Learn Your Name

Hello everyone! Hope your Holiday weekend was a good one! We went away for the weekend, so I am using my driving time to catch up on everything. This is a worksheet that I made up while my kids were younger and still learning their names. This sheet can be put in a page protector to be used more than once in a dry-erase format. First the student circles all the letters that appear in their name and then writes the name in the box below. In the beginning, use a sentence strip with their name written on it, so that they can search for the letters that match and eventually they will learn the spelling on their own and won't need that sentence strip anymore. Print your own HERE!

If you have been following my EPCOT PASSPORT POST HERE, you will see that I am adding pages regularly, leading up to our trip. Here is page 3! For more info on this page and the others CLICK HERE!

Enjoy every minute my friends! Share something that you did this weekend?!

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Summer 2014 Bucket List!

June is here and it means so many things to us! Warmer weather, shorter school schedule, more time with friends, pools and waterparks but mainly it means:

Summer is here and so is our Bucket List!! We are so ready to get started that we almost could not narrow the list down to something manageable! You can get your own printable copy HERE! 

2014 Summer Bucket List

3 Kids, 2 Parents, 1 Awesome Summer (Again!)

• Drive-In Movie
• Make Crayon Candles in the Sun
• Make Garden Mint Iced Tea brewed in the Sun
• Visit New-To-Us-Park
• Take long bike ride
• Picnic in the Park
• Go to community Movie in the Park
• Have a mud and water outdoor party
• Bike Wash
• Lemonade Stand
• Neighborhood watergun fight
• Volunteer for a charity in need as a family
• Kids plan and make 1 week of dinners
• Go to a concert in the park
• Zoo trip with friends
• Camping
• Amusement park with friends
• Build a large fort to play games in
• Rainy Day Movie Day!
• Attempt to fry an egg outdoors
• Make a smore in the sun
• Race homemade boats
• Backyard Scavenger Hunt
• Visit 1 new park
• Splashpark Play
• Waterpark Day
• Tie-dye t-shirts
• Make glow-in-the-dark garden rocks
• Make finger puppets
• Ice Cube Treasure
• Painting with Plants
• Hole Punching Leaves to make Summer Garland
• Beach Day!
• Sand Play!
• Neighborhood Smore’s Party!
• Turn Slide into waterslide and fall in a pool of water!
• Keep a summer journal
• Road Trip!
• Wear costumes in public!
• Do School Outdoors!
• Practice 5 random acts of kindness in one day
• Visit 1 new park
• Make a fairy garden
• Build an outdoor car track
• Bike obstacle course
• Have a tea party
• Make a movie
• Make Ice-Cream in a bag
• Pool Play & Learn
• Firepit Party
• Create a special drink
• Outdoor Science Lab
• Chalk-Art an entire block
• Make a wishing tree in a park
• Set up our Park Play Kits in random parks
• Visit 1 new park
• Practice 5 Random Acts of Kindness
• Take a tour of some place new
• Visit a grandparent at work
• Buy dinner for someone in a restaurant
• Install and Fill our Free Little Library
• Have a neighborhood field day
• Make a salad from all garden veggies
• Farmers market visit and dinner from the buys
• Buy unusual fruits and veggies for a sampling day
• Have a giant sleepover
• Make cards and deliver to a local nursing home
• Have a table that the kids run at a garage sale
• waterpark fun #2
• splashpark fun #2
• Try 1 new restaurant
• Buy Ice cream for the person in line behind us at the sweet shoppe!
• Make a new friend
• Have a book swap
• Create a city-wide day of play in a local park
  Make it one to remember and don't forget to enjoy every minute!

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Custom Flashcards!

Happy Sunday! A quick post with something I do often around here. Flashcards tend to get pretty boring over here with the kids studying them daily. When kids outgrow certain games (go fish, memory, matching games, etc.) I go save them in a small shoe box type bin. When the time comes, I take a game and add mailing labels to create something new! I create a new matching game, using Sight Words, Math Problems, Words in Books that are difficult to read, Spelling Words, Vocab Words...anything at all that I feel needs additional practice that isn't a flashcard. NOW its a GAME! The kids love seeing their old games used in a new way and I feel like I am saving a game that may be missing a pair or may be a bit warped, from the trash a little longer.

And play we do! We certainly love homeschooling!! Enjoy every minute of our ever fading weekend my friends!

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DIY Sidewalk Chalk!

WOW! This weather has been crazy lately with all the storms! Our glorious sunshine took a nap today and then left us with nothing by gloom and wind this afternoon. It put my son in a not-so-happy mood when he ran right for the back door and knew there was no way he could play in the water table! I put my thinking cap on and we went straight to work! Sidewalk Chalk!

We gathered up our goodies so that we had everything we needed at the ready!

1. Plaster of Paris 

2. Food Coloring

3. Cold Water

4. Cups

5. Candy Molds

We mixed 2 parts plaster of paris with 1 cup ice cold water into a plastic cup (This way there was no washing up to do!) and then a couple squirts of food coloring into each cup. Using a plastic spoon we mixes until it was smooth and almost felt a little thicker than pancake batter.

Next, we poured it into the molds and cleaned up the edges with a cotton swab. We let it sit while we went out to do the afternoon school pick ups and errands and the little guy took a nap!! This let it sit for a total of 3 hours. By the time we got home, they fell right out of the molds when we turned them over.

We used Race Car, Heart and Pinwheel molds, which I love. We also used pastel food coloring, which just wasn't bold enough for sidewalk chalk, but all I had on hand at the moment, so I will definitely look into trying a different set of colors next time!!

**This week Michaels has the Wilton Candy Molds on Sale buy 2 get 1 free! It's the perfect time to stock up! Don't forget to use your 40% off coupon on the Plaster of Paris too!!!**




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Caps Caps Caps!

I have been saving caps for quite some time (If you can see the bucket, we started around Halloween time!!)! We keep this small bucket on the kitchen counter (Does wonders for the decor!) and then empty it out regularly to our box the holds the real collection, hey how did that Box Top get in here?? We first started saving caps when we made a space ship and used the caps as buttons and dials and knobs and even a steering wheel with the largest one! It was so much fun we decided to keep on saving!!

One of our first and favorite creations with the caps was an alphabet memory game! We put stickers in matching white bottle caps (yikes, you can tell how much bottled water we drink!!) and then we turn them upside down and get matching!! We plan on putting colored garage sale dots on the one side of these eventually, because if we play outside, you can see through a little bit with the bright sun!!

Pictured here is only 1 set, just so you could see the letters closely!!

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