Teacher’s pet…
Each week, we alternate day by day with different sight word activities. We “read them”, “write them”, and “play them”. Here we were writing them like a rainbow.
This boy loves to paint- OR should I say loves to eat paint? Either way, there’s no denying it!
Reagan surprised me and recited John 3:16 by herself! When we started working on it the first day, I thought to myself that it would take her forever to learn it, but she did it! Max and Emmy had a little altercation in the background (LOL). Maybe we need to start doing a verse on kindness!
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Here’s Reagan at our Thursday Connection Home school Cooperative orientation (1st day) bright and early in Knoxville. You can check out more information about TC here!
We had lunch to celebrate at Red Lobster (one of Rea’s favorites) although Reagan informed me as we were walking in that she actually preferred Hooter’s because the girls there were so pretty.
Another visit to the animal shelter.
Reagan did this all by herself! She insisted that she underline every word and use a dash at the end of the first line. I’m not sure where she learned this punctuation from?!?
I had been itching to do this rainbow cake recipe. There are some amazing pictures of this on pinterest, by the way! The girls enjoyed using the food coloring to make colors.
Finished product-
Mmmmm!
Don’t let this fool you! He had about 3 cupcakes. He kept eating the icing off of them and bringing them back for refills.
2 pinterest projects in one day. It was probably a lofty goal, but they had LOTS of fun!
I found a neat story online about a polar bear that wanted to be like other animals and changed colors, but in the end decided he liked being himself (white) the best. We used food coloring and bleach to make the story come to life. They really liked it.
“Playing” sight words. Reagan LOVES these. If she reads the word correctly, she gets to keep the cup to build a tower. She is doing great with reading her sight words!
Here she is bright and early on the first official day of classes at Thursday Connection!
For her “Bookaroos” class, she had to decorate a brown paper bag and put four items in the bag that tell about herself.
Here is her first art project from her TC art class. “Rainbow Glitter Shooting Stars”
We spent Friday with Nana at Dollywood. It was actually Dollywood’s annual “Home School Day”. We had a ball!
We never had to wait on a ride unless we were just waiting for a couple minutes for the next ride to begin. It was a great day to be there!
We searched high and low for a baked potato! (one of Reagan’s favorites right now)
Emmy pretending like the funnel cake is green beans with Nana’s glasses on. haha
Face painting is at the top of our Dollywood “to-do” list every time.
Saturday evening after some sessions, I took the kids back to the Ponderosa to burn off some energy.
Here’s Rea getting Carl to follow her alongside the fence!
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Poor guy tried to climb in. I have a funny feeling that he would have fit right in with those wild animals.
Carl is becoming a favorite at the Ponderosa!
He did actually take the bucket of food right out of Reagan’s hand and turn it up! He ate it all. haha Reagan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!
Max hit it right off with this guy.
Here are some of the books about colors/shapes that we read during week 2&3.
We finally completed all our “Color Projects”. We had been working on these one by one over a period of months. We cut out pictures in magazines (mostly PPA magazines, ha!) and glued them on the appropriate poster board.