I'm still alive!

Well its been a while since I had the time/energy/motivation to post! A lot has happened in the last few months! The main reason I have been on hiatus is that I am expecting baby #4 in March! This has been by far the most difficult pregnancy I have had. Morning sickness...actually all day sickness...which seemed to be never ending, fatigue, hot flashes and on and on!

It is really funny though after a few weeks which I thought would never end I can't imagine that I really felt that bad! It is really amazing how memory works. It is like that for me in labor too....at the time I feel like I might die...but just a short while after giving birth I seem to think it wasn't all that bad. There must be some sort of selective memory function for mothers!!!

Anyway in the midst of all the sickness, my husband started a new job working 2nd shift which has been an adjustment to say the least and I started homeschooling my 5 year old. It has been going relatively well all things considered! We are following the alphabet path from the Serendipity blog. We are already beginning letter F this week

Here's a quick recap with no pictures since I didn't have the energy or presence of mind to take out the camera (one of my main purposes for blogging in the first place *sigh*)

A is for apples. We read some books about apples and apple orchards and we cut apart an apple to see the star shape inside. A is for ants we read a book about ants and made an ant hill drawing with raisins for ants. A is for Alligator we read about alligators and painted a giant alligator. Finally A is for Air we read a book about air and did some air experiments with balloons and bubbles. We also read books by the author Frank Asch



B is for Birds. We read bird books all week and played a matching game with parts of a bird cards, learned about bird feet and matched bird tracks to the correct bird, painted a bird and looked at where different birds live. We also did Bubble painting by putting dish soap, food coloring and water in a baking pan, blew bubbles in with a straw and then set a piece of white paper on the bubbles to make a bubble print! We read books by Jan Brett.



C is for clouds we read the Cloud book by Tommie de Paola and made cotton ball clouds. C is for continents we traced the continents from our big continent puzzle,
colored them in and drew on a landmark for each continent, Grand Canyon North America, Rain forests South America, Penguins Antarctica, Desert Africa, Castles Europe, Great Wall of China Asia and the Great Barrier Reef Australia. We read books by author Eric Carle.



D is for Dinosaurs. We read lots of dinosaur books, looked at our dinosaur figures to separate carnivores from herbivores, drew a picture of what we thought happened to make the dinosaurs extinct with a description of what happened and colored a picture of a dinosaur fossil complete with an attached narrative explaining how fossils are made. We read books by author Tommie de Paola.



E is for Experiments and we fell completely flat on this week!! We did 0 experiments all week. It was all we could do to get our reading, math, handwriting and poetry in. We did read books by author Lois Ehlert.



Too bad but hopefully we will be back on track this week for F week! F is for Flowers and Fire Safety!!

I will post again soon to share the other everyday school activities we do for math, reading, phonics, religion, and handwriting! I hope to get back to posting more regularly now that I am feeling better! We have really been enjoying ourselves!!

Katie