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Mar. 24, 2008
More Easter pics...
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The girls with their dolls and matching dresses!
Ready for the hunt!
Caleb wanted to stop and eat the candy rather than find more eggs!
All the loot!
Emily and Nana
Hannah looking for all the chocolate!
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Feb. 17, 2008
Happy President's Day!
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In looking for a famous quote for our copywork this week, I came across a few that I really loved! Just thought I'd share!
A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. -- Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. -- Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -- George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -- George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. -- George Washington
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Feb. 15, 2008
Our Valentine Party!
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We had lots of fun yesterday at our Valentine party! We also went to visit mamaw afterwards and took her flowers and candy.
Here are some pictures from our day!
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Feb. 14, 2008
Happy Valentine's Day to you!
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Feb. 12, 2008
President's Day!
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With the upcoming holiday, I wanted to take this coming week to introduce a little basic government to our kids. We have never even broached the subject before now, so I thought it would be the perfect time! In a nutshell, we will be learning about what a president is, what he does, where he lives, and a little about a few of our more famous presidents. We probably will mention the upcoming presidential election and the voting process. Of course most of this will be done through wonderful picture books! So, here is a bit of what we will be doing for our president unit. I thought I would go ahead and share in case any of you are still needing ideas for a presidential unit.
Happy President's Day!
Books to read
Online helps and links
President's Day Resources on homeschool share - homeschool share has a great book list, lapbook components, printable freebies and more! We will be doing quite a few of these printables this week.
Dawn's Lincoln ideas - Dawn has some great crafts and links listed!
Crafts and activities
Pretzel log cabin -- this looks cute and fun!
Make your own Oval Office -- from crayola
Make your own White House - also from crayola
We will add a few presidents to our timeline - probably Washington, Lincoln and Bush
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Feb. 4, 2008
Will you be my VALENTINE?
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We are starting our Valentine unit today! I had the table all set up with all our goodies for making cards, our books to read and some decorations!
Here are our school plans for Valentine's Day!
The Valentine Bears - we will be doing this unit from homeschool share
Books to read
Activities and Crafts
Hidden hearts - cut out a bunch of construction paper hearts and hide around the room or house...find all the hearts! (I don't know about you, but my kids LOVE finding things that I have hidden! I'm sure this will be a hit!)
Candy conversation heart math - this will be a lot of fun - playing, counting, adding, subtracting and EATING the candy conversation hearts!
Of course in this house we are all about crafts and card-making...so we will probably spend a few days working on our valentine cards to hand out!
I'd like to have a Valentine Tea party at some point...and read some poems from the Valentine's Day Poems and Stories book. Maybe we will have all things RED to eat and drink.
Review our memory work of 1 Corinthians 13 ~~ we memorized this last February and have reviewed a few times...but it will probably take a little work to get it all back in our minds. I would also like to find a craft to go with this verse.
Print the John 3:16 Valentine for the girls to fill in and read
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Feb. 2, 2008
It's February!
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I can't believe it is February! In our house that means 2 things...Hannah's birthday is coming up as well as Valentine's Day! Lots of parties, celebrating and LOVE in the air!
I found this link last year that has a lot of Valentine ideas for doing math! I already have down on my planner to do "Candy Heart" math one day! This will be lots of fun! If you have any great Valentine links or ideas, please share!
Valentine's Day Math
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What to do with all that CANDY from trick-or-treating? Why, MATH of course! 
We are just finishing up our math with our halloween candy, here are a few things we did today!
*put the candy in rows of 10 and then counted it all by 10's - we had 290 pieces! 
*sorted by groups - chocolate bars, gum, suckers, m&m's, chewy candies, hard candies, sweet tarts, etc.
*found which group had the most - suckers!
*found which group had the least - gum!
*drew pieces of candy in our math journals
*EAT candy! We had to count what we ate for *additional* math practice. 
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Oct. 31, 2007
Our Halloween Evening...
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Jul. 4, 2007
A Fun July 4th!
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We have had such a fun day! It started with our Happy Birthday, America party this morning! We joined Valerie and her boys and Melissa and her kiddos for our celebration. We made patriotic wands to wave at our parade and had little flags...we marched up and down our street telling a few neighbors - Happy July 4th! We came back and painted on a big sheet outside for fun! We loved this craft and did it again tonight at Melissa's house! Then, we read a story about a little girl whose daddy is deployed and are working on boxes to send to soldiers in Iraq. We need to finish our box tomorrow. After the story, we had a red, white and blue snack - strawberries, ice cream and blueberries on top! And we found hidden stars around the yard! School doesn't get much better than this!
This evening we ate dinner with Nana and Papa at their house...mommy's favorite - grilled hamburgers! And to end our fun day, we watched fireworks at Uncle Robert and Aunt Melissa's house and then some more at the dock here in town.
Happy Birthday, America! And thank you to each family out there that is serving our country - past and present. I thank God for you and your family's sacrifice!
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