Nevermore

Here's another easy geography game to make. I bought a pack of party flags in a strip from Hobby Lobby on clearance for 2 dollars, cut them apart and made cards with a small picture of the flag on one side and the name of the country on the other.







We are also going to concentrate more on spelling this year, with the help of Spelling Power. If you are looking for a fun, hands on spelling program check it out.









Here are the rest of our spelling games, activities, and manipulatives.






The whole reason we went to Hobby Lobby yestarday was to buy some decent construction paper for our push-pinning, since the cheap stuff tears unevenly and fades super-quickly.

While I was there I noticed they had all their summer craft stuff and most of their furniture on clearance, the small tables, chests and shelves were only five dollars marked down from 35! So I ended up filling my cart with three small pieces of furniture, and tons of craft supplies, all for only 40 dollars.

Among all my treasures I bought a pack of long black feathers which the kids went nuts for.

"Are they raven feathers?"
"Ooh, Are they from The Raven?"

"Well, they've probably been dyed..."

Faces fall.

"Yes, they look real to me, right off the bird."

They were so excited they each took a feather and began chasing eachother all over the house, tickling eachother.

When they tired of that they began sneaking up on me at the computer and leaving their feathers.

Then they would hide and giggle maniacally to eachother, "We left our black plume as a token!"

So what could I do but scream, "Leave no black plume as a token, of that lie thy soul has spoken, leave my lonlieness unbroken/quit that bust above my door!"

And their absolute favorite part, "Take thy beaks from out my heart and take thy forms from off my door!"

You can guess what they told me...

"Nevermore".