Day at Path

Lizzy's Class

Katie's Spanish class - this is before it started so not everyone is there yet.

 

Clay in a Day. This is the class I "assist" in. I work very hard, quietly reading my book in the corner. Each class has to have 1 teacher and 1 helper whether they need it or not.

Lizzy's valentine party. I assist here just before lunch. She needs much more help than the clay class.

For lunch we spread out our picnic blankets in the gym Path also has a lunch you can purchase, but we usually pack a lunch except on Pizza day


After lunch we have worship time, led by different families, or groups in Path. Then we head back to our classes.

Each semester of Path (P-our city- Association of Texas Homeschoolers) is 10 weeks long. We meet on Mondays. I meant to take a picture of each class, but got busy and forgot.

Currently Lizzy is in the 3 year old class where they learn spanish, music, crafts, and basic pre-school skills,  and have a recess time. Then they have nap after lunch. They stay in the same class with the same kids all day.

Katie is in the first and second grade group. They move from class to class depending on what they sign up for. Usually there are about 3 - 4 choices for each hour. This semester she is in Spanish, Math, Playground Games, Creative writing, and Amazing Animals.

I am teaching Great Explorers and Kit Kittredge - American girl. I also assist in Clay in a day, Lizzy's class, and a history class about America's founding fathers. To be in Path, each mom has to teach 2 classes or help clean up. We also assist when we are not teaching.

Path is a lot of fun for the girls and they get the experience of being in a school type setting and having teachers other than myself. They have made many friends there as well. There are about 80 families who make up Path. They have classes all the way from the nursery thru high school. We meet at one of the churches here in town.

Valentine's Day

I got a chance to check out how our new camera works and take a picture of the girls dressed up for valentine's.

Even took a good shot in front of the window on the right setting. Never could figure out how to get the flash to come on regardless of light on my old camera. So far we really like it. It is a Kokak easy share. Nothing fancy, but it has a pretty good zoom and a great price.

More snow

Yesterday, Katie went to a friends house for her birthday and had a great princessy time.



Here are the rest of the pictures I took before our camera broke of the record snowfall we received. Everything looked so pretty and bright.

Snow!

This morning we woke up to about 2 inches of snow on the groud. Too bad homeschoolers don't get snow days! But, I declared a snowman delay. The snow was perfect for making snowmen and it wasn't too cold or windy out so the girls and I didn't mind going out and enjoying it. Now we're going to go warm up with some hot chocolate and then do school... I think today we might do a special study on snow!

When Lizzy saw the snow she asked if we needed to get the Christmas stuff out again. When I told her no, she said "I didn't know it could snow when it wasn't Christmas!"

Be Mine!

A picture of a picture. Here are the kid's valentines this year. They were super easy! Wish I could take credit for the idea but I heard about them here.

Gettin my green on AKA how to waste an afternoon

Last sunday I was a little bored and found an idea online to melt together plastic bags to make a tote bag. I just melted them with an iron and parchment paper, cut them into squares, sewed them together and added handles. It was kind of fun and I got rid of a bunch of plastic bags. Plus I can save more when we use this to buy groceries. The one online was really cute with a disney bag on front, but I just had target and walmart bags. The target bags worked the best because they are nice and thick.

Lizzyisms

Lizzy: "How old are you Momma?"
Me: "I'm 29."
Lizzy: "You're really old. You're gonna die soon"
Me: "Thanks"


Lizzy: " Can I have this?"
Me: "no"
Lizzy "Why nooooot?"
me: "because I'm a mean old lady ;)"
Lizzy: "Well, I'm not going to sleep with you anymore! You're not my friend now"
Me: "Oh good... I get my bed back!"

By the way, it didn't work... She must have forgiven me because there she was at midnight as usual.

Flat Stanley goes roller skating

This week for her creative writing class at PATH, Katie got to bring home Flat Stanley. She is supposed to take him around and then write about what all he got to do. Turns out we are pretty boring, so we had to do a few extra things to keep Flat Stanley entertained. On Tuesday we went on a walk with all three dogs (which was quite an accomplishment), on Wednesday we went to Chucky Cheese and today we went Roller Skating.

It was the girl's first time to roller skate and they did really well. I hadn't roller skated since I was a teenager, so I was a little worried, but I guess it is like riding a bike - you never forget. We had a lot of fun and lots of falls, but no broken bones which is always a plus! Lizzy claimed to have broken her ear, but it seems to be hanging in there.

Here are a few more pictures of our roller skating adventure

Katie's Furniture

About a week and a half ago I had the wonderful idea to paint all of Katie's furniture to match. It had been awhile since I had done any painting projects and had forgotten how much painting sucks.

So, after finally getting Theo to agree (we had purchased her bed and chest of drawers new, before I became the craigslist queen, so he wasn't to thrilled about me "ruining" them) we drug them to the garage and I enjoyed many an evening inhaling paint fumes.

I forgot to take a before picture, but scrounged up one. Nothing in her room matched... oak chest of drawer, green table, white desk, cherry daybed. So I painted it all antique white, with a little glaze on it. I really wanted to update the hardware, but when I went to screw on the new ones, I realized they were different lengths than the old ones, so I decided to keep the old ones. We also rearranged a bit and it feels roomier in there too!

Katie really likes it and was so excited to go to bed tonight.

Grandma and Grandpa

Looks like we missed getting some Christmas decorations put away. Better get these two in the box quick before they create trouble.

Aloha!

More of my niece

Here are more pictures of my niece. She got to go home today. (Can't believe someone trusted my sister with a baby! Obviously the people at social services dropped the ball on that one :) ) By the way, her birth weight was 8lbs 4 oz. What a sweetie! Congrats!

New Niece

My sister Jamie had her baby today! Meet Rahziela Jordan!