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 […]
Category: Artwork
A Note From Adrianna to Daddy
Greg just found this on his desk tonight. It says, “From Adrianna and Bree. I would like to go to the zoo with you for a Daddy/Daughter day. We wish we got more time with you. You are the best dad in the world.” Sadly, the forecast is in the single digits for the next […]
Recent Writings
Adrianna has a class at Options that is called “Fun with Language”. They often draw a little picture and write a few sentences about their week. It is fun for me to peruse through her notebook and see what is on Adrianna’s mind. Many of the pages include “I love my Mommy and Daddy” type […]
Autumn Art
I often peruse through teaching and homeschooling blogs to find ideas to incorporate into our homeschool day. When I find something that I or Adrianna might like to do, I “pin” the idea to my Pinterest account. (Pinterest is a visual bookmarking system.) One such craft that I recently pinned was an autumn tear-art picture. […]
Thank You Notes
Adrianna helped me with the thank-you cards for the gifts she’d received for her birthday. She wrote, “Thank you from Adrianna” in each of them and also drew pictures for each card. She put thought into the pictures she drew too, trying to draw something she thought the recipient would like. It was interesting to […]
Victorian Dress and Mario-Kart
The Usborne Children’s Encylopedia we have for our history (and science) lessons is great and often includes pictures of what people wore during different historical periods. Adrianna loves the big fancy dresses that the women used to wear and so when I found this coloring sheet online to go along a lesson on Victorian times, […]
Christmas Drawing
I love the Christmas lights on the trees and the house. 🙂 The people in her picture are Greg, Adrianna, Bree and Amber. Somehow, I am the biggest. Hmmm…
Adrianna’s Christmas Wish List
Adrianna has made two Christmas wish lists during this past week. Both were done without help or guidance. I love how she is taking the initiative to sound out and write words on her own. This one was from several days ago.  Translation: For Christmas, I want Barbies. For Christmas, I want a toy […]
How To Train Your Dragon
Toward the end of October, we watched the movie How to Train Your Dragon. Twice. We all enjoyed the movie a lot. It inspired Adrianna to make this piece of artwork: a dragon surrounded by flames.
Mario Pictograph
For our Math curriculum, we are using Saxon Math. The recommended assignment for Friday was to create a Winter Activities pictograph, graphing favorite indoor vs. outdoor winter activities. When making my lesson plans the night before, I decided that it would be a lot more fun for Adrianna to make a Super Mario pictograph instead. […]