Cache is King!

We are Geocachers! It started as a small hobby over the summer, and became quite an obsession. Once The Punk realized that there was stuff in some of the caches - and stuff he liked in others, it became a team sport.

He loves getting trinkets, Hot Wheels, Legos, and other small items from the caches we find. I slove that we get out and about together - and do more than just use the slide over and over at our local parks. I think Geocaching is something The Punk and I will do together for a long time.

And it goes like this...

Music is a big part of our lives. Huge. Gigantic, even. The radio is always on in the car. Pandora is always on at home. We love music. And the Punk is a big fan too. We don't listen to a lot of "kids" songs. I am sure he could sing The Itsy Bitsy Spider if he really needed to, but I love that he can belt out Yellow Submarine any time he feels like it.

And so - along with my love for music The Punk inherited my love to dance like Mick Jagger.

Neither of us do it well, but we both have a BLAST! And the Maroon 5 song "Moves like Jagger" is right up our alley!

Just shoot for the stars... You've got them moves like Jagger!

Grumpy to Grinning

When your morning starts out grumpy, and you can't seem to find the letters (or good mood) you are looking for - take my advice: Make Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins. No one can be grumpy when they are about to devour the goodness of chocolate.

T L A P D

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day!

We put on our pirate garb, and let out plenty of Ahoy's, Yo Ho Ho's and Me Hearties!

We read a couple of our favorite Pirate tales: Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC's, and How I Became a Pirate.

You can bet 'yer doubloons we arrr going to parrrrticipate again next yearrrr!

Outdoor time!

The Mighty Squirrel Hunter!

We spent quite a lot of morning times outdoors all Summer and Fall. It was 100+ degrees most days, so our regular School Time was interrupted with Outdoor Time so we wouldn't bake in the afternoons.

A Long time ago...

In a galaxy not too far away... ok, it was the kitchen...

We worked on the Star Wars Preschool Pack (found at Homeschool Creations). I have much of this laminated and bound, so we can work on this again an again - the Punk never tires of Star Wars!


After that we worked on transferring for a bit. Keeping with the Star theme - we moved "planets" around the ice cube "solar system".

We also did a little Space Art - gluing star shaped pasta (already colored) to black construction paper with glitter glue. It turned out really lovely!

And finally ended our morning by watching Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope while we made lunch. Couldn't get much more awesome for the Punk!

Back to School!

We had a busy morning! Today's Lesson? Mommy wasn't prepared.

The Punk has grown up in so many ways over the Summer. He's physically stronger and able to do things he couldn't just a few weeks ago. He's going crazy with letters and phonics - just chomping at the bit to start reading. He's been working on his comedic timing, and is extremely funny. I love watching these new skills emerge, but already miss the baby he is rapidly leaving behind...

I didn't realize how FAST he would devour his school work this morning, so I was ill prepared. A few months ago this would have been a couple of hours "work" with a snack built in somewhere... now it took him just under a half hour to complete everything I had planned last night.

I have to dig a little deeper into these "lesson plans" of mine, because the Punk is leaps ahead of where we left off!

Patterns - Matching Patters from a Word document to his new foam shapes.

Big / Little Letters - New puzzle letters from Target

Reading the book Six Sticks and following along with our own 6 sticks...

Toothpicks - Mommy's chance to step away from the table and load the dishwasher!