Our Little Cottage

Sharing Pics.

 Just wanted to share some pics that I've taken lately.

Here is the kids working hard on our first day of homeschool... 

 Zach's letter "A" paper...

 Zach and his shapes project...

 Liam and his drawing...I know you can't see it very well, sorry...

 Liam with playdoh...

 Zach on my computer playing a phonics game...

 Arlee & Frost working on their packets...

 Zach & Liam playing in beans...

 Boy...Liam was working hard!!

 He even cleaned up himself...

 Frosty working on his packet...

 And what is the best thing to do after a hard day of learning??

Snuggling with Daddy, of course...

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We are starting a new family night...on Thursdays while my pizza doh is being made in the bread machine {1hr 30 mins} we will be doing Science stuff.

Here is my pizza "before" pic...Just about to go in the bread machine...

 We started off by Danny working with Arlee & Frosty on a decompost station.  They used a cut off clear 2 litter bottle....

 Arlee wrote up their experiment paper to keep track of the results...

 They added dirt.  Then added, close to the sides of the bottle, egg shells, a dead bug, piece of plasic from a newspaper bag, a piece of newspaper, a lettuce leaf, and a peach peel...

 Then added MORE dirt...

 Topped it off, then added a little water {sorry this one is a little blurry!}...

 Put a big freezer bag over it...and now it will sit for a few weeks.  We will watch to see if and how things decompose!

Now it's time for ALL the kids to do a project...someone is just a little happy about this.... 

 We are doing volcanos tonight...all four kids got their own sand filled plastic shoebox container...

 Next they made their volcanos {a mound in the sand}...

 We added a bit of baking soda, and a bit of kool aid to the top of our volcanos...

 Then the vinegar...whoo hoo...magic!!

Here's Zach's...

 Frosty's....

 Arlee's...

 And Liam's....

 Here is Arlee's multi colored volcano...

 And Frosty's multicolored one...

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Alright, well by now it's time to clean up and get the pizza crust ready!  Arlee, Frosty, and Zach helped put on the pepperoni and cheese!!

And here is our pizza after we put on the cheese...

And here it is all cut up and ready to eat....

And let me tell ya...after I already put the dough in the bread machine, I realized that I had forgotten to get tomato sauce at the store last time!  So instead I used a jar of salsa I had as the sauce in our pizza!  I added a little sugar to it and some Itallian seasonings.  It was REALLY good!!

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Well, that's what we have been up to this week.  Thanks for dropping by!  Have a great weekend!!