Lil' Red

What Fun We Can Get Into…Library Style

October 9, 2012 By Thaleia 1 Comment

What Fun We Can Get Into…Library Style

We are fortunate to be surrounded by towns and cities that ALL have libraries. We can be at one of four different libraries in under 20 minutes! We have library cards for 3 out of 4 but plan to get the 4th libraries card since they offer cake pan’s to check out. Talk about super cool!

This week we went to the BOAT library for their first ever Lego Club. Eldest and Princess were very excited to see what this library had to offer over another library. Lil’ Red liked being about to play with duplos, dinosaurs, jump into bean bag chairs, AND use a touch screen pc!

This library offers online reserves and ILL throughout their county library branches which makes it super convenient for this homeschooling momma. I go online the day or 2 before and reserve my MUST HAVE books. Other neat online features is BookFlix through Scholastic which I can access from home through this libraries website. BookFlix is an online interactive resource for tots and elementary students with digitized books and books set to movies.

Tot School Oct. 1-6 (29 mths)

October 6, 2012 By Thaleia 6 Comments

Fall Themed Tot School

Super Busy Week! We have been very busy with lots of things, but I tried very hard to take lots of pictures along the way! I really want to be part of tot school link up since we do tot school each week:)

We had a movie night and had leftover popcorn. I was getting ready to throw it in the trash when I thought, “Why not make this into a tray activity first?” and that is what I did! Lil’ Red saw it and got right to work. He played for awhile trying to get the popcorn into various sized containers.

We gathered leaves and did some leaf art work. I was helping Princess and Eldest for a few minutes so Lil’ Red started chalking himself! He was a mess, but had lots of fun! To read more about this art project check out: Wacky Wednesday Autumn Leaves.

Lil’ Red gets come to the Classical Conversations group I provide childcare for each week. The class is perfect for him. He gets to play with other kids his age (1yrs.-31/2yrs.). I get to bring out busy bags and other “tray-like” activities. This encourages sharing, taking turns, and makes something old new and fun again!

I caught him reading a book all on his own:)

He carries this book around saying, “Aunt Amy bought me this book. See this book!” and things like, “I read this book from Aunt Amy.” He really enjoys reading this book over and over. He knows some of the repeated phrases and love the silly bear putting on his clothes all wrong at first. This book is perfect for a toddler!

We were heading for a quick trip out of town and broke down on the way. Here are some pictures of us waiting for Papa Jim to rescue us and from the car repair barn from Papa Jim’s church ministry:

One of Lil’ Red’s favorite activities is “Take a Cheese?” He likes to take pictures with my phone or camera whatever is handy. Here’s one he took of mom and dad. So cute and so good! Only cropped to fit in this post.

Friday it was very cold (20 degrees colder than Thursday and super rainy), but Lil’ Red wanted to go outside to play. He loves to ride his worm. So that is what he did with hoodie and rain poncho on:

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what one crazy week we have had!

Wacky Wednesday!

October 6, 2012 By Thaleia 1 Comment

Wacky Wednesday! Autumn Leaves

What is Wacky Wednesday? Last year we created WACKY WEDNESDAY to help us get over hump day and try to remember to do something fun and unusual on Wednesdays. Not every Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday, but we try to do something a little crazy or nature-oriented.

TODAY October 3- Princess and Lil’ Red went with me on a leaf hunt. We first stopped at Salvation Army Thrift store in hopes that the puppy rain boots for Princess would still be there. They were not:(

We headed to our local community college since I had noticed after class on Monday how beautiful the leaves were there compared to our house or around the block.

When I saw a super cute leaf art project on Crafty Crow that included a video tutorial; I was in!

Here’s our results:

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What We Did ALL Week- Sept.23-29

October 1, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

SUNDAY:

MONDAY: Little House on the Prairie Audiobook

The “plan” for homeschool this year is to use Prairie Primer and “read” through LHP. We are hosting a pioneer club, but until this week we had not remembered or gotten around to starting LHP. We are beginning with Big Woods even though Riley had read this 2 years ago. We wanted to start again and get everything fresh in our memories. So far the kids have seemed to really like it. I printed our some coloring pages for them to work on while listening. We even were at the shooting range Saturday and able to learn gun safety!

TUESDAY: Leaf activities and blogging for TOT School posts!

I really want to try to take pics and blog for TOT SCHOOL link-up but just haven’t been able to get with it. I am determined to do some intentional “things” with or planned for Lil” Red. Since it is fall I thought leaves would be a good theme.

I had the bright idea to drop all school work and head out to find leaves and play at the park. We ended up at two different parks since one was rated 5-12 yrs. old and Lil’ Red wasn’t able to physically climb by himself up to the slide. I decided it was too dangerous and we needed to head to another part suitable for tots and big kids.

WEDNESDAY:

THURSDAY: CC Childcare with Lil’ Red in tow. He got a little bored and wanted to go home an hour before we could leave! Yikes. Will definitely bring more activities and crafts for next week OR leave him home until I meet up with hubby and kids to head to a mommy blog event!

Princess and Eldest got to send the night at Grandma’s after art class. Lil’ Red got to hang out with mom while dad was in college.

FRIDAY: Pioneer Homeschool Club (Prairie Primer/LHP)

We dissected owl pellets. Made pinecone owls (even the boys really got into making these!) Created the phases of the moon with oreos. Made star gazing tubes with pringles cans!

SATURDAY: Lego Club Library Program

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Favorite Fall Memories

September 26, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

First off I am a Fall baby! So I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fall. I love the sound of crunching leaves, the smell of apple cider, and the colors of leaves. I remember raking leaves into huge piles and jumping into them. We have done that but not this year, yet. Too much rain and dog poo in the backyard!

When Eldest and Princess were toddlers/preschool age we would go to the pumpkin patch each year. Usually a mom’s group or preschool group would be going for a hayride, fall playtime, pumpkin picking event. I just realized Lil’ Red HAS NOT BEEN to a pumpkin patch,yet! His playgroup is going next Tuesday evening, but he has not gone for photos or anything like that. Holy smokes I cannot believe it! (And to think I was getting pretty good at this whole tradition thing:)

Here are some of my favorite photos from the past FOUR years of our family’s fall activities: