Wordless Wednesday - Advent Calendar

Yesterday afternoon:

Today:

 

Copy Cat

Yup, I confess!  I totally copied Nicole's (mamato4blessings) rules... love it!  She posted these here a while back and they're just what we needed.  Jacob is always very concerned about what God thinks of him, so this will work great for me.  These aren't my rules... they're God's.  Great to memorize and follow.  Thanks, Nicole, my dear, sweet friend, for making it brainless for me!  Here's a pic of our posted rules:

Have a great week, everyone!

Bargain Booty!

It's been awhile since I've posted some of my 'treasures'.  That's surprising since it's something that I thrive on!  Here's my Goodwill find today.  I got all of these books and a pair of pajamas for $20.  Isn't that great?  There are 36 books!  Each book (except for 'The Very Quiet Cricket') has a yellow sticker on it which means it was half off.  So the hardcovers were $0.63 and the soft covers were $0.38.  The 'Cricket' was full price which is $1.25.  Think about it... that book alone sells for $15.63 plus shipping on amazon.com!  And... if you're wondering... yes, the batteries were in it and it still works!  Most of these books are great for homeschooling.  Subjects include animals, science experiments, literature units, history and Bible stuff.  YAY!

I saved almost as much as I spent today at Publix.  I spent $82 and saved $78.  I usually try to save double what I spend, but with Halloween candy, steaks, deli stuff and produce, it just didn't happen this week.

Anyone interested in doing a weekly bargain link up?  A show-and-tell of what you spent and/or saved?  That would be fun.  Perhaps I'll get that together.  It can be the Bargain Booty Link Up.  How fun!!!

Have a blessed Sunday everyone!

Homeschool Weekly Wrap-Up

This week, we moved on to the World Showcase part of our EPCOT segment!  We covered the United States, Mexico and Norway.  I'm so excited that we're doing this because when we take our trip in November, Jacob will recognize and appreciate each country's pavilion!

Here are some highlights:

Flags of the countries:

(Printed these off from Crayola.com)

Creating the flag of Mexico with tissue paper:

Paper Flower:

Painting our Day of the Dead mask:

Mixing Colors:

Finished mask:

Papel Cortado and our Mexican flag:

It was a fun week.  Jake's favorite part was learning about the Day of the Dead, of course.  He's nuts for skeletons and spooky stuff!  I'm looking forward to next week and continuing our cultural celebration!

Wordless Wednesday

Galactic Night at Chick-fil-a.  Jake loved the storm troopers, but wouldn't take a photo w/ Chewbacca.  Sam, on the other hand LOVED Chewbacca.  Unfortunately, my husband was manning the camera at the time.

 

Stay Tuned!!!

I have a fabulous giveaway coming your way!  One of my favorite homeschooling businesses has shipped me their entire product line to give away!  I'm so excited to be offering these products!!!  They are so unique and have been such a blessing to me, saving me time and eliminating frustration!  Can't wait to give you all the details.  So... stay tuned!

Highlight from the Week

I don't have a lot of photos from this week.  My camera battery was dead and I kept forgetting to charge it ;)  This week in Math, we learned about graphs and how they are pictures that represent numbers.  In keeping with our ocean theme, we did an ocean life graph.

Jake first flipped over one of the numbers and then filled in the appropriate amount of boxes with matching pictures of each animal.

To grasp that it's a representation of numbers and not just "count the fish", we switched to using buttons.

We also colored in a graph.  This sheet was left over from our rainforest study last week (based on the 'Living with the Land' attraction).  It gave us a chance for review.

Notice the vacuum hasn't been put away.  Love the things that pop up in the backgrounds of my homeschool photos!