Adventure Reading Kick Off!

For Drawing into the Heart of Reading - this month we did Adventure reading. So to kick this off we had a fun school day of adventure. This was eye opening to me. We really did all the same things we normally do we just started off "heading out" on this train of adventure. And fallowing our "map" which I made ahead of time

the boys LOVED it! I thought they would see right though it, and complain but they didn't they imagined right along with me and it was a lot of fun. After taking off on our train we head over the "mountains of math" and did our math work, then we went on the "reading rail road" and did reading lessons (for Ryan) and the older ones started their DIHR assignment. Next we journeyed through the "land of Language" and did our LA assignments. Last we dove deep into the "cleaning waters" and cleaned up the house. We had breaks, and snacks and lunch etc. The boys made up creative names for these things.

At the end of it all we talked about and cover the questions in the DIHR teachers guide and they got there treasure. Fun pencils and new books! We also talked about loving to learn in the real treasure in life because then your possibilities are endless!

Dallin did not want to be in the Pic so Aaron is holding his book and Ethan is holding the two older boys books. These are fun stories full of adventure, the younger boys LOVE the snowman books.

At the end of the 6 weeks or so that is takes us to finish a section of DIHR they do a book project. This was Ethan's he likes to do this, he makes the charters and seen from card stock and then you use a hole punch to make little circles then snap on Lego's to hole it up. Yes I too got this idea from Pinterest.

Then he Narrated his favorite parts of the story, and went over the character development things we covered this month.

Flubber Fun!

My kids picked up the flubber book at the Library, they loved it, and thought it was sooo funny. I have not read it but I am sure it is pure twaddle. But I am ok with a little funny humor just to be enjoyed. I ended up finding the old movie at the Library and the kids watched that and laughed the whole time

 So I thought it would be a fun thing to make Flubber. They LOVED it. I used WAY to much green though it turned there hands green! but I was trying to make it dark like the movie. Dallin was sad it did not bounce like the movie but he still really enjoyed it.

 I don't remember the recipe but I found it on Pinterest, I also looked up a video on the science behind it and we watched that and talked about it as well. Here is the link to it FLUBBER!

 We keep this in a air tight container and the kids pull it out and play with it every now and then, it will dry out eventually but lasts a while.

Love my super silly boys

Pretzel Time!

While the older boys are at Homeschool PE once a week I try to make that My special time with Dallin. Today we made soft pretzels. They were really good. I found the recipe on pinterest. We did a letter for each person in the family, and then just made whatever shapes he wanted. I also made a yummy cheese sauce. I will have both recipes on my food blog, at some point. Feel free to check and see if I have gotten around to it. I tried to find the pretzel recipe but I could not right now sorry. 

 When the boys got home from PE they were excited to try the special snack Dallin made for them. He loves being with me in the kitchen, and then rolling out the dough to make fun shapes and letter. He is such a chatter bug, and it so fun to listen too. I love this sweet boy!

Another day we build lego creations using some duplo lego idea cards we found on Pinterest and of course we had to make a zoo train! my Dallin loves Trains! we did not fallow the cards exactly but they were fun ideas to fallow. I can not find the link now but Pinterest has a bunch. I just love playing with him, he is so fun to chat with.