It's "Crabst" Time!

Craft time will bring my boys to the dinning room table faster than any meal during the day.




I can safely say that our mornings are many times divided in "BEFORE Crafts" and "AFTER Crafts".

And I must admit it, I many times take advantage of this: "If you don't brush your teeth, you won't have Crafts today". Hey! It works.


Anyways, here are some of our "crabsts" for this month.


Our first one and perhaps there the relationship between craft time and "crabst" time (how they call it).

Yes! It is a crab. We reviewed our shape -the circle, learned crab's body parts (head, legs and claws or pincher), we counted to make sure we had 8 legs and even had some math-fun: 4 legs on this side and 4 legs on the other side 4+4=8


And they thought we were only having fun!!


An octopus. This day was fun. We watch some videos online (Youtube) to see how octopus move, how and what do they eat, where do they live and how intelligent they are!

During Craft time we reviewed our shape-the rectangle and we had math fun again. Hey! crabs have 8 legs and Octopus have 8 arms.



You could see their eyes, WOW! what a cool coincidence.





And you can't have "Down by the Sea" as a theme without a Fish.




We reviewed our shapes -the circle and the triangle and learned that fish's tails are called fins.

"When you learn to awaken your families creativity, wonderful things will happen: you'll make wonderful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play and grow together"
from the book "The Creative Family: how to encourage imagination and Nature family connections" Author- Amanda Blake Soule

:)Nayeli

Down by the Sea!

Our Fun-Schooling theme for this month was " Down by the sea". It was sooooo refreshing to start the year at the beach! The power of the ocean, the energy of the wind, the seagulls flying all around us, the sand under our feet, the music of the waves and THE FREEDOM TO ENJOY THEM All!

We had:

Lot's of playing...

and learning!

Because "Playing=Learning"

from the book, “Einstein Never Used flash Cards: How Our children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less”. The authors, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D. and Diane Eyer, PD

:) Nayeli

Mami, Are we having school Today?

It's early in the morning, about 8:00-8:30am. Kids have been awake for about 30 mins already and suddenly... it just hits them. Perhaps all the posters on the wall reminds them of it.

So, they have to ask:

Boys: Mami, Are we having school today?

Mami: No, not today.

Boys: AHHHHWWW! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Mami: Well...today is Sunday, we don't have school on Sundays. (or Well...We are taking a day off today- with a big smile!)

Boys: BUT MAAAAAAMI...WE WANT SCHOOL!

Mami: I know, I know, we'll have school tomorrow ok?

Boys: AHHHHHWW! BUT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Mami: Like I said, we'll have school again tomorrow. Now, go play!

BOYS: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? I WANT SCHOOOOOOL! ...AND ME TOO! (yea there's two of them).

Mami: I know, I know.

BOYS: AHHHHHWWWW!!

:)Nayeli

Stay tuned, I am here to stay!

Here I am, sitting in my boys' bedroom hoping to write more than 2 lines before they ask for water, or juice, or milk, or bathroom, or a blanky, or anything that could stretch their time to be awake a little longer, while making sure Mommy stays busy too.

...(juice, milk & blanky)...

Ok, back here!

I am so excited to start this blog! I have had not enough sleep for the last few days after discovering the blogspot world. Actually, I was briefly introduced to Blogspot a while ago. I even created an account but put it on the back burner with the excuse that I was too busy with two toddlers (15 months appart), a homebusiness, cooking, driving, teaching, etc etc etc.

Well, imagine my surprise when I started going from blog to blog and meeting all these Wonderful Moms with not 3 but 4, 5, 6. children. Boy I was challenged! ...and I mean to write not to expand my family!


10 years ago (1999) I married a handsome Dutch man that, I must say, loves sailing and MOVING! Yea, we have lived in Tennesse, Norway, Michigan, California and Florida (for now). Anyone familiar with the "Flying Dutchman" story? Well, I think they should post a disclaimer somewhere there saying -"Any similarites to real life are co-incidental and should be taken as such."

Today, Flying Dutchman and I have 2 handsome boys, 3 and 4 years old. While he works at a Golf Club (if you can call that a work place ha ha ha!) I am AtHomewithmySons and we play school every day. It is our favorite game, so we play it at the library, nature parks, the beach, playgrounds, museums, everywhere! You'll see a lot about "Fun-schooling" in this blog.

My main desire for this blog is to connect with other Moms as I share my stories.

I hope to make new friends as we find the many similarities that unite us in motherhood and the differences that make us unique.

Welcome to my world and...Stay tuned, I am here to stay!

:)Nayeli