Unit #1

       Its been about a year ago now that I decided on a curriculum for Rebecca. Hopefully we will continue with Konos for all of elementary school for all the kids, but we'll have to see how it suits everyone. Last week we began our first unit with Rebecca. (I like picking my own school calender, I don't like the heat of summer so we might as well begin school and take off in the fall when its pleasant.) Anyway, our first unit was centered around the character trait of Orderliness. We studied animal classification using lots of books from the library, activities and games, the stories of the Creation and Noah's ark from the Bible, writing animal words, a couple poems, etc. I use supplemental curricula for math and reading, everything else is included in Konos. If I can make a prediction from the last two weeks....WE LOVE IT! We've been having so much fun and even Levi has been getting in on the action. Here are some pictures of our work and some of our favorite resources!

 Levi is working on sorting, sometimes by color, sometimes by type.

These sorting bowls were a great purchase.

 Our well loved pie, we've had for sometime.

 Cuisnaire rods for our Miquon math program...lots of other uses too.

 These animals we found at hobby lobby. I think we own almost all of Safari ltd.'s animal Toobs.

 Rebecca working on animal classification.

 Mammal, invertebrate, reptile, amphibian, bird, or fish???

 Some books we read....really enjoyed Moira Butterfield's "What am I?" series.

 Cool posters we bought from a teacher on teacherspayteachers.com Talk about a great resource!

We made a poster of our own as well. Rebecca is quite proud of her hard work.

June Business

 Rebecca seems to have a flair for floral already. She brought this little bunch of flowers from our yard all arranged and tied together. Yay....I think I have a decorator on my hands!!

 Isaiah is big enough for the swing and he enjoys the safe place off the floor.....no bubby to step on him!

 June 8th Whayne Supply celebrated 100 years of business with a big party, catered lunch, and lots of fun for the kids.

 We kept the balloon man VERY busy!

 Levi has his own way of wearing hats. ;)

 Isaiah's opinion of the party.

 They has equipment to play on and I was surprised Levi wasn't hoarse the next morning with all the machine sounds he kept making.

Combine shaped bounce house....yes please.

 Whayne's go cart used for races down on the river.

 Tiny excavator....I want one!

 Levi has moved to a big boy bed, and the tractor decor is coming together.

 Isaiah has inherited the crib....complete with the bite makes from our other two babies.

 Some quick and cheap things I made to put on the walls. Includes their full name, meanings, and birth stats.

Four months old, 24 in. 14 lb. 13 oz. makes him absolutely average size!

Levi is 2!

No more apologies for being so behind in posting....life with three little ones is busy! Things are a blur most weeks, but its a wonderfully fun, happy blur. Levi turned two back in May, we went to visit my family for a week and returned home Memorial Day. Since then I don't think there have been any big events, but lots of small little things to celebrate. Isaiah is nearing four months, very smiley and beginning to laugh at us. The kids are enjoying the Library's summer reading program and we've found lots of fun new books to read. We plan to start our school year in July and have a trip to GA planned for August. Last week Rebecca attended two VBS sessions at nearby churches. She had a great week, I was exhausted by all the running to and fro and we found that Levi really loves his big sister and missed her terribly. Lots of catch up pics follow.....

 He loves his bulldozer cake!!!

Levi has had his eye on the neighbor girl's bubble mower so we got him his own.

Guess we should have done cake before presents, he wanted to mow all night!

 We were going to catch the train to grandma's in St. Louis so we went over a day early and took the kids to the Magic House children's museum.....here they are practicing fishing. They can't wait for papa to teach them.



Amtrak station Kirkwood Missouri

Waiting for the train

First train ride...same age as Levi's first train ride.

 Watching a movie on the kindle.

Papa taught Rebecca to fish. She liked it and caught several tiny perch over the week.

 Levi found a wheel barrow just his size

 Isaiah's sad face....who can resist?!

"Africa" at the zoo.

 Monkey see, monkey do.

 Kid time at grandma's YMCA