Vanilla Snow Shakes

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Inspiration, Kid Fun, Recipes by Mrs. O on October 28, 2011 at 2:21 pm {4 comments}

This past Wednesday we had our first snowfall, this called for celebration! My boys love the snow and they were so excited to be getting a storm. They woke early Wednesday to peak outside…

I have never seen them get dressed and ready so fast, they bundled up and headed out.

Talk of the coming storm was mentioned on many Facebook pages’. My friend Tom had a comment on his wall talking about Vanilla Creams made with snow. My boys love eating snow (against everything my husband stands for, lol) and I knew they would love to use it in a recipe. We strayed a little from the recipe and ended up with delicious Vanilla Snow Shakes.

After coming in and putting warm jammies, we made these delicious concoctions.

Pour Milk into Snow, add Vanilla and Sugar

Whisk together until creamy and smooth, pour into cups

Enjoy!

Adventures in My Father’s World Week 2 -Jesus Suncatcher

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on October 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm {no comments}

We are loving Adventures in My Fathers World. The Bible portion starts with Jesus, His birth, on to when he starts preaching. We are also learning the different names of Jesus. During week 2 we got to make a Jesus suncatcher. The was fun and easy. This final result is pretty!

You need Wax Paper, crayon shavings, glue, scissors, construction paper, an iron and newsprint.

Cut out 2” letters from construction paper

Arrange the letters on wax paper and sprinkle on the crayon shavings, be conservative.

Place another sheet of wax paper on top, cover with newsprint and iron on low. Be sure to have paper under the wax as well.

We added construction paper border to match our letters.

hanging in the window

We will definitely use this technique to create other projects in the future. I am thinking maybe a Mayflower silhouette with blue and white crayons shavings, with yellow for a sun.

Our Classroom for a Perfect Autumn Day

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Inspiration, Kid Fun, Thankful For by Mrs. O on October 2, 2011 at 7:15 pm {2 comments}

A couple of Fridays ago we took class outdoors, what a breath of fresh air! It was amazing, fantastic, refreshing and down right FUN!

We love going to Hudson Gardens, several acres of God’s beautiful creation! We searched for leaves, watched ducks and geese, chased butterflies and bugs, tumbled in the grass and climbed a rock cave, we even did some bird watching.

Since we are now into to the Fall, we were thrilled to see the …

Hay Maze!

and…

Pumpkin Patch!

We also checked out a Leaf Explorer Pack from the Office, we learned all about leaves and trees. There were a ton of fun activities and surprises in the pack.

We also took along this, (thanks Scribbit!):

Thank you God for the Best classroom we could ever ask for!

Kick-Off: Let Fall School Projects Begin

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on September 23, 2011 at 7:32 am {3 comments}

Love this time of year! Who doesn’t, really? I think I write about it every year, unlike the other seasons. Just something about the Fall. It officially starts today, yay! Thought we would kick off the many, many Fall activities we will be doing this season, so excited! We started by doing a leaf study. I purchased this really cool kit from the Used Curriculum sale at my local Homeschool Convention.

The kit includes many samples of leafs, each in their own plastic sleeve and label. The Tree Finder book has every kind of tree you can find in North America, comes with illustrations and descriptions. The workbook, guides you through lessons on trees and all their parts. Yesterday I let the boys look through everything in the kit. We will start the lessons on Monday.

The next project we worked on was leaf rubbings as seen here on Pinterest, which is where I saw it. It is originally posted on this blog.

We collected leaves from around our neighborhood.

pretty leaves.

Then we taped the paper down to the table with masking tape. We used crayons that had the labels taken off so we could rub properly. I stressed to the boys the importance of holding the bottom of the paper tight once they placed their leaves under the it.

After the leaf rubbings we read 2 books about Fall. One is a family favorite about all seasons but it seems best for Fall it is called The Acorn and the Oak Tree. The other book, of course, was Clifford’s Leaf Season. All in all, this was a great start to celebrate my favorite season.