tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43909716274050865202024-03-05T03:09:59.312-05:00What up Holmes!Everyone's Favorite FamilyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-53589797967020233842012-10-02T23:04:00.000-05:002012-10-02T23:04:34.969-05:00One of THE best school days so far this year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;">Today was my kind of school day. It flowed nicely, I watched for cues that the kiddos were done with an activity, and we did music...LOTS of music which is always a great thing for us. </span></div>
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Shadow shapes for definite success since they both know their shapes</div>
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"The b's on the bus go b-b-b, b-b-b, b-b-b..." - This was my favorite random mommy-made-up-school-thing-in-the-car-one-day and now they ask for the song all the time! We sang it and they found the bottle cap letter as we sang and put them back in their plastic baggie:).</div>
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The girls LOVE candy corn so we did a roll and remove game with candy corn!!! </div>
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Then the whiteboard came out and I introduced them to the alligator that eats bigger numbers for meals! They LOVED it! They wanted to give him a body and legs too:).</div>
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Finally Dancin' Diva started singing Freshbeat Band songs so I out the CD in and we had a music/dance concert for an hour!!!</div>
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They were absolutely ADORABLE today and I had a blast chomping numbers and dancing withe my girls:)</div>
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So last week was the first ever International Homeschool Spirit Week! I thought it would be a fun way to do school that week and help me let go a bit:). It was a fun time and I think we may do this sometimes to change things up! Enjoy:)</div>
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Mixing the water form their water bottles with the dirt making mud!!!</div>
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I think we need at least two of these per week...haha!</div>
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Crazy Sock Day...and winter day??? Haha! Dancin' Diva found my stack of winter items I took out of storage:).</div>
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Mismatch Day</div>
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Yay for spirit weeks!!!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-13152203944446407942012-09-12T18:25:00.001-05:002012-09-12T18:25:10.268-05:00Chill School Day<div style="text-align: center;">
So my intention is not to do school on Wednesdays because we visit with Grandmom. However, we still hadn't read our library books from Friday. So we had some school today, but because it wasn't planned everyone stayed calm and happy (something I'm trying to replicate so maybe I should stop planning???). <br />
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We read LOTS of books and the girls were too cute! </div>
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So my kids love dry erase boards so I decided to bring it out and see what would happen. I decided to have them erase letters, shapes, words, and numbers and they thought it was SO cool!</div>
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When they had their own time on the board DD decided to do some addition. All on her own, by the way. So we talked about the addition sign and equal sign. However, I have to say I actually like her underlining method:). She stated the problem out loud and then counted to get to the answer. I left it alone after that since this was their free time.</div>
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This was just an adorable bonus picture after dinner. From left to right it's Lil' Diva, Little Red Riding Hood, and a bad dinosaur turned good dinosaur that is now friends with Red. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!</div>
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Today we brought out some fun educational toys my sister-in-law handed down to us. The names escape me at the moment, but they were pretty cool! </div>
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This one was perfect for SD to work with colors, sorting, and shape review</div>
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DD got a kick out of replicating the movements of this directional puzzle. It gave us plenty of opportunity to talk about directions throughout the rest of the day:).</div>
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This was one of my favorites of the day. Count the House! We would have gone all over the house, but Granddad came by to help look at our leaking ceiling:(. So we kept it in the school room. </div>
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So although SD didn't really get into the sticker part she had a great time running around the room counting the different parts of the house/room. For a moment I was preoccupied with her doing the stickers, but luckily I've been at this enough that I let it go:). She was counting perfectly, playing with dolls in between, but would still count the next thing when I asked. So I would say we had success for the day.</div>
