tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71299253769987677042024-03-14T01:10:56.930-07:00Soleil AcademyA blog to share our homeschool happeningsPattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-33242780752015142082015-10-07T19:40:00.001-07:002015-10-07T19:40:49.614-07:00Our reward system for school<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the Years of homeschooling I have come up with our fuzzy rewards. K likes to earn rewards; so after much thought I came up with the fuzzy reward system. <br />
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I came across some sparkly fuzzy's from Michael's for under a buck from their summer clearance 2 years ago. Snagged those right up! I store them in a plastic bin from the Dollar tree and added a label. We don't have any issues on son getting into the Fuzzys.<br />
When son is on task, or I notice him doing something kind that wasn't asked of him he is rewarded with fuzzy's. Get's a 100% is a 2 point fuzzy. He has lots of ways of earning fuzzy's daily but there are also ways to lose them. <br />
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Once a week I bring the school store out. Everything in the store are things that I find on clearance or toys that son would enjoy. With the store son is learning the skill of saving vs spending. There are a couple of high point rewards that are there to encourage him to save for.<br />
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The reward box is were I put small ticket items that don't take much to earn. Things like specialty pencils, erasers, smelly markers and small candies.<br />
We have things such as small Minecraft toys, Lego mini figures, Mixels etc. The store is always being added to as I see fun rewards to encourage.<br />
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I think Im teaching him that with hard work there isa payout. We don't use money for school work that's a whole another post.<br />
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I go mainly by the price that I paid for the item. pencil is 1 point, something that was $1.00 is 5 Pts. Like Minecraft toy/Lego mini figure is 20 points. Mixels ar 30 points, we also have special time with parent of choice by self for 50 points, go out to dinner with parent of choice is 75 pts. Movie tickets etc. As son ages the rewards of course will change and pts will go up. The system is only here to encourage and just for fun.<br />
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<br />Pattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-33089928177303192082014-04-02T17:20:00.002-07:002014-04-02T17:20:17.442-07:00Valentines Day 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The day started with K waking up and receiving his valentines day gift from mom and dad in his chair backer. the backer is from Pottery barn kids if your wondering.</div>
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Once K was ready to eat we made heart shape pancakes and eggs and strawberry milk. K said it was the best breakfast ever. Ha he says that to any meal that is made for him. Just love his kind heart. </div>
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Once we got some school work done K and I baked some cupcakes to decorate. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Than we went onto some art where K was learning how to make a heart stencil and how you would paint with a stencil. <br />
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K said his favorite thing of the day was EVERYTHING! He enjoyed the non-stop fun through out the day weaved within his normal school day.Pattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-61204500035083094532014-04-02T17:04:00.001-07:002014-04-02T17:04:58.236-07:00FT: Marineland 3/7/14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This trip was AWESOME! other than the 48 degree weather</div>
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The trip started out with learning about Bottle nose dolphins in the classroom. We learned about the parts of dolphins and what they eat to the noises they make. The classroom learning was about 20 Min's. Once we finished the class we got to spend sometime just watching the dolphins play with each other and the kids at the windows.</div>
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Nellie was happy to see us. She is 60 yrs old and doing awesome. Did you know that dolphins shed their outer skin every 2 hours? That's why dolphins feel the way they do. <br />
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Its our time with some one on one time with the dolphins. Our group spent time with Shocka and Hemingway. Hemingway is 20 yrs old and Shocka was 2 yrs old. We learned a couple of commands to do with the dolphins. We got to feed, dance and get up close with the dolphins. Loved the hands on part as now we got to see things that we learned in the classroom up close.<br />
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Part of our group added the behind the seas tour and that was where we all learned about the other sea life that marine land was working with. We also got to learn the history of marine land which started off with a dolphin named FLIPPY! Yes, that sounds sort of like a famous dolphins name. Yup the writer got the idea from Flippy!<br />
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This field trip is by far our favorite field we've taken and we've been on some awesome trips.<br />
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We've learned so much about Dolphins in general and dolphins right here in our own back yard. Teaching us how things like run off from our yards can damage our eco system. Dolphins in the Indian lagoon are only averaging a life span of 7 yrs when a wild dolphin not in the lagoon are averaging 30 yrs.Pattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-50402253176109074182013-12-16T18:01:00.000-08:002013-12-16T18:01:15.386-08:00Legoland 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our Journey through LEGOLAND in photo's</div>
