What We Are Reading→ Still reading both Brothers and Sisters in Adoption
and Home Schooling Children with Special Needs. 
and Home Schooling Children with Special Needs. On my Kindle (it arrived!): Mrs. Dunwoody’s Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping
Bob is reading The Hobbit
to the boys
to the boysAround the House→ Cleaning and de-cluttering seem to be a constant theme.
Fall Kitchen→ We had Tea Time this week and enjoyed our Animal Cracker snacks. Here is a list of easy Tea Time snacks that follow our Alphabet Path. Bob and I brainstormed the list while driving to Toronto last weekend :) I should note that these are easy and junky snacks that we serve in moderation, not staples.
My sister just gave me several new bread recipes to try. Summer is fun, but I really welcome the return to our normal schedule, and that it actually sounds like a good idea to turn on the oven again.
Discovery Time→ I made a few minor adjustments to our daily schedule, but all in all I am pleased with the way our day is going.
Bird Unit: Reading The Burgess Bird Book
and The Boy Who Drew Birds: The Story of John James Audubon.
The Audubon book is excellent, he was so much more than an artist. There is much nest building talk in the Burgess Book right now and Jonah is interested in making a bird nest. We might try this next week. This would be fun for the younger kids, and this would be a great spring craft. I need to make a craft store run.
and The Boy Who Drew Birds: The Story of John James Audubon. The Audubon book is excellent, he was so much more than an artist. There is much nest building talk in the Burgess Book right now and Jonah is interested in making a bird nest. We might try this next week. This would be fun for the younger kids, and this would be a great spring craft. I need to make a craft store run.
. Last year we made a lapbook for HBAPSW, using materials from the Five in A Row website. 
I had a friend e-mail me about using lapbooks and we really haven't had great luck using them so far. Maybe I should give them a try again since everyone is a bit older. I love the finished product, but we haven't been so successful with the process.
A new favorite book is The Apple Pie that Papa Baked
. We colored, signed, listened to fairy songs, and for the grande finale - baked our Apple Pies. We had a really good week.
the idea for using the "A" for the top crust came from here.
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Looks like you had a fun and productive week. I love the letter A idea for the pie crust. I also love the pictures of the kids cutting out the dough, especially the one of Anna, she looks like she is really enjoying the process!
I want a kindle! I did finally get an Ipod yesterday (!!!) and downloaded my first audio book on it- my boys love to listen to books at night, so I am really excited.:)
What is not working with Lapbooks?-I have a few thoughts, but they might now apply to your situation. :)
That was suppose to be "not" apply-not "now" :)! And, I meant to mention the apple pie-- that is adorable!!
Lori-glad to hear you got an iPod!! Re:lapbooks, it has been a couple of years since I have really tried them, but they seemed very mom intensive as in I was basically putting them together. Maybe my kids weren't old enough yet? I would love to use them more, particularly to wrap up a unit, any suggestions? Thanks!
SO stealing the pie idea!
And I do totally believe that lapbooks are a whole different animal once the kids are bigger. I hope to include some in this year's plans.
Jen~ What an A for Awesome week! Thanks for sharing the list of snacks and fun ideas. God Bless.
Your apple pie idea was so cute! And I'd love to be at your house when you hit e week!
you had really great ideas for A week. I love that lapbook! And we will have to do the apple pie!
On the lapbooks- they are mom intensive. :) But, it does get better as the children get older. One thing I do is to *not* jump in to overly elaborate lapbooks- especially for young children. I pick and choose elements-just a few that I think will fit our study best. The FIAR fold and learns usually have less busy work which I appreciate. Our "Bee" lapbook and "Animal Classification" lapbooks are pretty good examples of keeping it super simple. :) (They are on my "Lapbook/Notebook" page)I hope that helps a little bit.
[url=http://www.pi7.ru/seks-sekrety/1657-iskusstvo-lyubit-ili-chto-takoe-umnyy-seks.html ]Моему сынуле 6 мес., а он не встает на ножки [/url]
Девушки, может, кто вспомнит, как назывался фильм советского/российского тогда еще производства, снятый где-то в конце 80-х, начале 90-х годов. Там про некую квартиру, из коей все выходили на лестничную площадку, вроде как спускаясь, расчитывая выйти на улицу по разным делам, но буквально каждый день, не спустившись, поднимались каким-то образом и опять опять попадали в эту квартиру. Больше из сюжета ничего не помню. Это фантастика и сюр какой-то.
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