomorrow, to be ready to start next week on schedule. She's not lacking in skills, Mommy was just lacking in organization this week. I'm looking forward to trying to be on top of things next week, again.
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Tuesday: I still haven't caught up, so we're winging it today. It's a good thing Bigger Hearts for His Glory has the plans laid out so easy, even for days with no prep. We did science reading and Kent and Katy did their notebooking page about Benjamin Franklin. Kaomi and Felicity colored a picture of Benjamin Franklin with a kite. Kent and Katy both worked on Math, Reading, and other individual work. We finished our storytime book, Seabiscuit. Usually, we really enjoy the books we read for storytime, but this one seemed to have evaded our interest. While I found the story interesting and learned more about the history of horse racing, I think the book was just a little bit on a higher level than my kids were ready for (I'm reading to K, 2 and 3). Maybe it would have been okay for just Kent. Usually they ask questions to help them understand something better, but there were very few questions this time around and they really didn't want me to read it each day at storytime. They are all excited that we are done and now we can read something more fun for the rest of the week before we begin a new book next week. Kaomi's reading lesson was a longer one so I opted to only do half of it today and we will do the rest of it tomorrow. She is doing well, but becomes overwhelmed easily in one sitting if it is long or she struggles even just a little bit with something. She was also excited to read more in Peter Cottontail. We didn't get to math, so she asked Daddy to help her with her math after supper.
Wednesday: Kaomi had her well-child visit first thing this morning, so we started school when we returned home. We learned more about how a printing press worked in Benjamin Franklin's day and stamped each child's initials with a letter block and stamp pad on a paper. We wrote a letter for English and worked on Math. Kent and Katy also had poetry and other individual work for the day.
Thursday: We kicked off our school day with Bible time followed by Science. We tried to make static electricity and failed, but then we moved on to talking about progress and robots and programing robots to do what you need them to do. The three older children practiced following directions blindfolded trying to take a piece of candy to someone else who was stationed at the door. They had fun and the un-blinfolded children had fun watching the one who was blindfolded trying not to run into any obstacles. I didn't think to take any pictures until after we were done. Kent and Katy moved on to English and other individual work for the rest of the morning. Kaomi worked on reading and math. Then we read more Peter Cottontail and she tried to draw Reddy Fox pretending to be dead. I ended up drawing a sample on the whiteboard, then she did her best to draw her idea of what my sample looked like. In the afternoon we started a new genre for storytime and reading. We are working on historical fiction and our new storytime book is Understood Betsy. I realized today that we must have been behind on our last storytime, when I thought we were a couple days ahead. Oops! We should have been starting this book on Monday. That's okay we'll probably catch up with no problem. Kent and Katy started their new books for reading today as well. Since their reading gets spaced out a little more with them, I am trying to start the same genres around the same time. Kent will pick up his missed genres from this year, next year since I have him on a two year schedule to complete his workbook. Kent's book selections are for 4/5 reading level this year. I'm thinking that I may do the same thing with Katy, but I will let her read the genres we missed covering this year, as she will have a different set of books to read next year. She is on a Level 2 reading and will be on Level 3 next year. I worked on math with Katy this afternoon, then she had a review to complete. This week we got behind on her math so we will try to get caught up tomorrow, to be ready to start next week on schedule. She's not lacking in skills, Mommy was just lacking in organization this week. I'm looking forward to trying to be on top of things next week, again.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Bountiful Basket #5
This is what came in our Bountiful Basket this past Saturday.
We ordered an organic basket, the Italian Veggie Pack and organic 9-grain bread. I received the broccoli as a thank you for volunteering, as well.
We've been enjoying it. I made quiche with chard, mushrooms, onoion, bacon and cheese and EVERYONE liked it. We served fruit on the side. I added zucchini, mushrooms and fresh basil to our pasta sauce. I made fresh guacamole and spread it on tortillas and rolled them up with a slice of ham for my lunch yesterday. I used fresh rosemary and onion in seasoning our roast chicken on Tuesday.
