First weeks of Five in a Row!!!!

Okay everyone here is our work from our first 2 weeks of school.... We have decided to row for 2 weeks because we do alot of things with our homeschool group and we wanted not only flexibility but enough time to really dive into each book.....

For now we are using seperate Spelling, and reading programs but I may be replacing these with Learning Language Arts through Literature: Red Book. Not sure but we'll see.....

Here is Morgan's math work (for now the beginning is review from first grade). She is using MCP Math: grade 2


Next is Handwriting. This year we are transitioning to cursive..... using A Reason for Handwriting: Transition

Here we have Morgan's Spelling. She is working in Steck-Vaughn Grade 2.


Here is the latest story Morgan read in her Pathway Readers...... She is reading the second book on the "first grade" level.

And now the fun part!!!! Drum roll please................

Ping!!!!!


First 2 pages........

First Page....... This has a photo of the ducks from our field trip to our local pond to feed the ducks rice cakes, photo of Morgan working on her coloring, sink/float science experiment, a mini book with what types of food ducks eat.


First page, opened up........

Second page.... Including another photo from our pond trip, another photo of Morgan coloring, photo of the front of the book, and a title of the study as well as the dates.

Next two pages.....

The third page.... including the different types of ducks, Morgan's art work (I scanned her original and copied it smaller so I could include it in these pages), mini book of info on the Yangtze river, and a mini book of the amount of Pings family members.

Here is the same page but opened up.....

Forth page; including the flag of China, map of the world/china, Picture of Ping and underneath of that is a diagram of the parts of a duck (see below)

Forth page opened up....


The last two pages....

Fifth page includes photo of the ducks at the pond, a turning thingy (for a lack of better words) :-) about the direction of the sun rising and setting, mini folder of different uses of the Yangtze river.

Fifth page opened up.....


The last page includes vocabulary words and their meanings, story order file, questions and answers about ducks, a "library card" with the info on the book and dates we read it, and lastly their is a hotch at the top where you pull out the game board that we made about the book (found this on Homeschool share- real cool)


Last page opened up....

There you have it. This completes our tour of Ping! Please stay tuned to our next show on How to Eat an Apple Pie and See the World! Ha Ha! Thank you and have a great night!
-kate
P.S. Am I a dork or what!? lol

Baby Got Book......

Well if you are at all a kid growing up around the early 90's, you may remember a very disturbing song called "Baby got Back". It was very disturbing and frankly just plain old gross! However, a while back I found this link and it just makes me crack up! It's so funny how someone can take such a nasty song and make it clean and fun..... LOL Let me know what you think!!!

What's up with the name "Yoda"?

You will notice that I also refer to myself as "Yoda". There is a simple reason to this; when my family was expecting me my older brother insisted that I be named Yoda!!! (this was when Star Wars was first released- obviously). My mother told my brother that my name would be "Kate Elizabeth Yoda *Last Name*. So from then on it has just been a family nick name for me…… It's that simple :-)

Let the Force be with you......!

This is my daughter.... what a mess!!!

This week my daughter wanted to wear a dress and sandles and have her hair braided and what did she then go and do? Well check out for yourself!

Go outside and play in the dirt of course!!! At least she's got style!!!! LOL



But at least she is enjoying herself!

Are these cute or what?

My next door neighbor's daughter moved in with her as well as her grandchildren last month..... Her daughter has a 9 year old daughter and twin boys who turned 2 this past Saturday..... We were invited to the party and I wanted to make something cute for them.... So check these out.......Aren't they cute!!! I filled them with some craft books, crayons, and a puzzle box set...... They were so cute and I had so much fun making them!!!

Here is a close up on the pocket!!! LOL

This is the back... notice how the pattern is centered!!!

There is a close up on the strap detail!!! he he

Here are the tags I made to tie to the bags!!!! Gee there is the extent of my scrapbooking abilities!!! LOL I am such a geek!!!


Here is my daughter modeling them!!!! Sorry for the trash can in the background!


And I can't leave out the stars of the show!!! Here is Mr. Christopher! Is he a cutie or what!!!! How could anyone say no to that face???!!!

And lastly is Mr. Nathan sportin' his new cell phone- what every 2 year old needs- right? lol I just hope he's not calling China!!! LOL

Did I mention I had such fun making these bags? and how could I not for those little faces!
Life is so awesome!

Thanks for reading!!!
-Kate

Here we are.....

I noticed that most of my photos on here will be only my daughter! Mainly because I'm the one taking the pictures!!! So I love this picture of my husband and I but this is the only copy and its pretty tattered..... I wanted to scan it and thought I would add it to my blog....... This photo is cute but more than that is touches my heart.... You see, this was before my daughter was born and their was a real bad snow storm. My dh and I decided to go to this hill and sled in the middle of the night with some friends..... We had such a great time and this photo was taken...... So some time went by and I found out I was pregnant..... Then I had these photos developed and I realized that in this photo I was about a week or less pregnant... and we didn't even know it.... Every time I see this photo I think "Hey Kate, Your whole world is about to change so hold on and get ready it's going to be an awesome ride!!!"