As requested by several family members, here is Adrianna’s wish list for her birthday this year. (The picture is of Adrianna playing the Mario Party video game.) Her note says, “For my birthday, I want Mario Party and finger paint. I also would like a Mario umbrella. I would like a bomb candy container. I […]
Category: Adrianna
Creating Music
Adrianna has been continuing her classes at Children’s Music Academy. I love that they encourage music theory and learning how to read music but also how to sing on pitch and play by ear. (Bragging time here: she is one of just a few in her class that consistently sings on pitch. 🙂 I think […]
Colorado Ballet – Peter Pan
Adrianna and I went to see the Colorado Ballet’s production of Peter Pan at the Ellie Caulkins theatre earlier this month. It was the first time either of us had been to a professional ballet. Even though I knew it was a ballet and not a musical or regular play, it was still weird to […]
Free Clovers
How I love these sweet girls! Anyone want some free clovers?
Recent Writing / Artistic Activities
I love finding fun writing assignments online! My favorite sources are blogs of teachers, other homeschoolers and Pinterest. For most of her creative writing assignments, I do not help with her spelling. It is so awesome to me, as her teacher, to watch her spelling improve over time as we learn more spelling and phonics […]
February 2012 in Review
February has come and gone with only one lone little post to mark its passing. So here are a few of the highlights from February. February 2nd – Large snow storm February 4th – MOPS Steering Dinner at Marcia’s house. February 5th – Greg and Adrianna put together a delicious gingerbread house. Adrianna was thrilled! […]
Snow Day
We got hit with a snowstorm on Friday that gave us between 18-20 inches of snow. Greg worked from home and we enjoyed hanging out at home for a couple of days. Adrianna couldn’t wait to play in the snow. She made a little snow cave, a snow angel and we also had a snowball […]
Dinner Time Silliness
The girls had a lot of fun at dinner tonight, roaring like dinosaurs and singing the stegosaurus song. Bree was really full of energy and smiles tonight. I love my silly, sweet, beautiful girls!
Adrianna Plays the Banjo
Butterfly Pavilion & Colorado Symphony
This week was a busy week for us with two homeschool field trips. Butterfly Pavilion The first trip was with our Options group to the Butterfly Pavilion on Tuesday. This trip started with a 45 minute “class” about the different types of invertebrates, which included some live invertebrates that the kids were able to observe […]