Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things to be thankful for

My beautiful kids, Hubby, My mom and my brother. The farm , my health being somewhat better, being alive, being free. Being able to go to my church and celebrate my religion without being persecuted. Happy Thanksgiving. Remember all you have and be thankful
Stephanie

homemade playdoh and paperwork among other things

Last week we made peppermint playdoh smells heavenly the kids loved it quick and cheap.
I used flour ,salt,red food coloring,and 1/2 cup cooking oil , half cup water. peppermint extract. just a pinch or else whole house smells lol worse stuff house could smell like.
we added glitter too kids loved that.
mix until right consistency.
we don't put cream of tartar in cause I never have any
store in ziplocs
throw out when gets yucky
I had seen on several blogs and wanted to try.
we will be doing cinnamom and pumkin this week.

quaterly time lots of paperwork for those that don't homeschool report time.

cleaning. out kids closets and toys lol that is a couple week job hehe


Stephanie

Secrets in the maple tree

I love this Abeka reader. Little man is almost done with this one.
Great book he loved it.
Stephanie

tons of stuff

I must confess I love Kate Gosselin Yes I think she can be witchy but what mother of eight
busy working mom with a hubby like that couldnt be. how many of us moms would come out angelic if a film crew followed you around all the time. lol I wouldn't do well snarky hubby comments would be abounding lol.
Anyways So I can't believe September is half gone . ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the fall and Halloween and yes I am religious and yes I love pumpkins and Halloween.
The first two weeks of school have went well.
Little bird getting the hang of it.
http://www.kinderprintables.com/apples/appleemergentreader.pdf
above is little birds current practice book. nice fall k read.
big boy is loving secrets in the maple tree an Abeka book
Math much better with big boy no saxon no tantrums yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are doing ancient Egypt in history and seabird for geography
Holling c holling books are great we finished Paddle to the sea.
and starting seabird
Have a great weekend
Stephanie

Birthday and book a day

well I am 37 ooh lol

I am starting a new project a seasonal childrens book a day
Starting tommorow, which is also our first day of school.
little bird starts k and ds grade 3
Stephanie

little birds big day

tonight is little birds big night. the fashion show as part of our loggers field days. this is her second year and she loves loves loves it.
some great books to check out especially for the younger crowd
Katie and the Mona Lisa
By James Mayhew

and
Katie and the Sunflowers
also by James Mayhew
engaging story kept the little man at 9
intrigued also.

showed the art work and upclose in the picture as well as used some language from artist country italian in the mona lisa book french in the sunflower book
cute plan to check out whole set from library more posts as we do them

real frog math lol
the other day we were doing some math problems and the minute I introduced the frogs it was fun.


Stephanie