I have been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to upload some photos and other random thoughts I’ve been meaning to! First off, the weather here has been ABSOLUTELY PERFECT! Mid-70′s, the perfect mix of sun and occasional cloud… We’ve been playing outside on the new playset, been camping, hiking, geocaching, enjoying the outdoors. Thus, not a lot of sit-down learning going on, but no worries, she’s only 4. 
Satori finished the first Handwriting Without Tears workbook, and is now starting the Kindergarten workbook – Letters and Numbers For Me. She loves all the coloring in it and then does a bit of letter practice, hehe. She wakes up in the morning, wanting to work on her “orange book”. She started going through it faster than I was ready, so I hadn’t even looked at the teacher’s manual. Come to think of it, I probably didn’t even need to purchase the TM (teacher’s manual).
Letters and Numbers for Me
The upside of this, is that we’ll get to our lowercase letters that much sooner!
I quickly made an order for the gray block handwriting paper that the HWT program uses, in fact, it was my very first order from Rainbow Resource, which is probably the ultimate, grand-daddy homeschooling online supply site. (They could use a modern interface though, me speaking as a former web programmer.)
I normally don’t combine different thoughts on one blog post, but here’s some more…
Satori has been wanting to make a cake for a few months now. (I hate making cakes, I don’t really like them and they never turn out, I blame it on the altitude as always.) But after she finished her above HWT workbook, our very first official curriculum workbook finished, I thought we could celebrate with Pinkalicious Cake! She also finished Lesson 50 on Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading and Lesson 5 of All-About-Spelling.
Pinkalicious Cake
We got the idea from a book called Pinkalicious, but it was about Pink Muffins.
Yum!!
Snapped some photos before I cleaned up from the Dino party… We had fun eating the spewn lava – Pop Rocks!
Dino volcano
And a sample of all the dino posters that Satori drew all by herself, no prompting from me… I like those trees she’s been drawing recently!
Brachiosaurus and tree
We’ve been having fun geocaching a little bit every weekend. This has been a hobby I have wanted to get into for years, if it was just me, I’d have found hundreds already. But I want it to be mostly a family activity, so waiting for the time when David has a free afternoon and it’s a nice day is rare. You can always see what our total geocache count is by looking at the real-time chart up on the right side.
Geocaching has brought our 4-WD truck out a lot, here we are in “our big backyard”. Places that are pieces of paradise to me, with its beauty and tranquility. And the occasional herd of cows in the road.
few miles behind our house, on 4wd roads…
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