Happy St. Patrick's day! What St. Patrick's day means to me

 6 reasons why St. Patrick's Day is important to me!

1. Danny Boy!

My Grandpa Dan is one of the most important people in my life!  He raised me when I was a small child and has always been a huge part of my life.  He has the kindest heart out of any person I have ever met.  His love for God has been contagious to our entire family and continues to grow.  The sound of his laughter is always on the front of my mind and just the thought of him brings a smile across my entire face!  This man is 1/2 Irish and he was born on St. Patrick's day!  When he was born the song Danny Boy was on the radio so his Mother named him Danny Patrick Kelly, Can you get anymore Irish???

2. Leprechauns

This is my Grandpa's birthday cake that I made him using the bear cake pan.  If you have ever met me in person you would notice right away that I am not someone of great stature!  I am a whole whopping 4'11" tall.  I blame my ailment of being "vertically challenged" on my Irish heritage and the Leprechauns!  Ha Ha I know that isn't actually true but nevertheless it makes for a fun story.

3. Green, Green, Green! 

Green Sensory box for the month of March

My favorite 3 year old working on a Bell pepper print Shamrock with GREEN paint!

Color Mixing and GREEN Oobleck!

Well if you can't tell GREEN is my favorite color!!  It is said to have a calming effect and because I am a self diagnosed person with ADHD this may be why I LOVE the color green.  Having a holiday where everyone is required to wear green is amazing and I love it!!  :)

4. My Faith

St. Patrick was an incredible man...so incredible in fact that they named a holiday after him, imagine that!!  This man made it his quest to spread the message of  God throughout Ireland, what a wonderful legacy.

5. FOOD

Every year for St. Patrick's day we read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and have green eggs and ham for breakfast.  This year I saw cute rainbow pancakes on Pinterest and decided to add them to our breakfast menu.  They were very easy to make I just made colored batter and piped them out of Ziploc baggies onto the griddle.  For dinner every year we have the traditional corned beef and cabbage with Irish soda bread and Irish potatoes, I forgot to take pictures of our dinner and now it is all in our tummies!! 

6. Family

This is last on my list today but it is absolutely not least.  My faith and family are number one in my life!  St. Patrick's day is an excuse to come together as a family to eat yummy food, read stories about St. Patrick, go to parades, sing Irish songs, learn about our Irish heritage and just plain have fun.  Today was a magical day for me and I hope yours was the same!

RAchel

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Mommy Monday Hip Homeschool Hop!

Dolls, Barbies, fingernails and hairbows!!

On Monday's we stay at home and have "mommy day".  This is our day to do fun homeschooling and projects.  Allie loves to play with her dolls and barbies.  Her favorite thing to do is cook and she loves learning anything that has to do with cooking!

Allie is getting very good with her fractions because of all the cooking she does.  She can go in the kitchen all by herself and make the whole family scrambled eggs and she even adds bacon, cheese, dill (and one time even raisins!)  While we are cooking I always grab that teaching moment.  We talk about volume. measuring, adding, subtracting, dividing equal shares and fractions. 

 

This is one of our math songs!

For reading today we read Aesop's Fables.  We did a comparison chart and we discussed why Aesop chose certain animals for his fables.  She chose her favorite fable and told me why she chose that fable.

Her favorite fable today was the one about the peacock.  She liked how the goddess pointed out the peacock's strengths and how everyone has something they are good at and everyone can't be good at everything. 

Allie as a fairy in Peter Pan

After we talked about the peacock story she told me what she was good at.  She is good at acting, singing, cooking and riding horses.  For her writing assignment today she made a bubble map all about her.  She then used her descriptions to write an acrostic poem about herself.  She really enjoyed this creative writing assignment. 

We use the Workbox system for homeschooling.  A few of Allie's workboxes today were her contraction snowmen (see freebie!) and clay suffixes

making clay words with suffixes. 

For art we are just finishing up our Polar regions unit.  Here are the projects she did for this unit.  She also made a Polar bear mask.

Here is her torn paper landscape with polar bears!  I think she did an awesome job :)

Here is her Inuit Native American and her igloo made out of Styrofoam blocks.  This was a great math project!  She had to cut the cubes and spiral them in tilting towards the middle.  I put on the hot glue where she wanted and she placed the cubes.  The little man was made out of a wooden clothes pin, paper and fur.  Allie made his arms and legs out of pipe cleaners and then wrapped the paper around them and taped it. 

I love homeschooling!!!  We had a great day, I would love to hear a comment about how your day went!

Fun Friday! Winter Crafts

Torn paper snowmen

Today is fun Friday!  This week I decided to post some of our winter crafts and art projects.  I didn't post these before and they are so cute I didn't want them to get forgotten in my dusty picture files ;)

Our art display line

Our hand print tree and snowmen glyphs from (Deanna Jump)

snowmen glyphs

The kids do the entire project by themselves.  I don't do any prep work.  I love doing art projects this way because they all turn out completely different and they are working on cutting, spacing, gluing and creativity skills.

syllable snowmen (Kai-son) 2 syllables equals two parts to the snowman

Penguins with hand print feet

March of the penguins.  The kids chose a emperor penguin or a macaroni penguin.  They wrote the name or beginning sound of the name on the belly of the penguin.

Rainbow, rice, red "R"

We do a sensory art for every letter. 

soft fluffy penguins

 

Macaroni penguin

This penguin was created during "free art", the child went to the art center and created this penguin completely on her own.  This is creative learning at it's best!!! 

I hope you all had a great week and have a fun filled super bowl Sunday!!  I will post some more fun science activities tomorrow for "Science Saturday"!!