September 25, 2013

Stamped Penny Magnets

Hi friends!  So you know when you go on vacation and they have those machines where you put in a penny and 2 quarters and it smooshes your penny and puts a picture on it? My kids love those.  We have piles of useless pennies in drawers and this summer I decided to do something with them.  So I took a smooshed penny, put a glue dot on the back, and put a magnet on the glue dot.  Did I just blow your mind?  No?  Oh fine.  But still, the kids enjoy having their souvenir pennies on magnets that they can put on white boards.

That is all for this evening.  Carry on.  



September 24, 2013

Summer Reading Wrap-Up 2013

I'm finally getting around to writing down our summer reading totals for the year.  We've been busy. :)

The kids did a great job reading this summer and overall the kids were very motivated by our bookworms.  Joshua kind of lost interest towards the end of the summer.  I think it was a bit discouraging to see how long Maren's worm was getting when his was not growing as quickly.  Sometimes it's hard to be a younger sibling.

the finished worms


Maren (10 years old)
books read: 88
pages read: approx. 21,810
favorite books:

Big Nate Books
May B.
Wonder
Hero's Guide to saving the kingdom
Theodosia series
The False Prince (& it's sequel)
Enola Holmes series
The trouble with May Amelia


Joshua (8 years old)
books read: 45
pages read: approx. 6,165
favorite books:

The Sisters Grimm series
Big Nate series
Stink series
Little League: Play Ball
Guardians of Gahoole series
How to train your dragon
lots of Star Wars books


Christopher (6 years old)
books read: 44 (all short easy readers)
favorite books:

Fly Guy books
Elephant and Piggie books
Star Wars Easy Reader books
Chicken Said Cluck
Poppleton Books
What is that said the cat
More Spaghetti I say
Let's Jump In


September 23, 2013

and we're back . . . kind of

We've been a bit busy and distracted over here in our crazy coop, but I'm getting back into the blogging saddle.  I have a lot of summer things to write about, which seems a bit overwhelming at times, but I'll get through it all eventually.

Also, I wanted to mention that I have finally joined the twitterers, and if you'd like to follow me on twitter, that'd be awesome, because right now I'm kind of lonely over there.  There's a button on the side of my blog page you can click on to be taken to my page.  Actually, if you try the button and it doesn't work, let me know, because I have no idea if I set that up correctly.  

Thanks all for reading, and I hope to have some really cool stuff for you to read soon.