School Week 31 Photo Diary

I am way behind on this school posts and I did try to get caught up last week during our spring break, but it seems like I really want to be productive this week while I am busy and get it done. So weird. So here I am on April 3rd and typing this while listening to Dear Evan Hansen. This was a Netflix filled week.

Monday 3/12: We had a late start to the morning. We started at 10:50am. They did their morning work and chores. We spent the majority of the school day watching a Netflix documentary called The Snow Wolf Family and Me. We love wolves in this family and this was very enjoyable to watch.

We ended our day with beginning the book A bear Called Paddington. The girls love the movie and we decided to read the book and get hyped up for the second movie coming out soon.

Tuesday: No Pictures. We had another full Netflix day. They wanted to continue learning about wolves, and there was a documentary called Great Yellowstone Thaw and I had read a book about Yellowstone and wolves last year, so we watched that. it was 3 episodes long, and after every episode, we discussed what we watched and then they wrote a little bit about what they liked from the episode. Sammy and Airy finished the day with reading time and Addy did some Easy Peasy lessons.

Wednesday: We had a semi early day. We watched another Netflix documentary, this time on Elephants. They played candy land and Addy won. She was thrilled. After, I had Ariana work on her spelling worksheets. Sammy had reading time. Addy did Easy Peasy lessons to finish her day. Sammy and Airy switched what they were doing to finish their day.

Thursday: We didn't watch any Netflix today. Addy started her Easy Peasy lessons after morning work and then she did this x book craft. Samantha worked on her Reading Eggs spelling sheets and Ariana did workbook pages. Then they read together while Addy was still working on her craft. We ended the day with reading chapter 3 and 4 of A Bear Called Paddington.

Friday: We and another semi early morning. After morning work and chores, we finished reading A Bear Called Paddington and then we watched the movie. The movie is very different from the book and the girls didn't like the differences but they enjoyed both. We then did a little virtual field trip on the Discovery website and it was the Animals of North America. Addy then worked on some color by number worksheets and she did ok. I had to help her with the last one because she got frustrated with all the small shapes. Ariana and Samantha finished their day with reading together and I read with them.

I am beyond ready for summer. I am not ready for Ariana's cooking sessions this month and I will be doing separate blog posts on them like Samantha's last year.

Past Owl Crate Box Unboxing: April 2016: Written In The Stars

The first Owlcrate Jr unboxing video that i ever watched was on A Dash Of Ash on YouTube. She got this book and I instantly had to have it. I got this with Ariana in mind because she loves the color blue, and she loves space and stars. I have already given her the zipper pull on her jacket and we will be reading this book together probably this summer while she works on her chain link challenge. 

Written in the Stars Owl Crate Jr.

The Star Thief, bookmark, and star pen

The print on the bottom is everything. 

To use this star finder we might have to go out into an open area where there aren't many trees.

Owl Crate jr boxes are always super cute and every month I want to subscribe, but can't due to price and shipping. Also, when I ordered these boxes, my card got locked because the bank thought it was fraudulent.That was a hassle to get my card unlocked.

April TBR & HAPPY EASTER!!!

HAPPY EASTER everyone. I hope everyone is having a great day and that you had fun searching for eggs, got amazing Easter baskets, had a delicious meal with family or friends, and a great church service if you are religious. These are the books I am going to be reading for the month of April.

March Wrap Up

I read a total of 11 books this month. I got my non fiction book read this month and I am in the middle of reading my chosen classic for the month and it is Pride and Prejudice. So, I can cross that challenge off my list for the month of March even though I didn't finish it. I also started a new series this month and will be reading a book from this series a month. I think you can guess which series I am talking about. 

1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

2. The Fix by Kristin Rouse

3. A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L'Engle

4. Si-Cology 1 by Si Roberston

5. S.T.A.G.S. by M.A. Bennett

6. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

7. Propitiation by Damn Jones

8. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

9. The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major

10. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

11. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

I am pretty sure that everyone has heard and read this book or knows what it is about, so I am just going to get straight to my opinions and how I feel about this book. I have heard about this book from everyone on booktube and already knew pretty much every character name and who they were and who were the bad guys and the items and weapons used in this story.

While reading this book, I kept picturing the actors from the god awful movie... even though I haven't seen it, reviews for it are so bad. While reading the clubs scenes, I was instantly back in high school reading another book series that was set in a club scene and the characters were the exact same. Arrogant, naive, stubborn, selfish, egotistical.

