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WINNER!!!

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People.....RUN, don't walk for this deal

Every homeschooler I know has a love affair with their laminator, and I am no exception. Right now, you can get a pouch of 100 laminating sheets for $10.99 at Amazon! I've been using these sheets for a while now and I love them! Hurry to get your sets! I'm ordering three!

And yes, I promise to post the winner of the giveaway soon!! I'm reevaluating our plan for this year to make sure we finish up what we need to by the time we start My Father's World K in September!

Mining for Numbers

I took this idea from No Time For Flash Cards and tweaked it a little bit for us. My daughter is great with shapes, but we still need to get number recognition down pat.

I used the sensory box idea from No Time For Flash Cards and filled ours with puzzle numbers, number magnets and bits of craft foam with numbers written on them. Then I typed out a simple sheet that read "Find the Numbers!" with each number in a column. When she found a number in the sensory box, she had to say the correct number name and sort it into the correct column. Fun learning!

A soft answer turns away wrath..

Reagan and I have just started using My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God's Word in Little Hearts by Susan Hunt. I already love this book! This week we've been working on the first Bible memory verse, Proverbs 15:1: "A soft answer turns away wrath." And wow--there are tons of activities that revolve around this one tiny verse!

To start, there is an AMAZING homeschooling blog out there called 1+1+1=1. (By the way I promise to post about all of my favorite homeschooling blogs later on!) Carissa is a homeschooling mom to three and she is putting the finishing touches on Raising Rock Stars Preschool, in part based on....drum roll please ..the ABC Bible Memory Verse Book! You can see Letter A which corresponds with the Proverbs 15:1 memory verse, here.

And of coures, there are tons of other great ideas around the web. I took this idea from Spell Outloud. I have to say that the pompom jar is ingenius. After a huge blow up between my four year old and I (we have the same temper and she can push buttons no other person can push, which in the end makes me forget I'm a 30-something adult!), we started using this jar in conjunction with the Bible verse we were learning (God has an impeccable sense of timing doesn't He!) It definitely made our day much better. We recognized that we were snipping at each other and we both tried to react differently! Amazing! And she has had so much fun filling her jar with pompoms :)

Tomorrow we'll be working on the toothpaste activity found here at Spell Outloud.

Promise to share pictures soon :)

Rainbow Rain

I saw this craft over at Funny Days with Mommy and Maddie and since today is a miserable, dreary, rainy day, we decided to make it too.

Obviously ours didn't come out quite as well as theirs did, but I learned something about us. Reagan and I, although we absolutely love to do crafts, are just really too impatient to spend much more than five minutes on one!

I also attached a photo of Reagan blowing bubbles to cheer up our sick cat, Pritsha, who had just been force fed her medication and lunch!


Hope you enjoy crafting your rainbow rain!

Spring Reading Thing 2011

I'm not really sure I *should* be linking up to Spring Reading Thing 2011 over at Callapidder Days, but ...I am. (I have a major addiction to books--once I start reading a book, EVERYTHING else gets put on the back burner until that book or series is completed. I'm trying so hard to balance reading and well..life. Let's see how that works out in this challenge!)

Alright-So here's my list!

Books I'm re-reading:
My Heart's At Home by Jill Savage (I love this book and I want to reread it again to try to incorporate some of her ideas into our busy life!)

Fiction:
Pride and Prejudice (Can I just go ahead and admit I've never read it although I absolutely love the movie? The formal language is so hard to deal with, when I'm usually looking at reading for an escape into a fairytale..but I *WILL* make it though this time!)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (this has been on my list before and I was never able to grab it!)

Non-Fiction:
The Mom I Want to Be
Love and Respect
The Language of Love and Respect
Turn up the Heat

Books to Read Aloud to Reagan:
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Children's Version)
-The Three Musketeers (Children's Version)
-Little House on the Prairie

Now, for the big question-how do you join?

Create a list of some books you’d like to read or finish reading this spring. Write a blog post including the list of books you want to read and post on your blog. Then make sure to link back to Callapidder Days' Spring Reading Thing 2011. Go here to see the posting rules! Good luck and have fun!

***OH! And if you're reading this before 3/23/11 at 12:00 pm EST, remember to check out our giveaway here! Great additions to your children's (or neices/nephews/friends!) Easter baskets!