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It was a fun school day and then we all headed off to dance class that afternoon. Tomorrow we will be making an igloo on my bed and reading our library books from Friday. I'm WAY excited!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-19289169895667735742012-09-07T16:08:00.000-05:002012-09-12T10:14:11.936-05:00"Shift Begins with Me"So my friend, Cindy, over at <a href="http://www.therightsideofnormal.com/" target="_blank">The Right Side of Normal</a> is a homeschooling mom who loves to share her views on right brain vs. left brain learners AND she just published her first book on the subject!!! Congrats, Cindy!!! One of the things she does in her book is give these "shift begins with me" moments and I LOVE them! They are these "ah-ha" moments when certain things just sort of...click for you when you aren't expecting them. <br />
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So my last post about easing up on the printables and going for the child-led environment was a result of a shift I had a few weeks ago. The girls were graphing. They were rolling a die, then marking the graph, then...you know...repeat. I took a picture to document and upon review of the picture I noticed something. They were bored out of their minds! In that moment I knew that every piece of paper I had just printed would never be used...oops! I realized that our hopscotch numbers game where I took paper and wrote numbers on them and had the girls hop to each as we count was WAY more fun than sitting, rolling, and marking. Guess what else I figured out? They actually retain the information when we do it the good 'ole hopping way and we're all so much happier during school. Which I'm not sure why I even thought switching from the hopping method was a good decision considering that most people retain information better when it's in an interesting book or they are moving and connecting with the information. <br />
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So there you go. One of my "shifts." At this moment I can't remember my first shift because I did not write it down. So Cindy, if you remember the story please shoot me an email so I can put it in a post:).<br />
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Do any of you have any "shift" moments? It doesn't have to be homeschool related. I can tell you that I've had "shift" moments in several other areas of my life too.<br />
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So there are several methods of homeschooling. They range from school at home methods where you mimic what public schools do, methods that are completely child-led, the unit study method where you pick a topic and learn all you can from that one subject for the day...week...or whatever you choose! There are more and you can read about them online if you want to know more. If I had to choose, though, I would say that I identify with the unschooled, child-led, read the classics (TJed) folks which basically means I'm more eclectic than anything...ha! The one thing these methods have in common is that the child's interests lead the game plan and reading is VERY important. </div>
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We have always had books everywhere in our house so we were on the right track with that, but the subject areas are still the areas that need work. My head is telling me that all the printables, word families, and fun ways to learn to read are what we need to do so that I know what we have done. However, my heart and girl's smiles in response to the non-structured/non sit-in-your-seat activities tell me that we should be going down the child-led road. </div>
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So here I sit, with a wonderful year's worth of activities planned, BUT luckily I am learning that I don't need to be so much control (I know some of you are laughing) that I can't just erase that plan and start over with what you see below. I cannot remember where I got this idea from, but it was genius! It was called "plop." The idea is that you just "plop" some items in a pile and let your kids create! Sometimes you just put random things and sometimes you've read a book and you piggy-back off the story. Either way I LOVE it!</div>
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Now the brain waves start working!</div>
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So no matter what I say THIS is what I want school to look like in my home:). She laughed, skipped, and giggled the whole time she was creating her book and I LOVED watching as she called to me,"Mommy look!" every time she glued another picture down:).<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that I'm truly embracing the fact that I am homeschooling my children, I can feel a huge shift in my world. Half of the children in my mommy groups have started Kindergarten and we're all finding what activities work for our children and those that don't. So what does this mean for me, a new homeschooling mom? It means the way my life has looked for the past four years is changing. It means that even though people are supportive, I am still sitting in this "oh no" moment. This moment of knowing that in another year more of my girls' friends will go to public school, this moment of realizing that there may be some that don't understand our choice, and this moment of wondering if I'll meet other moms to talk to who also homeschool. I am confident in what I am doing and I'm ready for the task. However, I've had to do three things to help me approach and get over this hump: <br /> <br />1. Seek comfort through prayer. <br /><br />2. Seek out a friend to help me manage my emotions and hash out my schedule. <br /><br />3. Remember the reason we chose to homeschool. <br /> <br />I'm still working through this process, but I am making progress. Prayer is helping me to have the strength to stand alone in my