Keep it Simple...

I hope your weekend was fantastic! We are in the middle of a wonderful one, visiting old friends, new friends, family and hanging out together. On Halloween, we spent the day with new friends at an assisted living facility. My children made Halloween cards and it was time to hand deliver them. For every holiday, we usually pick a different facility in the area and deliver them there. It is amazing to see the joy and love in their faces when they get to see and speak with children.

They let the kids go on a pumpkin hunt around their facility and keep the pumpkins they found! They even told them to take as many as they wanted. It was a wonderful experience for ALL involved.

"Mom, this is like EASTER! I love hunts" 

These pudding snacks were a hit at our Halloween party & are very inexpensive to make! 

Makes 20

White Chocolate pudding .75 x 6 (4.50)
Green Food coloring 1.25
Chocolate Sprinkles 1.75
40 count cups 2.47
Black Marker (had at home)
Plastic Spoons 1.00
Milk 2.75
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$13.72 but I had leftover coloring, cups, sprinkles, milk and spoons 

A simple ghost face on white hot chocolate cups make them playfully cute!

Our homeschool co-op is about to begin sending letters and pictures to facilities year round, we will send them out once a month. What fun this will end up being. Enjoy your weekend my friends and remember to enjoy every minute!!

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Fun with Words and Letters!

After reading an awesome blog post this past week, I got straight to work on making my very own Word Wall! This hangs proudly in our dining room, where my children can sound out and get familiar with sight words. My oldest already knows these, but it's fun hearing her help out her little brothers!

My youngest, at 3, is still a bit young for reading, so we have him working on writing his name. He does well with his first name, but struggles with his last. I made him these flashcard rings, 1 for each name. He carries them everywhere and they help familiarize him with all the letters in his names. This has been a great success for him!

We worked on spelling out the entire family in names out of pipe cleaners! This was an absolute blast for him and I and we spent some wonderful quality time together. He is really thriving, now that the big kids have started school and he has some time alone with me!

Another fun letter recognition game we play on the road, is to try and find the letters that are located in your name! This one is where he found the R in Roman! For the older kids, I like to spice it up, but giving them each a flashcard with a word on it and they have to find the letters in that!

Just Write!

I bought the kids some journals for journaling our Spring Break! Since my son goes to 2 different schools (one on spring break this week and another on spring break later in April) we are not able to go away the entire break, but we will do a brief weekend long trip, there is Easter and all the other day trips I have planned. I plan on adding in journaling starters on every other page to get ideas flowing and then letting them have free writing on that other page for them to just write whatever they feel.
If any of the days turn out too rainy to get in our daily outdoor hike, we will use that day to decorate the cover of our journals!
On the left side of every page it is blank and this will leave them the ability to draw on this page, I like to push art as much as the writing!

How do you document Spring Break???