Life with my Cowboys

I'm so excited, I can barely contain myself! And yet, at the same time, I'm wondering how I'm going to manage when I'm still feeling so bad. But I'm not going to let myself think about that! I'm going to instead get excited about more of this   And a whole lot more of this   And this    Hopefully not too much of this the toothpaste incident Yes! Next week, we are starting back after having to take off the entire month of July and first couple weeks of August due to me being too sick to handle teaching.  This is my first time using planning sheets, I only printed out enough for one week, to see how well these planning sheets work for me since I normally don't plan things out like this. But with the way my brain has been lately, a lovely soup of non responsive and out on vacation, I thought it would do well for us for me to actually write things down ahead of time. It's probably a bit hard to tell from t...

I thought that since I use pinterest so much that I should have a post every so often where I share my pins with you! So, this post is simply to share one pin from several of my pin boards. I think I'm trying to give a purpose to my pinning obsession. DIY homeschool materials DIY felt world map It looks a bit intimidating, I might just print mine out, laminate and hot glue sandpaper on the back to use on a felt board. Homeschool organization   Travel art supply box   I love this idea for making art wherever you are! Fine motor skills     Pool noodle sculptures Pool noodles are only $1 at the Dollar Tree. I love open ended play like this. Reading Name hopscotch What a fun way to learn their names! Science Ecocolumn This is a brilliant way to learn about ecology. Geography Salt dough states I have no idea how we would store or display something like this, but I LOVE it! History Expl...

I can't wait to get back into school time. I've been starting to feel a little better (with really bad days in between), but I'm hoping that soon we will be back into the swing of things. The classroom is currently not accessible since we are getting ready for a church consignment sale and have been using that room for separating all of our consignment items. It's been killing me to not be able to have school time. It's only been the month of July, but it seems like it's been forever. I miss our daily rhythm, the way one activity seemed to flow into the next, all of the fun we had learning each day. Maybe I'm painting a pretty picture in my head, I know we had tough days, especially with Froggy's tantrums (which are thankfully down to nearly non existent with the majority of his teeth in), but I still miss those days. I keep telling myself, "Next week we are going to start back," and next week comes and along with it pain or nausea. Ugh!...

I LOVE units and themes, but I always seem to get distracted or just can't seem to pull it all together to make sense. The only successful theme we have had thus far was our Valentine's unit. [these pictures were taken with my cell phone back when it was the only handy camera I had, I apologize in advance] Cutting strips of paper into tiny pieces to glue onto a heart. Our sensory bin with a plastic sorter and a vellum take out box. Inside the bin: glitter pom poms, wooden hearts, plastic heart beads. The wooden hearts were great for sorting, stacking and size grading. Azzy painted this poster using texture tools and cookie cutters, then I wrote the scripture (while kids ran around my legs). A fun counting game! Match the letter with the correct number of stamps to the mailbox with the number on it. We used heart beads as reusable stamps and the little birds had to fly the letter to the correct mailbox. A matching game. Another matching ga...