immediate circle. I have a wonderful group of friends, but if I'm being honest I am doing something different and that leaves me feeling a bit out of place where I used to feel sure. Prayer is helping me to reflect, re-center, and continue to be with my friends without so much of the self-inflicted perception of possible judgement of my choice. <br /> <br />My supportive friend and sister-in-law is serving to be just the remedy for those self-doubting days. The other day I was actually re-doing my schedule...again...when I stopped in my tracks and decided I needed some guidance. It was so nice to be able to call on her for support. We carved out some time for me to talk things through and get a "pep talk." Oh how I wish she were here so we could have monthly support time in person. I'm actually on the search for a support group in my area so that I can feel some local support and so that my girls can meet other homeschooled children. <br /> <br />Finally, remembering my girl's faces when they read a word with me or sing the days of the week song or the feeling we all get when we snuggle on the couch to read books are just the right memories to remind me to keep moving forward. When my husband and I started talking about homeschool it was out of fear of what our children would be walking into at their zoned elementary school. Since, it has become something that I truly enjoy doing. I was a high school counselor before staying home with our children and I bypassed the classroom on purpose. So it came to a surprise to me just how much I truly loved teaching when I started with Joy School three years ago. I take lots of pictures, I blog, and I post on my personal Facebook page so that I can always remember the good moments. I know these images are helping me remember why my husband and I chose this path in the first place.<br /><br />I share my thoughts because I know I can't be alone in this shift. I also share because I want to know YOU! I want to know other moms who are like me, who I can share my thoughts of the personal joy I feel from teaching my children, who I can exchange ideas with, and who I can depend on for the support that I personally need. Yes, things are shifting and I've got to restructure somethings, but I know I'm going to come out on the good side of this shift. My family and I are in a new stage of life and although it's a bit scary, I know it's going to be an amazing journey!</span><br />
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Here are the girls for the 2012-2013 Homeschool Year!!! They were so good and dealt with my impromptu photo shoot on our way to the playground. They've grown so much since last year!!! I love these girls, I'm glad to be their mom, and I'm glad that we have this opportunity to learn together:).</div>
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The first day of school was a Super Hero Jammie Day!!! They came up with this all on their own:). It was great! We did lots of fun review with Handwriting Without Tears where we sang songs as we got familiar with building our letters with our wood pieces, did some number tracing, had some friends over, and got our reading in with Daddy after dinner:). </div>
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The kids LOVED our Olympic games!!! Enjoy the pics:)</div>
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I'm WAY excited about the Olympics!!! So tomorrow we have some cool things planned:).</div>
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4. Painting the Olympic symbol<br />
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The plan is to hold opening ceremonies and have family Olympics this week!!! There will be hurdles, gymnastics, table tennis (all kid versions of course), and a lot of late nights for me as I stay up watching way past my bedtime. I am WAY excited about this plan!<br />
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How are you enjoying the Olympics?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-73213286066755922632012-07-12T17:18:00.000-05:002012-07-12T17:19:05.437-05:00Our day without TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Now I m not a TV hound. I let my kids watch it and I have no problem with it, but I think it's because I also do so many hands on things with them that I don't feel bad. Today, though, I really wanted to make our entire day, from 8am-2pm, free of TV. Partly because I want to train myself for next year with preschool and partly because I have SO MUCH STUFF for little hands to learn with that it doesn't make any sense for them to watch TV between 8am and 2pm. Slowly, but surely I am including Lil' Diva in on some structured activities also. Dancin' Diva can do several things independently now so it's easier to get Lil' Diva in on the action now:).</div>
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My find of the day that I fell in LOVE with...Foam sheets cut into shapes+water+brushes= Greatness!</div>
