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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

School Week 5 Photos

This post is finally done. I ran out of time every night that I went to work on it or I was just too tired. It was also a really stressful week because of the weather and doctor's appointments. Addy is now a day behind officially in her days. As I am writing this bit, she has done 25 days of school so far and Sammy and Airy are at 26. Addy had a mid day eye appointment and to not miss work or the eye appointment, Cayce took her to work and was basically the biggest distraction for everyone...lol. The bosses, supervisors and my dad along with Cayce didn't get much done at work.

Monday: No School. September 11th and Hurricane Irma

Tuesday: We had a better day weather wise but the roads and trees are really bad. The kids had a dentist appointment this morning, and every time they go to our dentist, they get a mini tour and get to look at all the equipment. I always count this at school time because they talk about everything for the rest of the day. When they got home, they ate and then they finished the rest of their school day. I had Samantha and Ariana do a freewrite while I worked on Easy Peasy with Addy.

The best side shot

learning about the letter C

mid blink

We finished the day with watching a documentary on Earth's orbit on Netflix and I really enjoyed it and the girls were more into it than any other documentary.

Wednesday: No pictures today. I was missing my Addy and also focused on getting Samantha and Ariana through as much as possible. They did start the morning with finishing the documentary from yesterday. We finished reading The Cricket in Times Square and we discussed it. Ariana then read for an hour while Samantha worked on Easy Peasy and then they switched to end their days. Samantha is getting better at reading.

Thursday: Early morning start to start the day. Sammy started with catching up on Easy Peasy. She has gotten so far behind on it but it's alright. Ariana is also behind on her days but they take their time with their work. They are also enjoying their lessons more and sometimes are doing more than one game or set of math questions. Today is also my 10 year anniversary with Cayce. Since I started homeschooling, I always took this day off, but this year, Cayce could not take off work and I just went ahead and made it a school day. Addy got sick this morning and she started her day with Leapfrog.

The next two pictures were taken for a BzzAgent mission for the new BIC Velocity mechanical pencils. In these pictures, they are using them to write down their Solar System vocab words and copy work.

Solar System Vocab

Poem copy work

While Sammy and Airy were doing their own work, Addy was working on her Easy Peasy lessons. She is still on track with her Easy Peasy. Then she watched some months of the year and days of the week YouTube videos.

We finished the day with a new book. We started reading Secrets According To Humphrey. This is their favorite book in the series so far because it focuses on Ancient Egypt and King Tut and Pharaohs.

Friday: The previous night was horrible for Cayce and I, and I just needed some time to myself and they had a "normal" start time to the day. I was just upset and broken hearted all day. The girls started their day with two episodes of Planet Earth. Then after, we watched Magic School Bus. We did have lengthy discussions after each episode of both shows that we watched. After Magic School Bus, I read a couple more chapters of Secrets According To Humphrey. Then Adalyn worked on some Easy Peasy lessons and Samantha and Ariana had reading time to work on reading skills.

This week (week 6 as I am writing) is going to be a long one and will be posted late, because on Saturday, we are going to the museum and that is going to be Addy's make up day for Wednesday.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Library Haul

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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Freebie Haul 9/11- 9/16

It was a good freebie week. Got some great samples and products. The start of the week was messed up by Hurricane Irma. Everything was closed in SC on Monday. But the rest of the week's mail was plentiful.

Monday: No Mail: Hurricane Irma

Tuesday: These could have been what I would have gotten yesterday if the mail had run. I know the DVD would have been yesterday.

Disney Movie Rewards: Country Bears

Helmet Decal

October 2017 issue of Men's Health

Wednesday: Received another one of my Goodreads Giveaway wins

An Enchantment of Raves.

Thursday: Got another Goodreads giveaway win, along with a birthday present for my dad and a magazine

Goodreads Win: The Quiet Child

Zippo lighter from Marlboro

September 18, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

Friday: No Freebies

Saturday: Got a really anticipated Crowdkit mission.

