Is it just me or are the days and weeks just flying by? How can it be November next week?
This week was a bit more relaxed than last week. Whew!
Monday
For some reason I have no recollection of what we did on Monday, I usually write it down, but I guess I forgot. I do remember going to Hobby Lobby. LOL!
Tuesday
Abby did a few thinking skills worksheets and a cut and paste worksheet activity.
She cut out the letters of the alphabet and the pictures and then matched the picture to it's corresponding letter. She flew through this activity, even the cutting, which she usually complains about.
It was a simple activity, but so neat to see how her cutting skills are getting better and how she was able to easily find each letter of the alphabet and a picture to match.
Wednesday
We did this week's stART activity.
Abby also did a few adding worksheets and beginning and ending sounds worksheets. While she was working on them, my sister called and we were talking about how Matthew was doing some school work too. Abby wanted to write words like he was doing, so I tore out another worksheet for her! LOL! This one she had to write the word for the picture. She did really good and spelled the words by herself!
Thursday
Abby had gymnastics in the afternoon and did a few clock and money worksheets, in the evening.
She can now tell and write/draw time by the hour and the worksheets have moved on to the half hour. This was very confusing to her. She kept asking why it's 30, "there's no 3o on this clock", she'd say. Isn't that a hard one to explain!
She also did some short vowel worksheets and a few spelling worksheets.
Abby helped me bake a cake, which is part of our Halloween dessert for my sister's party on Saturday. I think she ate about a cup of batter!
The kids were told to wear their costumes this week for gymnastics. I had Abby put on her cat costume from last year, so it would be easier to do gymnastics in. She still has it on in this picture.It rained all day Thursday and while we were gone at gymnastics, our house must have been hit with lightning. As the evening went on, we kept finding more things that were effected. The satellite receiver, the router, part of the firewall, something in my husband's computer, a breaker went off and a ground fault was tripped. Oh yeah and the TV in our bedroom is fried! It won't turn on.
Luckily, I was able to get the replacement receiver for free. It was going to be $40, but I pulled the whole "maybe we should cancel our services" thing and got it for free :)
The router will be about $4o and Dave ordered the thing for his computer for about $40. Now the TV in the bedroom will be much more :( However, we will just do without for now. Our deductible is $1,000, so I don't want to to that.
Friday
I woke up to a strange sound the smell of burning plastic. The heater was switching on and off and the thermostat said it was 95 degrees in here. That wasn't right! I had to turn the heater off downstairs and then we found that the thermostat must have been hit by lightning as well...it smelled horrible! When Dave got home from work, he was able to replace that batteries in the thermostat and it started working fine. What I don't understand, is what the burning plastic smell was from. I'm still concerned about it.
Dave also found that another router in the basement was hit. I won't complain too much, because it could have been a lot worse. People have lost their entire house to lightning. Luckily, we were not home at the time, but I bet it was pretty loud. Poor kitty cats!
In the afternoon, Abby and I finished up our Halloween dessert. I'll post more about them and the recipe tomorrow for Simply Made Sunday.
I hope you've had a great week and have a fun and safe Halloween!
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