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Learning At Home Instead of HomeSchooling?

By Christi, on November 7th, 2011

http://www.momsmustardseeds.com/2011/11/ten-days-of-growing-leaders-day-1-core-phase-of-learning/

This isn’t the first thing I’ve read about this idea – but it really resounds with me. One of the main reasons I HS is because I don’t want my children’s core to be influenced by people who don’t believe as we do. I firmly believe that I can’t raise my child to know what I believe, behave the way the Bible commands and be the light if they are spending 3/4 of their time under the influence of others. If I want to teach them these things they need to be with me more than anyone else.

And as I watch Ry pout and stomp and hate his schoolwork I’m starting to think that I’ve missed something and that as crazy as the above may sound to some it might be just what I’m looking for. I mean, what does it matter how smart/schooled you are if you SUCK as a person?

Bubble Painting

By Christi, on October 13th, 2011

I saw this blog and thought the girls would love it. Instead of popping the bubbles with their paper, though (partly because I missed that part in the directions) they just blew until the bubbles overflowed onto their papers. They had a blast!

Clean Mud/Clouds

By Christi, on September 12th, 2011

This was fun!

Watching the soap in the microwave – they were thoroughly impressed by this!

Adding the toilet paper:

Add a little color and viola! FUN!

Action Shots and Target Finds

By Christi, on September 4th, 2011

Some pics of the girls during the school day this last week.

Some great Target scores:

So Many Ideas…

By Christi, on September 1st, 2011

I’ve found some really great blogs with really great ideas – now how do I organize them all so I can plan to get around to doing them? For now I am going to list them here with links – to share and to help me remember.

For All:

Package Art
Leaf painting
Crunchy Leaf Pictures
Photo Scavenger Hunt

For R3:

Letter Crafts – must start these this week.
Puppy spots – I wanna print separate cards for her to draw from to see how many dots to put on the puppy.
Name soup

For the activity shelf/bin:

Water Math Bag

Halloween:

http://www.amazingmess.com/2010/10/water-bottle-pumpkin-jack-o-lantern.html
5 Lil Pumpkins
http://activitymom.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween

Thanksgiving:
http://tonsoffunpreschoolactivities.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-15T21%3A24%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=5

What Do You Want to Learn?

By Christi, on August 27th, 2011

I interviewed R3 today, hope to come back and update with the other kids’ responses.

R3: I wanna learn dancing! I wanna learn playing the piano. I want mommy to teach me how to do school like Ry is.

Elephant Watering Can and AL State Flag Cookies

By Christi, on August 25th, 2011

One of R3′s chores is to water the plants. She was carrying a cup of water back and forth to fill it about 3 trips and was asking for a watering can. I found the cutest idea in the Family Fun magazine and decided to make it for her.

Here we are gluing on the eyes and ears.

And here she’s showing it off:

Sister had to jump in on the pic:

And here she is using it!

Big brother likes it too:

Later on, after Seester and her crew arrived, we made AL State Flag Cookies.

Wanna make some?

Graham Crackers
Cream cheese (or icing)
Twizzlers (or red piping icing)

Put icing/cheese on cracker, arrange twizzler/red icing in an X – viola!

The Armor of God and American Quilts

By Christi, on August 23rd, 2011

Yesterday during school R1 asked me to teach him more about the armor of God from Ephesians 6:11-17 so I found this and printed three copies of the person and the armor and today we colored, laminated and velcroed (yes, I make up words) and this is what we have!

Here’s R3 coloring hers after her nap. I’m not sure she’d have been as into it if she hadn’t seen the finished ones by the big kids after her nap.

Then for our art project, we are studying North America this week (and for the next 4 weeks) so I chose the Early American Quilt from our art book Global Art. Each child picked their fabric and I cut out their squares – then we laid them out on our posterboard (12×12 for the girls and 8×30 for R1) and glued them down.

Here is a pic of the three “quilts.”

Busy Box Ideas

By Christi, on August 22nd, 2011

Sometimes my blog is more of an idea list than a blog! I want to make some busy boxes for the 3yo and am compiling the ideas here so I can find them!

Texture matching – take little blocks of wood and glue fabric, velcro, seeds, sand, etc to the surface. Make 2 of each, and then blindfold them and they have to find the pairs by feeling.

Mystery bag – fill a bag with small objects that she would know. She reaches inside and feels an object and has to guess what it is.

3D Word Search

Sounds for Sensory Jars

Scents for Sensory Jars

vanilla
peppermint
lemon juice
cinnamon
cloves
orange rinds

…fill 2 jars with the same scent, and they have to smell to find the matching jars.

Just Another Day of School

By Christi, on August 19th, 2011

R1 and R2 made their Celtic brooches to wear on their cloaks while R3 napped on Wed, here is a pic of the finished product on Thurs.

He was disappointed when I said I would not paint his face blue.

R3 did some lacing while the bigs did their worksheets.

And then the girls did some bean sorting while R1 finished up his math.

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