Update: I also made Veggie Soup to serve with cornbread on Friday and Used the leftover soup with spicy sausage and rice on Saturday.
We ordered an organic basket, the Italian Veggie Pack and organic 9-grain bread. I received the broccoli as a thank you for volunteering, as well.
We've been enjoying it. I made quiche with chard, mushrooms, onoion, bacon and cheese and EVERYONE liked it. We served fruit on the side. I added zucchini, mushrooms and fresh basil to our pasta sauce. I made fresh guacamole and spread it on tortillas and rolled them up with a slice of ham for my lunch yesterday. I used fresh rosemary and onion in seasoning our roast chicken on Tuesday.
Update: I also made Veggie Soup to serve with cornbread on Friday and Used the leftover soup with spicy sausage and rice on Saturday.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
U-NEEKS Card Review
This month I had the opportunity to review some friendship cards by Dayspring through (in)courage.
Cards...they are fun to send and fun to get. It makes my day when I receive an encouraging word from someone. If it is a card or note that comes in my mailbox it serves as a reminder more than once that someone I know is thinking about and praying for me.
As I looked through the selection of cards I was sent, I thought the silly animal pictures on the front of them would make them perfect to send to kids and "kids at heart" or for kids to send. Since I have a few children, who I thought might have fun picking a card for someone, I laid them out for everyone to choose one. Then we read the inside and tried to think of someone they knew whom they could send some encouragement. Kaomi chose to give her friendship card to her Sunday School teacher. Katy's card was a birthday card so she sent it to her cousin who has a birthday next week. Kent had a get well card and he chose to send it to someone in our Bible Study Group who wasn't feeling well on Sunday. I chose to send my card of encouragement to a friend who recently had a death in their family.
This was a fun activity to do with my kids and they had to think who would fit with the card, rather than just sending it to whomever they were thinking they might want to write to. It's a good way to get out of a rut.
At first, I was a little disappointed with the simpleness of what was written inside the cards, but as we started working on this project I found that I liked that there was quite a bit of space inside them to personalize them as the sender wished to do. The simpleness of the cards actually turned out to be something I liked after all.*
My challenge to you: Pick a random card and see if you know someone that it fits. Then send it to them right away. Then do it again tomorrow.
This month when you use the code SpecialShip! you can receive free shipping on any Dayspring Card Pack.
*These are my own opinions. I received these cards to review and have not been compensated in any other way.
Cards...they are fun to send and fun to get. It makes my day when I receive an encouraging word from someone. If it is a card or note that comes in my mailbox it serves as a reminder more than once that someone I know is thinking about and praying for me.
As I looked through the selection of cards I was sent, I thought the silly animal pictures on the front of them would make them perfect to send to kids and "kids at heart" or for kids to send. Since I have a few children, who I thought might have fun picking a card for someone, I laid them out for everyone to choose one. Then we read the inside and tried to think of someone they knew whom they could send some encouragement. Kaomi chose to give her friendship card to her Sunday School teacher. Katy's card was a birthday card so she sent it to her cousin who has a birthday next week. Kent had a get well card and he chose to send it to someone in our Bible Study Group who wasn't feeling well on Sunday. I chose to send my card of encouragement to a friend who recently had a death in their family.
This was a fun activity to do with my kids and they had to think who would fit with the card, rather than just sending it to whomever they were thinking they might want to write to. It's a good way to get out of a rut.
At first, I was a little disappointed with the simpleness of what was written inside the cards, but as we started working on this project I found that I liked that there was quite a bit of space inside them to personalize them as the sender wished to do. The simpleness of the cards actually turned out to be something I liked after all.*
My challenge to you: Pick a random card and see if you know someone that it fits. Then send it to them right away. Then do it again tomorrow.
This month when you use the code SpecialShip! you can receive free shipping on any Dayspring Card Pack.
