Thursday, January 18, 2007
About my last post
I got some sleep (a little) and I am now worried my last post might offended people. I don't want to offend anyone! I think everyone has a right to have their own beliefs! I have never heard someone say "can you believe she calls herself a Christian" said by someone who is Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, or anything else. I have never heard a person who follows another religion say to someone of the same religion how could you drive over the speed limit and call your self such and such in faith. KWIM? I don't know why some Christian's have separated themselves and even hurt each other in doing so. If you are a Christian and feel you need to do that OK that is fine but PLEASE don't get NASTY with me. I look it this way we are all human and make mistakes. I myself make TONS of them. Keep reading my blog I talk all the time about them. I do NOT share this thinking that the Christian faith means you can't make mistakes or need to be JUDGED by all. BTW.... I am not trying to put down Christians either! I think we are all people who all have the same goal of teaching our children. To me that is all that matters with my blog. I hope you all understand! Sorry to ramble! I just felt I needed to explain my thoughts.
Supplies we used for Trip to North Pole and my views on Copyright Laws.
We used a map print out of the world. If you haven't made a HUGE map for your wall or floor yet you can print them out http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm IT IS FREE and LOTS of fun!! My children Like to use the maps to walk, dance, use paper dolls or solders, play stuffed animals, build buildings on, put animals/plants/and cultural things on it, and to color/paint/label on them on the wall or the floor is fun. You could laminate them, use them to make rugs and LOTS more. OH! BTW this site also has learning letters, learning letter sounds, knight games, castles, and lots of other fun kid stuff! We LOVE that site!
I made up our little Pooh friends by doing a Google free clip art search. This site http://www.rore.animaatjes.nl/ has TONS! All I did was print them out, cut them apart, and stapled them to small pieces of card stock. QUICK and EASY!
Just a note about me using free clip art.... I feel that it is legal to print out small amounts of things to use for education. I feel that is why the library has a photo copier in it. I own the book and I do recommend that others buy the book. My husband and I have debated for many years copy right laws! I try not to break them. I am sorry to say that I have in the past crossed the line but I know better now so I try NOT to make the same mistakes. If you think I am crossing the line now I want you to know that I am NOT telling others to do something AGAINST what they believe in!!! I feel I own the book and I am ONLY using my props to teach my own children. I am NOT selling the products I make! I do recommend others to purchase the book so in my eyes I am trying to help the book sales in doing this! BTW.... YES! I do call myself a Christian I know some people MIGHT say.... She does this I think it is against the law and to think she calls herself a Christian (a saying I don't like to hear people use). My reply to that is.... I do what I feel it right. My husband supports me. My husband and I have the copy right debate every few months in my house. We debate until we both agree. If he feels something I am doing is WRONG I do apologise and stop doing it. I am happy to say he is ALWAYS willing to hear my side and TOGETHER we decide what is right for our family. I feel that I DON'T judge others with what they feel is right and wrong. I might think some of the things YOU do will NOT work for my family but I don't judge YOU in your way of doing! To me I do what I feel is right just like you do. I feel that driving the speed limit for ME is right. I challenge you to catch me driving over the speed limit! I DON'T JUDGE anyone who goes over the speed limit! They are doing what they feel is right. SO please don't write me a nasty note on how you feel I am not a GOOD Christian! You can write me info on how you view the copy right laws and I will share it with my hubby but I can't promise that I will change MY view. I guess you can tell that I have been hurt by others from words said to me about my views on this. I hope that me making my VIEWS on this clear to prevent NASTY letters sent to me.
Now back to my supplies. I printed out 3 maps of the 100 acre wood.
Boots, honey on bread (my son calls is manna to eat with Bible lessons when we use flat bread), explorer hats, book The World Of Pooh By A.A. MILNE, play tunnel (bought 4 years ago at a family dollar it was around $9 new), Sofa cushions and pillows, blue construction paper, wrapping paper core, string, an old Easter bucket (to hold the stuff when we are done to use for more adventures later), and some dowel thing we got years ago from the dollar store (might be a drying rack of some kind).
