Scenes from The Princess Spa Party

I hosted a spa party for my girls and their friends this past Saturday. It was wonderful. The girls walked away knowing that they were important, beautiful, and deserved to be treated like queens everyday! They received a manicure, pedicure, a facial, and took home some sweet smelling sugar scrub. There was lots of food and we even had a visit from a Queen!

Where You Might Find Me This Weekend

Cheering on Yasina as she races in the Diary Dash, part of the Laveen Community Harvest Daze Festival

Where You Might Find Me This Weekend

Where You Might Find Me This Weekend

Celebrating the Holy Day of Atonement!

Building Better Births

If you're in the Valley, please come out. I'll be volunteering!

Another Trip to the Phoenix Zoo

Where You Might Find Me This Weekend

At the Twins' soccer game. Goal!

At the Lowes' Build and Grow Clinic

Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy at Christown Mall

Spelling Word Journal

In an attempt to take freshen up our spelling word activities and began composition instruction, we began a spelling word journal. 3 times per week, the children chose one on the week's assigned words, draw a picture, and write 2 to 3 sentences about what they have drawn. I stress capitalization, punctuation, and expressing a complete thought. I've found this to be a great creative outlet and a wonderful to allow the children to combine penmanship, grammer, spelling, and composition skills.

Star Wars!

I didn't appreciate the guns, but Amir was elated to see some the characters from his favorite movie series, Star Wars. He and I are the sci-fi fans in our house. Thanks to the Glendale Library System for the opportunity.

Discount Time!

Attention Homeschoolers: I just found that Borders bookstores offer a 25% discount to teachers, and of course homeschool moms and dads are teachers too. Educator Appreciation Week is Sept. 29 thru Oct 7. This week the discount is 30%.