A pumpkin lunch!!

I have come to the conclusion I am slowly getting obsessed with making cute lunches. Yep that pizza is shaped as a punkin and those oranges have green stems! I used a bit of pipe cleaner there. I am also running out of cutesy cups! I am for sure making the whole Halloween themed on nest week!! Yes I well, the kids are excited!

Week 8

Yep I got creative with lunch this week lol. Those little bones are just too cute in the apple sauce grass with the pile og eggs dontcha think? I found ths site and fell in love. While I can't do all this all the time it was a fun thing to try. The kids adored it even my oldest thought it cool to have dinosaur bologna! The little cup just happened to be at Walmart for $.80 so who could resist that? While looking around the web I have seen some amazing creative lunches. I just think WOW that is some time to have. I also think I would get burned out pretty quick and it wouldn't be fun anymore. The kids call it fun lunch and I already have the whole pumpkin theme going on in my head for nest week!!

We worked on the basic stuff this week of course. First language Lessons, Math U see, Pathway Readers for the boys, All About Spelling and Explode the Code for Skyler. She is doing pretty good in math as of lately. She was such a struggler last year until I finally gave up and just stopped all formal math. She played games and found a new favorite movie, Mathtacular. She really likes this and will watch it over and over. It must have helped something click because she has been doing great with math this year. She even took her first Unit Test and only missed 1. YAY SKYLER!!!

Of course we did science this week. Alot of bone work! They had fun with this. Science seems to be all their favorite. They love Brainpop and experiments and seeing things you just don't see everyday! Bones is really great to be doing right now so close to Halloween. We love Halloween here. Trick or treating and dressing up like super heros. They love to see others costumes as well. I was pretty thrilled to see the 14 year old still wanting to dress up. A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle of all things, and I may be a bit biased when I say she makes one beautiful mutant! Halloween is amazing to us. The worls is falling asleep for Fall and scary movies. We love it! They also got to go to a pumpkin patch today and if I figure out how to get the pics off my phone I will post those. They even had little picture stands setup with hay stacks and backgrounds. I was sad to have forgotten my camera.

They also did some nature study as well this week and one activity here fit great with our bone study! Fox and Damian are still working through lessons 18-19 in Math U See they just don't seem to be able to add multiple numbers. Fox did have a break through on Thursday though which was wonderful. He gets angry with math and I can so relate because I HATE numbers. Math is a fight and it always ruins our day. I told him the angrier he got the worse it was. Thursday he sat down and he said I will not be mad. Well instead of getting every problem wrong he only missed some. I corrected them and gave it back to re-do waiting for the fight...it never came. He was so proud he actually got some right he was happy to correct them. When he got them all correct he looked at me and said, "you told me not to be mad so I didn't get mad and you were right mom and look I didn't have all the problems wrong and it didn't take all day".

That was too amazing to hear from him we have a rocky relationship! That made my day. It was better than pizza, a new book even a shopping spree. Moments like that make all the aggravation seem worth it somehow. Makes me feel what I do everyday matters. Well it was also crazy to see that both boys have really had some growth spurts as of today all their jeans are wayyy to short! See another reason to love Fall, SHOPPING!

Week 7

Well we are on week 7 and it feels like we are already behind! GRRRRRR The boys are really struggling in math seems they have both been stuck on the same stuff forever. We did manage to get through week 4 of science though so thats good! Sometimes our days go wonderfully smooth other days it is like a HUGE battle. We were lucky to get through the basics this week with all the bahaviors my wonderful little boys had. We did have a good science week you can read all about it here.

Week 2

Well week 2 has come to a close today! We started science this week. You can read all about our science plans here. I felt that it deserved it's on place. This week we had some distractions in the form of behaviors and the car having to get fixed but I still tried to chug along. We also started using Brain Pop and I cannot say enough about that site. I really like Brain Pop and so do my kids! Skyler is still all about Head of the Class as well. She really enjoys that and the fact that it is free well, all the better! We are still doing the flat traveling and state box exchange on the facebook group homeschool swapping adventures. My kids still really love that as well. You can read all about our adventures on that one right here. I tend to get all clustered when there is too much in one place so I like certain things to have their own space so to speak! I know I need to update all the things we are using now and I will get around to that sooner or later anyway lol. Two weeks down thirty something to go!

We worked on newspapers this week. Talking about what they were and everything. They also made some of their own personal newspapers as well. This picture is Skyler working on hers! Notice her hair is pulled into a pony that is a major big deal as she hates piggie tales but I am so tired of her hair in her face!

Our first day back!!

Today was our first day back at school! YAY!! I have come to the conclusion I hate breaks. There is too much time for nothing and they wind up driving me insane. I really truly wonder how I used to deal with summer vacations when they went to school. Oh, I just remembered, they went to daycare and I was at work or school. I miss those days sometimes. I miss college. I did well there and actual adults cared what I had to say. I do love being with my kids though so I know I got the better part but at times I do miss adult interaction. Anyway today started off a bit rough for Fox. He is my"difficult" child. We all have one of those, right?

We strted our day off with the new morning board I have put together. Calendar, weather our phone number and address as it seems I had neglected to make points of those since we moved! What basic stuff we overlook when worried about everything else! They liked the morning board and especially the temp. chart. We have a clock in the house that tells the temp and a gauge outside so it was fun for them to compare the difference. We also made it the first day using our workboxes and schedule strips. I am in love with this by the way.

It was so wonderful to not hear, "Mom how much more work?" I hate hearing that all day. This way they can just see exactly what is going on each day and they have it all figured out! They liked having everything in their baskets to as far as pencils, crayons and such. They did their work, asked for help when needed and it went pretty good for a first day. As a special little treay they had fun boxes at the end of their schedule.

The boys had airplanes to build and paint and Skyler Bay got a mini glass tea set. It was a fun little extra for their first day and they really enjoyed it. Now if I can get Fox to keep his glasses on tomorrow then it will be even better!! We also decided that this year we want to have a 100 day party to celebrate 100 days. If you would like to see any more pics of our first day please go here.

Back To School Party

Today we had a back to school party! If all goes according to plan we start back Monday. We continued the German tradition we started last year of the school cones. They are filled with just some small goodies for the kids. Play-dough bags, little lego people, art packs and such. Just a little something extra for fun. We started it last year and the kids really liked them so there you have it!

We had make your own ice cream sundays, cookies and playing after spending the morning at Lowes building little lockers.

Here they are opening all their goodies. skyler Bay was thrilled with Captain America stickers and the boys were super happy with mini lego figures. Fox got spiderman and Damian got green goblin so they had to battle it out!

FIELDTRIP!

Jacksonville Zoo. It was very fun to see all the animals. We haven't beeen to the zoo in over a year since we left IN. So not only was it a fun day but to a place we had never been! The only dissapointment was no real ocean animal displays. My kids are really into sharks and dolphins so that was missed. We did get to pet some sting rays so that was awesome and we also fed a giraffe.

Damian really liked petting the sting rays!

While Devlin is no longer homeschooled she is still my daughter and when I get a picture I am proud to post it! Look at that beautiful girl feeding one of her all time favorite animals!