lots of pics - box day, reading, art, fractions & PE

Yeah! Our box from HOD arrived yesterday afternoon in midst of the pouring rain while we were out. The UPS delivery guy was nice enough to tuck it inside our glass door so it remained dry!

Within minutes of tearing it open and pulling out books for next year, K found her new reading book (The Reading Lesson) and begged to put the CD-ROM game in the computer. I can't say no to that, so we did it and after playing Lesson 1, she went on to complete the ENTIRE lesson in her book (her choice) all 18 pages or so! She's regained her confidence and happy attitude about reading - hooray!
Today she played Lesson 2 on her own during our usual play hours this morning and then did 8 pages of Lesson 2 in the book. In the pic above she's proudly showing the words spelled out using our rubber letters. It's definitely working better for her than 100 EZ Lessons!

She began her 2nd Rod & Staff workbook, Finding the Answers, last week. She begged to do two pages today...circling letters...
...coloring & counting...
I have loved using these workbooks with her this year. It's been a good fit (we've skipped the letter-writing pages). ;o)

D's art project today (unit 19/Day2) to go along with his history reading...making a pattern with "sand" on the "floor" as a little Puritan girl did one day when she was home alone cleaning...


I finally printed their responsibility papers today. I had put it off for awhile because I didn't know how I wanted to do it...index cards on hooks/rings to flip around, chart to put stickers on, checkmark, etc. When I read THIS blog post I realized that's what I needed to do so the kids have their set responsibilities throughout the day. Some days are different so it's nice to put certain ones for certain days (i.e. trash to kitchen Monday night, soccer bag to door Tuesday afternoon, etc...) D & K's are put in a sheet protector to hang on the fridge, using a dry erase skinny marker to cross off each one. We'll see how it works! :o)

D's "sparkler candle" art project from last week that I realized I didn't post a picture of...

K's fraction math page from last week...she chose to make each one a different color!
They are loving HS PE again this year. It's a drive, but worth it for them to get with the other kids and run, run RUN!

On Friday - K's class did a "carnival" with games.


While D's group used the parachute with various games. In the pic below, D is "it" and is trying to "rescue" a girl from getting taken inside the parachute.