Ss is for Star Wars Day - um… Week.

I have been waiting for this one for a long time.  Unfortunately, on the day I had it scheduled, Ss was for SICK!  Blech!  We have been sick for over two weeks now.  We keep passing colds back and forth. 

So, today was very slow.  And it may include the Trilogy  by the end of the day.  And we will do have a Star Wars Week instead of Day.  And action shots will have to wait until I have a voice… or a baby without a nasty cold… or both.

Here are some materials I used to get this unit study together:

This adorable Star Wars Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations

Star Wars Printable Tags

This hysterical set of Star Wars alphabet cards

This party used homemade playdough with glitter as “Galaxy Playdough”… brilliant!

Enjoy!  More ideas and follow through will come in the next few days.

YEAH! Medals

Big day for the Raiders! Dalton did an amazing job and took home 4Th our section has more ranked wrestlers than any place in the state. We have one Sr who is heading to state Dalton will be his practice partner and headed to state with him. More photo's later......

Section Wrestling!

Well it was 4:30 am before everyone got to bed and then up for a lift at school by 6:30am. Dalton is ranked 4th and the goal is to finish 4th healthy! KNUJ-New Ulm has a link to listen live.

Happy Birthday Tabor

Bubba is 19 yrs old today. He is loving college, but not liking the "working for a living" part of the deal. Tabor worked at the mill this summer and took the fall off to concentrate on football and school, but now that summer money is running low and the football season is over, so he is an artist for hire, sandwich artist that is. Tabor is working part time at Subway to make a little walking around money and coming home a couple of weeknds a month to raid the freezer and get in some hours at the mill to pay his rent. Tabor is taking a full course load this spring with the hopes of having some free class time next spring to complete his coaching certificate and get in a few welding classes in to help him with his CAD and design work down the road. He is working out 4-5 days a week to get ready for next football season where he is trying to learn a new position (fullback). With most of the O-line at Ridgewater over 300 lbs, Tabor is a little undersized at 225, so he is working on his footwork and will take his blocking skills to the backfield next season.

Happy Birthday Tabor

Team Sections

Last week Thursday, Nicollet wrestled in the Section 4A team Tourney and with 5 open weight classes we wrestled as well as we could. In the first round we were able to pull off the win 42-27 with several early pins, including Dalton at 138 for this match, over St. Agnes (somewhere in south suburbs of Mpls). In the 2nd round we matched up with St. James, 2nd ranked in the section and 10th ranked in the state. We lost 65-6, with Dalton picking up 1 win and our senior 170lb'er getting the other. Needless to say it was a learning experience for our young team to see how the great teams wrestle. On Friday we head back to St. James for the section individual tourney and for most the last weekend of wrestling for this high school season. Top 2 in each weight class advance to the Xcel energy center for the state tourney. Dalton will enter Fridays tourney ranked 4th in section 4 and the 3 in front of him are also ranked 1,2,3 in the state at 132, so it will be a good learning experience for him as well this weekend. Wrestling is a crazy sport and if one of the big guns over looks him or he can catch them in a quick hold there is always a chance.

Qq is for Quilt

Box #1 was a few pages from LOTW

Box #2 was a book called The Quilting Bee by Gail Gibbons

It was SO fun to read!!  There were tons of facts in easy to understand bites:

Box #3 is a worksheet I made that had a bed frame picture from the top down that he covered with mosaic squares he glued on.

Box #4 Patterning from LOTW.

Box #5 cutting activity from LOTW

Box #6 was a game called First Words.  He is at the point where he can read most 3 letter words without help and many other words with help. 

Box #7 was a set of huge foam dice and a the game “Roll to the Top”.

Box #8 was Dot to Dot count to 10 book

Box #9 was a pattern block sheet I printed (should have done it on card stock) that is a quilt square.  He loved this. 

Box #10 was completely off theme… but the boys got Ninja Bread Men for Christmas in their stockings and we had yet to make them.  Although we usually make our own cookie dough from organic ingredients, this time we used a gifted dough from a friend and made some yummy treats!

It was an awesome day with the letter Qq!

Updates from the Mat

Well 3 weeks ago we decided that Tanner needed to hang up his headgear for the season to give the knee a chance to heal. Physical therapy is going well and he is putting on lots of muscle. The jury is still out about doing a spring sport we will have to see what the Dr thinks.

Dalton continues to be on a tear with his record at 29-7. He leads the Raiders in wins. This Thursday the Raiders travel to St. James for team sections and then the following Friday for individuals. Dalton will have some stiff competition at individuals as the #1, #2 and #3 ranked kids in Class A are all in section 4 at 132. If you want to be the best, you need to beat the best. On the bright side 2 are seniors and 1 a junior.

We have a big B-day weekend coming up! Tabor turns 19!

Boyz

Pp is for Police

Box #1 was the book What’s Inside a Police Car along with a few handwriting activities and the Pp letter tub from Lakeshore Learning.  I used the printables from Homeschooling Creations for this unit.

Box #2 was two patterning activities.

Box #3 was the count to 10 dot-to-dot book.

Box #4 was a hair comparison venn diagram.

  We got Cyan and our little neighbor girl who has VERY curly dark hair to donate to the cause.  The hair was just different enough that Logan had no issue completing the venn diagram.   

Box #4 was a writing activity again.  We are working through the whole alphabet on handwriting so you will see these in here a lot.

Box #6 Pp is for Pencil pattern sheet.  Still a favorite!

Box #7 Another version of beginning sounds bingo!

Box #8 was a make your own stoplight kit that came along with police prinables from Homeschooling Creations.  Logan cut these circles out all by himself.  I was really impressed!

Box #9 was another book on Police Officers which Don (who was sick today) read to Logan and pointed out all the things that were similar to his job.

Box #10 was a Crime Scene that I created using the book Lu & Clancy’s Crime Scene by Louise Dickson.

We used pieces of Styrofoam to make tooth impressions of each family member and then had someone take a bite out of a cookie.  Then Logan had to ‘investigate’ (his $5 word for the day) to figure out who ate the cookie.  He LOVED it! 

Also in this box was a tiny book for his Pp is for Police lapbook that has numbers of finger prints.  We each donated our fingertips to help him collect how many he needed. 

May be the best school day ever!