I didn't buy anything. Our adventure cost me $0. I was running low on tape after Rob put the map together SO I stapled the Pooh friends to card stock. I was low on card stock so I printed on regular paper and then made small card stock stands to stand them up (folded paper). If we didn't have the tunnel we would have used a blanket to hide in.
Our adventures cost a lot less than they did when my son was little but I think they are more fun NOW because we have 2 children going on them and finding ways to make things ourselves to use without spending money is fun.
Note about this post and the posts
Expedition to the north pole and busy box #6
Some of our day, Snack time
Getting ready for the north pole
Are all a glimpse into a fun day at our house. I am sorry to say that NOT all days are full of fun. I know you have seen and will see some of the not so fun challenges in my house on this blog. I noticed from posting ALL this that snapping pictures all day long and posting them to this blog takes more time than I have. I don't think I will ever try to post this much again unless I get high speed Internet. The getting ready for the trip to the north pole is posted on the wrong day because I had a draft copy of our Cat in the Hat theme I was trying to load pictures on. I got tired and went to bed because blogger wasn't uploading my pictures. In the morning I forgot it was Cat in the Hat I was posting about. I didn't look at the date of the draft and because lack of sleep I forgot what I had planned to do. I messed up and put the trip to the north pole in that spot. I am sorry I will post Cat in the Hat next! I make lots of careless silly mistakes when i am tired. If you notice any writing that doesn't sound right or my spelling is way off in any of this please forgive me. I was up until 3:30 trying to get pictures of our Pooh adventures loaded. My husband is off work tomorrow so I might not get to post anything.
I hope you all have a nice weekend!
I made up our little Pooh friends by doing a Google free clip art search. This site http://www.rore.animaatjes.nl/ has TONS! All I did was print them out, cut them apart, and stapled them to small pieces of card stock. QUICK and EASY!
Just a note about me using free clip art.... I feel that it is legal to print out small amounts of things to use for education. I feel that is why the library has a photo copier in it. I own the book and I do recommend that others buy the book. My husband and I have debated for many years copy right laws! I try not to break them. I am sorry to say that I have in the past crossed the line but I know better now so I try NOT to make the same mistakes. If you think I am crossing the line now I want you to know that I am NOT telling others to do something AGAINST what they believe in!!! I feel I own the book and I am ONLY using my props to teach my own children. I am NOT selling the products I make! I do recommend others to purchase the book so in my eyes I am trying to help the book sales in doing this! BTW.... YES! I do call myself a Christian I know some people MIGHT say.... She does this I think it is against the law and to think she calls herself a Christian (a saying I don't like to hear people use). My reply to that is.... I do what I feel it right. My husband supports me. My husband and I have the copy right debate every few months in my house. We debate until we both agree. If he feels something I am doing is WRONG I do apologise and stop doing it. I am happy to say he is ALWAYS willing to hear my side and TOGETHER we decide what is right for our family. I feel that I DON'T judge others with what they feel is right and wrong. I might think some of the things YOU do will NOT work for my family but I don't judge YOU in your way of doing! To me I do what I feel is right just like you do. I feel that driving the speed limit for ME is right. I challenge you to catch me driving over the speed limit! I DON'T JUDGE anyone who goes over the speed limit! They are doing what they feel is right. SO please don't write me a nasty note on how you feel I am not a GOOD Christian! You can write me info on how you view the copy right laws and I will share it with my hubby but I can't promise that I will change MY view. I guess you can tell that I have been hurt by others from words said to me about my views on this. I hope that me making my VIEWS on this clear to prevent NASTY letters sent to me.
Now back to my supplies. I printed out 3 maps of the 100 acre wood.
Boots, honey on bread (my son calls is manna to eat with Bible lessons when we use flat bread), explorer hats, book The World Of Pooh By A.A. MILNE, play tunnel (bought 4 years ago at a family dollar it was around $9 new), Sofa cushions and pillows, blue construction paper, wrapping paper core, string, an old Easter bucket (to hold the stuff when we are done to use for more adventures later), and some dowel thing we got years ago from the dollar store (might be a drying rack of some kind).