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Her blog is GREAT! Check <a href="http://childhoodlist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">her</a> out!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Edible finger paint that satisfies while big sisters are "painting" on the window...YOGURT!!!</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-805562412352433562012-07-10T14:41:00.001-05:002012-07-11T07:18:16.048-05:00One-on-One Time<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dancin' Diva and I have one-on-one time while the other girls are sleeping on school days. When we have school together things are great, but there's nothing like on-on-one time with each girl. It gives me time to really see where each girl is in her development and it allows each of us to really linger in the excitement when the "light bulb" comes on:). The "light bulb" moment for DD on this particular day was word families. We were doing our graphing activity when she starting forming words and wanting to continue. So we quickly wrapped up graphing and I took a piece of paper and wrote "at." We then proceeded to add consonants and she LOVED it! She thought it was hilarious every time we made the consonant sound, added the family sound, then got faster and faster (insert giggle from me as I type...hehe). I absolutely loved seeing her realize that she was making the words! Now my next planning task is trying to figure out when I will get in some time with the Singin'Diva.</span><br />
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I even got in on this action:). It was pretty fun!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-24564054384390632232012-07-03T18:22:00.001-05:002012-07-11T07:15:04.298-05:00Homeschool: Fourth of July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
So I have a problem. I plan, and plan, and plan but have a hard time actually preparing the awesome crafts/activities I find and think of doing so that I can actually do them with my kids without the headache that comes with procrastination. So tomorrow's holiday gave me a reason to complete one of my units I have had in the planning stage for a week or so. Ahead of time, I got everything ready for the Fourth of July unit and was ready for today...yay me!!!</div>
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SN: I know tomorrow is the holiday, but we will be playing all day with friends so I did our lesson today.</div>
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Grandmom let us invade her house so that we could still come visit and get things done. It was so much fun and I know she enjoyed "seeing" school. I've got SO much planned for next school year and this makes me giddy:). </div>
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We hope you enjoy you 4th of July!!!</div>
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The books we read and the crafts supplies...ready to go!</div>
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Mini red, white, and blue sensory bins</div>
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Gluing our American flags</div>
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Straw fireworks (my favorite activity of the day next to the windsocks)</div>
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We listened and colored to the music of a string quartet at the Benjamin Branch library on Monday. THIS was so much fun!!! The best part was when DD says to me,"Mommy, look at this sound!" She totally understood the concept behind coloring to the mood/tempo of the music. The library is truly a magical place...love it!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-76672314734917588982012-06-28T22:12:00.002-05:002012-07-11T07:15:22.014-05:00Water Play!!!So I found some really cute ideas for some water play and the kids loved it! The stuff we already had was the water table, pool, and spray bottles. I was so tired of water guns being so hard for the kids to re-load and then squirting one time, then empty...ugh! I do not have the site reference (oops!), but I found where someone made an aquarium out of Tupperware and an under-bed storage container, colored ice cubes, and ribbon frozen into a bowl of water! The idea here was to "paint" with the ice cubes and watch the big block melt and get the ribbons:). We invited some friends over and it was a great day!<br />
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Here are some things we've been up to in the pre-school department...<br />
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Fixing/finishing Singin' Diva's Spidey blanket and pillow</div>
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I made this matching activity to go with "Wocket in my Pocket" by Dr. Seuss. I have been doing so much research on homeschool and been inspired by the creativity of the moms and dads I read about. So I decided it was time for me to put my creative mind to work! Each girl has their own "wocket" (no judgement people...he's REAL homemade...ha!) and matching fabric rectangles to match to the pockets. I LOVE it and I know they will:).</div>
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If I'm being honest, I have been anti-painting at home. When I think of the mess I cringe, BUT no more! Dancin' Diva painted "brilliant" (her words) paintings for at least 45 minutes and painted again today while Daddy slept. You see the sticker-filled easel above? It's now a lovely shade of grey because of Daddy's little nap...ha!
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1. Colored ice cube painting</div>
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4. Bounce U (thank you summer reading program for the free passes!)</div>