Unilever Sample Goodie Box CrowdKit from CrowdTap

Sorry that there wasn't much chit chat in this post. I was ready to get it posted. Hope you all liked seeing what I got this week. If you haven't already, please go Subscribe to my new YouTube channel and follow me on Bloglovin.com.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Simon & Schuster Unboxing

I did my first unboxing today! I won another book from Goodreads and I decided to unbox it on camera. Hope you enjoy and please go subscribe to my channel. It will mean the absolute world to me.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Book 2 down and 4 more to go. I was hoping to like this one after not liking Cinder so much and I liked this way more. I loved Scarlet and Wolf. I just can't get into Cinder and Prince Kai's characters. They are irritating to me even though they are the major characters in the whole story line.

I thought I had ruined myself by the reading order and I was confused as hell when I read The Queen's Army before starting this book. But then I spoiled myself on tumblr and found out who Wolf actually was. I love Wolf. I like how he was hesitant and shy around Scarlet and he didn't want to be despised by this human girl. He wanted her to not hate him and I was hooked by this relationship, even if it was that insta love that is just BLAH!!!

Captain Thorne was the arrogant character that is such a goof you can't help but like him. I am so glad that Iko is back. She is my favorite by far. I love her little personality chip. She kind of reminds me of C3-PO but more sassy.

I wish the ending ended with Scarlet and not Cinder. I just don't know why I don't like this character. I just not a Cinderella fan and I never will be probably.

Monday, September 11, 2017

School Week 4 Photos

Sorry that this post is late. I am busy getting ready for the weekend. The girls are off to my parent's for the weekend so Cayce and I can celebrate our 10 year anniversary coming up on next Thursday. There were not a lot of pictures this week. I was more focused on helping them with their work and totally forgot about snapping pics.

Monday: Cayce had the day off from work and I had the girls do school. He talked to them about working and all that and then we watched a couple YouTube videos on some facts about Labor Day and the history behind it. Samantha and Ariana also had a writing assignment while Addy worked on her handwriting.

Tuesday: Today was an early start day. Sammy started with her Easy Peasy for an hour and a half. Then she worked on spelling sheets while Ariana worked on her Easy Peasy lessons and Addy started her day with Leapfrog on Netflix.

Sammy working on her typing

Addy doing her Easy Peasy lessons after watching Leapfrog

reading time together

After Sammy and Airy's reading time, I had all three of them watch the first three episodes of the Magic School Bus. Then I had them choose an episode topic that they wanted to learn more about and that was the solar system. I went and found some activities and lesson plans and here are some of the new spelling words that they will be learning.

This is how we ended the day and Addy ended hers with coloring a page of the Earth and Sun and she did very well.

Wednesday: Addy doesn't have her speech lessons anymore and today we had a late start. So we started our day with watching more Planet Earth and discussing it. After, they did their morning work and Sammy and Airy spent most of the day doing their own free write. They love making their own stories and drawing pictures to go along with them. It is helping them learn how to read and spell amazingly.

Today we had read aloud time and re-read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day.

Thursday: It was another early morning start to the day. Sammy started at 7:55AM after her breakfast. She had to catch up on 2 days worth of Easy Peasy work.

Then it was Airy's turn and while that was going on, Sammy was putting our "space" words into ABC order and writing them in sentences.

Addy did some letters in her Leapfrog workbook and then she watched some episodes of Little Einsteins. That show is getting her to sing along by herself.She won't do that with anyone. She has that shy quality like I had.

Airy doing her workbook.

Ended the day with history and Addy watching some Mickey Mouse kindergarten videos

Friday: I didn't take many pictures today. We basically watched a couple shows and read today. They started the day off with Planet Earth again. We read some more of The Cricket in Times Square and re-read Alexander one more time before watching the movie adaptation.

It was an OK week, but I want to get back to our week 1 work ethic and routine.

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Freebie Haul 8/28- 9/9

I did not plan on turning this into another 2 week post. The week was very busy and it got away from me. Also the current weather situation with Hurricane Irma became priority number 1. I am not going to promise that the next freebie post will be a single week, but there will be one next week, hopefully.

Monday 8/28: Today was a great start to the week. I got a magazine and 2 books that I can't wait to read.