Life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes.
My computer has been out of commission. I need to get some memory cards for it. But money is really tight right now, and I picked up another part time job. I hate being away from my gophers so much, but we need the income.
Speaking of the goobers, they are doing great. The older two are loving school and we're looking at prek options. Not that I want to put him in prek, but we shall see what is in store for us.
Anyways, sorry for the downer post. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Snacktime!
So we had our second Muffin Tin Monday (really Wednesday, because I work on Mondays). The first I didn't get pictures of, but today I did!
We had mango slices, chocolate chip cookies, Toy Story cheese crackers, some fruit salad (melon, pineapple and strawberries) and some dried apples and strawberries.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Ready...Set...GO!
So, it's official. I'm a homeschooler!
After lots of praying and debating, we're headed full steam ahead into homeschool for preschool this year. We've decided to use the Letter of the Week program from Confessions of a Homeschooler for the most part, with some Raising Rock Stars Preschool from 1+1+1=1.
I'm in the process right now of going through everything, and figuring our schedule etc. The plan is to start on Tuesday. We're going with a 4 day week (Tuesday - Friday) due to my work schedule.
I'm also making a list of some things I need to pick up while I'm out and about. Like I need an excuse to go to Michaels and shop? :D
I'm getting anxious about the big goobers and school too. They start on Sept 7th, and I still haven't heard whether Sweet Nut is going to AM or PM K, and who the boys got for teachers. I can't go school shopping because, for Spawn anyways, the supply list is teacher specific. I guess I'll be calling the school on Monday morning to see when they are going to inform me of my kids teachers and school info. I'm still waiting to hear when the K bus run and orientation is going to be. It's usually in August.
Sigh. At least I know that Cute Boy is pretty much ready to go. I can't wait to start on Tuesday!
After lots of praying and debating, we're headed full steam ahead into homeschool for preschool this year. We've decided to use the Letter of the Week program from Confessions of a Homeschooler for the most part, with some Raising Rock Stars Preschool from 1+1+1=1.
I'm in the process right now of going through everything, and figuring our schedule etc. The plan is to start on Tuesday. We're going with a 4 day week (Tuesday - Friday) due to my work schedule.
I'm also making a list of some things I need to pick up while I'm out and about. Like I need an excuse to go to Michaels and shop? :D
I'm getting anxious about the big goobers and school too. They start on Sept 7th, and I still haven't heard whether Sweet Nut is going to AM or PM K, and who the boys got for teachers. I can't go school shopping because, for Spawn anyways, the supply list is teacher specific. I guess I'll be calling the school on Monday morning to see when they are going to inform me of my kids teachers and school info. I'm still waiting to hear when the K bus run and orientation is going to be. It's usually in August.
Sigh. At least I know that Cute Boy is pretty much ready to go. I can't wait to start on Tuesday!
Monday, July 26, 2010
I know, I know...
I've been slacking, but it's summertime and we've been having fun!
I've got a Bronx Zoo post coming up hopefully this week, and I think we're going to make a trip the the Aquarium this week or next week to see the baby sea lion.
I'm also wrestling with the decision to send Spawn and Sweet Nut to public school this year. We've decided to start homeschooling, but Spawn's dad wants him to go to public school again. We agreed, but only for a few months, to see if some of the problems he had last year will be gone. And of course, because Spawn is going, Sweet Nut wants to go.
We're gearing up to start prek for Cute Boy. He'll be homeschooled this year, and is totally excited to do school.
So, we've been pretty busy, but hopefully will get back in the swing of things soon.
I've got a Bronx Zoo post coming up hopefully this week, and I think we're going to make a trip the the Aquarium this week or next week to see the baby sea lion.
I'm also wrestling with the decision to send Spawn and Sweet Nut to public school this year. We've decided to start homeschooling, but Spawn's dad wants him to go to public school again. We agreed, but only for a few months, to see if some of the problems he had last year will be gone. And of course, because Spawn is going, Sweet Nut wants to go.
We're gearing up to start prek for Cute Boy. He'll be homeschooled this year, and is totally excited to do school.
So, we've been pretty busy, but hopefully will get back in the swing of things soon.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Yes...I'll admit it...
I'm addicted to Twilight.
So much so, that when we took the Goobers to see Toy Story 3 last week, I noticed that our theater was having a midnight showing of Eclipse. So I chatted up a few friends, and I found someone as crazy as me to go. Chef "volunteered" to watch the kids so I could go drool over some werewolves (Yes. I'm on team Jacob).