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P.S. Lil' Bit just decided to walk across the room last night, but she hasn't done it since:(. We'll keep practicing.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-60595735748032620532012-06-21T13:44:00.003-05:002012-06-21T13:44:31.931-05:00Forever Family!!!On June 9, 2007 J and I became a forever family!!! The temple is a beautiful place and we are so glad that we were able to share that day with friends and family. <br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">So I got behind and didn't get this post out on Monday. Oh well! Here's an update in pictures of the fun stuff we've doing in pre-school. Enjoy!</span>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-3256304293068383252012-05-09T22:36:00.001-05:002012-07-03T20:01:52.704-05:00Clean It! - Wednesday is kitchen dayMy lovely husband is in charge of the dishes:). So for today, which is kitchen day, the fact that the dishes got washed in the dishwasher was the extent of cleaning the kitchen...ha! My goal is to sweep, mop, wipe down counters, shred papers, and clean out the fridge. However, today was a icky day and I almost slept through dance class so I am letting go. I'm OK with the fact that all the other stuff didn't happen because sometimes that's just life. Plus tomorrow is grocery/errand day and I don't need to run out for anything so I can catch up tomorrow:).<br />
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Toodles!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-22632044920485025762012-05-08T22:29:00.001-05:002012-05-08T22:29:58.966-05:00Clean It! - Tuesday is master bedroom daySo today is master bedroom day and I have not done it yet...ha! So after I hit "publish" I will go into the bedroom and tidy up so I can check it off the "Clean It!" list:). <br />
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The way I keep the room organized is to keep it DE-CLUTTERED! It's hard with little kids, but I try really hard to keep the toys out. I read somewhere that you should keep your room free of kid stuff and although some would disagree, I LOVE this! Now don't get me wrong, when I have an infant in a bassinet I make exceptions. But keeping this "rule" in mind has helped cut down on how much I have to clean when I clean this space each week.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-26408965651182921142012-05-07T23:28:00.000-05:002012-05-07T23:29:06.889-05:00Clean It!- The ScheduleSo I'm on this kick that I'm praying will stay with me and become a habit. It's called cleaning my home. Not a novel idea at all, but one that many women and men struggle. So I sit somewhere between,"I must clean until everything is in it's proper place" and "who cares because my kids are awake" and I think this a good place to be:). I want people to come into my home and things be tidy, but not at the expense of loosing out on valuable family time. I want my husband and kids to feel like they they "live" in their home without fear that mom is going to chop their heads off because they dropped a cheerio or didn't put their shoes in the shoe bucket. So now that I'm out of the,"you've had a three babies in the past 4 years" fog I can wrap my brain around a cleaning schedule. Yay for me!!!<br />
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Luckily I have some wonderful family and friends who feel the same way that I do about this and they have physically helped me numerous times in my endeavor to get my house in order! They have organized clothes and closets, cleaned floors (YES, on their hands and knees), kept the girls occupied, and helped me fold laundry. I have some wonderful friends:). <br />
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So on to the schedule. I don't know why, but I get really excited when I begin to schedule anything! You should see my notebooks that I write in. They have several versions of schedules because the first schedule you write is never the final plan:). So anyway...I have a room that I clean each day and some items that should be done every day. So that this post is not crazy long I am going to just talk about Monday and then for the rest of the week I will blog about what I cleaned on that particular day. <br />
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Monday is bathroom day. Yuck! Hey, but it's got to get done. I clean everything in each of my three bathrooms. I clean the shower while I'm in it, sweep/mop the floors, clean the tubs, toilets, sinks, and mirrors. <br />
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*Take a load of laundry out of the room with you in the morning (I'm still working on this habit and I want to fold and put this away right after lunch.)<br />
* Vacuum the dining room and living room (I do this because I have carpet in my dining room and it's awful if I don't vacuum or at least pick up big stuff off the floor every other day)<br />
*Dishes (t\This is actually my husbands job and he loads and unloads the dishwasher every day)<br />
*10 minute pick up (I haven't actually implemented this yet, but I want to start. I think I'm going to do this at lunch, dinner, and bedtime. <br />
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So there you have it! Day one of the cleaning schedule:).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-89204182723804519882012-05-07T23:01:00.000-05:002012-05-07T23:29:22.345-05:00Homeschool Monday - The scheduleSo I've been doing a lot of research on homeschooling and I can successfully say that I am obsessed...ha! I love the idea sharing, the life sharing, and the love that is felt in each and every blog that I find. So tonight I've decided that I would try blogging about our experience just to put it out there and join in on the love:). <br />
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The first installment will be our schedule. Now I have to give a disclaimer that this is what I have down on paper, but doesn't always happen. So part of the reason I am sharing this is so that I can be more accountable to the plan.<br />
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9 am Calendar Time (Days of the week song, Month song while we march in a parade with our instruments, weather, colors review with color circles, counting, introduce the letter of the week)<br />
