Survivor 20!

'Nuff Said

Looking for Gold

I love the Olympics! Summer and Winter. I went to the the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and had the time of my life. I started planning soon after to go the the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but I became a mama twice in the 2 years that followed and travel plans overseas were not completed. But I love the games and watch as much as I can with my children.

I have been trying to put together a study unit that we can do together in school and wondered if anyone has any good ideas or links that you would like to share. Leaning on y'alls creative juices....

2nd Grade

Lots of updates for 2nd grade.

Last week's Language Arts self test 1 from unit 5. 100%


The practice spelling test for this unit... 100%

Last weeks math lesson: Learning to make change.


Today's Math self test 5, Unit 4. 100%

"Snuffalufaguses"

All my little lovelies have stuffy noses and it sounds like a herd of snuffalufaguses here. LOL! Do snuffalufaguses travel in herds? So tomorrow all learning with take place while laying down.

Matching Cases

We are working on matching upper and lower case letters so the pack of alphabet cards just "jumped" out of their pack and needed to be matched. Pre-K did a great job.

(pics are upside down, I did rotate the final one)

Every week Pre-K gets a new little reader that adds onto the high-frequency words that he knows. He now knows this whole list:
When I give him his new book, I usually read it to him first. I did not read this to him and he read it right off the bat!

Okay, so I tried to upload a video again using blogger, but it just will not work for me, so I used my Youtube account....





Ok...I know it's a little "MJish", but ya know...gotta protect my youngins!

Aaarrrrggghh

My cousin called me last Thursday and said she found a dog at the shelter that was really cute. She and her husband currently live in an apartment with their baby and cannot have a dog, but are planning to move to a house in the next few months. She was convinced that the dog would get adopted before they moved and she couldn't bare to leave the dog so she called me to ask if we were interested in the dog. Our beloved Rottweiler died last June, so we thought that maybe it was time to adopt another pet.

Being the homeschooler that I am, we researched the new breed, Googled images and called our vet (that we have known since 1989) to get her take on this breed and our family. All was a go, my cousin picked up the dog, e-mailed pictures, said she was so happy that the dog was going to a good home and told me that my aunt would bring the dog on Monday, February 1st.

We brought up our dog cage, scheduled a vet appointment and started the duty of voting on names. Sunday morning, just as I was walking out the door for church, my cousin called and said they had fallen in love with the dog and decided to keep it. My kids were crushed. How sad we all were. So now we are on the search for a dog for ourselves. We are looking for miniature Schnauzer that is less than 1 year old, but does not have to be a new puppy. I would prefer a male.

The dog that almost was.

Dates Are Back In Session

I use to take my kids out on "dates" with just mom and kid all the time. Summer before this past I had 7 kids in the house (my 4 and 1 foster, and 2 summer cares) and well...dating got pushed aside. Last Tuesday 6th grade and I went out for dinner at Applebees and enjoyed the 2 for $20 deal. Today 2nd grade, Pre-K and I went to all-you-can-eat-pizza at Cici's.

They are all individually planning our next date!