Little Monkey has done so well this past year with his K3 work.  He has blown us all away in his skills and we PRAISE the Lord for the brain and wanting to learn He has Blessed Little Monkey with!

We have officially ended our K3 year and we are doing some "unschooling" for the summer.  Taking things as they come along and working on those things that need to be continally worked on.  #1 for right now is behavior and first time obedience.  It seems we work on this a lot lately.  I pray one day it won't be such a hard concept to stick with for Little Monkey!

This year we attended our first Homeschool Conference.  It was great.  We bought some used books and then we ordered our new books for the coming school year.  Since we are having our 3rd Blessing in September we really felt that it would benifit us all to use a curriculm that was already planned out.  My Beloved and I both know ABeka pretty well and we really love it compaired to all the other Christian Curr that is out there!  So we prayed for God's guidance and for the most part we are using all ABeka.  Originally we had planned to do Reading, Writing and Phonics on a K4 level, everything else on a K5 level (sciene we are making up as Little Monkey has already finished the K5 science this past year).  But after going to the conference and seeing the books up close and getting to read them and look at the insides we decided that K4 REading, Writing and Phonics was past Little Monkey and we are Officially doing ALL K5 work this coming year!  We are so excited and so is Little Monkey.  We pray that God continues to give him the Blessing of learning well!

We still have 1 more year before we are "officailly" in "school" but more than likely Little Monkey will be starting his first year of "real school at home" on a 1st grade level!  Praise the Lord!

Celebrating Easter: Palm Sunday Activities

Palm Sunday Crafts

Children Following God's Path

We do not agree with everything on these sites.  We just thought they had some good info and wanted to share with others.  Please look with Christian Disernment

One of our favorite online stores for books, puzzles, and more is Love to Learn.  I subscribe to their emails and just found out they are doing a HUGE clearance up to 63% off a lot of their items coming out in their Christmas Cataloge.  So I thought I would share, once again, their sale with everyone!

Clickhere for the most resent sale email.

This past weekend while on our little trip down to GA we went into a Michaels' Arts and Crafts Store.  While waiting in line I saw they had some Great Illustrated Classics books.  I found 2 that I thought Little Monkey might enjoy.  The first we are reading, almost done with too just in a weeks time, is "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle, the second is "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnet.  Little Monkey is really enjoy Robin Hood as am I.  I think when we finish, probably tomorrow, that we will make a lap board, not sure, but have been thinking and praying about it.

You can find the whole series here as well as Heros of America.  There are 2 paper back Great Illustrated Classics.  We have the "Christmas Bedtime Stories" we read every Christmas season.

Today we went to a local veggie farm for our MOPS on the Move, MOM, field trip.  It is a 3 generation going on 4 working farm.  They grow everything they sell.  This year the farmer planted pumpkins, the only pumpkins grown in these parts (meaning all the other farms buy their's to sell).  It's a U-pick farm, so the kids got to go into the pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin.  Little Monkey loved this and he picked a pretty good pumpkin.  He also was sweet and picked a baby pumpkin for Princess JoJo.  I bought a really big pumpkin to finish up our pumpkin family, we had one pumpkin that YaYa gave to Little Monkey this weekend.

We learned about drip irigation, how to keep birds and insects away without harming the veggies, why it's important to have bees on your farm (they pollenate the crops), and what grows best when and why things grown in the summer grow differently then things grown in the spring.

We also did a 1/2mile of a 3mile corn maze that was actually sorgum stalks and not corn.  We had a hay ride pulled by a John Deere tractor through the farm and up to the patch.  There were many John Deere's all over the farm.  One was the first John Deere tractor to have rubber tires on it!  Little Monkey was excited about that as his WHOLE room is done in John Deere.

We plan to go back with Daddy the next weekend he is home.  The farm is opened to the public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The rest of the week it's closed for private field trips for school children and other groups.  We will be going back in April for the U-pick strawberry patch!  Yum, strawberry jam, pies, and more!  We might be going in a few weeks for U-pick tomatoes, we will see!

About 3 years ago when I firsted started in MOPS I received a promo DVD of BOZ.  Little Monkey loved it and I proceeded to by the full DVD.  Now we are the proud owners of 4 Boz DVDs and they are wonderful lesson centered around God!  On each DVD there are 3 episodes and some songs in between.  They are really neat DVDs for preschoolers!

Check out BOZ here

On the website you can also sign up for a few different things.  You can get emails that link you to different activities and you can sign up for the Boz the bear Birthday club.  There are some really great things on the website, even if you don't want the DVDs.  Check it out! ;)

NFPA Fire Prevention Week

Scholastic Lesson Plans for Fire Prevention Week Grades K-2

Sparky the Fire Dog

I know that Fire Prevention week started on Sunday and I had intended to get this posted before the weekend, but that's not the way it worked and I still wanted to pass along the info.  The links above have fire prevention lesson plans, games, escape plans and more for you to view, print and use in your "classroom" and home.  Even though this is the National week you can do this anytime.  We are doing ours next week.  The whole month of October if Fire Prevention Month.  Hope this info helps someone out there!

I found some links I though I would share. 

HsKubes' has these links on their blog and I wanted to share them with ya'll.  Thanks HsKubes'!

She shared a link for Character Trait Lesson's from Mini-Manna For Little Lambs.

She also shared some Home Learning Planning Lessons ( you can find them under her September 2007 archives).