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Here are some of the activities we have been doing to keep busy. Fizzy sidewalk paint (found on Pinterest)

 A yarn dot to dot game I made up so the younger two could work on numbers.

 After we cut up the yarn another idea stolen from Pinterest. We made some art on our tree. I don't know why I thought this was a good idea;D

 We also put a bunch of shaving cream on the slip and slide. Which was a pretty cute idea I picked up on Pinterest.

 I also saw this water balloons in a bathtub idea on Pinterest. They lasted for 4 days. Pretty impressive:)

This is a picture of the people who park in front of our house for a couple of hours every week or so.  

School Supply Scavenger Hunt

First of all. MCREN I know you are totally jealous of Cutie Pies shirt. I don't know if they come in your size. But, we sure can pass this gem onto Princess H if MRS. MCREN says it's ok:D

The kiddos loved this scavenger hunt from Happy Home Fairy. She has tons of back to school ideas posted on her blog. Very fun and creative stuff:)

 The little clues are so cute:) Even though GH can't read he was very impressed.

Educational File Folder Games

We have been doing work with our file folder games. Cutie Pie has needed help to get started. But, then she does a really good job independently. I am so impressed with how well she's been doing. I can't believe she is doing so well with her reading. She must have gotten that from her father.

Anyway, she has enjoyed working with synonyms, number patterns, and contractions. However, she is really struggling with learning to read a clock. So the telling time folders will have to be reviewed a few more times.

 GH has been a punk about school time:D But, I have been able to get a little work out of him.

 Big Dog loves tracing all his personal info, shapes, numbers and letters. He rips through those sheets quickly then he likes to tear into a few folders. And I mean that. He has pieces everywhere before I can even explain the folder to him. He's really good at the matching folders. I have started showing him different sight words and word families. He mostly just stares at me like I've lost my mind. Then he laughs. Yes, that's right your Mommy is insane Big Dog.

When Cutie Pie was having trouble with sight words, I made this cute folder to match sight words. So I thought I would bring it out and show Big Dog. I showed him how to match them up. He did a few on his own. Then he started giggling harder when he put the "it" card on the "little" card. I said, "No, Big Dog. That's not right." He started laughing harder. As I pulled the card off I realized the word little contain an it in it:D I told him  that I understood what he was trying to say. But, that he was still wrong. Poor little guy.

Activities

GH and Big Dog enjoyed sorting Valentine heart candies by color. When I asked GH where the pink ones were suppose to go. He popped it in his mouth and laughed. The activity kind of went downhill from there:D

 We traced upper and lower case h's with horse stickers.

GH did some puzzles today.

 Big Dog enjoyed these match up cards too.

 He also loves these Kumon folding page of different fruits.

 We separated bells by whether they made sound or not.

 We did some file folder work. Today we worked on beginning word letter sounds.

 and he matched up the upper and lower case letters.

 We also worked on number values. Big Dog really enjoyed this:)