Wanna Chocolate Fix??

If your family is like ours, you probably have a love for chocolate too.  So when you combine our love of games with our love of chocolate, what do you get??  Chocolate Fix of course.  For the holiday the kids each got a ThinkFun  game.  ThinkFun are the makers of RushHour, which I think is more well known than Chocolate Fix.  These are fun little one player games, although sometimes we do play together, they teach logic and critical thinking.   The Chocolate Fix game comes with 9 "chocolate candies," the board, cards and a travel bag.  The cards give you clues about how to set up your "box of candies," by shape and by color.  The cards are on a little spiral stand and when you think you've got it, you flip the over and check to see if your correct. 

I really appreciate games that make my kids exercise their little brains. My kids really seem to enjoy this one, and I must say that I do too!
 

Played a Game with SomeBody Today

For the holiday I tried to get several games for the kids that had an educational theme to them.  We have played a few of them but today I we played one of my new favorites!  It is called SomeBody.  The game is all about the human body.  There are 5 different types of games to play with in this one game, which I thought was a huge bonus! 

                                                   

Basically, each player (up to 4 players) gets a Body Board and a sheet of reuseable body part stickers.  The game that we played was called Build SomeBody.  We each got our body board and stickers and then you take turns answering questions about the human body and if you answer correctly then you get to add a body part to your board.  The person to fill up your body wins. 
One of the questions that stumped me was "What body part stores extra blood?"  The answer, to my surprise was the spleen.  They also have these experiment cards that are fun too!  I got one that have to count your full breaths for one minute to see how many breathes we take in a minute.  One of my girls got an experiment card that had you take 20 baby steps across the room and explained that was the same length of your intestines.
This game was a breath of fresh air for health today.  The girls and I both loved playing it and I am pretty sure it is going to be a favorite.

Games and Girl Time

We finished up our school week today, we only school M-F, and I was ready for a little fun.  To end our week of studying Kenya, we watched "Madagascar." Then, this evening after dinner (Taco Topped Potatoes - yummy!) I wanted to play some games with the kids.  We ended up playing a Thomas the Train board game and then a Blue's Clues game.  We had such a good time. We laughed, played and really enjoyed being together.  I feel sometimes I can be so worried about getting school, laundry and housework done that I forget to enjoy my kids.  So, it was nice to just relax and have a little fun. 

After the games we sent the boys upstairs.  I am trying to purpose to have mother - daughter time with my girls on a regular basis.  So, the girls and I had some mother- daughter reading time.  I decided to start reading "The Care and Keeping of You" book with the girls last week. 

The book is a about the changes a young girls body goes thru at the start of and during puberty.  The book talks specially about your skin, hair and body changes plus healthy ways to care for yourself.  Their are a few pictures that I felt led to sharpie marker out but other than that I think it is a good little book.  Of course, it counts for health, what a bonus! 

On the African Safari

We are entering our second week studying Africa, Kenya specifically.  So far we have learned a little about the people, their flag and the world they live in.  We are learning about the savannah and the animals that live there. 

 

Today as I read "On a Road in Africa" and "Here is the African Savannah" my kids put together these really cool 3D Animal Puzzles.  The best part of all is that I found them in the dollar bin at Michaels AND they come in a pack of 2!  What a deal!  What a deal!