Making your own Pinata

Last year I made my daughters pinata for her birthday. I was a bit upset because we didn’t get to use it. We live in the country and we had mice bad and lets just say the mice found it and destroyed it. Decon works wonders :) No more mice in this house. Would you like to make a pinata for your next special event? Well I will tell you how I made my daughters. What’s Needed… 2 Big Cereal {Read More}

Scavenger hunt

The other morning for our daughters schooling we took her to the park and had a scavenger hunt. I had her looking for all kinds of neat things. Most of the hunt was done in the woods and she had a blast. She loved having to find things on our list. I almost thought we wouldn’t find everything. I had on the list a yellow flower and through our hike we had not found one. My husband said when we {Read More}

Gillian Reading

Here is Gillian working on reading with her Hooked on Phonics. I have to say this program is remarkable. I do not think I would have Gillian reading if it was not for this program. The reason I say this is because it is very hard to explain how some words sound. She new all her sounds new her vowel sounds was working on sounding out words, and to me it still wasn’t enough for her age. My husband had {Read More}

Hooked On Phonics

Well today I got my first shipment of hooked on phonics. I am excited to start with my daughter. She can read when she wants something. But she isn’t wanting to read. I am hoping this will help strengthen her reading. I ordered the Learn to read 1st grade to work with her this summer. She isn’t to happy about having to do school work this summer but come next school season she will thank me. I also got Hooked {Read More}

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