progress with the house

We have been taking up cracked vinyl tiles from our living room and dining room floors. Almost done. I have a 3x4 foot area left. Saturday Mark scraped loose paint and plaster from the living room ceiling and patched. The girls and I have been working on removing wallpaper from this room. This is a project the girls started and initiated when I was napping a month ago. half a wall to go. It feels so good to see progress.

sprouted bread

I've been buying sprouted cinnamon raisin bread for the kids. The course dry texture takes some getting used to. Emily wanted me to take a picture of her eating this sandwich :)

Clothespins poem

Claire made up this poem in November. I don't think I ever posted it.

Clothespins
Clothespins, clothespins
on my pants
on my wrants and dance
Clothespins, clothespins
in my dish, in my fish
how many clothespins do you wish?

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busy vacation

We enjoyed a week long vacation over Thanksgiving and visit to my Parents in AZ. Thanks Mom and Dad for all the creative inspiration and time to get crafty. Also had a good visit with Linda and her family and bought an armload of wool sweaters and started an Etsy sight.

kinesthetic phonics

We have been using some books called  Explode the Code for Phonics. I have been supplementing with some active games that I though of. I wrote each of the letters for the sounds we've been working on a piece of paper and set them around the room. For the first game (musical chairs variation) I sing and when I stop the girls stand on a letter and tell me what sound it makes and a word that starts with that letter. The second game we use the same papers and I call out a sound and everyone puts  foot on the letter that makes that sound (I plan to do this with blends, digraphs, sight words etc.)