Clary got on my nerves whenever she thought of Simon and she kept saying that she had forgotten him, didn't even think of him, didn't notice he was talking to her, but yet whenever she needed something, she asked him to help her. She uses Simon and she doesn't even acknowledge him. This book was very fast paced and clearly written for a teenager. The plot and action scenes were all over the place. The book could have had way more detailed action scenes instead of overly detailed settings every time they went somewhere or saw something. 

Past Owl Crate Box Unboxing: June 2017: Make It Out Alive

I watch a lot of book videos on YouTube and most of them are Owl Crate unboxings. I love watching them and want each and ever one of them. This is the first box that I truly wanted to have and I freaked out when I saw that it was being sold on their past boxes link. I purchased one because of the theme and also that it contained not one book but two. The them is Make It Out Alive and it's of course dystopian. I also wanted these books because they are the start to my signed book collection. If you want to purchase past boxes from Owl Crate, you need to do it quickly because they will sell out quick. I also got the books that had exclusive covers. This is one of three boxes that I purchased. 

My "first" signed book. 

After I received this book, I read a book that I had won in a Goodreads Giveaway two years ago and when I got to the end I realized that it was a signed copy. 

The main reason I wanted this box was for the sleep mask. After I first viewed an unboxing video for this box and saw the sleep mask, I went on Amazon and put one on my wishlist and then when I went to go purchase it, it was sold out. Also, this is the second book that was put in the box. 

I love the button, stickers and The Giver patch. The Bath Bomb is divergent inspired and I wasn't a big fan of Divergent.

UP NEXT:
Past Owl Crate Box: May 2017: Comic Explosion

School Week 30 Photo Diary

I am slowly but surely catching up on these posts. I don't like doing back to back school week posts, but I gotta do what I gotta do. Th next post after this one will be an Owlcrate un-boxing, just to switch things up a bit. This week was a very productive and busy one.

Monday 3/5: We started the day at 7:55 AM. Our early start for the week. We did our usual morning work and chores to start the day. Addy watched a couple episodes of Super Why. She is getting more active with that show and screaming the answers at the TV. Then I had her watch Leapfrog: Phonics Farm to help her with her letter sounds. I had noticed that she is struggling with her sounds on some letters like M and N. Sammy and Airy did reading time and Easy Peasy lessons. Once Addy was done with Leapfrog, she had her own little reading time with my while Ariana and Samantha did a free write.

We then finished an episode of John Adams and Addy finished her day with Easy Peasy.

Tuesday: We started the day with morning work and Netflix. We finished Race Of Life. Watched another documentary called Nature: Raising the Dinosaur Giant and then we watched another documentary called Lions: Spy in the Den. I love watching documentaries with the girls. They love them as well, and they are the reason for long on going discussions in our home whenever Cayce gets home from work, or we go to visit family or some of our friends come over.

Sammy drawing her favorite part of one of the documentaries and Snow getting in the way

Today was mainly a Netflix and read day. After we finished out Netflix binge, we read two chapters in A Wind In The Door.

Wednesday: Addy started her morning with Easy Peasy. Ariana and Samantha did reading time and worksheets. They also had time to do a free write as well. They love writing and I give them a good hour of the school day to just write what they have in their brains. We finished our day with reading more of A Wind In The Door.

Thursday: Today was International Women's Day. Before I showed them some YouTube videos on the history of International Women's day, Sammy had asked me if they made a second movie about National Treasure. I said yes, and all three wanted to watch it. They loved the first movie just like I did when I first watched it and wanted to be a Benjamin Gates when I "grew up". I wanted to go treasure hunting and be a history junkie. They loved the second movie and could not stop asking question about the lost city of gold and was it real.

My strong and intelligent girls!

They loved learning about International Women's Day and I want them to be amazing independent women when they get older and I want them to conquer the world, and I am trying my hardest to make sure they know that they can do anything that they set their minds too.

Friday: No Pictures. I decided that all 4 of us needed a mental health day. I could tell they were tired from the early mornings that we had been having this week and they had done quite a bit of work and I just wanted them to have a relaxing and creative morning. They started their day with Legos. They worked on that for about 2 hours and in those 2 hours, I just sat with them and talked about what they wanted to do when they grew up. How they feel about being homeschooled. Do they want to go on more trips. Do they want to do any extra activities.  We ended our day with finishing A Wind In The Door and episode 4 of John Adams.