Zoo Boo

 Before we left for the Zoo Boo (Trick or Treat at the Zoo) I had the kids take some pictures.  Boy were they excited they would not stop making silly faces.:) 

 At the Zoo Boo the kids got to pick out a pumpkin and decorate it with a marker.:)

 We also took some pictures.  Normal "cheese" picture.

 Then of course we had to make a "silly" face. :)))

Hannah with her Joy School friend at the Zoo Boo.

Bird Feeders

The kids made bird feeders at our co-op preschool today.  I had them take pictures with them and we hung them in our tree in the front yard. 

Tea Party

Hannah woke up from her nap and went straight into the playroom/schoolroom.  Usually she comes to me and wants me to hold her for a little bit.  So I did not bother her.  I came into the room about 5 minutes later and she had all her little animals and her baby sitting at the table and she was feeding them.  It was so adorable.:)))  Oh, how cute are little girls!

What We've Been Up To...

I have not posted in a while but we have been quite busy.  

• We are in the process of putting or house on the market and building a new home.   
• We started a co-op with 3 other mommies for preschool.  Each mom teaches 2 weeks in a row on Tues. and Thurs.  So far we are on our 3rd week and absolutely love it.  Since I am going to homeschool I would love to have this same set up with 3-4 other mommies and rotate when Caden starts Kindergarten.  It is so great because you get a little bit of a break and your child also learns to listen to other adults and not just me.  I know they have homeschool groups for this very reason but I like it a lot because it is smaller and not so overwhelming to try and figure out were to get plugged in at.
• My husband got a new job position so he is quit busy with a new work load.

Even though we are busy we are still homeschooling separate from our co-op, I just have had time to take pictures and post them.  Below are a few of what we have done this week so far.

  Here is our co-op friends.  We were learning about our bodies and how our feet can paint too.

We also made gingerbread cookies with our co-op friends.  We used another part of our body (hands) to make gingerbread men.

For Mommy School we are reading Cat's Colors.

This activity came from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.  It is called Fruit Loop Sand.  

1. We sorted fruit loops and placed them in six separate zip lock bags.
2. Crushed each bag until they were powdery.
3. Poured each color into a bowl.
4. Panted a white piece of paper with glue.
5. Sprinkled the colors on the picture.

Our Stations

 Hannah chose to play with the Fisher-Price Trio Crazy Creatures.  Look at our dog! lol

Caden has been into making all kinds of silly faces in the pictures, just so he can see himself in the camera.  He was being silly at this station too.  It was supposed to dot paint the uppercase and lowercase letter L.  I got this printout from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

This is  Letter Hunt, also from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

He is showing me what he did, and how he messed up on the middle box.

This is the Ladybug counting puzzle from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Ladybug shapes from Confessios of a Homeschooler.

Being silly.

Putting up stations!!

Centers for the Week

Since we started school I have been placing stations (centers) whatever you want to call them around various places around the house.  I do not have a specific time I change them.  They are usually changed when they have lost interest or when I have the second to change them out. 

One of our stations was Four Seasons floor puzzle.   It was so cute, both of the kids worked together to put the puzzle together.

This is a photo album I made of different family members for them to recognize.

Our color is blue, so I placed blue beads to lace on a rod. 

Blue stickers.

 

This was a station Hannah made up herself!!:)  When my husband goes through the mail he normally leaves the pile of junk mail on the counter.  Somehow it never makes it to the trash can.  This time he left the junk mail pile on the floor and Hannah really enjoyed it!  Thank you Daddy! 

 

We did this station outside.  I used shaving cream and we made squares.  Caden also made a C for his name.

 

I thought Hannah would like this, because she loves to make a mess.  As soon as I took this picture she was done.

 

Last we made cupcakes!  It was no one's birthday, I just put a candle in the cupcake so they could blow it out.  They saw the candle on the front of the package and they said they wanted to blow one out.

Donuts:))))

A couple of weeks ago we visited Daddy at work for lunch.  Aaron walked us around his office showing the kids off and when we went past the kitchen the kids spotted donuts.  We told them we they could not have any because we were going to eat lunch. 

So a week past and Caden was mad at me because we were going to a friends house.  The friend was a little girl.  Caden has no boy friends, all my friends have little girls.  So Caden said "I do not want to go to her house, I want to go to work with Daddy and eat donuts because he is a boy!"  So the next day Daddy brought Caden home a donut, and boy was he happy!!!!

Me Posters

I traced the kids and then they colored themselves.  See the wet spot on Hannah's picture?  We are in potty training mode and she really did potty on herself (poster), funny huh!

Then I had Caden measure himself.

Then I hung them on the wall.