Highlights from Yellowstone

We saw these Bison immediately upon arrival in the park.

Then these...just beautiful!

Isn't this the most amazing shade of blue?

Old Faithful (AKA Old Reliable to some of my boys)

Mammoth Hot Springs

At the top of Mammoth Hot Springs

The Little Grand Canyon

The Boys sketching at the Little Grand Canyon

More Bison (right outside the car window)

More Old Faithful

In 1492...

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

We learned all about Columbus this week.
These are a few of the books we read about Columbus.

We also made our own Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria.

Our Santa Maria was the only one to safely reach the shores of the New World. The Nina & the Pinta were a little top heavy!

Workboxes

Have you heard about workboxes yet? We started using them at the end of the last school year. So far it has been huge success. We are accomplishing much more in our day and getting in all that fun stuff we never seem to get around to. The kids know exactly what is expected of them and when they will be finished.

What are workboxes you ask? Sue Patrick created a system using plastic boxes to hold assigned work. She has a book you can purchase that explains the whole set up.

Here are some photos of our workboxes...each box contains a different assignment. It can be math or it might be something fun like Wii Fit.

The boxes are numbered 1 to 12 and you proceed in order until you have completed each box.


If you notice the pink cards on some of the boxes, they are "Work with Mom" cards. If the box has one of these cards attached to it, mom will help/explain the assigned tasks. Sue includes number cards, etc in her book.


Here are some other posts about workboxes:



Amy at Walking by the Way has some great ideas for workboxes here (Be sure and go back to the beginning for lots of great info)

Check out Heather W's ideas in her left side bar

Here is Leslie's setup at Joyful Mother of 6


Home School Share has a whole page full of Workboxables

Some random photos from our week

Taking a Walk

Papa's Buddy

Noah enjoying a good book

Josh working on a Science experiment

Another Blast from the past

Both of these photos were taken September 2002

Blast from the Past

Easter 2003

7 years ago today ...

"Our Miracle"

Happy Birthday Micah!!

Thank you Jesus!

Math Journals

I have been reading alot about Living Math recently. So I decided we would give it a try. We each have a spiral notebook and it has some kind of math problem to solve in it every day. The boys love this, they ask for it every morning!

This is a fun game called Ice Cream Math I found over at Kendra's Blog at Aussie Pumkin Patch. She has lots of downloadable things over there. Check it out!

Heather W at Blog She Wrote has a great post explaining Math Journals here.

There are 30 great prompts here.

We sorted, counted, & graphed M & M's

Fun & Educational!!!!

Here is another site with some great ideas & prompts.

This is a printable 1st Grade Math Journal.

Lets Play Math has several articles here and here if you'd like to learn more and a list of (mostly) free resources online here.

Noah & Micah's B-day