Birthdays, school days, spring days

School girl

 

C is for Cade

 

5 for 5 (whoops, he's 6, my bad)

 

Happy Birthday man!

 

Addy goat

Run, kids, run!

 

 

 

We found a wild rose...

 

 

 

And a fawn. Shhh!

 

XO

Life around here...

Classroom Management...in the Home

Kara's idea, totally.

5 cards to start the day. Brilyn's are decorated with faeries, Cade's with little pets.
Anytime that I would normally spank or timeout is now accompanied with, "Give me a card."

1. They do not like to give up their nice cards.
2. They want to finish the day with cards, because:

5 cards= 2 PBS shows, and a snack.
3-4 cards= 1 PBS show, and a snack.
1-2 cards= 1 PBS show, no snack.
0 cards= PJ's and books in bed at 6:30. Not fun when everyone else is watching TV and eating snacks.

Just wanted to record this for my own future use and just in case it will help with anyone else's family life.

Let me just say, it has cut down on backtalk and has improved speedy obedience.

XOXO
Joce

First Day of School

We started school today!

We began our day with private devotions:
Brilyn's:











Cade's:

And then we did calendar, and ABC's, and weather.
We read How Kind!

Then we worked on penmanship (the letter A, of course) and writing about how we can be kind to others. (Brilyn drew a picture of herself helping Cade find the toy airplane he wanted.)

We sang songs and played with clay, too. There was even a play time right in the middle of it all because one certain little baby guy needed to eat.

It was a great start to our school year.

XOXO
Joce