Joy school lately

Joy school has been incredible! We have made so many memories and learned and strengthened beautiful friendships.  I am so in love with the Joy School curriculum and what has been taught to my children.  We have the best group of kids and moms and I am so honored to be with such a special group of people.  My children look forward to going and once every two weeks it is at our house and that is fun too. Evaleigh is starting to open up more socially by doing the hand motions and singing to some songs, that is a big inprovement for her.  She is not one to show off unless it is her idea.  I have enjoyed watching her social skills change and grow over the past few months. Here are some of the many many things we have done:

Nature day

Feed cows

Ride on BOB

Paint with feet

Trace our bodies

Homemade applesauce 

Bake cookies

Make homemade veggie soup

Go to a zoo

Made pinecone peanut butter bird feeders

Plant seeds

Make ghosts out of trash

Halloween costumes

Assembly line for apple toast

Puppet shows

Learn about our bodies communication honesty the earth and so much more! 

And COUNTLESS arts and crafts 

We love this program and the friends who do it with us! 

Joy school

Now that we are settling in to the school year it's time to add yet another thing in to our crazy schedules.  We will be starting joy school with evaleigh the first week of September. I completely took down the dining room table and carried each piece down to the basement.  The children used my extra tools to "help" disassemble.  I love their little willing and helpful spirits.  Just tonight as Deb and the kids and I were getting out of the car to eat a quick dinner at sonic Evie reached over to Avett's seat and said, "don't worry I'll get Avett out." Something so simple made me so proud.

We printed out rules for our classroom and have already been singing the songs all over the place! Evaleigh put her own special twist on one, "we do not hit or kick or spit." Close enough my dear.

I drug down (all by my self against the will of my bad back) the cube storage from Evies room and then promptly replaced it with my mother's childhood dresser that was collecting dust in the garage.  I can't stand for things to be out of place too long. So how our joy school room looks crisp and organized.

I look forward to teaching her about the joy of life and living.  And I can tell she is looking so forward to it too!