First lapbooks of the year!

The boys have each finished their first lapbooks of the year and wanted to share.

Tot did a Hermie and Wormie tot book :) He loves the Max Lucado characters and their movies!

Rex did a Knights lapbook...

 He really liked lining up the timeline...

Captain is doing Confession of a Homeschooler's Scientists and Inventors study this year.  We take about a month for each inventor and complete the lapbook. We purchased all of the books for each (he LOVES this series.  They are very informative and have funny cartoons too.  He reads them over and over.  We used them for artists last year and are using the composers for co-op this year.) We finished the first one last week...

That's all for today!  God bless :)

The birthday that kept going and going and going.... :)

Happy 5th Birthday to our beautiful Rex!  I'm finally posting it!  He had such a great birthday - it seemed to go on for two weeks!  

First, we had a party in our hometown with the grandparents and aunts and uncles :)  His cake was Mars with Curiousity land rover on it! I'm not posting a picture since it had his name on it - it wasn't anything exciting though!   Some highlights:  My mom made him this awesome blanket! 

 A coworker of my mother handed down two TUBS FULL of dinosaurs - tons of huge walking ones - totally a hit as you can tell by the faces :)

Still playing with them for days back at home! (It came at the most perfect time - the weekend between my two weeks of tot dinosaur school!)

Next, papa took us to Splash Lagoon!  With a name like that, you can imagine the fun!

 Rex's FAVORITE thing is crossing these lily pads! He is the more timid one of the boys and he knocked our sicks off when he did it over and over again when we went to Captain's birthday!  So proud of him :) You have to use timing and balancing to manuever the lily pads and wait for just the right time...

Finally, was his party here at our house.  Here's my volcano cake! 

 As you can see, some of the dinosuars didn't make it fast enough from the lava flow!

 I love decorating their cakes at night when they're sleeping.  Their faces in the morning are priceless.  I loved catching this look on camera hours before the party! Just staring...

 And I had to share this sweetest picture of Tot and his little friend.  I glanced in the living room and these two had been following each other around and then sat down next to each other all by themselves in the room.  After that they each stood up, got their own book and sat back down by each other again and read!  Super cute!

Pray for no frost tonight!!!! I want TONS of applesauce this winter!!! I could have cared less about frost before having a farm - now I understand why they randomly pray for weather and harvests in church!  Please no frost!

Rex's Big Day!

I'm oh so excited today!  My beautiful little Rex completed his Kindergarten Hooked on Phonics!! He's doing fabulously.  Just seeing his reading improving over the last few weeks has been wonderful!  We woke up this morning and finished his last book :)  He was so excited about the " I did it " page!

We had to have a celebration for it of course.  So...we made our rainbow jello (which momma was planning on making today anyway for Tot's rainbow week, but we won't tell him that! - it became "his" special reading award!)

 We reviewed all of his sight words on his caterpillar...

Now we'll be moving onto Little Angel Readers A for him.  He was so excited he already started today.  Captain actually finished Little Angel Readers D today (which was so easy for him, he just liked reading them) so there was even more celebration to be had :) 

I don't think they'll give any new sight words since it's also a K reading program - a lot will be review for him, but that's great.  We have the workbook also which works a lot with handwriting.  I'm excited for that and can't wait to see if he's up for it.  He can do all the uppercase letters...

(his abc train from last week), but we've never started the lowercase ones.  The workbook focuses a lot on them, so it will be perfect.

 We'll keep reviewing his sight word dice every week so we don't forget them. 

 Daddy brought him home some wrapped presents...

 ...and enjoying our rainbow jello :)

Congrats to my little reader! So proud of him!

Our Dr. Seuss week

The beginning of the week I posted that we were going to do a Dr. Seuss week for his birthday.  It was a lot of fun!  Here's some highlights...(tons of pics, so I'll try to not write much to make it a little shorter)

Reading Horton Hears a Who with our Who ears..

 Rex using his 'big Horton ears' to pick up the letter as I made the sound.

lots of Seuss worksheets..

 ...measuring things around the house with our feet...

 ...clothespinning the correct number of apples...

 ...'atch' sound eggs on Horton's nest...

 I loved Captain's writing project...making his own crazy animal for "If I Ran the Zoo" :)

 (above) Tot found roll and graph..
(below) reading Yertle the Turtle and making our turtles...

 At the end of one day with our ears on watching a 1970 Warner Brothers "Horton Hears a Who" on youtube (it was really good).

Playing "The Cat in the Hat" board game I bought  long time ago for .50 and never played...super fun.
Rex had to spins in two circles with the fan under his right arm.

 Captain walking backwards around the trickamastick with a book between his elbows.

 Tot trying to feel he was playing too.  He'd just grab something and do something funny.

 ..slide under with a rake on your chest..

 ...hop over it with a boat under your chin...

 He kept putting it under his chin and walking to the kitchen and back :)

..and finally our opening day zoo trip :) Yeah!

 Dr Seuss coloring..

 Captain wore his thing 1 and thing 2 shirt I picked up last week for .25 :)

 Tot following along with her reading :)

 So happy!

 ..and a little more zoo fun :)

 We got to feel a lion's mane hair :)

 Learning about monkeys..

 Tot was AMAZED!!!

 The monkey's snacks...

...and that's it!!! Sorry for all the pics.  I tried to keep it quick!  Have a great week!