Wayzley Academy

Noah is featured in an In the Hands of a Child ad in The Old Schoolhouse magazine’s summer edition!..page 27!!

~Update..the schoolroom has moved..for new pictures come visit this posting. ~

Well I’ve been very busy the last few days organizing all our “stuff” for the new school year. My office/schoolroom needed a full overhaul and I had LOTS of curriculum to sort through. Well except for making a few more file folder games for the kids I am done and just about ready to go..wanna see the room?

Here’s the door.. lol..I have my “chore” list and Noah’s posted here:

Now this is NOT a big room.. not at all..but we’ve made it work..

view from the doorway:

view from the other corner:

ok on to the tour:

this is what you see when you open the door. All my various “flash cards” I use on the Portable Circle Time ( updated pictures coming VERY soon) as well as the kids on the run backpacks..and yes my vacuum.

This is the closet door..

inside the very messy closet ( can’t believe I am even showing this..ugh). On the top shelf is various board games and the Wii boxes..LOL. The on a wall thing are craft supplies and on the corner shelves ae play doh, colored glue and various supplies. The bookcase things has school books I am passing on, stuff to grow into, the kids pencils boxes, my MP3 speakers. The roll cart has office supplies,pre made crafts and science stuff..alongside 9 not shown) are variuos science kits I’ve gotten on clearance and am waiting to need.

Next..small shelves with lots of games, hands on items, science kits etc, then Ziah’s personal Learning poster:

Next bookcase #1 with all our various readers and Taejan’s coloring books, on top are all sorts of educational puzzles about countries, animals etc:

2nd bookcase: On top is my “paper center” with all my colored paper for lapbooks as well as construction paper. I also keep my laminatin sheets, clip boards and such on that.

On the shelves. Top one is Noah’s, has all his curic for the year ( remember he uses a computer based one for a few subjects). Next is Declan’s VERY full shelf, then the bottom one is Ziah’s.

3rd bookcase with all our reference books that are not pertaining to a certain curic we are using right away.. ok most I have a bookcase in the livingroom with some also. Also our Quizard and a few odds and ends.

The kids table for doing their work ( well not Noah of course ). Also on the wall is a hanging plastic thing that has 3 spaces, I put the kids work(each has their one space) in there after they’ve done it and let it stack up all week, then sort it and place what I want in their portfolio’s.

My file cabinets. Each kiddo has a drawer with their items for use during this schoolyear like Lapbooks, notebooking pages etc. Then the 3 drawer one has resources stuff, things we finished and future use ( like not this year but sometime in the future)

The you can see the 2 shelves Eric built. I have my lapbooks stored up on the top one, my color printer, laminator and various computer parts, the bottom has more learning games, chess and such. On top the file cabinets I have my hanging folders, file folders and my Artistic Pursuits box. Also that’s where I store the Portable Circle Time.

Here’s the computer desk,my laser printer, my shelves with empty 3 ring binders, all the kids portfolios, variuos full binders that don’t fit or belong on their active subject shelves, more toner, my planner, games, MUS dvd’s etc…

We also have a free standing cabinet thing with shelves I use for the bulk of the craft items and I have a great bench in the living room I store any lapbook/pocketbook or unit study items if we are currently working on one! I can already feel the need to ask my DH to build me a few more shelves..especially since in another year Taejan will be doing actual work!!!

Yesterday we headed back to the beach..it was far from a perfect day, but my Mother In Law cleared her day to come with us and since she has such little time to spend with the kids like that, we went anyway!

2hours and 10 minutes after we left we were at Sherwood Island State Park.. were we find out the beach was closed..ugh. We had already paid to park so we decided to eat and see what happens. About an hour after we got there they opened the beach back up and we had a blast..until another storm came in and the beach was closed and we headed for home!

Noah and Declan making a ..well not exactly sure what..lol

Ziah:

Declan:

Taejan:

Declan chasing the sea gulls:

Noah being a typical teen:

as you can see the weather was iffy.. it went from cold and windy, to hot and muggy and then back to cold and windy:

Eric with Ziah,my MIL and Declan

‘

my MIl with the littles:

After we got home we decided to watch the Hannah Montana 3D concert we DVR’d.. we could only make it through 4 songs before the 3D was bothering us all..but we will eventually watch the whole thing:

Ok back to cleaning up the school room.. I am 78% done and ready for the new school year..YEPPIE!!!

( Yeah..me again..I guess it’s official I am a blog addict.. I swear though I have gotten LOTS done..including the fall schedule for the Dance Center )

Well my Sir Declan went into Karate tonight with a yellow belt on and come out with a blue belt!! I am so proud of him..he’s a blue belt at 6 years old!

Here he is waiting with the other kids for their new belts after their tests:

getting his blue belt:

him and Sensei Connie:

I am just so proud of this kiddo!

Oh on another front.. I got my hair cut and Declan wanted me to be sure to show you all..so here’s Taejan and I today..Declan took the picture!

I know I know..I am not supposed to be posting( I did get Declan’s whole year of SoTW planned thanks to Lisa and History Odyssey )..but I couldn’t resist posting these pictures.

See it’s been raining here..a LOT…. want to see what my yard looks like?

see how deep?

yup..the tents got a tad flooded..and that would be the waterslide ..those tarps are doing it tons of good aren’t they??

But being us… we made good use of the new “pond” and let the kids go nuts!

You can’t really tell but Taejan is on his skateboard…lol

Kayaking anyone?

heck we even brought out the snow sleds for more fun!

needless to say every neighbor that drove by stared..but the kids had fun..heck even my MIL came by and DIDN’T have a heart attack seeing them playing in the water..LOL.. looks like now I can avoid the lake for a few days right?