Counting to 100 (by 1's, 5's, & 10's)

Target (2nd best store to Goodwill) has foam hands in their dollar section and so I coulnd't resist buying two sets of them. 

I wrote on each finger 1-100.
On a piece of tape in the middle of each hand I counted by 5's.

Andre now has a visual for counting to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's.

This game is even more fun because he gets to sit on my shoulders to point to the numbers at the top of the door.

(and yes, Andre's ninja outfit consists of black tights with pink hearts on them)

Wood Working Class 101

Kids LOVE tools -

 so we gave them all wood, a hammer, and some nails...

Instant Learning - Instant Fun

P.E. class homeschool style - GOLF

Another homeschool perk -

Daddy gets to teach us all golf on a beautiful day!

Eli Dash

The Father

The mother

Eddie James

Simone Marie



Andre Charles

CHICKENS

Josh built me a beautiful chicken run that is

attached to an insulated dog house (craigslist purchase).

Pepper and Salt

So... many people ask - why do you have chickens?

1. They are so cute! 

2.They come when I call and they follow me around

3. Eggs - but they are seasonal egg layers

(maybe next year I'll hook up lights to get eggs into the fall)

4. As vegetarians its important that our kids view animals as animals and not something deep fried and smothered in sauce

5. This is good practice for the farm we're going to have someday!

Word Study - three letter words

In order to reinforce the idea that words are made up of a combination of letters Ander did an assortment of activities.

1. Make three letter words out of playdough.  I wrote the word on a piece of paper and made the letters out of playdough for him to copy.

2. Sounding out 3 letter pictures with scrabble tiles.

3. Sounding out three letter words and matching them to a
     picture.

** To make the picture cards, I cut pictures out of old workbooks but magazines and websites are both good sources.  Examples of words we used are: cat, rat, web, hat, fan, can, bat

I'm BAAAACK

I know I have been gone from blogging for practically a year but I have returned. 
Of course I am still homeschooling my children and I may occasionally post about things we have done in the past. 
But just to give you an idea of what my past year has been like (and to help explain why there has been no time for blogging), let me tell you about my last 24 hours...

Andre climbed into my lap last night at 7:30 to tell me that "the money went down my throat".  When I asked him if he swallowed a penny he said "I didn't do it".  But he obviously did swallow a  penny because that is what the doctor pulled out of his esophagus this morning! 

Children ... how can they be so cute and innocent but oh so naughty at the same time?

Now all the kids are cuddled up on the couch watching CAPTAIN AMERICA...