Thursday, May 19, 2011

Tom the Turtle Activities and Mother’s Day

Conner and I have been working on Tom the Turtle activities all week…and it’s been so much fun!  I think it’s so important for me to help my growing preschooler instead of just relying on others to teach writing,

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math,

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reading,

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and problem solving.

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Because, then I get to see the results for myself.  And they are oh so rewarding.

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I use Confessions of a Homeschooler A LOT and print off all kinds of pages of activities and Conner and I work on them every week.

We don’t just work all the time, though. For Mother’s Day we got to go fishing!!  Yes, I know….that sounds like such a Father’s Day  thing to do, but we really did have a lot of fun. For some reason, the kids were more interested in the four wheelers than the fish.  *sigh* So much for those great photo moments.

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Somehow, my mom ended up cooking on Mother’s Day.  Doesn’t seem very fair, does it?

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She did, however, catch the biggest fish, so maybe that made up for it!

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…which was almost as big as Gage!

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My boys love to fish….for about ten minutes.  The biggest “boy” could fish all day if I’d let him, though!

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I’d post a picture of my big catch….if I had caught any.  I told Chris I’d rather be taking pictures and capturing the moments than catching fish that I just throw back into the water.  He’s starting to think I was lying when I told him how much I loved to fish back before we got married!