So I'm about an hour away from needing to leave for the theater. I bought my tickets already, and my friend keeps messaging me on facebook with a countdown.
Brillantly we took the little goobers to a carnival tonight, and got them cotton candy. So guess who's still awake and bouncing off the walls. :D Poor Chef.
Sigh. I feel like I'm 14 again.
So much so, that when we took the Goobers to see Toy Story 3 last week, I noticed that our theater was having a midnight showing of Eclipse. So I chatted up a few friends, and I found someone as crazy as me to go. Chef "volunteered" to watch the kids so I could go drool over some werewolves (Yes. I'm on team Jacob).
So I'm about an hour away from needing to leave for the theater. I bought my tickets already, and my friend keeps messaging me on facebook with a countdown.
Brillantly we took the little goobers to a carnival tonight, and got them cotton candy. So guess who's still awake and bouncing off the walls. :D Poor Chef.
Sigh. I feel like I'm 14 again.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
And so the schooling begins.
We're officially in schooling mode over at the Goober House. Sweet Nut and Cute Boy LOVE learning, so it's been pretty easy so far.
Spawn finished school yesterday, and he was asking for things to work on during the little boys "schooltime". Chef was working on him with some math review, since it seems like Math is not going to be one of his strong areas.
We hit Target the other day, and scored in the dollar bin area. We got 2 packages of small foam shapes that we're using for math manipulatives. They had a ton of workbooks so we got some of those. They had some weather stuff that we picked up, as well as some small whiteboards. We ended up picking up a 3 drawer plastic cart that we can use to store school stuff.
So here's the plan this summer:
Spawn:
Math-work on reviewing math concepts learned during 1st grade, review telling time and counting money
Reading-he as a summer reading assignment that we'll be using for this. He's going to be reading 20-30 minutes for his reading log, and then once a week he'll chose one book he read to use for his Story Quilt piece for school. It's like a basic book report.
Writing- He'll be doing copywork once a day. We're going to be working on spacing and neatness.
Sweet Nut:
Letters-We're working on letter recognition. He wants to work on a different letter each day, but we're trying to slow it down a little bit :D. We work on writing the letter, practice the sound the letter makes, and try and find things when we're out and about that start with that letter. We're also making a letter wall using Sesame Street coloring sheets from sproutonline.com.
Numbers-He can recognize all his numbers now and can count to 20, so we're working on writing them and counting items using manipulatives. We're also working on patterns. We count when we're out and about, and he's also doing Sesame Street coloring pages from Sprout that we'll hang up.
Colors-We've been playing with color, seeing what happens when you mix colors etc.
Shapes-We've been practicing drawing shapes and finding shapes when we're out.
Writing-we're working on writing trying to get our letters facing the right directions. We're also starting with some basic sight words.
It seems like a ton, but he's doing some here and there. We basically write out on his white board what we're working on and he can go to his school drawer any time and pull out the work.
Cute Boy:
Letters-we're working on singing our ABC's. He's almost had it for awhile, so we're trying to get ALL the letters in there. He also copies whatever Sweet Nut is doing. He also has the Sesame Coloring pages.
Numbers-He can count to ten, so we're just working on finding things to count. He's also been playing with patterns.
Colors/Shapes- we're working on recognition.
Writing-we're working on some basic writing skills-drawing lines, curves etc.
All 3 boys want to learn more about the world around them and are always asking questions, so we let them pick topics they wanted to learn about. We'll basically stick with a topic for a week, learning about it. For the next 3 weeks, we'll be learning about water, trees and cows. Where they come from, how they benefit us, etc.
Spawn finished school yesterday, and he was asking for things to work on during the little boys "schooltime". Chef was working on him with some math review, since it seems like Math is not going to be one of his strong areas.
We hit Target the other day, and scored in the dollar bin area. We got 2 packages of small foam shapes that we're using for math manipulatives. They had a ton of workbooks so we got some of those. They had some weather stuff that we picked up, as well as some small whiteboards. We ended up picking up a 3 drawer plastic cart that we can use to store school stuff.
So here's the plan this summer:
Spawn:
Math-work on reviewing math concepts learned during 1st grade, review telling time and counting money
Reading-he as a summer reading assignment that we'll be using for this. He's going to be reading 20-30 minutes for his reading log, and then once a week he'll chose one book he read to use for his Story Quilt piece for school. It's like a basic book report.
