Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Sunday): March 1, 2015

1-   I started a new schedule for our school time and it seems to be allowing our days to run a lot more smoothly, making for a less stressful mommy. I have been using the children's Student Log Books to keep them on track. Before, we never had a set time for activities to be done. And, we still don't have a strict schedule of everything needing to be done at a certain time. However, there are a couple of check points during the day that the children have to have certain tasks done. If they get done early, they have time to play. If they aren't ready they will have less time to play on the game system, or have to go to bed earlier. This is one of the ideas I gleaned from the book Motivate Your Child by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN. 

2- On Monday the children worked on Rhyming Books as an extension from our Poppins Book Nook  lessons on Poetry. I would love to share pictures, but it seems I will have to add them later as I can't get pictures to load. However, you can see the girls' Rhyming Book on my Toddler Idea Tuesday post.

3- The younger children and I have been working through the alphabet 2 letters per week. Last week we worked on F and G. I have been using abctwiggles.com to print out worksheets. They also have a cute animated story for each letter that we watch the day I introduce the letter. They also made an F out of feathers, though I couldn't think of anything to make a G out of. Yes, Gold Glitter would work, but we don't have any. 

4- At co-op on Wednesday the preschool class made cute monster snowmen. Each snowman had enough snowballs for each letter in the child's name and for some reason they decided to give their snowmen lots of wiggly eyes, making them "monsters."

5- I finished 2 reviews last week, and I have a few coming up this week. We reviewed the documentary called IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America, which I highly recommend. We have also been listening to the audio theater drama from Heirloom Audio called In Freedom's Cause. This is from the same company that gave us Under Drake's Flag, which we reviewed last year.  Coming up this week will be my reviews for Motivate Your Child, Koru Naturals, and Standard Deviants Accelerate. We have also been enjoying learning more about Jesus being the light of the world with Egglo Easter Eggs. That review will be coming up next week. Additionally, the older girls have been using Math Analogies from the Critical Thinking Company. That review is also slated to be posted this month. Yes, we've been busy, and we have more review items on the way. 

Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Sunday): February 15, 2015

I haven't participated in Random 5 on Friday for quite a while, not since last May to be exact. I really hadn't realized it had been that long. Right now, I am trying to figure out the best way to organize a random 5 post. I had the thought of also making it my week in review post, as I just haven't had time to do a detailed review post each week (for quite a long time). The thought that keeps popping into my head, it to post one random thing that was learned for each day of the week. Well, that is probably what I will do next week, as we had this past week off. For this week, I would just like to share some random updates. 

1-   We had our 100th day of school on February 4th. Technically, it was our 100th day of using My Father's World 1st grade, which we started back in April of last year, then took the summer off, and started back up in September. I did post some of our fun pictures as my Wordless Wednesday post. We had co-op in the morning, and the children each had 20 grapes in their lunch, to add up to 100. Then we came home and had some 100 day fun before going to see Disney on Ice. 

2- I have rearranged our days so we are having Bible time before starting our lesson time. We are using the Sound Words for Kids Theology Curriculum from Proverbial Homemaker, the review for which went live the other day.

3- Not only are we starting our day with the Lord, we end our day with Bible time as well. We had gotten away from this, but thanks to another new review product, we are starting back up again. We have been reading The Egg-Cellent Easter Adventure as a part of our Egglo review. 

 4- Thanks to some ideas gleaned from the book, Motivate Your Child by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN (yes, another review item), I am also being more diligent in having Tabitha use her My Student Logbook (that we reviewed last year with the TOS Review Crew), and I purchased an additional book for Amelia. I am hoping to get the children to be more responsible in getting their work done without me always being on their case.  One of the things I changed, is that we are going to get lessons started by earlier in the morning. If the children have their work done early because they haven't procrastinated, they will have more time for play. 

5- I have started on a new health journey thanks to a friend at our homeschool co-op. She was talking to me about the Trim Healthy Mama book and I said I would be interested in looking at her copy. Next thing I know, I am staring at a package from Amazon that contained the book. Shock, shock, shock. I am so very grateful, and hope this will be something I can do.

Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Saturday): May 31st, 2014

There are funny things or cute things that will happen during the week that I would like to share, but they don't really make a post on their own. So, this is the perfect opportunity to share them.


