It's our week for the homeschool spotlight. I'm sorry I don't get to read/post here too much anymore because there are no enough hours in the day, lol!
Monday:
The kids have been having a very hard time getting along lately, which is taking a toll on them and on me. So today the kids started on a computer/video fast (we have no television stations, just videos/DVDs) for a while, in the hopes that we can reconnect without the interference of those things. We also started a new bed time routine because bed time has been terrible - fighting, hair pulling, etc. So it has been a transition day for us.
This morning, Kenna decided ot make corn muffins. I am no allowed in the kitchen while she cooks; she wants to do it all herself. she has made some awesome soft pretzels and some pretty good cookies lately. The corn muffins were from a mix; I keep some of those in the cabinet for her for when she wants to cook and doesn't want to take out a million ingredients.
The kids got a new bx of 64 crayola crayons last week and a new notebook each ... this is all they can talk about, lol. They spent a bunch of the morning coloring pictures in their notebooks. Kenna has turned her notebook into a fashion design catalog; she is designing dresses and has decided that I need to make them all for her
One of these nights while she is asleep I am going to snag her notebook and make one of her dresses for her for her birthday (which is at the end of August). Holden is obsessed with Super Mario Brothers and this other game, Plants vs Zombies. So his notebook is full of Luigi pictures and plants and zombies. He never had an interest in coloring/drawing until very recently, and it is a lot of fun to watch his pictures progress. His Luigi pictures are very funny 
Around 11, Kenna did her reading & math - in math she is working on 2 & 3 digit subtraction with borrowing once/twice and she got 24/30 right The ones she got wrong were simple subtraction errors, which is great because Friday she was complaining that she didn't quite get how to borrow from two columns. Today she didn't want m to help her at all and she was able to do them with no real problems. Holden and I worked on his kindergarten workbook, he did upper and lowercase Qq, 2 more than, greater than, some writing practice and beginning sounds.
Kenna decided to set up he playstand area as a theater and she drew up a schedule, leaving it on the floor in front of the bathroom door while I was in the shower (her spelling needs work, lol):
Scheduwal
Sunday: Puppets
Munday: Magik
Tuwsday: Peting zoo
Wensday: Planting
Thersday: Tuch and Feell
Friday: Clows
Saderday: Trans =) (I have no idea what that one means!)
Sunday: Silk dancing
We originally had no plans today; Monday is the day that we generally stay home and I catch up on work because i don't work on the weekends anymore. But a friend called and asked if we wanted to meet in the beach in the afternoon, and since it has been so crummy and rainy for the past two months, we jumped at the chance and went. So we took off and headed to the ocean around 1 and stayed there until 5. Kenna got bit by a crab (they love to go crabbing and spent much of the afternoon doing that) so hard that it left a V shaped "bite" mark on her finger. They swam and played with friends and caught crabs and went beachcombing. On the way in to the beach, we saw a turkey wandering around, and on the way out we saw a bunch of baby birds. i am not positive what they were, but I think they were some sort of ibis because of the beaks. We meant to look them up when we got home and forgot because we were all hungry and tired.
Took care of the bunnies when we got home (we have 5; mama and daddy and 3 babies, who aren't really babies anymore, they are a couple of month old now), Kenna read to Holden, then we ate dinner (chicken and red peppers and onion stir fry with noodles - the quickest thing i could think of after coming home hungry after a day at the beach), and had ice cream for dessert. Kids took baths. We curled up in m bed and read a stack of books:
If You Give a Pig a Party
Oh the Places You'll Go
Pigs Can't Fly
and the wordless book "Tuesday" that the kids laughed at so much we had to look at it 3 times.
Put Kenna to bed and hung out with Holden per out new bedtime routine. They each get to stay up an extra 45 minutes every other night while the other falls asleep. I am hoping that this (1) gives us some one on one time that we never ever get and (2) it ends the tremendous amount of fighting at bedtime when they are in their room together. Holden and I read his favorite book "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog" (which makes me laugh because Holden would not eat a hot dog if his life depended on it), and we played with our Count On It snowman game. We played modified checkers with it a few times, then modified checkers using the spinner to see how many spaces we could move. That little guy is a pretty good player
Monday:
The kids have been having a very hard time getting along lately, which is taking a toll on them and on me. So today the kids started on a computer/video fast (we have no television stations, just videos/DVDs) for a while, in the hopes that we can reconnect without the interference of those things. We also started a new bed time routine because bed time has been terrible - fighting, hair pulling, etc. So it has been a transition day for us.
