Moments to Remember: Cuddles

January 28, 2012

My two boys cuddling on the couch watching their favorite show (Backyardagins, a great Nick Jr. show we discovered via Netfix) after dinner tonight.

Priceless…And this didn’t even turn into a wrestling match – they cuddled the ENTIRE 24 minutes! What a good end to a not-so-great day of screaming and fighting.

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What’d Thing Two Do? Letter W (w21)

January 28, 2012

Thing Two…who I should just call SPAZ…had fun with the Letter W (COAH’s PreK LOTW) this week! He also pulled out our Farm Tot Book, from 1+1+1=1. It is, hands down, his very favorite thing I have printed for him these last 21 weeks. Thank you, thank you, thank you Carisa for such an AWESOME Farm Pack!!! Here’s some pictures from the week:

: Our Color Cards/Puzzles from COAH’s LOTW. He liked being able to put them in the pockets.

: He knows his UC and LC well.

: He LOVES his Farm Tot Book!

: I am not sure this is even a challenge anymore…but he loves it.

: He can read me the cards too!

: Okay, I put htis together mostly. It is a tough one!

: I think this heads and tails matching is his FAV activity in this pack.

: Playing memory with Big Brother.

: W dots!

: Shape matching with watermelons. I like this because these aren’t color coded!

: Watermelon color matching.

: A Dollar Tree find – a little Cars puzzle/mat – we can make a cube with it too.

: I got out the pumpkin seeds I saved from October to use with our Watermelons.

: He mostly just had fun pouring them from place to place. :-)

Linking Up with Tot School over at 1+1+1=1

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Letter W (w21)

January 28, 2012

This week’s activities came from COAH’s LOTW. W is for Watermelon! This made me really, really want some watermelon…too bad it’s the dead of winter around here. I am so proud of thing One’s cutting and tracing skills. And everything else…he is ready to move on to Kindergarten stuff.
Come on, tax return – I have soooo many plans for you! hehehe
Making a list for our K curriculum. It’s coming from all over the place. But that’s me – I am all over the place. Makes life fun, right?!

: I should post his beginning of the year next to this…what a difference it would show!

: Watermelon Seed Counting

: I threw in some Football Spelling form 2 Teaching Mommies’ Football Unit – it’s a fav around here…being as we are big football fans!

: Thing Two pulled out his Farm Tot Book from 1+1+1=1 and played with it ALL WEEK. They played memory together often. :-)

: I made lacing lettered from a set of big letters I got before our teacher store closed this fall.

: I made it too hard I think, but he handled it!

: Making a “pizza watermelon” as Thing Two called it.

: patterning

: 1-10 counting/1:1 from the COAH LOTW K4 (I think, could be included in the PreK too. It is a “review” activity)

: Watermelon color puzzles

: Cut & Paste

: SO happy he’s finally getting how to cut things! He’s happy too!

: Gluing seeds into his watermelon. He cut it ALL himself – no help this week!

: A w page I madefor him to trace and color

: A Math Wheel, I believe this one is counting 6-10. I made it for Thing Two, but of course Thing One was jealous and had ot do it too. Find this Math Wheel Book on Amazon

Linking up to…

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What’s on My Nightstand?

January 25, 2012

With school officially finishing up I can READ. I will be graduating from the online program at Grand Canyon University (a school which I would never recommend, not even to my worst enemy, btw) with a degree in English Literature (with a lot of other random stops & schools along the way). It took me nearly 10 years, but hey, I finally did it!

Anyway – now I can dive into “fun” reading again! I have books and recommendations piling up from friends and my own wishlist, as well as some to review for actual publishers (gotta love free books!).

Here’s what’s on my short list:

One Month to Live by Kerry & Chris Shook – finished this and my reaction is blah. Read my review here. Just not my cup of tea! But I know others have really enjoyed it and taken away a lot of insight…but not me.
Real Marraige by Mark & Grace Driscoll – finished this and currently working on a review for Booksneeze.com
Light of Edion by Karen Hancock – yea yea yea so excited to “open” this one up on my Kindle, it was FREE a few days ago on amazon.com! Loved The Areana, which I read almost 8 years ago. Awesome, so awesome. Hopefully this one is just as good. It is a “book one” so you know what that means…if I get hooked I’ll have to search for the others.
The Book of Matthew (in the Bible) by Matthew/God (haha) - This is for a Kay Aurthur Bible Study I am doing with some friends.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Sounds like a very interesting read. This YA reading recommendation came to me by a former youth group kid (aka my babysitter/adopted little sister/bff’s daughter), who is now off to college…okay that makes me sound old. Anywho, I have read several YA books I would have never picked up on my own thanks to her recommendations, and she hasn’t steered me wrong yet. Yes, I like a little teen-angst and drama among my grown up life…creates a nice vacation from mommy-world.

Well that’s what I hope to have read within the next month. I actually have a want/goal/idea to write a little review of anything I read form now on. Why not? It is not only a good writing exercise, but it is also fun…to me…since I love writing just about anything…besides maybe a research paper.

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Letter O (w20)

January 20, 2012

Letter O for Octopus and Ocean!
Our “O is for Octopus” printables came from COAH’s LOTW and our other Ocean themed games and fun came from Homeschool Creations’ Ocean PreK Pack.

: Calendar Time

: We’re working on learning the Months of the Year, and have a catchy little song to sing.

: Rolling his di for our roll & graph Ocean Animals game (HC)

: This was THE longest one of these kind of games EVER. I was making the x’s – I should have just hurried up up, but I guess I can’t cheat, lol.

: Filling in the Missing Number (LOTW K4)

: Milk Cap Spelling (LOTW)

: Letter O Do-a-Dot page (LOTW)

: Number Tracing (LOTW)

: Octopus Counting 1-10 (LOTW)

: Whale Size Sequencing (HC)

: Lacing Card (LOTW)

: Cutting out pieces for our cut & paste from LOTW. I drew a circle around the items for him to have a line to cut on. Telling him to cut the actual Octopus freaked him out, lol. It was a rather tricky and small octopus.

: I made printed, cut out, and laminated a BUNCH of Ocean Animals for the boys to play with this week. I put magnet tape on the back so they could find fun places they would “stick.” They also liked to put them in our pocket chart. Thing Two had LOTS of fun with these .

: Name Tracing sheet. I have him do this about once a week. He is getting really good. He can’t make all his letters on his own yet, but he’s getting better all the time. The tracing really helps.