Wonderful Weekend: Botanical Gardens

Our little family had an absolutely wonderful weekend. We were itching to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather, so we racked our brains for the perfect plan. We decided to visit the Botanical Gardens in Huntsville, AL. We ended up purchasing a membership, so we get to enjoy the fun all year long.
I thought I would share some pictures of our fun day with the blogging community. Hope you enjoy!

MFW K: Rr Rock

We finished our work in Rr Rock today. We still need to do our book activity and go outside to collect some rocks. It has rained all week until now, so we are excited to get outside. I'll post some pictures sometime this weekend of us collecting rocks. This week we learned a very valuable lesson relating to rocks. Our words to remember this week:

I listen and obey; I build my life on the Rock. 

Of course, the Rock that our words are referring to is of Jesus Christ. If we build our lives with Jesus Christ being our foundation, then our houses, or lives, will stand strong and firm. We also talked about doing things God's way instead of our own way this week. Bob the tomato and Larry the cucumber helped me out with this lesson.

Now, on to some pictures! Don't mind the pajamas. We woke up late and just went ahead with school.

I decided to let the girls get creative with dot paint today. I just printed the letter they were each working on and let them decorate away. Brina is obsessed with rainbows, so she decided to decorate her R and make it a rainbow! How perfect! I love it!

I had to throw some pictures in of this little cutie. Siri is studying the letter B this week. She's our little artist and loved this activity. 

Brina is proud of her artwork!

Practicing cutting with some of our friend's printable at Mama of Monkeys. Please check out her blog. There is a button on my sidebar. 

 Blend ladder and a silly face!

Concentrating!

Proud of her letter sort!

Working on counting by tens on a Math U See Primer worksheet

Brina still has quite a few issues with cutting. We are slowly getting there. Her motor skills have always been a tad behind, but she is catching up quite beautifully.

All in all, we have had a great week of school. Brina is reading better as each day goes by. She can easily read CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words. I am very proud of her. I can't wait to see what each week of homeschooling brings. We will more than likely be doing two units each week from here on out. We only have 7 units left, so we will see how it goes!

Little Hands to Heaven: Unit 2

Siri started Unit 2 of Little Hands to Heaven today. She is 3 years 4 months at this time. We are studying the letter B and the story of Noah building his big boat. She was a little less than enthused with the rhyme today, but she has her little moods like this every now and then. I am sure she will warm up to this idea tomorrow. I plan to find a cute craft to go along with the story of Noah this week. I guess I will be searching Pinterest tonight. :)

We use a variety of supplemental sheets with Little Hands to Heaven. My daughter has fairly good motor skills and likes to do worksheets like her older sister. I have a blogger friend by the name of Dawn who has some excellent printables. There is a button for her blog on my sidebar. It is Our Little Monkeys. She is a great mom and friend, and I am so happy to have found her through homeschooling!

Here is an example of one of the supplemental sheets we used today.

We used some others today as well, but this is one of the favorites in my house. I am having technical difficulties with my other pictures today too. I can upload more tomorrow though.

Here is the set of books we use with Little Hands to Heaven. I am considering something different from the ABC Bible Verses for our devotional though. I might even get crazy and switch out the Bible to the Jesus Storybook Bible. We love reading it! We'll see how the year goes!

 Starting Little Hands to Heaven right now seems to be perfect timing for my little one. She is retaining the letter names and sounds and eating up the Bible stories. I'm sure we will have an excellent year and grow in so many ways!

Oops! Fell off the posting wagon again!

Hi everyone! It's so easy to forget to post when you are busy having so much fun with your family. We are doing wonderfully right now. Brina, my oldest just completed the Zz Zebra unit in MFW K. We are now doing units in about 3 days. We fell a bit behind so to make sure we finish in early May we are speeding up a bit. It works out perfectly though because her understanding in phonics has jumped dramatically and she is ready to move on to more challenging phonics instruction.We will soon begin All About Reading Level 1-as soon as it arrives.

We also just started doing Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven with Siriana. We completed unit 1 today. I will begin to take some pictures next week and blog about this experience. It seems to be the perfect skill level for her now. She is starting to retain the letters very well. The Bible stories are near and dear to my heart as well. I will make a more formal post on what we are using with this program tomorrow.

Hopefully, I can stay on the wagon with blogging again. It really helps keep me on point with prepping properly. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!