Summer Fun Week of June 25th 2012

This week was very busy. We had our second week of Summer Reading Program in town. The girls got to go to Vacation Bible School across the street from the church where we go to playgroup. And, it was the first week of Summer Reading Program where we go to Story time.
Daddy actually took the girls Tues and Wednesday to VBS, then I took them Thurs and Fri. Amelia had a little trouble remembering and reciting the verses, but she improved by the end of the week. Here are some pictures from there recreation time. Baby Harold and I had taken a walk yesterday and they were outside when we came back.

Don't worry, she was "tagged" by the ball and had to wait to get unfrozen.

Then today I took a walk with Baby Harold and Hannah. Hannah had to walk because our double stroller that would fit the car seat will not fold up to be put in the trunk. It took a while to get around town, but we had fun. When we got to the little playground I couldn't just walk on by. Hannah saw the slides and said, "slide" so slide she did. Fortunately, Harold was asleep. 

Today was the last day and they had a closing program and a picnic. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures. 

As I mentioned, we are also involved with 2 summer reading programs this year. Like last year we get to go to the one and they spin the wheel to find out how many books they need to take out and then they spin for a small prize (yay, more clutter). Then we go to the summer reading program in town where we take our Reading Logs in which we recorded how long we read during the week. This is where the books from the other program come in handy. Each hour of reading gets the girls a dollar (fake, of course). They then save it up until they have enough to buy something from the Program Store. I think the lowest priced item was $7. We also count the time Tabitha reads to me or her sisters. 

This library's program is on Thursday and there is a craft involved and a book read, plus snack of course. Here are some pictures of the girls making there Fireflies this week.

And they are having Bear Camp this week. The children were to bring a stuffed animal friend to the library. The animals got little name tags and get to stay the week. When we pick them up next week we will also get pictures of what the animals did all week. The assistant librarian came up with the idea. I think it is so cute. Unfortunately Tabitha had some separation anxiety. However, I will say I haven't heard her say anything about missing April Bear since Thursday.

Hear are April and Orange getting ready to go:

Oops they need to be safe:

Getting out at "camp."

Story time:

(see, they have their finished fireflies.)

Snack time:

Also linking up with

House rearranging, Giveaways won, VBS

Let's see, what did we get done this week.....hmmmmm.......(twiddling thumbs).....oh, right, not much at all.  This was the week of  rearranging the house , internet being down and attending VBS.

No pictures yet of the house rearranging, seeing as I am not done yet.  Four month old babies tend to make finishing projects sort of up in the air.  I sure do hope to have everything in its place by the end of the month.  I have been making plans and I think I am going to enjoy the end result, its just getting there that is stressing me out.  I've also been brainstorming this year's "curriculum," and plan to share that in a separate post, as soon as I work out all the kinks, hopefully sometime this week.

As we were rearranging the house and moving the desk along with the computer into the living room, we thought we had messed something up.  Our internet wouldn't load anything but the one page, then we were getting nothing.  After a phone call to the phone company, we discovered the internet was down in our area.  Okay, big sigh of relief.  Except I needed to get on my blog or email to check the results of a couple of giveaways I had entered.  So, I headed to the library when I realized we wouldn't know how long our internet would be down because the library has a different internet provider.  I was so glad I did.  I discovered I had won two giveaways!  What a surprise for someone who never wins anything.  I won the Pick and Draw card game from Our Hope is in the Lord.  I am so looking forward to having a new game to play with the family.  I also won the science giveaway from over at Homeschooler Cafe.  I thought it was neat to have won this Anatomy Bundle which she had mentioned would be a great way to teach how we are fearfully and wonderfully made.  That was the children's first memory verse for Bible School this week.  


Anyhow, once the internet came back up in our town we realized it still wasn't working right for us.  More waiting.  I couldn't get on the internet to print out the pictures I needed for the girls' 2 lessons, so that was put on hold 'til next week.  Finally the technician replaced our filter and we were up and running better than we had been in a while.  


So, not much was accomplished this week.  The girls did color their coloring pictures for the VBS coloring contest

This year's Bible School was Backstage with the Bible: a vacation Bible School Experience.  They had a rocking good time with The Go Fish Guys.  And the cool thing is, the official VIP name tags are real backstage passes that can be used if the Go Fish Guys ever come to our area!!  According to their promotion video they wanted to bring the Bible back into Vacation Bible School.

It was really awesome.  Though I missed the motions we usually learned with songs to help remember them.

Here are some pictures from the closing program:

Pre-K class

Sharing what they learned each day

Day 1: Superstars-God made you in His image

Day 2: Ten Commandments-Are you good enough?

Day 3: The Cross-Find out what Jesus did for you

Day 4: Saved- Saved by grace through faith

Day 5: Go Fish-Share the Good News

I love the way Tabitha is clinging to her certificate and DVD

Nice to know she's not shy

This was taken right before another child took the guitar

away from her.  She was so sad she couldn't have a 

guitar too.  Unfortunately, VBS is for children age 3 and up.

We did play the number 2 game, but I will post that when I post about the remainder of our 2 lessons and our orange lessons.

To see what others are doing with their toddlers and preschoolers head on over to 1+1+1=1 and Homeschool Creations.  I am assuming others had a more productive week.