The idea met with enthusiasm from some, and slight reluctance from others, but in the end, everyone had fun, and 3 of them wanted to do MORE sewing (Fishy included!) We had a pretty nice assembly line of sewing, clipping corners/turning/pressing, and stenciling, and after 2 days (and a little bit of stenciling learning-curve on my part) we have all 26 letters of the alphabet. :-) All that remains is to fill the bags and close the tops.
In other news, Mollusc was excited to see the return of the Red-breasted Grosbeaks shortly after we put up our new feeding tray.
This weekend, we'll be sojurning to Toledo for the biggest birding week in the country. Mollusc hopes to see tons of warblers. Of course we'll have to take the camera(s), so hopefully we'll come away with some good pics.
The weather was gorgeous today, and I took some of the herd to the park after all the school-type stuff was done. Prawnie and I played catch with a tennis ball and her barely used baseball mitt -- a new and exciting interest for her since Daddy is starting softball on Wednesday. The tennis ball was a good choice as I beaned her a few times. :-P We made dandelion-chain crowns and peered into the creek, and of course there was the obligatory game or 2 of Poohsticks for all of us.
On the homeschool front, I'm looking into the "Key to _______" math series for Sluggie since she's hit the point in Algebra where it appears that Math U See is just not perfect for her learning style. We'll likely keep on with MUS, but I want to supplement with other things, and so far, the Key to___ series looks promising. There's nothing worse than rushing past shaky subject matter and continuing on to the next stuff in math, IMO. I have a growing "things to order on Payday" list. :-/ Oh, and while I was hanging laundry on the covert line I have stretched across the back deck (Shhhh! Don't tell the
Tonight is my last soccer game until Fall, which is a bummer. I was really nervous when I first started, because I'd never played the game on any kind of team before, but now it's just plain fun! At least there will be pickup games during the summer. :-)
And finally, here's the kind of thing you tend to find lying around when you've created a houseful of geeks and happen to have alphabet letters handy:
3 comments:
I just looked at the Craft Hope website, that's a very cool org and it's great that you're instilling this giving in your kids. I've "met" so many homeschoolers since beginning to blog and I'm always impressed at all the creative ways they are teaching their children and giving them such quality educations.
Oooooo, crafty stuff for a good cause, awesome! Also, I love playing Poohsticks.
We did some of the Key to ___ series before we found MUS.
Thing One liked 'em quite a bit.
We have some new feeders in our yard, one is a tray as in your picture. The squirrels LOVE it.
Ahhh, it's so nice to pop over here and catch up with you all.
Soccer and softball sound great, you know what we've just taken up?
Roller skating! Totally had forgotten how fun it is. The whole family goes, Thing Two enjoys it the least, still learning, but its a great couple hours.
Candace - Isn't that a great site? They make it so easy to contribute to a variety of different things. I think half the fun of homeschooling is coming up with new and different ways to do stuff. It's lovely to have that freedom. :)
Logo - I've been so impressed with MUS, but there's something that just isn't clicking for Sluggie. I'm going to make a point to sit and do the vids and building with her more before I leap into the Key Tos. I do have a bad tendency to teach without the vid and expect her to process things the same way I do. Her mind works so differently from mine, though, that this is not good. :-P
Roller skating sounds like fun! And it's great exercise! I need to get enough for everyone to use at once. The bigs and I share a pair right now.
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