Been MIA for a while, but we've been busy! So here a few things to catch you up.
In March, we went to Roundup, an annual homeschool educators camp for members of the church of Christ. Met so many great people, and we really look forward to going back. The boys were sportin their shirts here. Hope to have actual pictures of camp in the future to share.
The boys have been as onery as ever. Keeping me on my toes.
Workin on some potty training. Unlike Isaac,
Eli needs some lessons in modesty,
but it does make potty training easier!
Wish me luck!
However difficult they be at times, my boys bring me joy,
and I'm so thankful that I get to stay at home with them.
I'm working on my own "Why We Chose to Homeschool" topic that I will want to share in the future. It is more for me, but perhaps it will answer questions as well. With Isaac's Kindergarten year coming up, I knew I'd be getting more and more questions and facing those that might be a bit judgemental in our decision. Just feel the need to get my thoughts out on paper. Hope to share that soon.
So here are some things we've been doing:
Mama has been on a 30 day yeast/gluten/refined sugar free diet. Trying to develop better habits. Today is day 30! Now I'm trying to decide my meal plan for the next month and decide which foods I will allow myself to add back in. The goal is to leave the refined sugar treats for special occasions. (ex.don't make a batch of cookie dough and eat on the dough all week...lol) The best thing about this has been new recipes and ideas on healthier snacks!
The boys certainly didn't mind my sugar free snacks!
Notice the chocolate on Eli's face and that longing look for MORE!
We got carpet in our schoolroom! Remnants from the Sterling church building!
Gotta love the orange...lol. Piece of my childhood in here.
We started a unit on community helpers.
Read library books about each career. We made lapbooks, too. Most of the material came from
We've learned about police officers, fire fighters, librarians, and post office/mail carriers so far.
Occupation cards from Mardels
Here's our policeman costumes.
We played a stop and go game like red-light, green-light.
Happy officer
Mad officer
Happy officer
Our homemade stoplights. Eli wasn't convinced that it wasn't his instrument.
Note: On the Making Patterns section. I laminated and put large magnets on the back of the cards.
The actual squares you see on the lapbook have magnetic paint behind them, so it sticks!
Studied Fingerprints
I made a notebook full of our work.
Laminated alot of this stuff b/c color ink is expensive.
Then we just use wet/dry pens.
The graph is a dice game using these things I bought.
Isaac had fun with it.
We did a fire experiment. I didn't take pictures cause you really gotta watch Eli around fire! Here is the site where I got the idea.
Our mailbox. These came with their valentines this year.
I bought them because I thought it would be perfect to let them play
"mail" or "post office." And that is what we did!
Isaac had to purchase paper, an envelope, and a stamp. I then helped him write letters to his Daddy, Leah, and Nick. This activity turned into a shopping activity. He got his shopping cart and started filling it up. I was the cashier. I told him that will be one quarter, dime, nickel, penny, etc. So he was learning to identify the coins, but he thought he was playing! ;) We also made a trip to the real post office to pick up a package. Isaac had to do the talking.
We go to the library every Thursday so he is pretty familiar with librarians.
This was an activity I made while in college. You alphabetize the books on the bookshelf.
A teacher friend gave me these old books that were being thrown away.
I swear these are so familiar. I think they were the same readers I learned from. This is 1st grade and Isaac is whizzing through the reading. He doesn't like the workbook though. Phonics rules, spelling, and writing can come later. He just wants to read, read, read!
I bought this cool little slip pocket thing.
Perfect for dry erase and reusing supplies!
I have alot of folder games from Words Their Way. I keep this bin full of the ones he can do, we've worked on, or are currently working on. These go in his little reading corner.
This box holds little readers he can read independently. I kept alot of Leah's old readers from kindergarten and 1st grade. Isaac has been reading alot of those. Apologetics Press easy readers are great, too.
Watching God's creation at work! We found this on our front porch.
We'll be turning this into a study of the Butterfly Life Cycle!
Love how education just happens at home!
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