*These are my own opinions. I received these cards to review and have not been compensated in any other way.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Felicity and Her Baby
This afternoon Felicity and Kaomi were playing with baby dolls. Kaomi's doll had a dress on and Felicity kept trying to take her doll. Felicity's doll didn't have a dress. The next thing I know I see Felicity coming from the area of the stairs carrying Kaomi's Our Generation Doll, Jenny. She sat down in hallway and removed the dress from Jenny and brought it to me to put on her baby. So now there sits a doll upstairs with just a pair of stockings on. Felicity was very happy to have a dress on her doll and she played contentedly without trying to take Kaomi's doll anymore. It's a good thing that the Our Generation/American Girl doll dresses fit on our baby dolls.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
In School this Week...
Monday: Daddy had the day off of work. No school!!! We did swim, so that counts for exercise.
Tuesday: This was a long day for school. Katy decided that she would have an attitude all day, because she had to clean the bathroom (her regular Tuesday chore). She didn't pay good attention and made several mistakes and decided she couldn't do her math. She finished math with Daddy's supervision after supper and didn't get to play. Kent had trouble following the directions for long division when he was working by himself. No mater how many times I explained it and he seemed to understand it, he couldn't do the long division by himself. Daddy tried to explain it to him after supper and Kent finally got all his problems correct. I'm hoping he remembers now how to do it. Kaomi did great in reading new words, in math learning about patterns and in writing. We had time to read some of Peter Cottontail as well. Felicity wanted me to read her a book from her preschool box about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. Then she made a trumpet craft to go with her story.
Wednesday: Kaomi did great on her next reading lesson. It seems like she's starting to understand how sounds fit together to make words. She practiced making a pattern and wrote several words she has learned how to read. Kent did a great job on his math review answering every problem correctly. Katy did a great job on her math review, as well. They both finished up their school work in a timely manner as well.
Thursday: We got off to a late start. I ended up just sending Kent and Katy to begin when I realized that it didn't look like we'd be able to start altogether anytime soon. They finished all their individual work by lunchtime. We had some friends over for a little while in the afternoon so we didn't work on anything we needed to do together. We will try to get it all finished up tomorrow. Kaomi did great again on her reading lesson. She struggled a little when she forgot what sound the letter "g" makes, but she continued on and was able to complete the whole lesson. Kent built a really tall Duplo Lego tower after lunch, we just a few interruptions of Lissie knocking it down and it falling over a couple times.
Friday: We helped clean in the nursery at church this week. Kent and Katy completed their English.
Tuesday: This was a long day for school. Katy decided that she would have an attitude all day, because she had to clean the bathroom (her regular Tuesday chore). She didn't pay good attention and made several mistakes and decided she couldn't do her math. She finished math with Daddy's supervision after supper and didn't get to play. Kent had trouble following the directions for long division when he was working by himself. No mater how many times I explained it and he seemed to understand it, he couldn't do the long division by himself. Daddy tried to explain it to him after supper and Kent finally got all his problems correct. I'm hoping he remembers now how to do it. Kaomi did great in reading new words, in math learning about patterns and in writing. We had time to read some of Peter Cottontail as well. Felicity wanted me to read her a book from her preschool box about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. Then she made a trumpet craft to go with her story.
Wednesday: Kaomi did great on her next reading lesson. It seems like she's starting to understand how sounds fit together to make words. She practiced making a pattern and wrote several words she has learned how to read. Kent did a great job on his math review answering every problem correctly. Katy did a great job on her math review, as well. They both finished up their school work in a timely manner as well.
Thursday: We got off to a late start. I ended up just sending Kent and Katy to begin when I realized that it didn't look like we'd be able to start altogether anytime soon. They finished all their individual work by lunchtime. We had some friends over for a little while in the afternoon so we didn't work on anything we needed to do together. We will try to get it all finished up tomorrow. Kaomi did great again on her reading lesson. She struggled a little when she forgot what sound the letter "g" makes, but she continued on and was able to complete the whole lesson. Kent built a really tall Duplo Lego tower after lunch, we just a few interruptions of Lissie knocking it down and it falling over a couple times.
Friday: We helped clean in the nursery at church this week. Kent and Katy completed their English.
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