Our days have been nuts! Never a dull moment and definitely in and out, in and out of car! My 11 year old niece has started Florida Virtual School for 7th grade. The kid is a prima ballerina, amazing dancer and middle school and her dancing was overwhelming for that poor girl so we convinced her parents to try the virtual school and I'm her learning coach. Beans and I are loving having her home! Picking up my 8 year old nephew from school has started too in the afternoons, so we have to be done, fed and watered by 1:20 every weekday, which makes the mornings (heck, the whole day!) hectic. Anywho, I've tried to not let Beans school mornings get out of whack, actually we've had some pretty exciting days:) We went on a trip to Sea World with our homeschool friends, so Fun and we learned bunches!
About different Manta rays, sea anemones, sea horses, Octopuses, etc..etc. In the Manta aquarium.
Beans got to "go into" an aquarium tank!
Penguins!
Beans got over her fear of a certain ride and loved riding it with her buddy. She also did a whole lotta walking that day. We were pooped by the end of the whole day.
The rest of the week was pretty insane. I was in charge if craft duty for art in the park morning. We made toilet paper roll characters. Originally this idea popped into my head on letter O day when I couldn't come up with an idea for craft. It's pretty much a toilet paper roll with 8 holes punched into the bottom. Add some pipe cleaners for the "tentacles" and some googly eyes and voila! I'll post a pic soon.
Other fun stuff!
Beans doing one of her end of summer activities. This is her favorite! This time I used home made play doh and it looked way better than the last time we used it. Light brown doh for the sand and I added glitter to the blue dough for the water. Beans is using toothpick umbrellas and some of her favorite small toys fo the "beach".
My Niece clowing around:)
Bean's Favorite boy is moving away and saying goodbye was the saddest part of our weekend. Her buddy was insistent on having a sleepover and was fighting back tears and so was I! They got to play one last game of Candyland until they see each other again maybe in a year or so.. We'll miss them very much!
During the weekend I made Beans a geoboard which she and my niece love! I was grocery shopping and spotted some gridded foam boards. Got those for about $3. Popped some thumbtacks into them and voila! I noticed I needed to adjust it because with the pressure the tacks would come out so I then hot glued all of them this morning and it's great!
This is activity related to our music month. Counting xylophone tiles.
Sequential Order with the same xylophone cards.
Building a paper Xylophone. Beans would pick the longest of the pieces and then glue them in order. I demonstrated first and then she was all over it!
Peg games we scored at Good Will for $2. Great for Math!
Practicing writing skills with her sand tray. The sand is ornamental from Michaels.
Until next time! She's awake!
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