Good Bye Math Manipulatives

I sold our Saxon Math Manipulatives today. It was a difficult parting. A few weeks ago, the kids took a lot of the items back out of the box to keep. So many fun memories! My oldest daughter took out the Teddy Bear Counters and Pattern Blocks. What fun the two of us had in Kindergarten counting with those little Teddy Bears! My youngest took out the clocks. They wanted to keep the geo boards. But this week, I decided to go ahead and sell everything. Except the Teddy Bears. So I substituted them with Butterfly Lifecycle Counters. And gathered everything else. I am amazed that after 10 years, I still had all 100 linking cubes and all 100 counting squares! All the dominoes were there except the double nine!!! Where is it???? So they found a good home with four young children today. To a local mom who has been looking for them, hoping for a good deal. I was able to bless someone else, and make a little money, too. Good bye linking cubes and pattern blocks. Good bye little teaching clocks and hundred number board. We had good times and hard times. I'll never forget how you helped my children learn.

Fall is Here!

I love the fall weather! I actually love spring more, but it is too close to the hot summer weather. In the fall, it is far, far away! Except for this week. It will get hot again. Then cold. There goes our fall. But we did have a few days of 70s weather. I took the kids on a surprise field trip last week, to the Pumpkin Patch. It had an awesome corn maze that the kids loved. Then we bought a bunch of pumpkins. Here are some pics:



Halloween: A Bum, Darth Vadar, A Dalmation, A Medieval Farmhand, A Raven: