The Three R's

Relaxing while Reading his 'Rithmatic.

Okay... I guess the last R was stretching it. ~Smile~

Google Earth

I have always liked to "travel" using Google maps. Last week, Corey (A very inspiring woman with a HUGE heart) over at Watching The Waters ran a marathon at Disney and I was on the site to see the route of the marathon and they used Google Earth to show a 3-D view of the route. Well I got hooked. I downloaded the program from Google and the kids and I have virtually traveled all over the world. It's use of 3-D models is very fascinating and the ability to see mountains and valleys has been very cool, especially since 6th grade has been studying the mountains of North America. I recommend it.

Reflections...

With thoughts and prayers for the people of Haiti...

We had a pretty good week. This was the last week of our first semester so we did some make-up work and just a little testing.

Pre-K

• can read and write color words
• knows 24 high frequency or sight words
• can spell first and last name
• still working of recognizing lower case letters

2nd Grade

• completed unit 4 of Lifepacs
• learned to count quarters and dollars
• can add and subtract 3 digit numbers
• still working on capitalizing

6th Grade

• did 2 lapbooks this week: one on cats, the other on The Ten Commandments
• completed a huge project on the countries, mountains, and major rivers of North America
• moved to the section of Home Economics that teaches house cleaning (not thrilled LOL)
• still working on changing decimals to fractions

We really like to travel so it always seems like we are planning our next family vacation. For spring break this year we are planning a trip to either London, Ontario or to Niagara Falls. While I am not sure about driving what would be 10 -12 hours to Buffalo, NY, we are leaning towards Niagara Falls.

We have Monday off from school. Have a great weekend everyone.

6th Grade Language Arts & Blogging

This week for Language Arts 6th grade has been doing Mad Libs. We have had some very funny stories.

Also, check out the new post at Princess Puppy.

TTT #12: Get Your Cheap On!

Essie over at The Accidental Mommy has given us another Too True Tuesday assignment: Tell us how "cheaptastic" you can be.

I was happy that many of the things on my list matched other people's list, so I will admit and add on...

1. I too use rags for my Swiffer mop (I still have the old original one that screws together and does not use the bottled cleaner)
2. 98% of my kids clothes come from E-bay and 100% of those gets passed down until they are rags
3. Old clothes become cleaning rags and Swiffer mops. LOL!
4. If the boys get holes in their jeans/pants, I will use duct tape to slow the growth of the hole (just put a piece of tape on the inside and on the outside of the knee)
5. I use the envelopes from daily mail to make grocery and other list on the back instead of regular paper.
6. Also, since I pay most of my bills on-line, the bills that come in the mail and have return envelopes with them... I use those envelopes by using label paper or black marker to cover up the company's return address and just add my address.
7. When we go to hotels, we bring home all of the little bars of soap, shampoo and lotion that they will leave in the room.
8. I never purchase Christmas, birthday or other holiday cards. I use e-mail. If you don't have e-mail or are not a reader of my blog, ya don't get nothin'. ~smile~ And the one I was ashamed to share....
9. If the kids have non-messy lunches of sandwiches, chips and carrots, I make them reuse the paper plate for snack or tomorrow's simple lunch.

Okay...that's all I'm tellin'.

Drawing a Crowd

I so wish I had pictures. I had my camera with me, but just blanked on taking pictures.

On Saturday, the boys went to their very first All-you-can-eat-pancake breakfast at our church and if you read/remember this, it was an event. First off, the pancakes were delicious. They were some body's grandmother's recipe and they were good. Second, James is very thin, but that.boy.can.eat! If you watch him eat, you can tell that he like his food as his feet get to swingin' and he is licking any morsel of food that dares to attempt an escape onto his lips or fingers. After a while, the servers and people started commenting on how nice it is to see a child with such a good appetite, but this soon turned to comments of "Where is he putting it all?" and "He's like a bottomless pit." and soon, there was a small crowd of watchers, mostly grandmotherly type women, proud to see a boy enjoying the breakfast that they had prepared.

The cost of the breakfast was donation only and I had just a small amount of cash on me at the time. After watching my kid eat, I felt like maybe I was gonna have to pull out my checkbook. LOL! It was a great time of fellowship and a hearty breakfast.

Fowarded E-mails

I get a lot of forwarded emails and usually delete them without reading as I just can't handle the volume of them. If I do happen to open one... I rarely/hardly ever/ almost never forward it on to others. But today my Godparent sent me one and I opened it and thought it was cute so I will share it here.

I can't respond to any emails today.Something has crashed on my computer...

And the mouse is missing.