Today, Whooooooooo!!!!

I am tired. That is all the energy that I have to say {or type}.

We arrived at the train station at about 10:30. Then we waited in an hour and a half line in the cold. Finally we got on the train at about 11:30. It was really amazing. The first car had pictures of the characters with their names and the people who play them. The Second Car had models and clay sculpture of the characters' bodies and heads. This car also had a model of Big Ben made out of paper and poster board! Believe it or not, it was really cool. The third car had a model of Scrooge's office and Fred's House. The fourth car had mirrors on the walls and it showed how they created the characters. Very Cool. The Fifth and Sixth cars showed digital illustrations of the sets. Number Seven and Eight had booths that could take your picture and turn it into one of the characters in the movie. The final car had a cute little setting of a Christmas Dinner and you could get your picture taken of you and your family. After we got off of the train, we went to this mini-theater and we saw a preview. And, might I say, that from watching the preview, you might want to leave your kids under 6 years old at home. Just because of things like Phantom horses, skeletons, and really creepy ghosts. I was scared.

You ar probably wondering,"She said there was going to be pictures!" Well, being me, I woke up so late that I forgot my camera. You either have to take my word for it, or see the tour yourself.

I have ballet pretty soon so, bye!

Toodles

Rebecca

PS: The shelfari thing is almost done. I should be finished this week.

Our New School Room

I have over-promised and under-delivered. A couple days ago I said that I was going to post pix of our new school room "tomorrow". Let's just pretend that today is that "tommorow", kay?

Anyway, Here is a picture of the room

Where should we begin, the desk?

And now the workboxes {aaaaahhhhh the lovely things}

Sorry about the flash {note to self: get a better camera}

These are the pictures with numbers that we tear off the workboxes when we are done with that subject.

Here is my math in one of the drawers

My adorable sister

Last but not least, the window seats

Now you can proudly say that you have had a tour of the Richards Family Schoolroom.

Tommorow we are going on Disney's A Christmas Carol Train Tour, so look out for pix of that on tommorow's post.

Toodles
Rebecca

PS: I am trying to create a Shelfari "pool" where you can go on and post the books that you are reading to show them to anyone who reads this blog. I will keep you posted on that.

Sorry!!!!!!

So sorry that I haven't posted in a while. Busy Busy Busy.

We didn't actually start school on the 17th. We started on the 31st. We got sick.

Anyway, we have been learning a lot. we are learning about Colonial America. Our mom organizes all of our work in these workboxes. She had this idea to put one side of velcro on the workboxes, and the other on a picture with a number on it, Luke with Star Wars, Sam with animals, Lilly with princesses, me with ballet shoes. When we were done with the workbox, we would tear the picture off and put it on my desk so that mom could see how far we have worked. I will give you a picture of out brand new school room in the morning; it is dark now. My mom bought a futon online, cut it up, and covered it in fabric and put it up on a strong shelf that my dad built and made it a window seat. We do our reading up there {you can see what we are reading on our shelf}. I am in the middle of writing a paragraph (more like three pages) about John Bunyan. A really good resource for the story of the Pilgrims Progress for kids is a book called Dangerous Journey {you can see that on my shelf}.

Well, I am falling asleep at the keyboard, so goodnight!!!


Toodles,
Rebecca

It's Almost Time!!!!!!

It's almost time for school. Most kids would hate that. But a friend of our recently gave us a lot of boxes of school stuff. Books, DVDs, and Science supplies. Like test tubes and a microscope. So we are starting a little bit earlier this year, August 17th. 3 days before my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be posting a lot more, since this is my school blog. I tend to post less during the Summer.


Did I mention that My mom is having a baby? Yep. Some of you people who know me know this, But other didn't. It is a girl. The due date is November 22.


Toodles!!!

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Grand Opening!!!!

This is the Grand Opening of the new and improved The Daily Weave!!!!!! I fyou are wondering how I got this awesome background and header here is how: Go the Shabby Blogs website and click "Backgrounds". Find the one that you like and click on the button that says "Install Background". Follow the directions to install it! The header was a bit trickier. After you install the background, Click on "Shabby Extras" and find the header that you like. Click "Download Header". Right-click on the image and save it. Go to you blogger profile and click layout. Make sure that you are on Page Elements. Click on "edit" under the header. Then click on "Browse" under "Image From Computer" and select your header that you saved. Tada!! Enjoy your fabuluos Blog!!!! The Shabby Blogs Blog is really useful too, it shows you how to do cool stuff to your blog!!!


TTFN