Thursday, August 18, 2011

School Year in Full Swing!

Sorry for my absence to blogging, it has been extremely busy around here lately!  Baby shower here at the house which resulted in a lot of cleaning!  Soldier boy has been out of town for 2 weeks, so that means wearing both mommy and daddy hats, exhausting!  Tuesday we started our Fall Semester at Fern Academy and we've having a lot of fun.  The kids attended their first Classical Conversations class and LOVED it, they can't wait to go back next week.  Here are a few pics of the kids in action at home:

First Day of Classical Conversations

Gman loved working on his Batman Preschool Pack from 1+1+1=1.  
"B" is for Batman tracing fun!
Forming his letters with play-doh!

One proud boy after doing his Batman Color by Number all by himself!

One thing I'm doing more of this year is letting the kids pick a subject they want to learn more about and do a unit study using lapbooks.  Livy decided she wanted to study about the ocean and fish after checking out Rainbow Fish from the library.

We started on our Ocean Lapbook today:


Working hard on Mammals vs. Fish!

I found some great printables for our book via Homeschool Share!  We added a Fish life cycle  wheel and whale vocabulary cards.


Stay tuned for more Ocean Life activities!


Showing off her Lapbook cover art!


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Win a Cricut!

Only 3 days left to enter to win at My Craft Channel's blog!  I know I could really put a Cricut Expression 2 to good use around here, especially since I now have a craft space!   Make sure you follow My Craft Channel so you can watch the awesome show line up they will have this fall..they are taking crafting to a whole new level with internet t.v.  I know I can't wait!