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K and I had the chance to go to LEGOLAND with our homeschool group again. I kept this a secret until The 6 AM wake up call. K jumped for joy with the surprise!<br />
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Look at this amazing Christmas tree made from Legos.</div>
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K was living up the chance to go on rides with his friends! Sometimes being an only child is BORING! <br />
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Merry Christmas from K and Mrs. MoliassaPattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-9447939025252924762013-12-15T17:24:00.001-08:002013-12-15T17:24:21.820-08:00Enjoying the Fall with Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Back in November K and I made the trip to Tavares FL to ride the Orange Blossom train.</div>
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We had a great time with some of our friends.</div>
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Just love this photo of K and N looking out the back of the train.<br />
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After the train ride we headed for the corn maze. While we waited for everyone arrive the kids played in a small maze and climbed a tree.<br />
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Here we are heading into the corn maze! Our team meant some serious business.<br />
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We Made it out of the maze with all kids. I call that a success!<br />
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After the maze the kids played on this huge air pillow. K loved that thing!<br />
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Pattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-80220431065549419872013-11-04T07:30:00.000-08:002013-11-04T07:30:00.125-08:00Art Lesson: Watercolor Apples!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Todays lesson is on the perspective of the birds eye view. I placed an apple on a plate and had son stand on the chair and describe what he saw. One thing he notices was the shadow at the bottom side of the apple.</div>
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Next, I presented all the supplies to Son and explained that we need to draw a plate on our paper. Using oil pastels over a pencil helps child to think BIG. Before I let Son draw, I explained to him that we are going to need room for 3-5 apples on his plate. With that info, he drew a fairly large circle instead of his normal tiny circle (think of a dime) on a big paper.</div>
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Now I had Son water color the table or background. You might want to guide them away from using really dark colors or colors of apples that are similar, in case they want an apple on the table as well. Just let them go. It's ok if they get some on the plate this is their project.</div>
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Which at this point it just looks like circles on paper. They can put their apples where ever they feel like this is their art.</div>
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Now we want to add some dimension by adding the shadow that was seen while we were looking down at the plate of apples in the beginning of the lesson. You will want to guide child to basically add a smile at the bottom of the apple with a darker color water color. We used Black! It doesn't matter if its a thick or thin shadow.</div>
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When we got to the point we talked about how the shadow was formed. I have a 3rd grader so this was a concept that was easy for him to understand. For a younger child you might want to show them more examples to touch upon the concept of shadows and how they are formed.</div>
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Now that your apples have dried for a little bit its time to add the stem. Start with having all the shadows facing towards child. Now your going to add a smile in the middle of your apple. Once your apple is smiling go a head and add the stem. Repeat on all your apples and enjoy your (their) art work. </div>
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This General Idea came from <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=442975" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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We started out by matching apples to the chart using the stickers on the apples. </div>
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After the taste test I showed K the apple star. He thought that was pretty neat.</div>
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For art we water colored a plate of apples.</div>
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We labeled the parts of an apple and colored. </div>
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While reading one of our apple books we learned some neat things about apples . Did you know a see from a gala apple may not sprout a gala tree. In order for farmers to make sure their orchard grows the tree they want they cut trees down to a root stock and graph branches of the type of tree they want.<br />
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We learned how to graft using toothpicks. tape and a TP roll made to look like a root stock. Not an easy thing for little hands to do by them self, but great visual for kids.</div>
