Lots of pictures of our past week or so!

Taejan using the rice bowl and Declan doing word families.

Taejan working on a beading craft

Ziah and Declan doing the same craft:

Some silly masks we got in the mail!

Night school.. learning about Ancient Egypt!

Taejan practicing his scissor skills!

We had Brock over to play for a few hours one day..and of course it was sword time!

Camping anyone?

Making our paper chain to count down the days until Christmas!

and here it is!

finger paint fun!

Math time!

Taejan working with Daddy on his letters!

Enjoying the air pillows that came in our latest Oriental Trading order!

Silly Noah….Tiara’s are for girls!

Fun box..fun!

Helping Mommy make eggs!

and working on his Kumon book!

We’ve had a great productive week around here!

Miss Jadziah has started formal math.. She’s is on page 3 of Lesson 2 in Math U See Primer and LOVING it!

Also the Fun Boxes are still a huge hit around here.. I made up new ones for them Tuesday:

Taejan’s:

Ziah’s:

Declan’s:

here they are enjoying them!

In History we’ve been learning about the first writings..so the kids did Cuneiform with clay:

Then we made paper:( this kit is another one of my Target clearance finds I go tit about 4 months ago for $3)

The the kids did their seatwork for History:

Declan wrote his name using the cuneiform alphabet:

Taejan has been loving his Kumon books:

Oh and since Trick or Treat the kids have been trading candy and I think they finally each have what they like only..of course they have so durn much it will take them 2 years to eat it since they can only have 2 pieces a day..lol

I haven’t posted pictures of what we’ve been up too in a few so while I have 5 minutes I thought I would!

Let’s see.. well the kids “Fun Boxes” as they call them have become a huge hit around here. They can only have them after breakfast once they are dressed and only for about 30 minutes so they aren’t getting tired of them at all.. I also change them over about every 4  days and the kids have begun swapping things sometimes..LOL

This is them Monday getting their fresh “new” boxes!Yeah Declan didn’t get dressed yet but that’s ok..this time!

And playing the various games that are in their boxes:

Declan and Ziah have taken to doing History at night now.. this works well as some nights Taejan is already in bed. We are loving Story of the World vol 1 with History Odyessy! Even when Taejan is awake it’s easy to get him to help and or listen to the stories with us!

There has been lots of Fun School too.. Between cooking:

and even making fog they’ve had a blast!

Eric has started really working with Taejan and Ziah while I am doing seat work with Declan… so they are getting a lot of FUN preschool/Kindergarten time now! Eric has learned to make anything a learning experience.. even Connect 4 with a 3 year old.. whala it’s patterning!

and of course since it is almost Halloween they’ve been making lots of pumpkins..includin painting potato’s to look like pumpkins!

and making lunch bag pumpkins:

Declan got to help Noah with his Biology homework the other night:

and he’s done some good seatwork for himself too!

of course there is always lots of good ole fun too.. for Taejan fun is often a task.. he cleaned my sink the other day…

but sometimes fun for him is just playing with his new excavator(Thanks to Gramma):

And fun for all ( well not Noah..he was in school) is just enjoying the first snowfall of the year!

Oh and fun the other day was going Trick or Treating at the local mall!

Today we deemed the day FUN SCHOOL day… so we, of course, had lots of fun!!

Declan and I put up the new World map to go along with our Geography and Social Studies study.

Then I introduced the kids to their new caddy’s.. to say they loved them would be an understatement!( I added a Geo board to Declan’s last night)

Then Declan and I did the 3 R’s

then we broke out  our new favorite rainy day game..Cranium Hullabaloo DVD Animal Adventure game!

A little craft time.. the kids made Stuffed monster friends.. they were given to us by Robin ( came from Oriental Trading). Taejan’s only had one piece of fleece so it was not round..but he didn’t care!

Ziah and Taejan opted to not use the faces, where Taejan decided to use it ALL!

We hurried up outside before it started to rain:

We came in as the rain started and it was time for Corey to come over and play while his brother was at Karate so we pulled out our new favorite game again!

then while the boys played Ziah got Daddy to do her nails..isn’t this priceless?

Hope everyone is having a fine Monday! Thus far we certainly are…it’s library day so Eric took all 3 wee ones there, to the Post office, the park and walmart.. and mommy got some much needed stuff done!

Since Noah is now back in public school I’ve been shifting the Academy around to reflect the fact we have all wee ones learning here now..fist step was creating these little caddy’s for the kids:

There is one for each with a variety of items depending on their age and likes. These are for them to use pretty much whenever they want and especailly to keep them happy while they may be done with their current lesson but I may be working with another kiddo. I plan to rotate out the items in here as needed and I also have a small envelope on the side where the kids can store the reward coupons they have received until they are ready to redeem them!

Here’s Taejan’s(3 years old): He has tractor dominoes, sticks for building, craft sticks, playdough, a small 6 compartment tray, a bagged craft and a pack of tattoo’s.

Ziah’s ( almost 5): she has 2 learning games,sequencing cards,crafts sticks, a bag of buttons,playdough,a small 6 compartment tray, a bagged craft and a pack of tattoo’s.

Declan’s(6.5): He has 2 learning games, a wood model to build and paint, craft sticks, tanagram’s, Modeling clay, a pad of his favorite dot game,a small 6 compartment tray, a bagged craft and a pack of tattoo’s.

Besides getting things rearranged ( yet again) we’ve been happily busy with life, We decorated pumpkins at Owen and Lila’s, and the kids got to see the lambs and hang out with the tractors, no good pictures as i didn’t bring my camera but I have one from my cell phone:

We also had Book Club.. the kids read “The Littles” and they had to build a bridge.. this is from Think!

Declan and Corey did an amazing job working together.. they got well $1.74 I believe on their bridge!

Ziah and Bella worked together and I believe they got $.94!

We had Apple day and of course Karate, dance, acrobatics,Nutcracker, dance pictures, normal pictures and life in general..oh and I am getting up VERY early and loving the gym..just wait a few weeks and I should be really looking and feeling better!!