Mommy School

Shakamak has parent teacher conferences on Thursday, fall break on Friday & Monday. With three days of no school, Jenna was itching for school.  Jenna begged me to have school on Saturday. I explained that I would, but that this was Mommy's version of school and it might not be exactly like Mrs. Boyd or Mrs. Anita have school.  I told them we would take breaks for Toby and laundry.

We started with a book which explained what we would have for breakfast.

While I made pancakes, they had "table time". 

Then we had rug time to read books.

We stopped to fold a load of laundry and then had craft time.

 

Then it was time for recess, lunch, and down time.  

We then worked on writing skills.

I have been saving plastic lids and caps for Carla and Rajean before that to make benches for thei schools. It came in handy to have 40+ milk and water bottle caps in inventory!  The caps were used for math and manipalutives as well as patterns. 

Shelby was getting restless, so I let her work in a salt tray.

The girls had a blast, but by 4 pm we were all done with school. They asked if we could do it again sometime.  I agreed.  I had several good ideas given to me by several folks, the best being from my niece Kaity.  I foresee a day featuring astronauts, maps, and space in the near future!

Parent Teacher Conference

Jenna has really been enjoying school.  She has so much enthusiasm to learn and show us what she has been learning each day. We have been working on word wheels. For those who don't know what a word wheel is I took a picture of tonight's wheel. 

Most wheels have focused on a family of words, such as -at.  Where you see the letter e, there will be various letters like r, f, b, m, c, h, p then Jenna comes up with rat, fat, bat, mat, cat, hat, pat.  This word wheel is short vowel sounds, which is one of the harder ones for me.  

We had parent teacher conferences tonight.  Jenna got her first report card which had all M's an WO's. M is mastering and WO is work on. She has two skills she needs to work on-"following rules & procedures"and "does not interrupt."  I am not surprised at either!  She had an excellent report from the teacher that said she was one of the 4 or 5 advanced learners, readers, and mathematicians.  We are definitely proud of our Jenna May. 

Toby Wyatt

Toby Wyatt at 14 months

Shelby Leigh

Shelby Leigh Hofmann at 4 years, 4 months

Jenna May

Mom has been bugging me because she hasn't gotten new pictures of my kids in a year.  She called my cousin Chrissy who takes pictures as a side business.  Here are my favorites of Jenna May.