Harrison's Placemat

Harrison made a fall placemat today. It's cute and really easy to make.

You'll need a 18 X 12" piece of construction paper
paper leaves (or real ones if you choose)
glue
clear, selfadhesive shelving paper

He colored his leaves and acorns in fall colors and then glued them in the corners of the constructions paper.

To laminate it, the shelving paper is very inexpensive to use and you can save it and use it for all sorts of other things. It's a must have for craft supplies.

WOOHOOOOOO!!!

Two things....one is that Chyrll posted a recipe for Fruit Cake on her blog, Chyrll's Corner and I snagged it and have placed it at Blogger's Recipes. So if you like fruit cake and make them at Christmas, you might want to check this out. To be honest, I don't eat fruit cake, but she posted pictures of her's and it looked good. If I were there, I would have tried it.

The big WOOHOOOOOO is that since we had a problem figuring out some Algebra last week, Justin got a little behind in his lessons. Thanks to my brother ((((((((JOHN))))))))) Justin did two lessons with a total of sixty problems and missed only five. When I had him look over the ones he missed he corrected each of them with no help because they were simple mistakes. I was so happy! We both were. Thanks, John~~~~I owe you big. How bout lunch next week??

Oh Well....Maybe Tomorrow

I did not accomplish the things I had hoped to accomplish today. Mainly Hannah's chest of drawers and closet. Maybe I'll be able to do that tomorrow. Lord willing.

Harrison and I worked on a project today where he did a dot-to-dot of a lady bug and colored it. Then we cut out the ladybug and the flowers around it and he glued it to a large piece of black construction paper. Then Hannah generously gave us some magazines that she had been clinging to but not for future use....just rat packing....and he cut out all the bugs he could find in them and glued them around the ladybug. A bug collage of sorts. It turned out cute and he's looking forward to working on it a little bit more tomorrow. Then we sat and read from a book. I would read some and he would read some. It flowed pretty good and we'll be doing that daily to strengthen his reading.

Hannah didn't quite complete her Math from yesterday so she did that, we corrected it together, and then she completed her Math for today. This put her a little behind in time today, but she's been working really hard and seems to be back on track.

Justin turned in his Math for today. I need to go check it and see what WE need to work on. LOL Oh drudgery! Everything else he is excelling in. To be honest, Math isn't going that bad. It's just one of those things I would prefer to stick in the desk and just not bother with it, but I know I can't do that so I must continue on in the positives and negatives of algebra. No puns intended. LOL No worries either.....I have my brother's work number on speed dial. ;)

Hannah and Justin have both been learning about the Middle Ages this year and they are studying King Clovis, the Moors, Charles Martel who never became king of the Franks, his son Pepin III and HIS son CHARLAEMAGNE. It's been pretty interesting thus far. A lot of strong vocabulary to be learned, but they are soaking it in. I think Hannah is learning more on this subject since she has Justin to study with. I like that they can do this together.

Now I'm going to go do some phonics and Math with Harrison, grade the rest of Justin and Hannah's seat work and tackle some laundry.

Justin informed me that he has no pants for SIGMA tonight. Nothing like waiting to the last minute to tell me you need something washed. I just love that. *grinning sheepishly* Can you say "Oh well, hope your drawers are clean???" People who live in the south know that the word 'drawers' in that interrogative sentence does not mean a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it. In the south, the word 'drawers' in that interrogative sentence means an undergarment, with legs, that covers the lower part of the body. LOL

OK, enough about that....must put laptop down. Must get back to work.

And I Thought I'd Never Use It!

Remember sitting in Algebra class thinking to yourself, I'm never gonna use this! What's the point? I remember thinking that. But now I know it was all for a good purpose and I should have studied harder when I had the chance. Now I'm a homeschool Mom and I'm having to learn it all over again. That was the purpose of me learning Algebra....to teach it. LOL

I decided that we had spent too much time in the house pouring over the Math so we would go outside and study. Finally! A breakthrough. I am so happy at what we learned today. I feel energized and ready to tackle tomorrow's Math.

Justin and I set up some chairs outside and took our books and paper and marker board with us. We had fun learning together today. It was so funny. Anyway, I'm praising the Lord that we figured it out. YAY~

While we were studying, we heard this loud plop on the ground. The cats were around so we thought at first it might be one of them. Turns out it was this huge caterpillar. All we can figure is that he fell from the tree above us onto the driveway. I have never seen one this big. Here's a picture of it. I'm going to try and research it later today, but if you know what it is and know anything about it, feel free to share your knowledge with us. Hannah said God sent that our way so we wouldn't have to work in our Science books today. Nice try, Hannah.





After we stopped to study this little guy and take pictures of him, we got back to hitting the Math and just a few minutes of that, we turned to look at him again and he was G-O-N-E! We figure he was making his way back to the tree he fell from. Poor guy.

We were wrapping things up with Math when Hannah brought Tipsy out for a break. She was happy to be with all of us outside and get some lovin!





I walked to the mailbox to retrieve yesterday's mail and noticed how pretty the panicles on the pompas grass were so I just had to take a picture of them too. Justin is hiding behind them. Can you see him?