I didn't buy anything. Our adventure cost me $0. I was running low on tape after Rob put the map together SO I stapled the Pooh friends to card stock. I was low on card stock so I printed on regular paper and then made small card stock stands to stand them up (folded paper). If we didn't have the tunnel we would have used a blanket to hide in.
Our adventures cost a lot less than they did when my son was little but I think they are more fun NOW because we have 2 children going on them and finding ways to make things ourselves to use without spending money is fun.
Note about this post and the posts
Expedition to the north pole and busy box #6
Some of our day, Snack time
Getting ready for the north pole
Are all a glimpse into a fun day at our house. I am sorry to say that NOT all days are full of fun. I know you have seen and will see some of the not so fun challenges in my house on this blog. I noticed from posting ALL this that snapping pictures all day long and posting them to this blog takes more time than I have. I don't think I will ever try to post this much again unless I get high speed Internet. The getting ready for the trip to the north pole is posted on the wrong day because I had a draft copy of our Cat in the Hat theme I was trying to load pictures on. I got tired and went to bed because blogger wasn't uploading my pictures. In the morning I forgot it was Cat in the Hat I was posting about. I didn't look at the date of the draft and because lack of sleep I forgot what I had planned to do. I messed up and put the trip to the north pole in that spot. I am sorry I will post Cat in the Hat next! I make lots of careless silly mistakes when i am tired. If you notice any writing that doesn't sound right or my spelling is way off in any of this please forgive me. I was up until 3:30 trying to get pictures of our Pooh adventures loaded. My husband is off work tomorrow so I might not get to post anything.
I hope you all have a nice weekend!
Expedition to the North Pole and Busy Box #6
I LOVE Pooh adventures. I wish someone would have told me about the WONDERFUL original Pooh stories before my oldest was born. I only knew of the Disney cartoons from when I was a child. I wish I would have read them to my son from birth. I am sad to say we didn't read them at all until my son was around 3 1/2. I am very happy that my little daughter has heard the pooh adventures from birth. If you haven't read The World of Pooh by A. A. MILNE you should take a look at it. Anyway, This is our adventure we had today......
We went on a trip with Pooh to the North Pole. We started out with Pooh singing Ho! For the life of a Bear. We went to see what Christopher Robin was doing.....
We saw Christopher Robing with his Big Boots and everyone knows with Big Boots an adventure is going to happen.
We put on our explorer hats.
and our boots.
Pooh told Rabbit that we are going on an Expotition to a pole or something.
We got our provisions and are now all ready to go.
We all met at the top of the forest even all of Rabbit's friends-and-relations came along. We head Pooh sing us a song and it was fun and silly. UNTILL......
Christopher Robin said hush then everyone said hush all down the line, until it got to the last one (Rabbits smallest friend and relation). When he saw everyone saying Hush to him he buried himself in a crack in the grown and stayed for two days.
We then came to a stream with high rocky banks and we all saw how dangerous it was.
Christopher Robin said we had to stop and eat our Provisions so we didn't have so much to carry.
OH NO! Roo's fallen in!!!
Roo wanted everyone to see him swimming!
Pooh got something to put across the stream.
Roo drifted up against it.....
and climbed out.
We stuck the pole in the ground and Christopher Robin tied a message on it
NORTH POLE
DISCOVERED BY POOH
POOH FOUND IT.
That ends our adventure for today. We are putting it all in the bucket to have some new expotitions tomorrow. OH! This is my new BUSY box! Busy Box #6 All I have to do is set it on the floor and one or both of my children can make up an adventure to go on. They will use this until all the things are worn out and torn I'm sure.
We went on a trip with Pooh to the North Pole. We started out with Pooh singing Ho! For the life of a Bear. We went to see what Christopher Robin was doing.....
We saw Christopher Robing with his Big Boots and everyone knows with Big Boots an adventure is going to happen.
We put on our explorer hats.
and our boots.
Pooh told Rabbit that we are going on an Expotition to a pole or something.
We got our provisions and are now all ready to go.
