Think Green!!

Today we began our countdown to St. Patrick's Day.  I always said I'd be prepared to do crafts and baking all week and this time, I was actually prepared!!  Today we made cut and paste leprechauns, a glitter glue pot of gold and read Jack and the Leprechaun.  We got out our decorations and made the diningroom/classroom look festive and we planned out the rest of our days for the week.  After journaling about our Baltimore Blast soccer game that we attended last night, we worked on our Australia unit for social studies, doing a mapping question and answer and making a musical instrument called a digiridoo.  For science we did our workbook pages from Harcourt Science and reviewed forces before playing with some cool magnet toys, a favorite part of Dakota's day.  Math was measuring with one inch squares and then we did our reading, two books read to me by Dakota and two books read by me to him.  Plenty of physical activities this weekend to cover our PE requirements (bowling, baseball and football) and also a two hour game of Apples to Apples to add to our Language Arts section.  Done!  A good homeschooling day under our belt just in time for Dakota to have ants in his pants and for me to get in a little bit of work for my job before meeting with two of my favorite ladies for coffee drinks and conversation at the mall.  Tomorrow we are going to bake some rainbow cupcakes, which turned out really well last year (watch for the link tomorrow!), and we are going to work on rainbows, which go with our story of the day.  I plan on making this St. Patrick's Day week a memorable one.  Why not?  They are only little once and it's always good to find a reason to celebrate!!

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