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To see more, click the link.We traveled to Athens, AL for one last visit with my aunt and cousins.



We also had one last sleepover with Alice.



Play date with Hannah Beth and Kaitlyn.



Play date with Ceilidh and Addie.



Our last FFFF (First Friday Fondren Feast).



We drove to Centreville for one last visit with the Waits.



The elders at our church surprised us with an elder and wife good-bye dinner. It was a special night of fellowship and them praying for us.



We had one last dinner and Wii night with Aunt Danalouie.



This was the kiddos first time to play against Wes. They had a blast!





Lyndal beat Wes in golf. :-)



Alina beat Wes in bowling. :-)







Lyndal's Sunday School class had a going away party for her.



Last movie night with the gals. We saw The Proposal. Really funny movie.



Last visit to City Cafe.



Visit with the Norris family.



We drove to Enterprise, AL to visit with friends and family. Our first stop was to spend the night with the Phillips family.



While there our girls caught chickens!!!!!!





Eli also had his first bath in a sink.



The Phillips have goats (along with chickens, a horse, dog, cats, bunny, fish) and I thought this was a funny site.



We also got to visit with Uncle Harry and Aunt Polly while in Enterprise.



Uncle Harry and Aunt Polly are so faithful to mail our kiddos birthday cards every year. However, she never gets the joy of seeing them open the cards. On this visit she surprised our kids with a birthday party! She finally got the joy of seeing them open her cards.



Our last Sunday at Grace Church.





Last Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. I've been eating lunch at my grandmother's house every Sunday for 30+ years. My Aunt Sharon and Cousin Jason came down for one last good-bye.



Wes does computer work at Alabama Dermatology. They had a going away luncheon for him.







Last visit with Aunt Ann.



Dinner with the Kelley family (Caleb and Sara Grace are not in the picture).



Alina's Sunday School teacher had a going away tea party for her and the girls in her class.



Our shepherding group had a going away party for us.



A BIG thank you to everyone who has made us feel special, loved and going to be missed. We will miss all of you dearly.

Well, I'm signing off until after the move. We load the truck tomorrow and pull out early on Sunday. I'll let you know once our internet is hooked up. I covet your prayers for safe travels, adjusting for us and the kiddos, finding a church, making friends, finding a home school covering, depression and anything else you can think of. :-)
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Lyndal had a really cool science activity. She is studying flying creatures this year. She learned about air pressure and how it helps to keep birds in the air. A bird wing is shaped in such a way that air travels faster over the top of the wing than it does below the wing. This makes the pressure above the wing lower than the pressure under the wing. Therefore, the wing lifts. She took a full glass of water and put a straw in the glass that stuck out about 1 inch. She then took another short straw and blew fast air across the top of the other straw. This made the air above the straw move faster and therefore lowered the air pressure. Since this air pressure was lowered the pressure under the straw was greater and the water shot out of the straw. Pretty fun. Everyone had to give it a try, even me. :-)



To see more, click the link.Alina needs lots of work on number recognition. We put paint into baggies and she practiced writing two digit numbers.



Lyndal played vocabulary Twister. We taped her vocab words to the circles. I would call out a synonym of her vocabulary words and we would spin the spinner to find out if she had to use her left hand or right hand, etc. This was a huge hit and a great way to review words. We will definitely be doing this again.





At the end we had to play a family round of plain Twister. :-)

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To see more, click the link.Feeding the ducks.





Alina holding on to Wes's leg for dear life. :-)







Fountain fun.











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To see more, click the link.For each letter he will be making a folder. Here is his letter A folder. On the front is a song he sings to help him learn what the letter says.



Apple activity for his folder.



I love this activity. It is to help him learn how much glue he should use when he uses glue. Here is his letter A.





For this same activity he put down glue dots and sprinkled on sand for the ants.



Finger painting another apple for his folder.





Alligator.



He is loving learning how to write his letters. I have them laminated so that he can try over and over again - which he does with every color dry erase marker we have. :-)

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To see more, click the link.With each story she will be learning geography. I made these handy dandy “geography disks” to help her learn. It is laminated so that she can circle things on them with a dry erase marker every day as a review. The first disk is our planet.



Next is the continents.



Then the country. Then the state.



Then the county. Last is the city.



Madeline obviously doesn't take place in N'port but I wanted to show you all the disks (well, almost all of them). :-)

One of the things we focused on while studying Madeline was health and the human body. The kiddos watched this movie.



Alina made Ralphie with red blood cells, white blood cells, bacteria and medicine.



We made this really fun craft!!!



The lungs actually blow up and deflate. :-)



Here's the candy she chose to....



...drop down her esophagus into her stomach.



Cohen wanted a turn, too.





You may remember this activity from the human body co-op we did last fall. All the kiddos put this special lotion on their hands (germs). It can only be seen with a special light. They tried washing their hands and we took a look to see how many “germs” were still on there. They really enjoyed this.



She learned about Monet...



...and Louis Braille. Here she is making glue dots on a Braille pattern. Once it dried she felt the bumps with her eyes closed. I'm amazed that blind people learn to read this way.



Alina made a lapbook for our story.



As you can see on the inside we covered lots of other topics like rhyming, symmetry, exercise, etc.





We had these chocolates.



While reading Madeline we studied compassion. The kiddos learned a Bible verse and we studied the most compassionate person we know - Jesus!

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To see more, click the link.4th of July fun at the Griffith's house.













Another one of my picture projects. It's so difficult to get a picture that doesn't reflect the flash. The big picture is, of course, me in my wedding dress. To the right are Lyndal and Alina in my wedding dress. They were taken when they were 5 years old. On the bottom left is my mom in her wedding dress. Beside my mom is me in her wedding dress when I was 5ish.

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At the end of last year, she was having some difficulty with her comma and period rules. She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES the princess Jasmine. I made this file folder game for her to review her comma and period rules on the left side. On the ride side are laminated sentences that are either correct or wrong. If they are wrong, she has to fix them with a dry-erase marker. She really enjoyed this and is looking forward to doing it again.





Lyndal knows the placement of most of her states, but we are using this fun and free program for her to do weekly reviews. In a few weeks, she will start learning her capitals. She is also enjoying trying out some of their math games. (they have some great preschool games, too)

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
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