First Day of School

Ocean Snacks

We signed up to bring dessert for tomorrow's CC lunch.  Since the kids have been learning about oceans, we decided to make some ocean themed desserts.  

The girls loved being creative and decorating all of the ocean desserts.

Madison came up with this idea of a fish chasing a floating bear.  She thought the boys would like it.

She was inspired by Granddaddy and made a fishing bear using a toothpick fishing pole.

Jocelyn made a three friends cupcake and...

a three fish cupcake.

We also made ocean pudding cups.  We put Fruity Pebble cereal at the bottom to look like coral.  Then we made vanilla pudding and colored it blue to look like water.  We crushed up Nilla Wafers to look like sand.  

We also made blue jell-o ocean cups with Swedish fish swimming in them.  

CC Cycle 2 Week 1

We had a good 1st week back to school and doing CC.  

We found a fun app to help us learn the continents and oceans.  Jocelyn also liked labeling them on our big map of the world.  

Madison worked diligently tracing the world and labeling all the continents and oceans.

The girls grew their own biomes in a bottle too.

They now know the 7 types of biomes and have one of their very own.  

Jocelyn enjoyed learned the 5 basic elements of shapes and drew a message in our driveway with chalk.  She wants all of our neighbors to know that "Jesus Loves You!"

First Day of School!

Today was our first day of Classical Conversations.  We had hoped to join a CC group when we lived in Virginia, but at the time there was not one in our area.  When I found out we were moving to Georgia, I immediately looked up to see if there was a CC group here.  I met with the CC director and got us signed up for this school year.  The group actually meets at the church we have been attending.  

I surprised the girls with breakfast in bed to help get their day off to a good start.  

We had FUN making this "1st Day of School" picture frame over the weekend.  We brought it to CC and I took "1st Day of School" pictures of all the kids.

  

We used velcro so that we could change the "1st" to "last" on our frame.  We our looking forward to taking "Last Day of School" pictures and seeing how much all of the kids have grown this school year.  

Jocelyn's 1st day of 2nd Grade!

Madison's 1st day of 3rd Grade!

They are growing up way too fast.

Jocelyn's 1st Day of School!

Madison's 1st Day of School!

Homeschoolers!

Hopefully we don't go crazy this school year! 

The girls made lots of friends at CC.

Madison and Katie are already best buddies.  Katie's dad is in the Air Force too.   Her dad will be deploying on Monday to Africa.  Please keep their family in your prayers.  The girls are already planning play dates and sleepovers.  

The girls and I made these little treat bags for all of the kids at CC.  We put mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and graham crackers in snack size bags and attached the following note:

Today was a great first day!

And now it's all done.

I can't wait till the next time,

For s'more learning fun!

From,

Madison the Marshmallow

and Jocelyn the Chocoholic 

The afternoon was spent in our homeschool room.

We have our own CC Memory Work board at home.

We also set up a review area for them to practice their memory work from previous weeks.  We are looking forward to learning a lot and making new friends.  

Please pray for us as we embark on another year of homeschooling!

Random Silliness

We love playing games!  Last night, our game of Hedbanz turned into Limbo.

We also enjoy doing puzzles.  For some reason, Madison has decided to wear a baseball cap like Uncle Kyle these days.  

Madison is doing a great job learning her multiplication facts.  She has been having trouble memorizing a few of them, so I taped the difficult multiplication facts to her and she wore them around and practiced them all day.  She knows the multiplication facts now and thinks her Mommy is super silly.  ;)

After school, Mackenzie came over for a Masquerade Tea Party! 

Wacky Weather and Wreck-It

We have had some crazy weather here in Virginia.

The girls wanted to play outside in their tents, so they collected sticks to put on their tents to keep them from blowing away in the crazy wind.   

Last night, it was so windy that it blew the door off of our outdoor storage cabinet.  

This week the girls took their Stanford Achievement Tests.  We usually take the test in March/April, but decided to take it early this year before we move.  The girls are glad their testing is done and were ready to mail it back to get scored.  

After we mailed our tests off, we went to the movies to watch Wreck-It Ralph to celebrate.    

Acrostic Poems

This week, we are learning about acrostic poems.  Today the girls enjoyed writing acrostic poems of their names.  We had fun thinking of words that described each of them.