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11 hours ago
Nov 7, 2007
hands of a child...
We've done lapbooking a few times in the past, but I thought we would do some again this week. With this in mind, I decided to take the easy option (lol) and have ordered two lapbooking E-kits from www.handsofachild.com
We've ordered The Five Senses, and Healthy Eating. Yes I could have created something similar myself, but I thought I would try these kits I have heard so much about, and see how A likes them....
The best thing is that I don't have to wait on delivery.....they are e-packs which means within a couple of hours I can download them all and print them off here at home :)
I'll let you know what I think of them! Oh and I would say that even if you are not homeschooling, these would make excellent time-fillers on rainy days or wintery days when you want to stay indoors - they even do fun topics such as pirates or chocolate! If you aren't keen on lapbooking, you could use the packs in a notebook instead!
We've ordered The Five Senses, and Healthy Eating. Yes I could have created something similar myself, but I thought I would try these kits I have heard so much about, and see how A likes them....
The best thing is that I don't have to wait on delivery.....they are e-packs which means within a couple of hours I can download them all and print them off here at home :)
I'll let you know what I think of them! Oh and I would say that even if you are not homeschooling, these would make excellent time-fillers on rainy days or wintery days when you want to stay indoors - they even do fun topics such as pirates or chocolate! If you aren't keen on lapbooking, you could use the packs in a notebook instead!
The Five Senses...and Santa letters
This weeks theme at Parentlink is 'The Five Senses' - all the songs at circle time were about the five senses, there were books about the topic to read, so we curled up and read one of those....and A was interested in the brain stem and what its for....and the optic nerve......then at snack time there were sour foods, bitter foods, salty foods and sweet foods to taste and they had a big poster on the wall explaining what part of your tongue tastes what type of food....
We have a few follow-up activities to do about that this week at home too...in fact I think we may continue it into next week and make a lap book about the five senses.
Today was 'early out' at school, so when Su got home they sat at the table and started to write their letters to Santa....
What else have we done today? Oh we read a FAB book called Stanleys Party by Linda Bailey....so funny, abouta dog who gets left alone each night, so he invites all his friends round for a party and that particular night his owners come home early!
We also played a couple of rounds of Word Bingo again...A won both games AGAIN...which means I have not won any yet!
We have a few follow-up activities to do about that this week at home too...in fact I think we may continue it into next week and make a lap book about the five senses.
Today was 'early out' at school, so when Su got home they sat at the table and started to write their letters to Santa....
What else have we done today? Oh we read a FAB book called Stanleys Party by Linda Bailey....so funny, abouta dog who gets left alone each night, so he invites all his friends round for a party and that particular night his owners come home early!
We also played a couple of rounds of Word Bingo again...A won both games AGAIN...which means I have not won any yet!
Thinking of a friend.....
A friend of mine had some very difficult news today and her and her family will be facing new unplanned challenges over the next few years.....I just want her to know that, both she, and her family are in my thoughts.
Tuesday and Wednesday catch up....
Last night was date night.....and aside from dinner we went to 'look' at new beds....we fell in love with the beds at the hotel in Whistler and neither of us have slept as well since coming home...so we went Sleep Country and tried some out :) Fell in love with one and snapped it up as it was on sale :) It has the most amazing pillow top on it and was just so comfortable! It's coming on Friday yay! We still don't know what to do with our bed we have now....so we are going to put it in the basement until we decide....
This morning we got up early and headed into town to see Samantha at parent link. Naomi was there! Naomi is British and I met her and her Mom at Parents Place a couple of years ago....so it was nice to see her and her little boy Levi (same age as Sam) and catch up with her news - she is finally taking her dirving test next month - so good luck Naomi!!!
Samantha introduced me to her friend Heather too....Heather is in Samanthas quiz night team at Oscars on Thursdays - Samantha has asked me to go along a few times but the timing has never been good. Samantha and I finally made a date for dinner though - I am taking her out for dinner next Friday - to Joeys Global :)
I was also chatting to Sandi...Sandi works with Erin at Regis and she has been cutting Lloyds hair since we came to Canada - she has a little boy a little younger than Sam who is just the cutest - he looks just like the little boy from Jerry Maguire!!!
The theme at Parentlink this week is 'The Five Senses' so we read a book about that and sang songs and the snack was aimed at testing your taste buds and the different parts of your tongue!
We left Parentlink around mid day and ran into Save-On for some more pomegranates - they are on sale right now as they are in season and the kids LOVE the juice AND the seeds - Susie took a bag of seeds to school in her lunch today :) They are so good for you!
Now we are home and I just ate lunch at the computer....Lloyd phoned to say his day is going good - Chris went to work with him for the day today as its 'Take Your Kid to Work Day'...IBM took them out to Sorrentino's for lunch!!! Chris says he wants to be a QA Manager now if thats the treatment they get every day! Lloyd gets taken out for lunch most days - tomorrow he is going to Lux with some other company!
The kids will be home soon and we are gong to curl up and watch Tuck Everlasting.....
Tonight I have to work on some letters for the Christmas party I am helping to organize.....
Tomorrow Lloyd finishes at lunchtime and is home all afternoon as we have some workmen coming over to check things out re the renovations - the furnace company is coming to service the furnace and they are also meeting with our builder to talk about how the air conditioning unit has to be moved etc when building work starts....
This morning we got up early and headed into town to see Samantha at parent link. Naomi was there! Naomi is British and I met her and her Mom at Parents Place a couple of years ago....so it was nice to see her and her little boy Levi (same age as Sam) and catch up with her news - she is finally taking her dirving test next month - so good luck Naomi!!!
Samantha introduced me to her friend Heather too....Heather is in Samanthas quiz night team at Oscars on Thursdays - Samantha has asked me to go along a few times but the timing has never been good. Samantha and I finally made a date for dinner though - I am taking her out for dinner next Friday - to Joeys Global :)
I was also chatting to Sandi...Sandi works with Erin at Regis and she has been cutting Lloyds hair since we came to Canada - she has a little boy a little younger than Sam who is just the cutest - he looks just like the little boy from Jerry Maguire!!!
The theme at Parentlink this week is 'The Five Senses' so we read a book about that and sang songs and the snack was aimed at testing your taste buds and the different parts of your tongue!
We left Parentlink around mid day and ran into Save-On for some more pomegranates - they are on sale right now as they are in season and the kids LOVE the juice AND the seeds - Susie took a bag of seeds to school in her lunch today :) They are so good for you!
Now we are home and I just ate lunch at the computer....Lloyd phoned to say his day is going good - Chris went to work with him for the day today as its 'Take Your Kid to Work Day'...IBM took them out to Sorrentino's for lunch!!! Chris says he wants to be a QA Manager now if thats the treatment they get every day! Lloyd gets taken out for lunch most days - tomorrow he is going to Lux with some other company!
The kids will be home soon and we are gong to curl up and watch Tuck Everlasting.....
Tonight I have to work on some letters for the Christmas party I am helping to organize.....
Tomorrow Lloyd finishes at lunchtime and is home all afternoon as we have some workmen coming over to check things out re the renovations - the furnace company is coming to service the furnace and they are also meeting with our builder to talk about how the air conditioning unit has to be moved etc when building work starts....
Danica!
For the firework pictures, blowing the glue doesn't work very well unless you thin the glue down with a little water.....but we didn't do that - we just used the straws and dragged them outwards from the glue to create the firework shapes...you could use the end of a pencil or a thin popsicle stick too....
HTH
HTH
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