Week 34: Struggles and Successes

Ty finished his Reading/English DVDs for Kindergarten on Friday.  I was left feeling a little sad that we wouldn’t be seeing Chef Cookie anymore.  Some of our best memories of this year have been doing ‘Snack of the Week’ with Chef Cookie.  And Ty’s impression of Chef’s “bon appetit!’ is hysterical.  We will definitely miss [...]

Week 19: Welcome to the BIG SHOW!

We started back to school this week, and we had a couple of minor changes to our schedule. The most obvious change was the introduction of Heritage Studies again.  We had cut Heritage Studies from our day a few months ago because we wanted to be able to focus more on the Science lessons.  The [...]

Week 10: The Study of Life

One of the activities that inspired our “Animal Unit Study” was the Turtle bread.  I ran across this recipe online, and when I saw how cute it was, I immediately started planning for the animal unit study.  We took a bit of a shortcut with the recipe, in that, we bought bread dough from the [...]

Week 9: Gypsies in the Palace

What a fun week!  Let’s see…we went on a really cool field trip, had a substitute teacher, and made a yummy treat. Most of this post will be of pictures.  I’ll describe what happened in the caption and/or along the way.  Ready?  Here we go… On Saturday, we decorated pumpkins.  I purchased those foam pumpkins [...]

Week 7: “That’s One Small Step for Man…”

I had tons of pictures from this week. Pictures of the boys working on their Apollo 11 crafts and lapbooks. Pictures of the boys making the ‘Snack of the Week’ (S’mores). Pictures of the boys interacting with their DVD lessons. But on Friday, in my attempt to free up some space on my SD card, [...]

Week 5: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part I

Our fifth week of school was a lot of fun.  On Monday, we started a unit study on Johnny Appleseed.  This was in addition to our regular curriculum.  We started our unit study by reading, The Story of Johnny Appleseed, by Aliki.  We then started our Johnny Appleseed notebook.  This is just a 3-ring notebook [...]

Our First Trip to the Library

I am embarassed to admit this, but here goes: I have never taken the boys to the library.  No real reason, other than the fact that we own at least 100 children’s books, and have a pretty established library of our own.  Nonetheless, I felt it was time to introduce them to the public library. [...]

You Could Say This Was Our First Field Trip…

My boys love Bass Pro.  To them, Bass Pro is like a wonderful theme park.  Even the glass elevators are considered “rides”. Bass Pro is a good 45 minute drive for us.  I tend to not go there often because they are so far away, and because I find it difficult to leave that store [...]