Pictures!!

 What a week! We're finally in the swing, and things are going great! The classroom still needs some work...but it's an okay space for now. ;)
  Just a quick one with some pictures today. We're heading out to the River Valley for a family bike ride, so I don't want to hold everybody up too long!

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Reese waiting patiently for snacks and learning.

 Reese helped set up our Canada wall. This will be our first part of Social Studies for the grade 1/3 year.

 The bar. The dreaded padded-pleather bar. I haven't had time to work on that area yet (it functions as my desk/storage area right now). The outside will be covered with a fabric, and the wood walls will be white-washed and possibly painted...eventually!

Ready to learn!

Unfortunately, we have more books than I have shelves! Time for some more shopping!!

The disaster zone...aka, my area. It'll get more organized as we go. ;)

Break time centres. Lego, playdough and board games.

 Monday afternoon we had our weekly "Kids in the Kitchen" day. Reese made a chicken vegetable soup, steak, potatoes and beans.
Lauren made a salad, sweet carrots, corn on the cob as well as a strawberry rhubarb crumble for dessert.
 The kids were supervised, but it was up to them to ensure the foods were prepped/seasoned/cooked properly. Nobody ended up sick, so we'll call it a success!

 ...Lauren wanted this one included. While we were working in the kitchen, Luna was sleeping on the table outside.

We began working on our Fall-themed art. Friday afternoon, we used pine cones and cut up apples as our brushes.

Lauren added markers to the mix towards the end of the class. :) This is her haunted pumpkin house, with a zombie ghost.

   

 

                     

               

This was from health class on Tuesday. The kids made "Go, Slow, Stop" food charts. "Go" foods should be consumed most often, slow foods are a 'sometimes' treat, and 'stop' foods should be rarely (or never) consumed.

This was Reese's. 

Lauren's food chart. 

 

Proud of what she's done!

The basement before.

It took forever to remove all of the wallpaper and carpet! 

That wallpaper and carpet...what the heck!?

 
Layer one of the white-wash. The kids had a great time helping with the walls. :)

















And now we're off to enjoy the last bit of nice weather. :) 

Quick update

A bit later than I was hoping for, but we've been busy!

I had planned to take the past week off and celebrate not being stuck in school...but the kids were eager to get back into normal learning. The classroom isn't completely finished (I still have to find the right trim, some area rugs, furniture...ahh!), but it's functional enough for now. :)

 We've been easing into our workload. The first few weeks we're just focusing on Language Arts, Math, and our elective classes (ie: art, health/life skills). Mid to end September we're going to add in Social Studies and Science.

 Reese is taking it really well. Today is Saturday, and we ended up downstairs working because he WANTS to. My son wants to work!!! Lauren is also interested, but she's still programmed for 'real school'. She's really hard on herself for no reason at all - she forgets that she isn't competing against 30 other kids. She has one on one, and she's the only one doing the work at her level. Yet if everything she does isn't perfect, it isn't good enough for her. I'm hoping she'll snap out of that soon...the world won't end if her '2' looks like a 'Z' for a bit longer! Besides, that's why we have tracing sheets for practice. :)

 This is a short one - I left the camera downstairs and the battery died...I'll have to upload pictures this week or next weekend.