This morning, Kenna decided ot make corn muffins. I am no allowed in the kitchen while she cooks; she wants to do it all herself. she has made some awesome soft pretzels and some pretty good cookies lately. The corn muffins were from a mix; I keep some of those in the cabinet for her for when she wants to cook and doesn't want to take out a million ingredients.
The kids got a new bx of 64 crayola crayons last week and a new notebook each ... this is all they can talk about, lol. They spent a bunch of the morning coloring pictures in their notebooks. Kenna has turned her notebook into a fashion design catalog; she is designing dresses and has decided that I need to make them all for her
One of these nights while she is asleep I am going to snag her notebook and make one of her dresses for her for her birthday (which is at the end of August). Holden is obsessed with Super Mario Brothers and this other game, Plants vs Zombies. So his notebook is full of Luigi pictures and plants and zombies. He never had an interest in coloring/drawing until very recently, and it is a lot of fun to watch his pictures progress. His Luigi pictures are very funny Around 11, Kenna did her reading & math - in math she is working on 2 & 3 digit subtraction with borrowing once/twice and she got 24/30 right
The ones she got wrong were simple subtraction errors, which is great because Friday she was complaining that she didn't quite get how to borrow from two columns. Today she didn't want m to help her at all and she was able to do them with no real problems. Holden and I worked on his kindergarten workbook, he did upper and lowercase Qq, 2 more than, greater than, some writing practice and beginning sounds.Kenna decided to set up he playstand area as a theater and she drew up a schedule, leaving it on the floor in front of the bathroom door while I was in the shower (her spelling needs work, lol):
Scheduwal
Sunday: Puppets
Munday: Magik
Tuwsday: Peting zoo
Wensday: Planting
Thersday: Tuch and Feell
Friday: Clows
Saderday: Trans =) (I have no idea what that one means!)
Sunday: Silk dancing
We originally had no plans today; Monday is the day that we generally stay home and I catch up on work because i don't work on the weekends anymore. But a friend called and asked if we wanted to meet in the beach in the afternoon, and since it has been so crummy and rainy for the past two months, we jumped at the chance and went. So we took off and headed to the ocean around 1 and stayed there until 5. Kenna got bit by a crab (they love to go crabbing and spent much of the afternoon doing that) so hard that it left a V shaped "bite" mark on her finger. They swam and played with friends and caught crabs and went beachcombing. On the way in to the beach, we saw a turkey wandering around, and on the way out we saw a bunch of baby birds. i am not positive what they were, but I think they were some sort of ibis because of the beaks. We meant to look them up when we got home and forgot because we were all hungry and tired.
Took care of the bunnies when we got home (we have 5; mama and daddy and 3 babies, who aren't really babies anymore, they are a couple of month old now), Kenna read to Holden, then we ate dinner (chicken and red peppers and onion stir fry with noodles - the quickest thing i could think of after coming home hungry after a day at the beach), and had ice cream for dessert. Kids took baths. We curled up in m bed and read a stack of books:
If You Give a Pig a Party
Oh the Places You'll Go
Pigs Can't Fly
and the wordless book "Tuesday" that the kids laughed at so much we had to look at it 3 times.
Put Kenna to bed and hung out with Holden per out new bedtime routine. They each get to stay up an extra 45 minutes every other night while the other falls asleep. I am hoping that this (1) gives us some one on one time that we never ever get and (2) it ends the tremendous amount of fighting at bedtime when they are in their room together. Holden and I read his favorite book "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog" (which makes me laugh because Holden would not eat a hot dog if his life depended on it), and we played with our Count On It snowman game. We played modified checkers with it a few times, then modified checkers using the spinner to see how many spaces we could move. That little guy is a pretty good player