Writing- He'll be doing copywork once a day. We're going to be working on spacing and neatness.
Sweet Nut:
Letters-We're working on letter recognition. He wants to work on a different letter each day, but we're trying to slow it down a little bit :D. We work on writing the letter, practice the sound the letter makes, and try and find things when we're out and about that start with that letter. We're also making a letter wall using Sesame Street coloring sheets from sproutonline.com.
Numbers-He can recognize all his numbers now and can count to 20, so we're working on writing them and counting items using manipulatives. We're also working on patterns. We count when we're out and about, and he's also doing Sesame Street coloring pages from Sprout that we'll hang up.
Colors-We've been playing with color, seeing what happens when you mix colors etc.
Shapes-We've been practicing drawing shapes and finding shapes when we're out.
Writing-we're working on writing trying to get our letters facing the right directions. We're also starting with some basic sight words.
It seems like a ton, but he's doing some here and there. We basically write out on his white board what we're working on and he can go to his school drawer any time and pull out the work.
Cute Boy:
Letters-we're working on singing our ABC's. He's almost had it for awhile, so we're trying to get ALL the letters in there. He also copies whatever Sweet Nut is doing. He also has the Sesame Coloring pages.
Numbers-He can count to ten, so we're just working on finding things to count. He's also been playing with patterns.
Colors/Shapes- we're working on recognition.
Writing-we're working on some basic writing skills-drawing lines, curves etc.
All 3 boys want to learn more about the world around them and are always asking questions, so we let them pick topics they wanted to learn about. We'll basically stick with a topic for a week, learning about it. For the next 3 weeks, we'll be learning about water, trees and cows. Where they come from, how they benefit us, etc.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Turning 5...
Sweet Nut,
My sweet boy. I can not believe that you are 5 already! It seems like yesterday that we were in the hospital, and you were giving us a bit of a scare with your breathing.
My sweet boy. I can not believe that you are 5 already! It seems like yesterday that we were in the hospital, and you were giving us a bit of a scare with your breathing.
Since day 1, you have been keeping us on our toes. You can usually be found with a smile on your face...or getting into trouble.
Lately you enjoy spending your time with Cute Boy working on your letter "projects" Who would have thought you would be so into learning? You're constantly asking for more school work to do, Kindergarten should be a joy for you.
You've also been very patient this year waiting for your birthday. It's been hard since you are the last in the family, with the rest of us having birthdays in January, March, April and May, but once you saw June show up on the calendar, you've been asking every day if it's your birthday. You've been doing a countdown since 8 days ago. I can't wait to see the look on your face when you wake up to erase the last mark on your countdown!
You're also the first of the boys to have a big kid party. You're the lucky one since the rest of the boys are winter snow babies. You chose Chuck E Cheese, and all your brothers and cousins are so excited to go! You chose to invite your little cousins so you could "teach them the games" and you chose to invite C. so Spawn would have a friend. We were very surprised that you chose your family over your school friends, but in the end, we shouldn't have been, that the type of sweet boy you are.
I'm so proud to be your mommy. I love the boy you've grown into and look forward to meeting the man you are going to be (but let's not get there too fast ok pal?)
I love you more!
Love,
Mommy
Lately you enjoy spending your time with Cute Boy working on your letter "projects" Who would have thought you would be so into learning? You're constantly asking for more school work to do, Kindergarten should be a joy for you.
You've also been very patient this year waiting for your birthday. It's been hard since you are the last in the family, with the rest of us having birthdays in January, March, April and May, but once you saw June show up on the calendar, you've been asking every day if it's your birthday. You've been doing a countdown since 8 days ago. I can't wait to see the look on your face when you wake up to erase the last mark on your countdown!
You're also the first of the boys to have a big kid party. You're the lucky one since the rest of the boys are winter snow babies. You chose Chuck E Cheese, and all your brothers and cousins are so excited to go! You chose to invite your little cousins so you could "teach them the games" and you chose to invite C. so Spawn would have a friend. We were very surprised that you chose your family over your school friends, but in the end, we shouldn't have been, that the type of sweet boy you are.
I'm so proud to be your mommy. I love the boy you've grown into and look forward to meeting the man you are going to be (but let's not get there too fast ok pal?)
I love you more!
Love,
Mommy
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