Scrapbooking To Learn

As the year begins and everything starts to get more organized (HAHAHAHA!!!!....ahem), I am deciding on more details about how we are going to keep records of what we are learning as well as what and how we are going to learn. First of all, without exception I am planning to use the Bible as our textbook, as exclusively as possible! We might throw in a recipe book or a book of science experiments just for fun, or I may even get some ideas from other books, but our core "curriculum" will all be straight from the Bible. I am very excited about this and plan to record as much as possible so I can come back and blog about the days that worked especially well. :)

In addition to that, I also have wanted to do Scrapbooking To Learn for a while now. I think it is a great way to reinforce what they are learning, it is lots of fun, it is a great way to keep track of what we have covered and my kids love to scrapbook! It is also a great way in itself to learn certain things, like reading/writing/spelling/grammar (from journaling), basic math and spacing, various aspects of art, etc.

We are already going through Creation right now. We have a memory verse for each week in addition to reviewing previous weeks. We have only done a couple of days of the 6 day long Creation though, so I think I will have them scrapbook the first two days tomorrow. I'll try to get some pictures and post them soon. Our camera is not working though, so I'll do my best with my camera phone. (I don't like it as well, but at least I have it as a backup!)

Check out the Scrapbooking To Learn web site. It is full of great and fun ideas...like this one from another user! Isn't it awesome?! :)

Girls' night!

Jayla has decided she is going to form her own girl club, so my BFF Chrys jumped right on that and invited us over for a "meeting" last weekend! It was great! Jayla actually ended up spending the night (after staying awake until 3am), but I went home to sleep in my own bed and went back the next morning for brunch. :)

So, to sum up in words what we did together, we ate chocolate, painted nails, fixed hair, ate more chocolate, made Cocoa Rice Crispy Treats, did some scrapbooking, played Barbies, and ate more chocolate. :) Here are a few pics from our evening.

I just love her freckles!



Chrys was such a good sport. :)

Me, not so much. She kept pulling some tiny hairs!!! She was cute though. She kept saying in an adoreable little voice, "Isn't that so cute?" :)

Jayla did her own nails, but here Sammy is giving her a touch-up.

And here is Sammy with her new GIRL puppy. They spent all evening trying to come up with a name for her, and Sammy really wanted something Japanese. Some of the better ones included Puchi (little), Kibbles and, hmmm.....I can't remember any more of those Japanese words! Girls, what did you decide???



The boys joined us for much of the evening, as long as they were quiet. :) I love this picture of Daniel. He looks like he's three years old! And the one of Chrys and Patrick. So cute!

Finally, around 3am, she crawled into bed and closed her eyes!

It was a great night!