It's time for Monday Musings, where the topics are as random as my days are full!
August Looks Busy
I opened up my calender in iCal today to take a look at the month ahead. With only seven blank squares out of thirty-one, it only takes a glance to see that August is a full month indeed. August is the beginning of a great many activities that take place during our school year. Our homeschool group's activities kick off later this week as do our church's many activities for the adults and children. And at the end of the month deadlines begin to loom large for three TOS Schoolhouse Reviews. August is only the beginning however, so it's time to kick it into gear. The slow days of summer are about to disappear!
Measuring Up
Luci has been learning how to measure things in inches using a ruler. Today, during her morning break from school, she gathered up her
Block People and sent each of them--babies included--for a height check. I didn't interfere at all in this activity, just observed with my camera in hand. She carefully measured each person against her ruler and then placed them in order from smallest to biggest. I love it when school 'just happens' like this.
Inventing Out of Necessity
Boredom sets in now and then and drives my kids to do some unusual things to entertain themselves. They've written puppet shows, choreographed dances, made up new songs, and drawn enough pictures to pave the way from here to Florida. Last week their boredom and creativity merged again as they created a new game using counting frogs and a dishcloth. The name of the game was
Hop Frog Hop Don't Stop 'til You Get Home. The object of the game, in case you haven't already figured it out, was to get your frogs to hop all the way home. It seemed to me that the rules involved some morphing of the rules of the game
Sorry and the imaginations of two kids.
TOS Schoolhouse Reviews Coming
I've been incorporating some new products into our school routine and later this month you'll start seeing the reviews from those products. If your interested in taking a look at what we are reviewing you can start here:
Peterson Directed Handwriting
Time 4 Writing
Math Essentials--America's Math Teacher
I See Cards--PYRAMATH
Puppy Love
I'll end with this adorably cute ball of silky black fur we call Memphis! Does it get any cuter?
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With the white on his muzzle, it looks like he has been hanging around the milk bowl a little too long! He really is a cutie! How'd you come up with his name?
ReplyDeleteSuzy delivered her pups around the same time Brian and I were leaders in Vacation Bible School at our church. Our VBS program had all of the kids divided into "Egyptian Families" and each family had an Egyptian name...ours was Memphis. Originally we were going to call him Elvis, but for some reason the name Memphis just stuck.
ReplyDeleteOk, Thanks for the explanation on the name! We have family ties to Memphis (as in TN) with my parents and grandparents living there at one time or another. So there is some tradition for the name. ;-)
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