Celebrating 100 Days of School

We've been making our way through the 7 days of creation and studying about all the different creations. We recently finished up the creatures of the sea and birds. More on our nests later. A few weeks ago, we celebrated 100 days of school. First, N and I brainstormed a list of activities the day before.

We started our day by eating pancakes in the shape of 100.





Then we counted 100 fruit loops...





100 grains of rice...





100 pennies...



100 m&ms...



100 blocks...



100 books...



shot 100 hoops (with T-Max's help!) and jumped 100 times.

We also wrote "100 days ago I couldn't ..., but now I can..."

She filled in the blank and wrote,
"rebusentis" = read a sentence (the "b" is supposed to be a "d")
and "broahrt" = draw a heart (the "b" is supposed to be a "d").

We are working on discerning between these two letters. We use the visual of the word "bed" which both looks like a bed looking at it from the side and helps her to remember which is the "b" and "d". Very helpful for her! She didn't use any spaces between words yet, but is writing very phonetically.

N made a list of what she would buy if she had $100.
"a dres" = a dress
"a bik" = a bike
"a noo mine girl calr" = a new mini girl calendar

We had a great day!

Thanksgiving School Activities

We've had a busy November with school, my father's unexpected surgery (I'm glad to say that he is recovering well), T-day with family, visiting with out of town family, and starting our Christmas traditions.

Some of my mommy friends and I are doing a once a month homeschool activity. A couple of moms take turns planning a themed morning filled with lessons and activities for our oldest kids. My friend Dienny and I hosted November's homeschool day themed around Thanksgiving. We read T-Day poems and stories, made leaf rubbings, classified our leaves, and made an edible turkey craft out of Oreos and various candies. Here are some pics to document our day!












We were supposed to use candy corn, but I couldn't find any, so I substituted Mike and Ike's instead. I found the idea on Kaboodle.











I hope to be blogging more about what I'm doing with N in school, but it's hard to find the time to do that. We'll see what I get around to. There are already several pics I have not posted from September. Oh well!


A picture of a banner I had made her for her first day of school!

And here are some of the T-Day crafts that we did for homeschool with my kiddos:

Last year, we wrote what we were thankful for on colored slips of paper and put it in our "I'm thankful for...jar". This year I saw something online to make a thankful turkey. So this is how it turned out. N drew all of her own pictures, and then I helped her break down the sounds, but she came up with the letters. Since we're not working on spelling yet, you might see some strange (but phonetic!) spellings.



We were most thankful for the cross and my dad recovering from his surgery. And notice, our family is thankful for Nutella! Our new T-Day tradition may be Nutella filled croissants for breakfast, while watching the Macy's T-Day parade (which the kids REALLY enjoyed!). Notice the orange feather at the bottom left. Those are the three crosses on Calvary. We've talked about two other people being crucified with Jesus, so that is what she depicted. When I asked her who the people were and why they were so sad, she said that it was Jesus' mom and dad.


T-Max's hands made into turkeys. I had to help him a lot! But he did glue the beaks and the wattle himself.


N's hands made into turkeys.


A pinecone turkey - N did a great job!

Just a few more pics on my flickr.