Happy Halloween!

We love our neighborhood! Every year for halloween all the families meet at the front of the neighborhood and have a big "parade" down the street. It is so sweet seeing all the kids dressed in their costumes. All the neighbors sit on the driveways to handout candy to the kids. This year we decided to have it on Saturday night and at the end we all met at the pool for a BBQ.

Caleb and Elisabeth were so sweet. Elisabeth was the perfect Snow White and Caleb was the rough and tough transformer, Optimus Prime.

Happy Birthday Pops!

Fall Fun

Homeschool

Here are our skills and activities from the past two weeks of homeschool:

Review letters Ss and Tt

Letters Uu,Vv, Ww, and Xx

Numbers 14 and 15

Dot to dot numbers

Seashore picture craft

Number matching 1-10

Letter tracing

Matching weather pictures

Umbrella craft

Tiger hats

Dot painting letters

Patterns

Play dough

Legos

Sidewalk chalk

Zaccheus story, song, and craft

Number recognition games 1-15

Watercolor paint

Blocks

I started giving Caleb and Elisabeth a "warm activity" to do every morning at the beginning of our homeschool time. I give them something that they can do independently and can complete in about five or ten minutes. Some of our warm activities include: math manipulatives (money, geometric shapes, pattern blocks, and color bears), prewriting on marker boards, scissor practice, word matching, and puzzles.

Fishing with Dad

I love this video of Caleb. He took his own pole, but Todd only rigged it with a bobber. After Todd pulled out a few fish and Caleb didn't get a bite, he figured his was broken. So, Caleb commandeered Todd's pole in time to catch this fish.

One of my favorite parts of this video is when Caleb starts yelling at the fish "In a little bit! In a little bit!" I guess Caleb thought the fish was being a little impatient.

Did you notice how Elisabeth was no where to be found? That's because she refused to go. She wanted to stay home and paint her toenails! What a girly girl!!!

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Park Time

It's been a couple of weeks since we last went swimming. The pool has been such a nice outlet for the kids, where they can swim and play to their hearts' content. To be honest, I've been dreading afternoons without the pool. Well, now we've found our new release... the park! We've got a nice one close to our house, that doesn't have any playground equipment, but has endless paths for the kids to run and play. I am so thankful for our park!

Catching Up!

It has been a few weeks since my last homeschool post. Homeschooling has been going really well. Caleb and Elisabeth have been doing so well and so many of the concepts and skills we are working on have really been "clicking" with them. I am so proud of them and I am really enjoying the blessing of being their mama and their teacher.

Here are some the skills and activities we have been working on for the past three weeks:

Letters Qq, Rr, Ss, and Tt

Numbers 13 and 14

Number matching

Graphing

Puzzels

Sidewalk chalk

Legos

Lacing beads

Patterns

Prewriting

Painting

Color by numbers

Blocks

Animal memory games

Number recognition games

Matching capital and lower case letters

Scissor practice

Play dough

Stamping

Math manipulatives

Dot to Dot

Otter craft

Made a fireman hat

Rabbit hat craft

Our Trip to the Zoo

We went to the zoo this weekend. Caleb and Elisabeth are true animal lovers and throughly enjoy everything at the zoo. Their favorite part of the zoo visit was the stingray exhibit. They were in heaven petting the stingrays and getting soaking wet. We are looking forward to many more trips to the zoo this fall.

Go Seminoles! Beat the Hurricanes!

Going to the Park

We absolutely love going to the park. This past week was especially beautiful. The kids had an absolute blast and it is nice to be able to sit back and watch them run!