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We are blessed to have NASA in our backyard and get to enjoy launches a few times a year. Its Amazing to watch rockets to shuttle(2 yrs ago it retired though) and yet NASA puts on programs such as Education Night. Truly amazing!</div>
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We started the night with signing in and getting a treat bag of NASA goodies.</div>
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As we walked the path to all the fun things they had some great FUN FACTS. Those where fun to read.</div>
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Here K is starting his Astronaut training. Building some cardio w/ jump roping, crab walk, squats, bear crawl, push ups and running back. He was having a great time!</div>
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Here K was making an airplane with a foam plate and a penny. Once it was built he had to test it out.</div>
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Next stop was learning about how the inner ear works in space and how it affects how you work in space with the big gloves. Tough if you ask K. K lost his screw and nut in space before he had a chance to work with it. "Those gloves are too big." said K.</div>
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Entering the Asteroid field. K thought this was going to be so easy. Yeah, this was more of a challenge then he thought. He redirected 2 asteroids.<br />
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The 3D printer was fascinating to K and his dad. They sat there watching one printer making a bracelet and the other printer making a rocket thing (Little Black rocket)<br />
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Learning about how they are testing in space to be able to grow fresh food in space at the ISS. After we learned about the plants we went to listen and talk with an Astronaut. Wow, talking to the Astronaut was fun we all learned some neat things. Once thing we learned about that we thought was neat was how the space shuttle has to speed past the ISS and once the shuttle is pass the ISS the shuttle has to use its boosters to go up an orbit and slow down so that the 2 can connect up. At the end the kids all got to meet the astronaut if they wanted and get a signed photo of him. K's favorite part from the talk was the Astronaut told all the kids to "FIND WHAT THEY LOVE to do; AND NEVER GIVE UP." (NO PHOTO was too dark) <br />
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Building a rocket and Launching it. This was K's favorite part of the night.<br />
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K's 2nd favorite station was building his own spacecraft from recycled parts. K ended up making his own ISS. Loved watching his creative self come alive with this.<br />
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The kids learned mainly about Bees and how they gather Pollen from plant to plant. Kids also learned some main identifying traits of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, stink bugs etc.</div>
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Next we went outside to explore the garden looking at all the different types of bugs in the garden.</div>
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While outside the kids and adults got to learn about native Florida plants and how to keep our Gardens full of life (Bug life). As the kids found Insects our guide would come and collect it into a collector so the kids could see the insect up close but the insect was safe. Insect is only inspected for a minute or two and placed back where they were. </div>
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Found some caterpillars and a few cystitis, stink bugs, bees of different types, lady bugs to name a few.</div>
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After the garden we were shown a Mason Bee house and told how to build one. Now we are in the search of a nice piece of wood to build a house with to put into our garden.</div>
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We ended our trip with exploring the farm and looking at the cows, goats, European Honey Bee hive, lots of Chickens and some fresh Pumpkin Ice cream.<br />
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K had a blast at Coco Key! Proud moment - K who is scared of most things until he rides something a few times marched up the stairs and rode lots of tube rides by himself and with friends. He's matured so much in the last year. So proud of his growth this last year and cant wait to see what the 3rd grade brings.<br />
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How the Cacao bean turns into the chocolate that we have grown to LOVE</div>
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Here we are learning about the cacao bean and how it grows near the equator. The Pod takes years to be ripe and its heavy when its ready to be picked off the tree. </div>
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We got to sample the Cacao bean at its dry stage with a sugar coating. Didn't get K's face when trying it out but he ended up liking it more than I did. I have to admit I did spit mine out! Bitter!</div>
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Here we are learning about the history behind the Cacao. Cacao used to be used as money. Umm, that was some yummy money.</div>
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Chocolate river and a Marshmallow game. K Love this!</div>
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This was my favorite area. We got to see how the Cacao bean went through a machine to get the Nibs which is what you make the Chocolate with.</div>
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Here we are given samples of each type of Chocolate where we get to savor all the different flavors.</div>
