FOOTBALL

FOOTBALL...... really is there anything else that is going on in the world?

Things have been very busy the last couple of weeks. Dalton had to step up and is now QB1 for the Raiders. Last Friday night he threw for 293 yards and had 5 touchdowns. ( yes he is only 14) Our BULL, Tanner averages 10 yards a carry. And knows this is his week to have some break out TD's. It's fun to see him be right there to protect his bro. And Tabor is having a great time at college and will be seeing some time at guard. Wow and is coming home this weekend for a short visit.

Just trying to keep it all straight and moving forward is a challenge! But very happy to report all the boyz are getting A's and B's. This weekend we have another BIG road trip to Hills Beaver Creek. Which by the way is only 10 miles from Sioux Falls,SD. Then we will spend the night ans watch Tabor play in Worthington on Saturday at 1:30.

Raiders are 4-0

Ridgewater is 3-2

Mileage on the garmin reads 3,452 miles and we are only half way into the season.

First day of the Wetlands Study - SWAMP SODA

Our first day of Cyan’s wetland study was celebrated with a fun little drink that Alex made for each of us.  Inspired by this pin on Pinterest.

Can you see the fish eggs?  I was so proud! 

Letter Ee - day 2

In the first box there were several activities that he and I did together.  At first we used the sandpaper letters, and Lakeshore Learning Letter Sounds Tub, and several printable worksheets from LOTW.

This one was the most fun of the day.  We made the puzzle of the elephant and then I had him dictate a story on the same page.  His story was filled with baby elephants getting lost and then being found again by his mother and father… It was SO cute! 

Box #2 was a dot to dot that only used 1 - 10.

Box #3 was Beginning Sounds Bingo.  He knew quite a few of them and best of all, he won!

Box #4 was the Leapfrog Letter Factory fridge letters.

Box #5 was the Montessori fine motor skills activity with tongs.

Box #6 was a number recognition skills worksheet where he had to cut out the numbers and put them in the proper order.  This was the first time that I had him work with scissors without my help.  He did really well!

Box #7 was the Fall Ecojournal.  Once again, I can’t recommend these books enough!  We are not using them every week for this curriculum but I am sure that we will go back to them again and again through out the seasons for some really neat activities. 

Today was studying a fall fern and the spores on the underside of the leaf.

Box #6 was a color mixing activity. 

These were just old droppers I had on hand that I filled with water and food coloring.  Then I added tiny white bowls and he was off and coloring.  He loved it so much that when he was done with his work he went back and did this activity some more.

Box #8 was Oops & Oopsie cards for a bit of Yoga.

Box #10 was a counting book called “Ten Dogs in the Window”.

After this last box today we went to the library and got a few more books on the Autumn season.  It was a great homeschool day!

Ridgewater Warriors

Wow what a great weekend of Football!

This weekend we covered the state of Minnesota. Down to the Iowa boarder on Friday for a win over the Mustangs of Granada. The Raiders are 2-0 for the season and have Madelia Friday night for our homecoming game. Then Saturday morning we were headed to Ely which is just south of the Canadian boarder. Where the Warriors went to 2-1 with a win over the Ironmen. Yes was a lot of traveling in the van but well worth it! All three boyz are consistently improving week after week. Both will face very tough competition this next week. Keep praying everyone stays healthy!

This post is brought to you by the letter Ee

Box #1 was another wipe off handwriting exercise book.  (Idea from here, printouts from here.) 

I make this one from a handwriting website that I found for some variety in Logan’s school days.  So far he thinks this one is great!  He likes the line at the bottom that doesn’t have any lines to trace…

Cuz then he can show me how he does the letters ‘all by himself’!

Box #2 was the letter Ee in sandpaper letters and the Lakeshore Learning Sounds Tub.

Box #3 was a set of worksheet we did together from either Homeschool Share, or LOTW.

Box #4 was the Waldorf Alphabet Book.

Box #5 was a Ee is for Elephant cutting exercise from LOTW.

Box #6 was the fridge magnet letters from Leap Frog that I have in there nearly every day.  The little song really helps him remember the sounds!

Box #7 was Ten Red Apples by Virginia Miller who writes all the Bartholomew books… what an adorable character!  At the end he makes apple pie from apples off his tree.  I think I will add this book back into his workboxes in a few weeks when we are ready to make something like that from our apple tree!

Box #8 was Boggle Jr.  This time I took out all the pieces that he wouldn’t be using and we timed him using my phone timer.  He was THRILLED to have matched the letter to all 5 words in less than 8 minutes.  :)

Box #9 was a Montessori Spindle Box activity.  He knows this one well now and did it all perfectly the first time he was asked!

Box #10 was “Ee is for Ed Emberley” and we played with fingerprints for about an hour.

 

I just LOVED watching his imagination take flight as he made sweet little critters!

It was also a great exercise in fine motor skills as it takes quite a bit to add the pen marks to your fingerprints to make them into animals. He did SUCH a great job!

Cyan’s last day on the Woods Unit Study

For the last day of Cyan’s wood study I bought her an owl pellet to dissect!  She spent about an hour and a half pulling it apart and analyzing the bones that were inside.

The sheet that came with the owl pellet kit had a question and answer part that she got to fill out.  She figured out that this particular owl only ate about one prey per day.  She also discovered that it’s prey that it ate that day was a rodent/mouse.  She found most of the larger bones and a few of the vertebrae and was able to put the skeleton together with the help of the diagram pages to see how big the rodent was.

This whole study has been amazing!  If you haven’t looked into Winter’s Promise before, I highly suggest it.  It is so well thought out and usually a lot of fun involved in the curriculum.  This science curriculum has been wonderful so far!

Some of the other resources that she used for this study:

One Small Square - Woods

Winters Promise - Animal Habitats Science Curriculum