C is for Charity

One of my goals for this homeschool year is to find small and big ways to involve the girls more in charity. It is something that is important to our family in word but not always in deed.  The last time we were at Freebirds (yum) I noticed a box where they were collecting diapers through the month of August.  I pointed it out to Zoe and we decided that would be a good thing for us to do.  Well, every time we were at the store, I managed to forget it, and today was the last day of August.  But our day was SO full - homeschool, dance class, lunch date, dropping off stuff at a consignment sale, and ice skating.  But we cut homeschool short so we could swing by Target before dance class and made our lunch date at Freebirds so we could drop them off.  Zoe loved dropping them in the box and talking about who might use them.  It was a good lesson for the girls, but a good lesson for me too, that things like that fall off the radar if we're not careful.

Zoe had a few worksheets to do and I told her that one of the cool things about homeschool was that she could go anywhere in the house she wanted to while she did them.  She loved this idea and headed straight to bed - my favorite place to work too!  I think Dad just shuddered (both mine and hers).

Lucy's letter of the week is C.  I found out that cutting something out at the end is a great incentive to write a little something!  We don't worry too much about writing yet - she does lots of this at preschool.

We made patterns with pattern blocks

We are taking the blue parrot (school mascot) with us this week and we write about his adventures - here Lucy's dance class poses with him.  This was after she got 4 fingers shut in the door at dance.  It hurt so badly - she told everyone she saw today "Mommy hurt my fingers in the door!"

Lunch at Freebirds

We found another kid from Spanish Schoolhouse in Frisco who was also taking his parrot to ice skate!  We better get extra credit for the rare double parrot sighting!