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K ordered a Milk Chocolate bar with Marshmallows and M&M's, I got Milk Chocolate with Marshmallows and Carmel. YUM! Their Chocolate was GOOD! I am a Chocolate snob liking European Chocolate so much that I am known to Order a good batch once a year for Christmas. Just saying it's pretty darn good<br />
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The Cacao trees growing at Chocolate Kingdom</div>
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Started the day off with a drive to Orlando to enjoy Alligators in a safe place. A great place to learn about the creatures that live in our back yard (in lakes/canals)</div>
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When you first walk in you get to enjoy all the young in's sun bathing. This was by far my favorite pond to watch. Just watching the cute little guys<br />
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Gator wrestling!<br />
Not as fun as I thought this was going to be. However, we learned about how they protect their eye's in the wild from being injured. Learned that an Gator can stay under water for 2 hours before coming up for air. Gators top jaw is where they have strength where crocodiles its the bottom jaw. Glad we started the day with this while the kids were excited to learn about gators.<br />
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An albino Gator!<br />
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Albino gators don't live long in the wild because they don't blend in with their surroundings and tend to fall pray to other gators. When an Albino gator is found places like gatorland take them in so that we can protect them and learn more about them.<br />
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Looking at this Picture I have no idea why I wasn't thinking that these guys can propel themselves out of the water. Guess they had enough hot dogs that they didn't feel like a hand and a camera ;o). As you can see in the first picture there is a net<br />
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These two are the sweetest friends ever. Just love their friendship! <br />
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We started the tour in the bakery where we watched a decorator decorate a mini cake. The kids where in aww watching how fast the cake went from plain to cute. All the kids got to taste some frosting which they enjoyed at 10 AM ;o)<br />
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Next off to the Deli<br />
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Asking questions about their favorite sandwiches! Every one sampling a slice of white American cheese.<br />
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The kids walked through the produce isles learning about how cold they keep the cold things like OJ (37 degrees) These FL kids all thought that was cold! They learned a little bit about apples and how many different types that the store has in stock. They all listed their favorite potatoes, I heard French fries from one of the kids. K also learned that they get enough boxes every week to touch the ceiling of the store. That's like 4 Pallets!<br />
We headed into the back where they kids got to see how they cut the pineapples for the cut fruit. Everyone got to sample some Pineapple. YUMMY! We also got to see how they store the produce in the back. Not sure how they find anything it looked a little cramped but they just got a truck in.<br />
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Look at this Panty! So much stuff. The kids got to go into the fridge to feel how cold it was in there. K came out laughing it was cold he said. We than went into the freezer and burr that was cold. I could feel it when they opened the door and I was a good 15 ft away from the freezer. K walked into the middle and came right out. He said it's too cold for him. He thought it was awesome! The kids got to see how they load the back shelf's when a truck comes in. They also got to watch the cardboard compactor work. Of course all children where kept a safe distance from all the working machines.<br />
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This was K's favorite area. He just really enjoyed watching how everything worked. The kids where showed the machine that turns the meat into ground beef. Next, they were showed a machine where they make the preformed hamburger patties. Now comes the saw that slices the beef into steaks. The kids also got to see how the meat was packaged down to wt. and wrapping. I of course didn't get a photo of that. Opps! <br />
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Awesome job Publix! My kid learned a lotPattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-26025974869675320702013-06-02T17:04:00.001-07:002013-06-02T17:04:33.719-07:00Welcome to our school room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Favorite photo of son and Hubs with my lotion, hand santi, lip balm this years field trip planner<br />
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Our morning area. This is where we do a few minutes of reviewing things and also where I do story time.<br />
Every morning we go over the date by writing it out. I also will write a couple short sentences that son has to read and figure out. Its normally a follow directions picture that he will do in his morning journal. The Sentences are something that I have him do on his own. Than have him show me what he got at the end. Takes 10-15 min's for him to complete.<br />
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Our bulletin board is just FUN! For the spring I had son make the whole thing without knowing. Just short lessons every day to the grand finale of the bulletin board. He was super excited to see how I used his art work. The Face was another lesson not part of building the bulletin board<br />
