This is what happens when you have two older sisters who love babies… Dress-up fun! A little bit of math (isn’t her 5 beautiful? I’ll work on 7 and 9 eventually, but I am going to sit here and enjoy her beautiful 5 for a bit first) And my princess doing a bit of [...]
My Little Mastermind
On Saturday our Church had a yard sale to support the missions team for this summer. I went planning on purchasing books for the kids but we found this fun game and had to bring it home too! Becca loves it – she and Daddy played it at least a dozen times on Sunday and [...]
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| Tags: games
Moses: a baby in a basket
Today’s history lesson was about baby Moses. Instead of using a baby doll in a basket, we had a really age appropriate lesson – Moses was about 3 months old when his mom put him in the basket, so acting out the story with our nearly three month old baby brother was a lot of [...]
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| Tags: Bible, Heart of Dakota
Our morning visitor
This morning we had a visitor in our fenced backyard. (and due to the fence, it couldn’t get out without help… still not sure how it got in…) The girls were thrilled! We opened the gate at the bottom of the hill and watched the turtle walk down the hill and out the gate. Then, [...]
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| Tags: nature, science
Snippets of time
This is what happens when you have two older sisters who love babies…
Dress-up fun!
A little bit of math (isn’t her 5 beautiful? I’ll work on 7 and 9 eventually, but I am going to sit here and enjoy her beautiful 5 for a bit first)
And my princess doing a bit of reading.
Category: homeschool fun, Kids will be kids
| Tags: math, Siblings
My Little Mastermind
On Saturday our Church had a yard sale to support the missions team for this summer. I went planning on purchasing books for the kids but we found this fun game and had to bring it home too!
Becca loves it – she and Daddy played it at least a dozen times on Sunday and I think I’m up to about a dozen times so far today too. What a great way to build logic skills!
Category: homeschool fun
| Tags: games
Moses: a baby in a basket
Today’s history lesson was about baby Moses. Instead of using a baby doll in a basket, we had a really age appropriate lesson – Moses was about 3 months old when his mom put him in the basket, so acting out the story with our nearly three month old baby brother was a lot of fun!
Category: homeschool fun
| Tags: Bible, Heart of Dakota
Our morning visitor
This morning we had a visitor in our fenced backyard. (and due to the fence, it couldn’t get out without help… still not sure how it got in…)
Box turtle
The girls were thrilled!
Sitting and watching
there it goes! bye bye turtle!
We opened the gate at the bottom of the hill and watched the turtle walk down the hill and out the gate.
Then, we wrote all of Becca’s questions on the white board and looked up the answers:
- How do turtles close their shells? The shell is attached to the turtle, so the turtle just scrunches up smaller.
- Do turtles have ears? Yes, turtles have good ears!
- What do turtles eat? A turtle eats anything it can catch.
- What kind of turtle is it? It is a box turtle.
- Do all turtles swim? No!
- Can it shed its shell? No!
And a bonus fact: The turtle’s favorite color is red!
Here Becca learned how awkward it is to walk like a turtle with legs sticking out the side of your body:
Category: homeschool fun
| Tags: nature, science
100 Day Celebration!
When baby came we stopped counting days of school, but Becca didn’t forget that we were supposed to have a 100 day celebration when we got to the end of the hundreds chart so I picked a random day (yesterday) to do our hundreds day celebration.
About an hours research online gave me 100 activities, and with a little prep work, we were ready for a busy day. We didn’t finish all 100 activities, but we had lots of fun and While she avoided all the count by 5s activities, she can count by 10s really well now! Here are some of the highlights:
10 spots on ten strips = our 100 day hat!
paper chains counting by 1s, 5s, and 10s!
Thing 1 and thing 2, crazy hair counting by 10s
painting 100 mud spots on the pig!
100 day glasses!
wiggle those ants out of your pants in 100 seconds!
100 pizza toppings on our pizza
count by 10s piggy puppets
We finished 73 activities!
Some of the best 100 day answers she gave:
What would you want 100 of in your room? Sisters!
What would you not want to eat 100 of? Cookies, ’cause then I would be sick!
What would you not want to find 100 of in your backpack? Monsters!
What could you not lift 100 of? Houses!
What would be excited to see 100 of in your backpack? School stuff!
Mommy is very glad 100s day is over, but we had a lot of fun!
Category: homeschool fun
| Tags: math