Birds in the Winter

I was so proud of the girls. They took these pictures. Not bad for a 5 and 9 year old. We were excited to see the birds at our homemade feeders.

Gifts from the Heart

Cuddly Ocean Themed Blanket

Cool Camo Pillow

Girly Aprons

Beautiful Hand Sketched Picture

Thank you, BB :)

This is "for the birds"

Spotted around the bird feeder

Spotted at the land

These were spotted near the bird feeder

Homemade birdhouses

Woodpecker

K (9) surprised me with her birdhouse--not sure what I'm gonna do with this one :)  She is ready to trap wild birds now!

Searching through field guides

  Then a game of hide the bird!
  The best thing is that none of this was
  prompted by me!

More at the land

A day at the land -- the creek

Our "no school" learning day

Today was sort of an unschooling day.  I had to deal with attitude (mine).  While I took today to gather my thoughts, I noticed everyone going along, doing good and useful things.
As the day went on, I decided to make a list of some of those things.

*individual reading -- required
*math --required
*worked on story
*worked on comic strip
*keyboard practice
*discussed the words-- infamous and fluent
*worked on spelling the word - technician
*traced shapes, glued, and colored for paper cookies
*cardboard gun
*horse crafts
*made some bird feeders which led to bird field guide/made bird blind
*peeled and cut potatoes for crock pot
*rowed Madeline and worked on scene along with some other scenes from previous rowed books (used playmobil and clay)

This ended up being an encouraging day for me.  Maybe it will encourage someone else too!

Lucy would love to get in the bird blind too!

**There are some other things that didn't make this list.  Also, not everyone did every activity.

Playmobil plus clay = FUN!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bacon and Eggs

Move over Cake Boss

No need to cry over spilled.....

A good sauce

Wow, cool pizza tossing skills

Congratulations to the Bride and Groom

Now mind your manners and don't take too big of a

Bite......Oops!!