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Our Library area. <br />
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Ponce De Leon came to proclaim the land. Guardsmen (K had this role, he took it serious) were on duty all the time to protect the colony. Chores such as emptying the potty also belonged to the youngest of the children every. They had to empty it every morning.</div>
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There was shells to crush, fences to be built, blankets to be weaved, holes to be made in wood, candles for light. Don't forget they also needed to grind their own corn flour. Round and round don't pond; was the chant all the kids learned for making flour.<br />
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Kayden had a blast playing with the shaving cream! Just an FYI though shaving cream & bright colors don't match, faded his shorts in spots.</div>
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K was scared to go inside as he was for sure everything inside was destroyed as the building is upside down. Once we went in he was fine until the DARK spinning tube you walk through. He ran back to the end. I ended up having to have him close his eyes and push him through that. Other than those 2 things he had a blast once he was past all of that.</div>
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The light board was really neat! My little ham held his breath while posing in the space suit ;o) he's a funny guy. Both mama and son had a blast on the large piano. Bubbles where fun but we only got our heads in a bubble before the bubble would pop.<br />
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Both K and I learned a little bit about the icy waters from the titanic crash site. K left his hand in for 36 sec's and than he was off to the next station. I on the other hand was still going after 5 min's but had to move on with K. LOL! It was cold but I didn't think about it being cold which helped. We hit the water flowing up, still and down, earthquake station, hurricane force wind (K didn't). We had a blast at Wonderworks<br />
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Teacher area. Love this desk! Went shopping for dry earse boards and came home with this desk. As you can see desk is open all the way around. This way I can call student (right now I have 1 but we are starting the process of adopting) over for paired reading or testing right at my desk. Stayed tunes for another post just about the teachers desk.</div>
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Our library went up today. I swore I had more books until I put them on the shelf. We have plenty of room to grow. Laminator is in the pillow case to stay dust free (moved from a house that was insanly dusty) My plan is for it to be placed on top of this shelf. Yes, for now the shelf is over lapping the door a little but that will be changing. Stay tuned. </div>
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Kaydens Desk area! We will be ordering a new chair to match come the fall when PBK runs deals on desk and desk chairs. I'm way too cheap to pay full price when he has a perfectly good chair. But, at the same time I have to have it matching or it will bother me. (LOL! Yes, this mama teacher needs things to go together). Another post will be up soon on what the student desk entails.</div>
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Normally we would of done a ton of projects for Easter but we moved. With Moving everything has been in boxes. Yesterday I had things in working in order so we got our art on. K was excited to have a little bit of school to do. </div>
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I gave K masking tape and water colors and let him decorate his paper egg. He made a cross on his egg; when I asked him why he said it reminds him of Jesus Christ. Sure put a tear in this moms eyes. Even though we decorate with bunnies and eggs he's starting to understand it's about Jesus and what he did for us.</div>
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Stay tuned more pictures coming soon as our new school room is being put together.</div>
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practicing cutting and working with pastels</div>
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We read the book Pumpkin heads and than made some pumpkin face masks<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><strong>HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!</strong></span></div>
Pattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777509045147807914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129925376998767704.post-48396492635483115732012-09-22T04:00:00.000-07:002012-11-01T19:38:23.281-07:00Geysers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I saw this kit at the toy store on making a geyser so of course I had to plan a lesson around geysers.</div>
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When I was 8 my family traveled to yellow stone so learning about geysers wasn't just for K.</div>
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This is a diagram of how a geyser works under ground from a 8yr olds perspective from a video that we watched (forgot to write down the name of the video)</div>
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The best way to finish our study was of course having our very own coke geysers. Note to parent/teachers don't let child pull the string. K pulled it and bolted. however, the string only came out half way. I got a nice coke shower :o)</div>
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