Water Play with our homeschool friends

Recess water play day!

4/17/13

 

I forgot my camera so these photo's are from my phone

 

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.

Slip and slide was Fun!

Water balloon fight was a riot.  the kids had so much fun getting the moms and dads that were playing.  I wish I would of brought a change of clothes so I could of played.  Next time Kristi add me to the list of moms to tag with water and shaving cream ;O)

 

K had so much fun he ended up napping on the way home from this.  Wish we did things like this a little more often than once a year.

FT- WonderWorks

Wonderworks Orlando

4/26/13

 

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.

 

He even tried the ropes which is about 12 feet above the ground.  He had the sweetest assistant who worked with him so that he could try it out.  This was my proudest moment seeing him overcome something he was nervous about.  Esp, when I saw older kids turn around without even trying.  So proud he didn't let his fear take a hold of him.

 

 

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.

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

We spent 4 hours there before heading out for lunch and some shopping in Orlando.  We had a great time but next time I am asking if we can go in another way, that spinning tube was a little much for my guy.  With the fear of the unknown this isn't a good start to the wonderful adventure Wonderworks brings.

Our new school room in the making

Welcome to a peek of our new school room. 

 

 

 

Soft preview of our classroom ;O)

 

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.

here is our morning area!  Again another blog about this area once the area is completed

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. 

 

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.

The best storage unit ever.

 

Stayed tuned for details of each of the areas and others as our school room takes form.

 

Have a wonderful week

 

Adding to our school library

Another great trip to the Goodwill resulted in $10 of gentle used books.

 

 

We already had Charlotte's web but for that price it would be a great book for paired reading.

Water colors and masking tape

 

 

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. 

 

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.

 

Have a great Holiday weekend

A sneak peek into the school room

Our NEW SCHOOL ROOM!

 

It's a little messy right now; we just moved in.

 

 

Stay tuned more pictures coming soon as our new school room is being put together.

Why I haven't posted

We are swamped with buying a house that all extra time is going into the process of the house hunt,buying and the packing process.

If all goes as planned I will be back In April with lots to post about

Until than Happy Schooling

Pattie