Emilys Pattern

I have so much fun with Emily and watching her learn! Kindergarten is my FAV stage I think :) So we sat down to work on AB and ABB patterns. Of course she already knew this (must have gotten it at preschool because we have only touched on it here at home) anyways she got right to it and was coloring in her pattern. I told her she could put anything in the box, an X or squiggles.....as long as it was the right color :) Then we got down to the bottom and she said I don't want to do an ABB pattern because I want 3 colors, I want an ABC pattern :)

So we flipped the paper over and made an ABC and ABBC and ABCC pattern :)

Sometimes I DONT give enough credit!

So while Emily and I were working on Mr.Scrapy pages Sarah was in the playroom coloring. She brought me this

Sarah "mommy I made this for you"

Me "no you didnt, Emily made that?" "Emily did you make this"

Emily "No I didnt make it"

Me "Sarah did you REALLY make that"

Sarah "YES I made it, and it has eyes and a chin and a forhead and arms and fingers and a nose and a mouth"

Me " OH MY GOSH SARAH thats SO GREAT!!!!!! I LOVE IT! Can I take a picture of it?"

LOL OH sometimes! I really have NEVER seen her make more than a circle and scribbles so when she brought me a whole person I just assumed she didnt make it! Go Sarah!!! I felt bad for doubting her skills! Sometime I just forget that shes 3 1/2 and even though we CALL her our baby she really ISNT a baby anymore!

Mr.Scrapy

With only 2 weeks left of preschool Mrs.McMurry just HAD to send home one more story bag! So we took Mr.Scrapy around with us and had some fun :) The plus side of this is Emily had to cut out all the pictures and then dictate to me what was happening in them :) Its a lot of work for me with all the picture taking and printing ect. so this round we just printed them at home and that made it so much easier. Then she cut them out and glued them onto the sheets, then we wrote a story about all we did with him.

I love her teachers and her school but I have to say I am sooooo ready to be done with it!

Mr Scrapy in the car with Emily

At horse lessons riding Jim Dandy

Sitting on Em when she got her teeth cleaned

Waiting for a snack

Cutting out the pictures for the book!

Mr.Scrapy had a busy 2 days!

Tuesday Fairy - Thanks for the Whack

Just a regular day around here :) we are sitting at the table, Emily working on writing a letter to Bubbie (which ended up being Dear Bubb with a bunch of check marks....more later) and Steph doing her work and over Sarah comes with her pencil. "I am ready for school work mom" she said! LOL :) LOVE IT!!!!

One thing I struggle with is not sticking with what I had planned in  MY HEAD! Like sitting down with Emily to write a thank you letter to Bubbie for the sleepover. I had planned for her to write a sentence or two and draw a picture and off we would mail it. However that is NOT what happened. With each actual letter of the alphabet she wrote she wanted to put a check mark on it (I had written Dear Bubbie on a different sheet she was using to reference) so of course it made sense for her to check off the letter after she wrote it...LOL at first I was so irritated! I mean that's NOT how a letter should look and it certainly wasn't the letter I had envisioned her writing!!! Then my Homeschool Fairy must have whacked me upside the head and I remembered WAIT I have a 5 year old here who just read me 2 books and is writing letters!!!! Who cares if there are check marks! Who cares if it isn't perfect SHES 5 and shes having FUN!!!! So then I let her run with it! She enjoyed the check marks and then started drawing lines all over and playing with a rock.......so letter writing wasn't on her agenda for today but we practiced making check marks! :)

REALLY trying to follow A Leadership Education and today's lesson for ME was to remember

INSPIRE NOT REQUIRE!!!! 

Great Article

Here is a great article on homeschooling from the East Valley Tribune. Just wanted to share :)

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/education/article_84eb8e1a-72bf-11e0-831f-001cc4c03286.html