3 Hours of Joy

I taught my final Joy School Class on Thursday. 

I tried my best to make it the best lesson ever.

Mr. Mr. wearing his "I am special" crown

J-Man wearing his "I am special" crown

The living room set up for Joy School

Calendar

The Flag and Joy School House

All of our Joy School Kiddo's

Weather Wheel

A. N. arrived early and explored shadows

 with J-Man before school started

All the children in their "I am special" crowns

I traced their shadow portraits before they got their crowns

Painting Time

J-Man's painting - What is in the sky      

 G.J. and his painting - Clouds with rain on the playground

M.R and her painting - A Princess (of course)

M. F. and her painting - of all the flowers

L.L and his painting - all the toys for his friends

J.L. and his painting -

 (I can't remember everything he said, it had a very long explaination)

A. N. and his painting - of a T-Rex to eat you up

The kids had snack outside while their paintings dried on the kitchen table.

 

Air Hockey it was so fun we had to set a timer for play.

3 minute turns = no crying

Tiptoe prints

G. J. found a little man to put in the dump truck

J-Man and G. J. working together to build a wall of blocks

3 hours of Joy

busy, productive and memorable.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle- Practical-ly Beautiful

What can you possibly make from:

1  wooden, coffee table top chewed up (from the dog)

1 crib mattress that the top is torn

1 raggedy quilt

1 shelf from old entertaiment center

that has been sitting in the garage for six years

1 old curtain panel

left over wood and fabric from making cornices

4 ball legs $1.50 at walmart

screws

drill

saw

A Kids Couch

with various pillows I have made over the years

I positioned it under the living room window

To complete the Kid Area, I painted three wooden stools

and placed them along the "Family Picture" wall

It is a great place to take a nap, read books

and have our daily devotionals.

With a little imagination,

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle can be

 Practical-ly Beautiful.

The Good, The Bad and the Yummy!

J-Man had his Allergy Testing appointment yesterday

to find out the level of severity of his food allergies.

J-Man has packed the essentials for the doctors appointment

Epipen, Dinosaurs and Fruit Snacks.

Mr. Mr. is ready too, Diapers, Wipes, Dinosaurs and Fruit Snacks

He is going to play at his friend's house while we go to the doctor

J-Man was nervous that it was going to hurt,

but we played eye spy, 20 questions and

named all the characteristics of plant eating dinosaurs

while waiting for the doctor to start the test.

The Allergy test, for Wheat, Peanuts, Tree Nuts and Fish

He was very brave and then came the

Good News: J-Man is no longer allergic to Wheat, Tree Nuts or Fish except Tuna

Bad News:  He is still severely allergic to Peanuts and 

thereby must be managed by an epipen.

All the way home J-Man was so excited that he can have fish.

He can go fishing and eat the fish he catches and

he can have telapia when Noure cooks it on Sundays.

Then J-Man asked if we could make "Melted Chicken Pizza" for dinner.

I tried to explain that chicken can't melt, but as usual he was

determined to explain how it can melt and how we will make it.

1 loaf of bread dough, defrosted, split between

the children and ready to make pizza crust.

We baked just the crust for 15 minutes

Then we added the sauce (tomato sauce, cilantro and coriander powder),

chicken chunks(Freeze Dried reconstituted) and slices of ham

Garnish with Spinach

Cheese on top of J-Man's pizza

I-Man creating his pizza

Hot and Ready to Eat

Did the chicken melt?  Yes, in our mouths and it tasted pretty good.

Mr. Mr. mostly just ate the spinach salad on his plate

On Monday we will meet with the Principle at the elementary school 

to see how J-Man can manage his allergies in the classroom. 

I hope it will be possible, but if not we will enroll him in an online charter school.

So we end with The Good, The Bad and The Yummy!

Morning Walk on the Dirt Path

I was getting J-Man ready for Joy School

when I got a call from his teacher that she has the flu. 

 So Joy School is cancelled for today. 

We decided to go for a morning walk on a dirt path

we discovered on Saturday.

 

Bouba

J-Man had stopped to show me a cool rock.

Mr.Mr. in the stroller

J-Man and Bouba taking a quick break

J-Man found a dirt and rock pile to climb on

The Cholla Cactus is starting to bloom

Cholla Cactus Fruit

Cholla Cactus Buds

J-Man found a big tree with a large canopy to climb through

it was blooming as well

These blooms attract hundreds of bees, we could hear them buzzing

The trail ended up across the street from the "little park"

J-Man on the monkey bars

He's going to make it

Well done!

Mr. Mr. climbing down

J-Man and Mr.Mr. climbing down

Mr. Mr. climbing up the slide

We came home and gave Bouba a bath and

played jump rope and tug of war.

What an exciting morning.