You know those times you mean to get on and make a blog post and honestly it’s just not at the top of your list for that day, there is so much else to do, and it doesn’t get done. It’s just a blog. Whatever. Haha.

There is also the fact that the photos were still on the camera!

Let’s start with some new things in our school room - our new rug. I had seen this on the chasing cheerios blog, forgotten about it, then got a Heartsong Catalog in the mail and ordered one for us.

Sorry the photos are huge, I don’t feel like messing with them. Plus, I no longer have psp on my computer which is my go-to for resizing and playing with stuff.

A preschool workbox activity in the box & after being played with, she loved it. Autumn stickers were $1 at Target, construction paper (which she didn’t use) and her box of supplies - scissors, crayons, glue stick. Also below is a photo of Aa playing a game created for clothespins but we didn’t have any so we improvised with counting squares, she loves that "tivity" too. It was a download from  http://www.sunflowerschoolhouse.com/ 

I don’t really have anything to share. We’re loving the workboxes. I mean LOVING them. It is so nice for the boys to see what is there. I need to be more creative in funthings boxes, we’re getting into a bad habit of there only being a couple and mostly work because they do like to just get through what MUST be done and then use free time for a computer game or something.

They will be doing a project next week that they are doing reading/listening/research on this week. Tomorrow in a box they’ll have to find 5-8 facts about their topic & write sentences for them. They will be making a poster. I am so excited to have printer ink again!!! For choosing topics I had told L to choose a state - he picked New York - and that got narrowed down to The Statue Of Liberty. And I told K to choose a president - he picked Lincoln - that got narrowed down to The Penny. Interesting, finding facts should be fun.

I went to knit night tonight and worked on Aaralyn’s sock. I am almost done with sock #1 for the third time. I knit & pulled out the toes twice now, third times the charm, right? Plus, I had help with it Never again will I knit one sock at a time, I am sure I will go nuts trying to make #2 just the same. 

I considered doing hte Monday thing on Monday night, but I guess I forgot. Hm. Anyway Monday was not a day off around here, but we’re doing a 4 day week - taking Friday off for a field trip.

Some things that have been in the boxes this week - put this story in order. I just jotted down sentences on strips of laminated paper (scraps from cut-out activities). Find which thing doesn’t belong - also done on laminated paper scraps. The best thing about those is I can erase and use the paper scraps again. Lochlan did the under/over/in/left/right/etc. ball in a box activity today. I took & Printed photos of the ball then made cards with the words. So they match the picture to the word (self checking w/ words on back of pictures, too) and demonstrate with the ball and box themselves.

I have to get back to schoolwork, each of the boys has two boxes left and both are work with mom boxes and Kier is driving.me.nuts. asking about his birthday preset.

If i’m going to expand the blog, it might as well be with one of my other huge "Hobby’s" - homeschooling. Obviously my other hobby’s are knitting, and writing. Homeschooling and my kids are pretty much my life though.

So for workbox wednesday I don’t have any photos of today’s boxes but I’ll try to remember what was in them, as one set is worked through all but one, and one set is worked through all but two. And I do have photos of our set-up that were taken over the weekend to share.

So today for Kieran - ETC, 4 pages. Sort cards into three different categories (these cards are made for sorting, possible categories were all different colors, # of items on the cards, things you eat, fruit, vegetables, things you wear, animals , zoo animals / pets, different shapes, etc). Math (work w/ mom box), reading cards & reading, pick a president to learn more about (I want them to learn about doing research, putting together a project/poster so he has a president & L has a state - I haven’t choosen a deadline yet), and Spelling. Six boxes Plus together topics.

Lochlan’s boxes today included choosing a state for the Fall project, his math lesson, playing with the lego education set (I plan to include activities with this from time to time but just let them play today & yesterday), ETC -1 page plus building blend words with letter tiles, back of yesterdays math page, and picking a book from our book box to read to me & aaralyn & Toby. Plus together topics.

The boxes -