Weekly Wrap-up Week of 1/19/2014

This was a fairly uneventful week as far as school time was concerned.  We were starting new chapters in many of our subjects which meant  a lot of reading and not many photo worthy activities.  We did have some fun moments both during and outside of "school time."

Birds of Prey Unit

As you may already know, we are finally going through our Birds of Prey study.  C is loving it!  She even took it with her to mommy's choir practice and chose to do it over playing with the other activities she brought.  I hope to make one of the crafts from our Birds of Prey Pinterest Board each Friday.  C didn't care too much about completing the vulture pages of the unit but she loved this cute Handprint Turkey Vulture!  I found this craft at Creativity Takes Flight.

Cooking with Mommy

C loves when we make homemade pizza!  She has so much fun spreading the sauce and sprinkling the cheese.  I love how we sneak in fraction talk while making the dough!  We all enjoy eating the results of our labor.  The recipe we made on this day was Stuffed Pizza Rolls (Think cheesy, savory yumminess in the shape of a cinnamon roll!) from the Weelicious Lunches Cookbook.  They were perfect for making a double batch, freezing the leftovers and using them for easy lunches the rest of the week!

Dress-up Fun

C has gotten back into watching Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  She used to watch it often but it has been awhile.  She spent some time this week dressed up as Izzy, complete with a pixie dust pouch. 

This may be my shortest wrap-up post yet!  Next week should be full of fun activities now that we have gotten most of the reading finished for our new lessons.   Thanks so much for visiting Joy Focused Learning!

~Angela

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Weekly Wrap-up Week of 1/5/14

We had a fun and excited week, here are the highlights:

Serve Yourself Snack Tray

C seems to always be hungry.  Her normal meal schedule is the standard 3 meals and 2 snacks a day.  However, she constantly asks for a snack.  When I offer her something healthy like veggies with dip she gets mad so I am never sure if she is truly hungry or just loves snack foods.

This week we tried something new: serve yourself snack tray.  I have seen this idea online before but I couldn't find the blog again.  I loaded up the tray with 2 normal snacks and 2 veggie snacks.  C is allowed to grab from the snack tray whenever she wants.  The first day she ate everything on the tray (kiwi, muffin, cauliflower and ants on a log)  She must have been hungry!  The second day she only ate the muffin and the apple.

We didn't do a snack tray Tuesday and Thursday because we weren't home.

The desk became a catch-all

This is what C's desk looked like at the beginning of the week.  Yikes!  We had to re-organize our school stuff and re-instate the "nothing goes on the school desk unless you are currently using it" rule.  Hopefully we can keep it cleared off or at least not completely covered!

Birds of Prey Study

We finally got around to starting our Birds of Prey study this week!  C loves it and is doing a great of job of working on it mostly by herself.  I am trying to think of what to study next but I was disappointed at the library - I can't find any other books that are in a similar format and reading level that study other animals.  I with the made the Field Guide for Young Naturalists for more than birds!

All About Spelling

We were recently blessed to win an IEW gift certificate through a HEDUA facebook party.  I thought the IEW writing materials look wonderful but I couldn't afford to cover the difference.  I was so excited to find All About Spelling in their store!  We are enjoying it so far.

Snow Fun

We made this awesome snowman this week.  Unfortunately, he was ruined the next day by rain which froze over.  She is a little upset that her scarf is frozen to the ground, oops!


How was your week?  I would love to hear about it in the comments section below!  Thanks so much for visiting Joy Focused Learning!

~Angela

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Extra activities for the Birds of Prey Study

 

 

Bird of Prey Study Guide





As I type, I am hearing the "Hallelujah Chorus" play in my head.  I started working on this study guide around the time Joy Focused Learning went live over a month ago!  That may or may not seem like a long time to you but it sure does to me!  Since starting this project, I can't see a large bird flying overhead without trying to figure out which bird it is.  I usually decide it is a Turkey Vulture - I could be totally wrong but at least I feel like I know what I am talking about.  :)