Jul
Guest Post: Paper Bowl Crab
I am so excited to be a contributor to the Summer Fun for Preschoolers series at Preschool Powol Packets.
Here is a preview of what I posted about:
Head on over and check out my post at Preschool Powol Packets!
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Jul
It’s Official…
I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because I know other homeschooling moms will be reading this and I wouldn’t want them to think I make mistakes 🙂
I sent in the letter of intent to the school district this week, telling them that Hailey will be homeschooled. If you know us then you probably aren’t totally shocked to hear this news. Before Hailey started kindergarten, we had talked about homeschooling her. Then I found out I was pregnant with Hunter and convinced myself that I could not homeschool with a newborn baby. Since then I have realized that is not true at all. While I’m sure it is difficult, it is certainly possible. Now that Hunter will be going on 2 this fall, I’m wondering if it will actually be harder with a toddler than a newborn would have been 😉
For now my plan is to homeschool for 2nd grade. There are many reasons we are making this choice, but it all boils down to this: We feel that this is the right decision for our family at this time. We are not against public school. Hailey had a good experience in public school and never had any problems. We just feel this is the best thing for us for right now. We are taking it one year at a time, so we do not know yet what we will do for 3rd grade.
We already have our curriculum, and I will do a separate post about our curriculum choices very soon. We have also joined a local co-op which meets one time each week and we are looking forward to meeting some of the other homeschoolers in our area. I know this will be a big adjustment for us and it will take some time to get used to, but we are excited!
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Jul
July 4th Candle Jar
Here is a fun candle jar decoration that we made for the 4th of July.
You will need some glass jars (we used canning jars), red, white and blue tissue paper, Mod Podge glue, battery operated candles and flags.
Decorate the inside of the jars using the red, white and blue tissue paper and the Mod Podge glue.
The jars, all decorated in red, white, and blue.
Once they were dry, we put the battery operated candle inside and added a flag.
We had our family 4th of July picnic over the weekend, so they were added to the tables as a decoration.
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Inspiration credit: Pinterest
Jul
July 4th Utensil Holder
This fun craft is a perfect decoration for your 4th of July picnic!
You will need 3 empty containers, I used the 1/2 gallon cardboard containers of juice. We don’t usually drink those, but they were on sale for $1, so they were perfect. You also need red, white and blue paint, something to put the paint in and something to paint with, craft sticks, star shaped sponge and some glue.
Hailey and Hunter painted the craft sticks red, white and blue.
Once the paint is dry, glue your craft sticks to the cardboard container. I used Mod Podge glue. (I did this step myself.)
Hailey added some white star shapes, using the sponge on the blue sections.
The finished utensil holders.
We had our family 4th of July celebration over the weekend, so we got to try them out 🙂
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Inspiration credit: Motherhood on a Dime
