Art Project Fail

So I saw this cool project on Pinterest .......

So the whole premise was to use markers - color on coffee filters - and then spray them with water and watch how they change.......

Well, ours didn't work like that ....

This is the first one I did - as an example - to show the kids....

Nathan's first one

Kaedyn's first one ....

This one was done by me and Nathan (Nathan told me what he wanted)

Mom's

Kaedyn's

Kaedyn's again

This one Mom did - it was dictated by Kaedyn

Mom's

Noah's

Noah's ... he was drawing Pokemon

Kaedyn working on his and showing his favorite (All of them)

Nathan working on his and showing his favorite

Noah working on his and showing his favorite

So we used all the markers we had, including permanent markers ....  big mistake!  HA HA HA ... this is a major dur moment ... .

You would think - thinking about it - permanent markers won't bleed....

But I wasn't thinking (much) I guess....   I laid them all out ...

Sprayed them with water ...... and waited ...

Funny enough, it was the permanent marker that ran on a lot of them, at least a little bit, it was the other (cheap markers I got from the dollar store) that didn't...

LESSON LEARNED:  When we RE-DO this Art Project, USE WASHABLE MARKERS!  HA HA HA

Daily 5

Have you all heard of this?   I hadn't.....   I'm perusing Pinterest .............

PINTEREST SHOUT OUT .............. 

Anyway - and I see this "Daily 5" stuff..........

I'm thinking ............ what the heck is Daily 5??????  

So I try looking it up and I find an explanation on a school website.........  here it is... incase anyone else is wondering....  

Daily Five

This year, students will be participating in a program called Daily Five during the reading block. In addition to using our regular basal curriculum we will also be incorporating Daily Five.  This framework title refers to the five parts of literacy centers. The Daily Five consists of:

Read to Self

Read to Someone

Listen to Reading

Work on Writing

Word on Word Work

Daily Five Components:

Read to Self-               Students must read daily on their “just right” level to become better readers.

Read to Someone-    Reading to someone helps students practice strategies.  Students become more fluent and check for understanding.

Listen to Reading-   Listening to reading allows you to hear fluent reading and learn new words, building vocabulary knowledge.

Work on Writing-    Students build writing and reading skills by practicing writing on daily topics that interest them.

Work on Word Work- Students work on word building activities to improve spelling, writing, and reading skills.

We have gotten off to a wonderful start with Daily Five. The students are enjoying the variety of activities and becoming better readers and writers.  Thanks for your support as we learn together!

Homeschooling Hedgehog: 1

I found these graphics on Pinterest ....  I had to share!  There are a lot of them so I'll share them in a few posts .....
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Bird Feeder Craft

So, we wanted to do a fun Springy Craft with the kids.  So in March we decided to make bird feeders, and a bird house.....   I got the idea from Pinterest ....  Here..... Here........ and Here...... 

 The Gallon sized one was made for a birdhouse, we put fun colored string in there to see if they would use it in a nest.... and the half gallon ones we made into bird feeders.  We did the lemonade one long and the milk one tall.   The kids put stickers on them ....

Finished product hung on our patio .... 

For the longest time - birds didn't come.  

We were sad. 

So we put out some dried bread - to entice them.... we got an action shot of the bird dropping the bread....  thanks bird... lol....

and I ended up dumping seed in the "bird house" since no bird was going to use it this year, and took down the lemonade feeder since it was always tilting one way or the other.
 
And one day shortly after.....

We got all excited..... it took awhile for the birds to really start coming .... but I'm proud to announce we have MANY visitors a day now....   and not only do they sit on the sticks on the outside of the feeders, but they jump right on in!!

So we can watch why kind of birds come to our feeder.  We've been trying to figure out what kind of bird it is ... we *think* it's a Sparrow or a Swallow ... but we're still working on it.  We haven't found a bird identification yet where we've gone - yep that's it!