Well things are changing around here at Wayzley Academy. Noah begins High School within the next few days at the local school. It’s going to be weird around here without him here all day..but overall this is for the health of the family and Noah’s best interest!

Wish us well during this transition!

Today my friend Shauna,her daughter Brodi and I ( and about 300 others) built a Hayman for a local Art series. I must say it really wasn’t high on my list of things to do at 9:30 on a Saturday..but my MIL wanted us to do one for the Dance Studio..and I can’t say no to her.. so off I went. Well I had the best day.. took us about 4 hours from start to finish. Shauna and I already have next years planned out we had that much fun! I want to add this is all free and anyone,not just local businesses , could come and make one! You bring your one costume/theme stype stuff, but the hay and sticks are free!

Once the training was over we got a stack of sticks, all pre cut and drilled with wire and such, and we were told to have at it. We already knew we were building a Ballerina since this is to represent Terpsichore. Shauna and I were mildy intimidated at first, because many people had obviously done this last year and had all kinds of tools and extra stuff we did not have!

Here’s some picture of the whole process we did!

Shauna and I assembling the body:

Shauna and Brodi:

More assembling:

Brodi holding the body (talking to her friend)

The 3 of us with the fully assembled body:

Hay time:

Costume time:

Building up her head, that was tough!

Pointe shoes and Fish net stockings!

Finishing touches:

And here is “Judi” on Pointe doing arabesk:

Here’s some picture’s of what other people where making:

Our’s is on the far right in this picture

If your local, these go out around town tomorrow!!!

Wow…what fun my kids had!!! I am so glad I found this site!!It was perfect timing since we had just picked 20 pounds of apples with Robin this morning!

So the Think! challenge was this:

Put the following items on the table:
3 drinking straws
6 toothpicks
3 large marshmallows (if you don’t have any use 3 bandaids)
3 round plastic tops (size doesn’t really matter — we used the tops to bottled water)
18 lifesavers (or cherrios or fruit loops)
small apple

Tell students to raise the apple off the ground as high as possible for as long as possible. This time, they may use scissors during “construction” but may not use them to elevate the apple. Remember, the focus is the thinking part so if you don’t have the exact materials, don’t worry about it, just go with what you have. It is supposed to be fun and require no planning!

I gave each of the 4 kiddo’s those materials and told them the challenge.. Even Noah loved this..and he’s a hard to please 14 year old believe me! Declan stress a tad because he doesn’t want to not be able to do things perfect. It takes us telling him over and over that there is no right and wrong way to do such things..in the end he loved it too!

So here they are:

happily getting their supplies.. we had cheerios instead of lifesavers:

Thinking and building:

And the results:

Taejan ( 3 years old) got his off the ground at 1.5 inches and it stayed until he ate it!

Jadziah ( almost5) got her’s off 2.5 inches and again it stayed till she ate it!

Declan (6.5 years old) got his off at 5.5 inches.. his was a slight bit more wobbly but it stayed put!

Noah ( 14) also managed 5.5 inches ( on his 2nd attempt):

watch for more.. this was week4 so we have 3 more to try before we’re caught up!!

Noah and Declan recently each finished a HOAC lapbook. Declan did “The Circle of Life” and Noah “The US Constitution “. As always we loved the project packs and each kiddo learned a ton!( Noah is now working on Pioneers )

Here’s Noah’s. He opted to use 3 folders and staple them together:

Front:

Inside:

Declan did 2 folders and 2 extensions.  He also did some activities from other sites and added to the project pack, and left room so he can add new things if he desires.

Front:

Check this awesome blog.. I just located it and plan to take part in the challenges!

 Think!

What a great way to get kids thinking!

It’s a chilly day here… can you say brrr…but we’re off to pick apples with Robin and her kids..so yeppie!!!