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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Strawberry shortcake JINGO

I have finally finished the JINGO game for Strawberry Shortcake. This one has been an on again off again project. I have to say it turned out beautifully and Lady Jey can not wait to play it!



JINGO!!!


 Again I offer it to you guys for a small donation, but ask that you do not share the link with anyone.
If you have a blog, please post about the game and link back to us here
When you submit the donation be sure to include in the email which game you are wanting, if you donate for one I will include two, so include the free one in your request. You will have 7 days to download from the provided link, check your spam folders if not received within the 2 days. After the link is expired I will not send another link, except for reasons of my own fault. You can also leave a comment here on the blog as to what game you are wanting, after donating.
As always thanks for letting us be a part of your days here at Our Days at CA.



Friday, September 23, 2011

Book Basket Fridays

We are finishing up the introduction weeks and headed into North America. I was happy that I found a lot of the books on The U.S that the Hazell's recommended, but I added to our list because the kids would have them read in a days time. Remember my list is what we found to add to the recommended  ones, you may want to preview some of them before adding them to your stack. Good luck searching, and thanks for reading with us here at Our Days  At CA!


Book-basket for United States weeks
(3-4)
ABC USA- Martin Jarrie
America is
WOW! America
Happy birthday America
America the Beautiful
The United States, state by state guide
Scrambled states of America
Smart about the 50 States
7 natural wonders of North America
Lands and Peoples of North America #5
Kids around the world cookbook
The Kingfisher Student Atlas of North America
The Atlas of World Cultures: Brunetto Chiarelli 
How to make a Cherry pie and See the U.S.A *
Greetings from 50 states *
Lentil  *
When I was young in the mountains *
Betsy and Tacy go over the big hill *
The Rag Coat *
The Hundred dresses *
stone fox *
across America on a emigrant train
meet the American girl books
Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective
wild, wild southwest: junior explorer series
Geronimo  Stiliton #37 race across America
Charlotte's web
Stella: fairy of the forest
Lost in the woods
Who lives here? Forest animals
Life in a Deciduous forest
Nature hide and seek: Woods & ForestsTrees: Illa Podendorf
The Navajo: Alice Osinski 






* recommended by the Hazells

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Book basket Friday

Ok, so I realize it is not Friday, nor is it the beginning of our study with the introduction weeks in MFW ECC, but I decided to go ahead and post this late just in case some of you may be starting late.

Book basket for introduction weeks
(1-2)
Two-can first Encyclopedia: A First Atlas
Lands and peoples #5: North America
The Whole Wide World question and answer book: Ashley Bryan

                                OUR FAVORITES






* books reccommended by the Hazells



Monday, September 19, 2011

book basket

     I don't know about you guys, but when I first got the TM for MFW ECC, I was excited. Here was a complete book of lesson plans I did not have to sit and write out, even though I tweaked it a little to fit us, and added some things in, like the highlights top secret. Although when it came to getting things ready for the book basket, our public library was scarce on the books referred by the Hazells. So I spent most of the summer trying to find books at our library to fit in with each week. My kids LOVE to read, sometimes I think it is all they do, so I had a job ahead of me.
     When I finally finished I was happy with the results, so happy that I thought I would share my hard work with you guys. So each lesson I am planning on posting a what's in the book-basket the Friday before we start a country, in hopes that it might help someone else out there. Good luck and thanks for reading with us here at our days at CA.


Friday, September 16, 2011

MFW Power Points

As promised, I have made a separate page to find the MFW power points more easily. Here are the links to the ones I have already completed along with the ones yet to come. I hope you can use these in some way in your studies of MFW_ECC.


America
Mexico
Canada

Brazil
(panama, Venezuela)

Norway
France
Germany

Kenya

Saudi Arabia
India
China
Japan
Russia

Australia

Antarctica

Scotland



From main room to bedroom

We decided to move the "classroom" from the main room to a bedroom at the last possible minute, but that is me, constantly changing my mind and doing things last minute (been praying about that one!). Doing this has caused us to push back our starting date, but hey I am not on anyone's schedule, don't you love homeshool!? Anyway I have decided to post some before and after pictures to give you guys a peek into our first official classroom.

                                                                        BEFORE!
Yikes!

In this mess, if you can find them, is our school table, bought at a garage sale for 5 dollars! and color coded (we color code EVERYTHING) chairs from Target on clearance last year for three dollars, I LOVE clearance!
After some organizing
This corner is my desk and the tot and pre-schooler's shelves. I tried to do this in one night, always the procrastinator, in the mourning it still looked like this! Well at least everything got labeled!? And look I found my all important thumb drive with my LOTW files I had been missing "miraculously" on the floor the next mourning, oh, how things grow legs around here!
Same corner
                            

                                                                  FINALLY ORGANIZED
Here is our classroom finally clean and organized! Here you see our wonderful table big enough for 4 and me at the head to teach. the closet outside the door is used for our art supplies. The cubes on the left are again color coded and contain the kids fun box things, free read books, and library books. along with our math, science and Bible cubes. SO MANY cubes, and a place for EVERYTHING!
The pink workboxes on the side belong to Lady Jey, I have not set those up completely, hope to be done before the school year is out!
Here is the right side of the classroom and the one which gave me more trouble. Our table finally cleared off and repositioned so all 4 children have room to sit. In the back corner you see Princessa's workboxes and in the opposite corner is Prince's which are blue. My desk is in the front and ready to start my school on Monday (please pray for me to have enough time and energy to do ALL there is to do!) Then beside my desk are two shelves, again yard sale finds!, which house our text books for the year and all the goodies for tot and pre-school.



Here is our calendar activities, which I will go into more detail later. And our calendar is just above this.

Our book-basket for MFW sets on the floor below

See our what's in the basket post weekly

And last but not least, our Chicka chicka Boom Boom tree. To see how we use it check out COAH.

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Well That's our classroom here at our days at CA hope you enjoyed the visit.


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