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September 6, 2014

Our Week in Review - First Week of School 2014

Our first week back to school!! WOOO HOOO!!! It was a short week, only 3 days but we managed to get quite a bit accomplished!

New pajamas for a new school year!!!
The tutorial for the nightgown can be found under Little Birdie Nightgown. I'll be posting the tutorial for Colin's chevron pjs next week!

Breakfast on our first day was Funfetti pancakes. SOOOO GOOD!!

We built da Vinci's ornithopter! This is from a book I bought at Five Below. We tried taking it outside to see how well it would fly but a piece got stuck and we couldn't get it to work. :(

While reading about da Vinci we learned that he was fascinated with birds. We looked around the yard for a feather to sketch. Usually there are feathers all over the place but we had a very strong storm the night before. All I could find was that sad little feather.

Then Cailey and Colin painted their bird pictures.

We also built a siege engine. I found the kit at Barnes & Noble for $6 and I couldn't pass it up! The drawbridge and catapult really work!

I found a set of word puzzles for $3 at Target and thought they would be a fun way for Colin to play with words.

Here are a few other pics, not necessarily from this week but more like a few weeks. ;)

A cool looking moth I found on our kitchen door.

We live in the city but you wouldn't be able to tell from all of the wildlife around us. This is a falcon that keeps coming to our yard looking for chipmunks to eat! He missed out that day.

How was YOUR week???

October 8, 2013

What We Did Last Week

Last week was another busy one!! Here are just a few of the things we did.

We read that the emperors in Ancient China rode in elephant drawn chariots.

Cailey's on the bottom, Colin's on the top.

We made Play-Doh Chinese dragons! (In the background are the pictures they drew of things made in Ancient China.)

WOW! Cailey was having a bad hair day! ;)

These are their birds' nest projects they did after reading Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest by Irene Kelly.

Colin's is the construction paper picture and Cailey's is the colored-pencil drawing.

On Saturday we went to the Home Depot Kids Workshop. OMG! The kids had SO MUCH FUN!! We got to watch a helicopter land. Then they brought out the bomb squad's robot! There was also a fire truck!!!

Then the kids made fire rescue planes.

They left with their planes, fire hats, goodie bags, balloons, popcorn, and juice! LOL

My next post will be about the dress Cailey is wearing in the Home Depot pictures. ;) Just a little sneak peek.

HAVE FUN HOMESCHOOLING!!!!!