Dallas Stars

Mark took the boys to a Dallas Stars hockey game on Friday during my softball game.  They had a lot of fun! Cameron is wearing his shamrock hat that we made during school that day.  They said he got a lot of attention!

St.Patrick's 2012

I planned today's lesson around a St. Patrick's day theme. My sweet niece, Baleigh came for a visit and enjoyed the first activity today...a hunt for the leprechaun's chocolate gold coins! We had many activities, among them were 'green' bingo, leprechaun math and putting together an Ireland book. At the end, I put together a rainbow of colored rice with gold coins to play with.

Little boys

Bowling Fun

Had fun at the bowling alley with friends today.

Learning Palette

I recently discovered Learning Palettes. Love them! And the boys do too!

Boys being boys

Yes, I am aware that some people think that we just give the kids a computer and they get to play games with their friends all day when they're homeschooled.

Why yes, that is true. Ha ha ha (they wish!)

Little Red Hen

After seeing the Little Red Hen puppet show, we just had to go home and make bread!

Planet Earth

I am currently working through a lengthy school unit on space. We are doing many projects that are ongoing that I will be posting about soon.

Today, we studied planet Earth and discussed the planet's many characteristics. We built playdough models of the Earth's layers - core, mantle and crust.

A Pocket for Corduroy

I did a cute little lesson after reading this book with Cameron. We made Corduroy and he sewed on his pocket and put his name inside. He loved it and said he wants to sew when a lot more when he's older.

Geography Club - Mexico

We had a great time at geography club yesterday. Each month when we meet up, we study a different country. Each family presents an aspect about the country - government, people & culture, art & music,geography, foods, craft, game, and interesting facts. Mexico was so fun! We made maracas and had a pinata. Fun fiesta!

Monster Trucks!

On Friday, I had prepared a Monster truck  lesson for school. Unbeknownst to the boys, we had surprise tickets to go to the Monster truck show at Dallas Cowboys Stadium on Saturday.

It was awesome! We had tickets to a suite,  which made the show that much more fun to watch. Those drivers really put on a good show!

Engineers Week

This week was Engineers Week and we headed to the Dallas Science and Nature Museum. They had tables set up throughout the museum with volunteer engineers illustrating different experiments. My favorite was the one with the salt dough circuit.

I signed the boys up for a homeschool class and show. The show was called Superhero science and it provided a first hand look at x-ray vision, bulletproof materials, lasers, invincibility and even levitation! After the show, we headed to the class where the boys were paired up and built simple machines using legos. I got to be Cameron's partner (which was his choice).

Newspaper Publication

Carson's new venture is creating a newspaper. He wrote several news stories and had his 4 year old brother write an article on the Titanic. The things they come up with amuse me daily.

My boy's new website

Carson has been wanting to start a website for a while. He's always building and inventing things and he wanted a place to showcase the things he creates.

This past weekend, I finally took the time to get the site up and running for him. He would love the visitors if you have the time:

http://www.kid-create.blogspot.com

Kindergarten Spelling

Cameron started to read about 6 months ago. We read together daily and I try to play a lot of fun phonics games with him. His reading skills are advancing well. Woo Hoo!

Cameron, "Which Star Wars character likes football?"

Me, "Which one?"

Cameron, "Jabba the hut, hut, hut"

That boy keeps me laughing!

Dallas World Aquarium

Fun at the Aquarium with a big group of friends last month.

George Washington Exhibit

I had to drive to fort worth to get a root canal while my mom watched the boys. Since I was feeling okay afterwards, I took the boys to the George Washington exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum. Wow, what an exhibit! They even signed their names with quill pens.