We all met at the top of the forest even all of Rabbit's friends-and-relations came along. We head Pooh sing us a song and it was fun and silly. UNTILL......
Christopher Robin said hush then everyone said hush all down the line, until it got to the last one (Rabbits smallest friend and relation). When he saw everyone saying Hush to him he buried himself in a crack in the grown and stayed for two days.
We then came to a stream with high rocky banks and we all saw how dangerous it was.
Christopher Robin said we had to stop and eat our Provisions so we didn't have so much to carry.
OH NO! Roo's fallen in!!!
Roo wanted everyone to see him swimming!
Pooh got something to put across the stream.
Roo drifted up against it.....
and climbed out.
We stuck the pole in the ground and Christopher Robin tied a message on it
NORTH POLE
DISCOVERED BY POOH
POOH FOUND IT.
That ends our adventure for today. We are putting it all in the bucket to have some new expotitions tomorrow. OH! This is my new BUSY box! Busy Box #6 All I have to do is set it on the floor and one or both of my children can make up an adventure to go on. They will use this until all the things are worn out and torn I'm sure.
Some of our Day.
Our Demi-Do playing with her bocks.
Travis doing some school work.
His school work has a LOT of writing. I know he is only 6 and his hands are not strong enough to do all the writing yet. I have him do his writing page, write his spelling words, and write a history narration. His other classes all have some amount of writing. What we do to make this easier for him is Science he can cut with scissors the lesson title, materials needed, and the procedure from a printed page. He then will write what he saw and what he learned. If he had a lot of writing that day I will even print out a picture of what he saw and let him staple that to the page. I feel the "goal" in doing Science is for him to explore and learn. I don't feel that writing and hand strength have to be a part of it. KWIM? I do this kind of thing for many subjects. History is sometimes done with photos, drawing, and such. We have done spelling with magnet letters or felt letters. We then can focus on writing during writing class. Travis will tell me he wants to write out his subjects a lot of the time. I guess he knows what he is able to do. This is what works for us. Please understand I am NOT telling YOU what to do! Next week I might think this isn't the right choice for but it has been working well for us so far. As long as it works we will stay with it.
Some pictures of his experiment.
Maybe you noticed in all the pictures so far Demi is in her pajamas? She refused to let me take them off. I didn't think fighting with her over what she wanted to have on was something I needed to do so she had them on until after lunch. LOL! This is picture of her after I got her dressed. She is holding the PJ's yelling NO! NO! She didn't want me to wash them. She wanted to keep them.
This is her sleeping with them. She fell asleep on her own and then I got the PJs to wash. All is well once again in my house. She forgot all about them the rest of the day.
Travis doing some school work.
His school work has a LOT of writing. I know he is only 6 and his hands are not strong enough to do all the writing yet. I have him do his writing page, write his spelling words, and write a history narration. His other classes all have some amount of writing. What we do to make this easier for him is Science he can cut with scissors the lesson title, materials needed, and the procedure from a printed page. He then will write what he saw and what he learned. If he had a lot of writing that day I will even print out a picture of what he saw and let him staple that to the page. I feel the "goal" in doing Science is for him to explore and learn. I don't feel that writing and hand strength have to be a part of it. KWIM? I do this kind of thing for many subjects. History is sometimes done with photos, drawing, and such. We have done spelling with magnet letters or felt letters. We then can focus on writing during writing class. Travis will tell me he wants to write out his subjects a lot of the time. I guess he knows what he is able to do. This is what works for us. Please understand I am NOT telling YOU what to do! Next week I might think this isn't the right choice for but it has been working well for us so far. As long as it works we will stay with it.
Some pictures of his experiment.
Maybe you noticed in all the pictures so far Demi is in her pajamas? She refused to let me take them off. I didn't think fighting with her over what she wanted to have on was something I needed to do so she had them on until after lunch. LOL! This is picture of her after I got her dressed. She is holding the PJ's yelling NO! NO! She didn't want me to wash them. She wanted to keep them.
This is her sleeping with them. She fell asleep on her own and then I got the PJs to wash. All is well once again in my house. She forgot all about them the rest of the day.
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