Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Wordy Wednesday - Central Texas Snow/Ice December
During our calendar review yesterday TS predicted snow for today. I spent the better part of the morning explaining to TS that it never snows here for Christmas. He insisted that it had to snow sometime before the 25th in order to really be the Christmas season. It was 80 degrees yesterday so I was very confident in my prediction. We watched the forecast which indicated a cold front but no sleet or snow. "See no snow son."
After we put him to bed last night we heard an unfamiliar ping ping on the roof. Sleet! Seriously in Central Texas in December, unbelievable. Then flurries....
TS was thrilled when he awoke this morning. "Mom I was right. Mom I am a meteorologist! Can we make snow angels?" I have to explain why this won't work but I think my creditability is somewhat in question. :-)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like I Have A Plan
Just had to share the photos of what we got accomplished today. I promise more details later.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Menu Planning December 8th
I am joining the good ladies over at "I'm An Organizing Junkie” for Menu Plan Monday this week. I am trying to get back to some sense of normalcy.
Monday-
breakfast: GF Waffles, cherries and turkey bacon and Simply Apple Juice
lunch: grilled chicken strips, grape tomatoes, baby carrots and water.
dinner: Super Easy Crockpot Spaghetti Sauce
With Gluten-Free Rice Noodles and Salad
Tuesday-
breakfast: GF Gorilla Munch, Clementine oranges and soy milk
lunch: Hormel’s Natural Turkey, baby carrots, tortilla chips or GF pretzels, organic Lemonade
dinner: Gluten Free Oven Fried Chicken, baked sweet potato and broccoli
Wednesday-
breakfast: GF Gorilla Munch, apples, turkey bacon and soymilk
lunch: Hormel’s Natural Turkey, baby carrots, tortilla chips or GF pretzels, organic Lemonade
dinner: Crockpot Guidemom Chicken and Salad
Thursday-
breakfast: GF Brown Rice cold cereal, grapes and milk
lunch: grilled chicken strips, Organic Applesauce and tator tots
dinner: Baked Skinless Drumsticks, Sweet Potatoes, Corn, Romaine Salad
Friday-
breakfast: boiled eggs, smoothies
lunch: leftovers
dinner: Slowcooker Chili with and GF corn bread
Saturday-
breakfast: Van’s GT Waffles, turkey bacon, Simply Apple Juice, Watermelon
lunch: Homemade Pizza
dinner: Turkey Meatballs, string beans, brown rice
Sunday-
breakfast: bananas smoothies, Gorilla Munch
lunch: Cuban chicken and salad
dinner: Steak, Corn, Brown Rice, Simply Apple Juice, Watermelon
Sunday, December 7, 2008
We Fall Down But We Get Up
I have been trying to write this post for a week, but the demands of life have been overwhelming lately. Simply stated we are coming into to a season of great change in our home. December is always busy here with wedding anniversary, two birthdays, the holidays and guest. This year we are being forged with new challenges. We have recently discovered terminal illness among our grandparents, job and business loss among our close friends, a racist encounter with a new homeschool group, friends with children in the hospital, my personal health issues and re-working our daily living to effectively deal with the economic crisis. We trust in God’s plan for our lives however difficult it is to live it lately.
Homeschooling has suffered as a result of these responsibilities of late. The last two weeks in November we did not had daily class or got our chores done daily. Speaking of chores I haven’t seen the chore chart in weeks, I am kinda a winging it. This is equals messy house and unorganized me. Our daily schedule is completely shot because due to the above challenges we are trying to break the habit of going to be late and rising late. We are working on it. I feel drained because in less than two weeks the house will fill up again and well meaning relatives will unwittingly undermine that work. TS needs routine and structure when the schedule is in flux his behavior is ……..let’s just say not the best.
I just need to vent but really wanted to remain positive here. But homeschooling is not all plans and execute; it is teaching how to live and learn no matter what happens in life.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Help...I need winter playdate plans?
As many of you know my child has seasonal allergies that kick off of his reactive airway asthma this time of year. We are just getting over a nasty viral infection so I have to limit his outside playtime. I am not a big fan of constantly drugging him but he is allergy/asthma meds (that is another post entirely). But the kids got to play.
Where do you play or met your friends during the allergy season or cold winter days? I don't do the local Pump and Jump places because two years ago he picked up a viral infection every time we went into these places during the winter. And that was with me completely changing his clothing and wiping him down in the car.
Help????
TS had to inventory all his toys before the holidays.
Where do you play or met your friends during the allergy season or cold winter days? I don't do the local Pump and Jump places because two years ago he picked up a viral infection every time we went into these places during the winter. And that was with me completely changing his clothing and wiping him down in the car.
Help????
TS had to inventory all his toys before the holidays.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
A Pair of Red Clogs Lapbook
Very proud of TS. He completed this assignment on his own. His Japanese writing is impressive.
Our homemade kimono.Lapbook Resources
How To Make An Apple Pie and See The World Lapbook
Apple Peeler and Slicer (Cool Tool)
Kid's Measuring Tools with little monsters.
Gluten-Free Apple Pie Crumble
DH got to the pie before we could get a picture.Lapbook Resources
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Math Unit 1: Money
We have been having fun learning all about money.
We began by learning the who, what, where and why of money using One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library). TS has never been a big fan of the Cat In Hat because of the constant rhymes, but he really enjoyed this book. It doesn't constantly rhythm and it is a non-fiction book.
The book also covers the basic of who is on our current money which was a good tie in with our Presidential election unit study. Did you know there have been only six non-presidents on our money? Can you name them?
I think skip counting is an essential skill set to have mastered before tackling counting money. TS mastered skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s last year with the Hooked on Phonics Kindergarten Workbook. Before proceeding with money counting I wanted to review the concepts in a new way. I found the perfect tie in with our mini unit study on Pumpkins with the book "How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?" by Margaret McNamara. (We enjoyed her Robin Hill School series.)
The implied exercise, based on the story, is to take a pumpkin and count the seeds in groups of 2s, 5s and 10s. So after pumpkin picking with our co-op we bring home our pumpkin and try to estimate the number of seeds like Sid the Science kid. The process was then to open it and scoop out the seeds.
This is where life got interrupted because once we opened the pumpkin, TS started to look a little green about the gills. "Mom, the inside of this pumpkin looks like orange buggers and smells disgusting." Then he got the look, every parent knows that look …their eyes get wide, they clamp their lips and sway ever so slightly. You got it ..upchuck central. It turns out TS had a nasty little stomach bug that took that moment to present itself. Needless to say we are done with pumpkins for a long time in this house.
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