1.The children found their first toad of the year. They were quite upset when mommy wouldn't let them keep it.

2. On Memorial Day we had a school-as-usual day, but the children wanted a picnic lunch. They took their muffin tins to the blanket, next to the water (blue blanket) and the grass (green blanket).

3. We continue to enjoy time over at the park. The other day Harold was having a blast "blowing dandelion fuzz." Or just shaking it.

In the next picture, he is "hugging" the dandelion. He will put his cheek down to pictures or put objects to his cheek that he loves.

4. The children love building castles.

and houses with different rooms for their cars or dolls, or in this case, ponies.

5. We received a new review item the other day. Fun, fun, fun!

Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Saturday): May 10th, 2014

There are funny things or cute things that will happen during the week that I would like to share, but they don't really make a post on their own. So, this is the perfect opportunity to share them.


1. Harold decided to show us how strong he thinks he is this past week. These are not real weights; they are accessories that hold the Wii controllers when doing exercises on the Wii Fit games. Though they are not real weights, they aren't the lightest things either. I just thought this was so cute.

2. We went to visit Uncle John and the cousins last week and Harold was having a blast trying to catch and pet the dog. He kept trying to give the dog the toy pig. Instead of throwing it so the dog could go fetch, he would keep chasing the dog to try to give her the toy. Then he just started carrying the silly pig around with him.

3. While we were having our gathering time on Monday, Tabitha decided to start writing the date in her little notebook she was given as a type of journal when she went to camp last year. I thought it was so sweet. And of course, Amelia decided to copy her sister, though she chose to write it out on a piece of computer paper.

4. After we came back from shopping the other day, Harold decided to make himself all sorts of comfy in one of the cardboard boxes. I actually posted one of these pictures on Facebook, stating " Went shopping today, look what we found. Decided to keep him."

5. We had one very upset boy the other day!

Seems he didn't like being told he couldn't play with the Learning Palettes we are reviewing. Poor kiddo.

Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Saturday): May 3rd, 2014

There are funny things or cute things that will happen during the week that I would like to share, but they don't really make a post on their own. So, this is the perfect opportunity to share them.


1. The children have been enjoying being able to go to the park more lately, though it was too rainy the latter part of the week.

2. On Monday, grandma and grandpa came down to babysit so the hubby and I could go on a "date," the first time we had gotten out together since November. We love the curtain in the movie theater. 

3. It seems while we were gone, while the girls were watching their movie, grandma read Harold a huge pile of books. I didn't realize he would sit that nicely for so many books. Maybe she reads better than me?  Yes she was still reading when we got home and they stayed a while longer because he kept asked for more books to be read.

4. The girls have now seen Frozen 3 times. After seeing it once they kept singing "let it go, let it go, let it go" over and over again because the didn't really know the words. Before watching it the third time today they were acting out their favorite scenes from the movie with almost perfect dialogue.

5. Last night we got to go see the new Veggie Tales movie Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier at our church with the Venture Club crew. The hubby and I enjoyed it very much. It was fun picking out the references to Star Trek and Star Wars. There was even a reference to Dr. Who, not that I have ever watched that one. I said that Veggie Tales appeal to the parents as well as the children because those references usually go right over the children's heads.

Five on Friday (Oops I Mean Saturday): April 26, 2014

Oops, missed a couple of weeks. Trying to get back on schedule.

There are funny things or cute things that will happen during the week that I would like to share, but they don't really make a post on their own. So, this is the perfect opportunity to share them.


1. We have officially finished our My Father's World Kindergarten Curriculum and have started 1st grade work. I packed the K materials away to await being used by Hannah and Harold in a year and a half.

2. Wednesday was also our last co-op meeting for this school year. We helped out at the camp where we meet, cleaning leaves, weeds and pinecones to make the camp look nice. 

 3. The last day of co-op is also memorable because we have a potluck lunch. While we were waiting for the food to be ready, hubby was taking some kids on a ride on the chair carrier.

4. For some reason the hubby thought I needed a foil hat that day. Of course, he insisted on taking pictures.

5. The children are still having a blast going to story hour every week. Today they made coffee filter/pipe cleaner butterflies.