Long Day

Attended MIHA state meeting today. Boring! 9am-330pm long too.I am going to coach a jr team this year. Aaron went with me, that's devotion!!!!
Kids colored Adam and Eve pictures to go with our creation unit study. Then they made valentines cards. Just simple construction paper and crayons.

Snow Day Today

Sent the kids out to play in the snow! Great time for mom to relax and find new homeschool activities to printout for them. They are little sponges and work faster than I can come up with new ideas on-line. I am having a bad day today so thought it good they go outside and play in the 8 inches of new snow we got last night.
Worked on color sorting page with grading paint chips(found at www.walkingbytheway.com), needle work set up for both (found children's needles at joann's fabrics cost $1.29 plus tax and I already had some plastic canvas and yarn),and for math a follow the number valentine's heart (mymontessorihouse.com).

vase for valentines gifts

I found an idea for a valentine gift . We made tissue and glass bottle vases by glueing the tissue to the glass bottles. I cleaned the bottles. I cut up three colors of tissue into little squares and put into baggies. We covered the bottle with elmers glue and applied the tissues to them. I will try to post the photos I took with my phone.

Cinderella Saturday

Today is Cinderella Saturday---The kids dress in rags and clean the house while I pretend to be the evil stepmom and shout orders. It is a fun way to clean the house and they love it! It is a great way to motivate the litle ones and nag without being a nag LOL!

Crash

The big three got in a truck tree slide on the way to school.Everyone is safe but truck is totaled. Homeschool was a wash out for the day. But I had saw and idea to make sensory stress balls. So far we have filled balloon with flour, sugar, salt,rice, popcorn,and a sheet of bubble wrap. You take and blow up balloons and let the air out. Then I put one balloon inside of another and used a funnel to fill with different sensory items. The teen have loved these. Maybe they'll let the little kids have a turn soon.

Accomplished alot today

Tippy-toe put number window clings on the window in order 1-10. Pitty-pat did single digit subtraction flash cards-two wrong in the whole deck! Jon played with his dominoes ( don't tell him it's number recognition).(Math) We watched two squirrels at our bird feeder for half an hour. No birds today.(science) Three loads of laundry-Pitty-pat learned to switch clothes to the dryer and start it. We watched my cousins baby, so she could get some much needed rest. Dishes were done by Tippy-toe today.(Home economics, Life skills)Took the dog to the vet(alone thanks)Now if only the mountain of clean laundry would fold itself!

Pineapple plant

We bought a whole golden pinapple from Sam's Club for $2.98. I loved watching the kids faces when Aaron cut it for them. It was so juicy and good. So we decided to try to grow the top into a new plant for a science unit. I asked Aaron to pull the top out of the fruity part and we dried it for three days. Now the info is conflicting I decided to try to root it in water so it is setting in a cup and because our house gets cool I put a zipploc bag open over it to cover it like a green house. No new roots yet on day 5. The kids and I will keep watch. I have asked everyone at work to bring me a pineapple top if they get one. If I get anymore I will have the kids try rooting them straight into dirt as an experiment to see which way works best. It takes at least two years to grow a new pinapple from your top so this will be an on going project for our homeschool. I did not inherit my mother's green thumb so wish us luck.