9:30 am Story time (Right now we read whatever the girls want, but next year we will change it up a bit and include our <a href="http://fiarhq.com/fiveinarow.info/beforefiveinarow.html">Before Five In a Row </a>story.)<br />
10/10:30 am Letter of the week worksheets from "<a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions</a>" (Dot letters, collage sheets, lacing pictures) and letter find worksheets from <a href="http://www.beginningreading.com/Alphabet%20Set%202.htm">this</a> site<br />
10:30-11 am Craft Time (I tend to be free with craft time. There isn't a theme right now and may not ever be for the moment. The girls pick from our supplies we have in our school room and create!)<br />
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I do have a little one that doesn't do any school yet, but I do have some Montessori inspired trays where I put toys she can easily access. So right now she just crawls over to the shelf and plays while I do pre-school with big girls.<br />
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After this the girls free play and I do my best to keep the TV off and play music. My girls are always moving so on the days when the TV is on more I don't sweat it at all:). <br />
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So my dilemma has been how much to school the girls. Right now, I'm very chill about school. We either do Monday, Thursday, or both of those days depending on what I want to do or how much the girls beg me for school (I absolutely LOVE that they LOVE learning by the way). Next year, though, I'm leaning towards a Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Friday is our library day). However, we will do the calendar everyday (even weekends) to keep up with the order of things. I am also tossing around the idea that I will school everyday in some way. For instance, I came across this idea to map out where the food and other things you buy come from as a geography lesson. So this is something that I could do with girls while I'm in the kitchen cooking. We would simply have a map in the kitchen, take out an item form the kitchen or tag in someone's shirt, then put a push pin on the map and talk about that area of the country. Simple learning that I can do on the "off school" days. LOVE it!<br />
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So there you go! Our schedule and my thoughts on the whole deal. Anyone got any great ideas to share on how you school your kids?<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Here are some pictures from some alone school time with DD:).</span><span style="text-align: left;"> She was SO pleased with herself as we went through each activity today and I was pleased as well. I love seeing the twinkle in their eyes as they learn!</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-13616044796650738532012-02-03T22:21:00.003-05:002012-02-04T00:06:52.426-05:00Kids were here<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSFsuDkg-p8ddqgy3-M98LNN9WXRzuekc7-V4ieBvqu8f9nzBjCtCcJAA_kpkdY5NKze7I12b_PIHNP7XvgB2hvd-PHR0y1nLhHNT_L9QVZjf5HOuG0wG1uyP31w8SHTX7pOQpPfQh-AK/s1600/IMG_4412%255B1%255D.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSFsuDkg-p8ddqgy3-M98LNN9WXRzuekc7-V4ieBvqu8f9nzBjCtCcJAA_kpkdY5NKze7I12b_PIHNP7XvgB2hvd-PHR0y1nLhHNT_L9QVZjf5HOuG0wG1uyP31w8SHTX7pOQpPfQh-AK/s320/IMG_4412%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705116633593669282" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCN9TUb13OaTwAeWs_CvQMttQaO4b70Qbpf4ygGp_fdhcuIMuoXxfiTlBxahIOqBX1RY9p0fv2QcKmsTJYpff3WxUP3K6K6sRVLa9mbTqP3mzZ6x_AeVXMZaHCwmaTD_PP4ZMo6TQEgi9/s1600/IMG_4411%255B1%255D.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCN9TUb13OaTwAeWs_CvQMttQaO4b70Qbpf4ygGp_fdhcuIMuoXxfiTlBxahIOqBX1RY9p0fv2QcKmsTJYpff3WxUP3K6K6sRVLa9mbTqP3mzZ6x_AeVXMZaHCwmaTD_PP4ZMo6TQEgi9/s320/IMG_4411%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705116626184385330" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390971627405086520.post-8166102010324477172012-01-27T22:57:00.004-05:002012-01-27T23:17:27.158-05:00Kids were here<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; ">So I was reading a friend's blog and I absolutely loved </span><a href="http://kettiphotography.com/blog/kids-were-here/" style="text-align: left; ">THIS </a><span style="text-align: left; "> idea and so now every Friday I am going to post one...or maybe more than one picture of images from around our house/"world." Finding little gems like this around the house as I clean (or don't clean...ha!) make me laugh, cry, or sometimes just smile and ponder on how GREAT these little ones are and how the special chaos that is having small children won't be here for very long. So enjoy and come back to visit every Friday if you want to see that "kids were here."</span></div><div><br /><div><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLrGZ4VCLK8SRXnLq7ArbRYAsHfvA9oPgbSoZKiQTLb6hRavPwK0UH0r4GnwUp_vmxZ1oVbmWwtNHk5J2HgMoUS4th7D7Uzg2YmbIlzHXQTgiwLm7o3QZif5xce_muMLQ566wCV2PCLAn/s320/IMG_4410%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702531365338653122" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaH4sdsuvrbzWGnHibaZqMgRwHSSOaZCG53s3CpAxJZwDoeLLtM7_EU1ZU6HfO3t8N2OYV0fIFfEGWAL2RoHXThyphenhyphenjH7vsmmnNYEi24a0T5yRHyYW7zoN6_8G0Z2LeIl5jcbtulzSWYemK/s320/IMG_4300%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702531387898494386" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaW8jwE7p4ohN_lWGDMpaQY0vihyphenhyphenyHS9ZIm0Yle5dQzS6bBZjppKf1LTS1dDJ3mZHiygfQk72W70crNDdXb7oUs14lNuvKEzinrDMTQXmKf4uaNpDx20LlpRDS_Xa5Hn2MPGEXYh1dZOs/s320/IMG_4359%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702531374929477634" /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4