Summer Fun 2014--Kid Blogs

My kids started blogs today.  In 4th grade, Landon will be making up & typing stories for part of his grade.  They wrote some in 3rd grade & he wrote some really creative & funny stuff!

Part of my goal this summer is to get him more comfortable with typing.  They did some in 2nd grade and since it was timed tests, it was excruciating! (We discovered recently he has processing issues--basically don't time the kid on things. So timed typing tests--not fun!)

So, he started a blog. Unwillingly, of course, because anything Landon doesn't want to do, we butt heads on. But by the time he was done, he decided it was fun. He enjoyed changing the fonts & styles & adding pictures.

Hopefully, he will write a post everyday or so and it will help get him ready for typing stories in 4th grade.

Here is a link to his blog: Lando's Blog

Since Savannah loves to learn and do all things her brother does, she wanted to write a blog too.

Notice how she's trying to type for real, not just finger poke the letters! :)  Here is a link to her blog, I promise she really did write & type this all herself.  Savy's Blog

I feel we have a lot of things to do this summer to get ready for 4th grade.  My goal is to make it fun, but make some progress.

Praying these blogs will be part of that fun!!

Summer Fun 2014--Slime

Summer Fun 2014

We made Slime!!

Well it's been awhile since I've written a post.  This school year absolutely FLEW by and here we are at summer break.

My goal is to make some fun stuff and do some learning this summer.  We need to work hard to make sure we are ready for 4th & 1st grades!

For our first project, we made slime.  There are a ton of slime recipes on Pinterest. I used this Pin for our recipe. 

Basically, it's glue & liquid starch with some food coloring thrown in.  Her post also shows how to turn it into Gak and blow bubbles!!

Landon wanted to keep it slimy so we may attempt the Gak bubbles another time.

Honestly, I wasn't sure either of my kids would really want to play with slime...that's just how they are. I was right about one...and pleasantly surprised at how much Landon loved it!

I used Target brand school glue that I had found on clearance at some point.  I found the liquid starch at Kroger.

I emptied the whole bottle of glue then mixed in the starch 1/4 of a cup at a time. I think we put a little more than 3/4 cup to the 1 bottle of glue.

We added a little more starch to get it a good consistency that didn't stick to your fingers too much.

I had added the food coloring to the glue before starting to add the starch.  Then Landon decided it wanted it orange so we added red later.  I really think you could add color at any stage of mixing because the red mixed in fine to make the orange.

Fun stuff!!  We played for awhile then put it in a baggie to play with another day.

Super easy & inexpensive!  The starch cost $3.50 & we used less than a cup of it.  We had the glue & food coloring, but if you had to buy, they are cheap too. Make some & enjoy!!