Wednesday, March 2, 2011

WE DID IT MS. STACY


Long before I was Mom I was a pre-school teacher here in town and
I made some really GREAT friends that I still keep in touch with.
One is Ms. Stacy and she called me the other night to leave me a message...

ROCKET SHIPS
(we added a little)

We did it Ms. Stacy and the kids had a blast!

Take an empty film case
Decorate
Then we improvised and added poor little army men that would give
their tiny plastic lives to science (thanks soldiers)
1 or 2 alka seltzers water
Cap on tight
flip over
10 seconds or so
TAKE COVER
and they
BLAST

NICE
Thanks Ms. Stacy




right after

Let's Duel

YAY, Grammy Carol was able to come today and see Parker
at practice. Parker is getting to that age where he pretends he
doesn't care, but kept looking up to make sure she was watching him every time he did something to impress .
Both my boys have such a great LOVE for their Great Grandma and she is
such a supportive G G'ma.
She is the kind of G G'ma that cuts out the comics every Sunday
and saves it in an envelope to hand out
the next visit. The boys LOVE it!!!!
We are SO lucky!!!!

Parker is getting SO good at fencing.
He LOVES it and has spent so much time reading about it and learning the history. I know it sounds silly, but I think it has made him a better player.

Enjoy the pics

FYI Parker is the fencer on the LEFT (red shoe laces)



Coach George
Advance and then attack
Advance ... attack ... lunge ... TOUCH!!! Great job Parker
Parry ... Excellent P
Thank you kind sir
Nice bout


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Co-op Day BIRDS


Another awesome home school day!
We do a Co-op on Tuesdays, where a group of home schooled kids Mom's teach. Instead of a lesson done by a "teacher" it's done by "Mom Teacher". This gives the kids an opportunity to be taught and learn from another source and also some needed social time with friends.
I am new to the group and all the lessons were filled, so I was not called on to do a unit. Eventually, each Mom will get a chance to teach a month of
whatever the group planned on studying.
Last month Japan
This month Birds

It was great and the kids and Moms had a blast socializing and
working together as a team, so all who are involved have a good time.

Enjoy the pictures

Bird feeders
The kids were taught about Geese and Migration
(I never knew Geese don't leave a wounded one behind. They have two or so stay behind to see if he/she can be healed and the rest of the flock slows down, so when the injured one is ready they can catch up...Parker was the injured Goose)


They learned about different shapes and sizes and names of birds that live in our area.
This is the "Mom Teacher"(Anna) and with a sick baby attached to her back
she shared this awesome lesson with the kids
GREAT!

Duck Duck ... Goose

This part was pretty cool
As we were listening to the lesson a heard of cows roamed right on the other side of the fence from all the kids.
MOOOOOOO....

Fun Day

ARTastic



Parker had his first art show with our home study program.
He displayed some awesome stuff!
Acrylics, sketches, pastels and he won a literary award for a book about Salmon he created.

It was a VERY proud night and here are some of the photos.
ENJOY!

PS Thanks to Grandpa for hanging with Parker on his special night and Nana for letting Parker have his night and watching Cohen.
We love you and you are the BEST!





Monday, February 21, 2011

SO SICK!!!


HOLY MOLY!!!!
We have been SO sick. It started with Cohen and trickled to me then Parker.
Temps of 104 and flu/cold symptoms
IT WAS HORRIBLE!

Finally a whole week later we are slowly getting back in to the swing of it all.

Thought I would give you a small glimpse into a Stockbridge Academy day.


Reading with Mommy
ART...my favorite

sketching classes online
silent reading tents (Parker's)
(Cohen's)
Parker started a new lap book on the history of fencing and duh he had to build a Lego model, it's only natural.
His fencing guy

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Just Found This LOVE It!

Sometimes I browse other blogs and someone posted this
totally cute commercial.
Hope you likey.



Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentines Day

Okay, so it started out really innocent. Taking sweet pictures with this new program I
discovered on my Mac ... then all of the sudden it went really wrong
and we did the creepy photos for like a half an hour.
Enjoy our circus type love.

The last one is my absolute FAVORITE!








HA!!! Cohen totally looks like Ross Perot