The Walnut Acre Daily - Easy Sausage Pizza, Apple Pizza Pie and More

Words to Live By

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Homeschool and Independent Learning

This morning Calla, Lauren and Michael reviewed the memory verse and we sang His L-O-V-E. Then we watched the following videos - Jesus Loves Me Children's Song, I Am Pizza, Toddler Math - Addition For Kids, and the Letter N Song.

Yesterday the kids were not in the mood to do worksheets and coloring pages and today they could hardly get enough. They colored the Nn and Mm coloring pages and talked about the sounds the letters make and what words begin with those sounds. They colored the coloring sheet that goes with our song this week. We all worked together on the math sheets. They enjoyed coloring pictures of pizza (it looks to me like some is burnt), and colored a picture to go with our memory verse.

This evening I read spent some time reading with Austin and Amanda. We read some more of No Woman So Fair by Gilbert Morris and Proverbs 13.

Books We Enjoyed Today

The first two books are the books I read with CJ and Michael at bedtime this evening. The third book is the book I am reading with Austin and Amanda and the last one is the book I am reading myself.

In the Kitchen

We continued our pizza fun for National Pizza Week by trying the following two recipes for dinner this evening.

Easy Sausage Pizza

1 lb ground sausage

1 12 inch pre-baked pizza crust 

1 cup pizza sauce

1 1/4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1 green pepper, chopped

1 yellow pepper, chopped

1 small onion, chopped

Brown sausage.

Spread sauce over crust, spread with one cup cheese.

Sprinkle sausage, peppers and onion over cheese. 

Top with remaining cheese.

Bake according to crust package instructions or until cheese is melted.

Apple Pizza Pie

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup confectioners' sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 (21 ounce) cans apple pie filling

 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

3/4 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 

Cream together butter or margarine and confectioners' sugar. Add 1 cup flour and mix just until dough forms a ball. Spread into a 12 inch pizza pan.

Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove  and spread with apple pie filling.

Mix together the cheese, 3/4 cup flour, brown sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over apples pie filling. Bake for an additional 25 - 30 minutes. 


These two pizzas along with a salad made a very good dinner. I also made a sausage pizza without the peppers and onions for those who don't like veggies on their pizza.

Around the House

I cleaned the kitchen after breakfast this morning and did some laundry.

Austin cleaned up the kitchen after lunch and dinner, and did the daily cleaning in the living room, playroom and upstairs bathroom.

Amanda did the daily cleaning in the mudroom and downstairs bathroom and did some laundry.

Outdoor Fun

Today was warmer then it has been for awhile and the kids went outside for a little. 

We Are Going

I was planning to take Austin to the Antique Mall and Amanda to the pet store this afternoon and let the little ones enjoy the outing as well. Then when when Doug came home from work he was going to stay with the younger ones while I took Amanda to volunteer at the SPCA. But out plans changed a little when Michael woke up this morning with a stomach bug. We stayed home this afternoon and then when Doug came home from work he took Austin and Amanda to do the things they wanted to do. 

Amanda bought two Fancy Rats and named them Jasmine and Lucy. She's had Fancy Rats as pets before and really enjoyed them. After the last ones died she took a break from them for awhile and then decided she wants some more. She already had the cage and over the weekend she set it up and had it all ready for them.

Today's Quote

Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ~ Charles Kingsley

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Tot School - Ocean Theme Week 3

For the third week in a row (and this will be the last week) we used an ocean theme. There are so many fun activities we could still do using the ocean theme but I think it's time to focus on a different theme for awhile. So next week we will be learning about astronauts and outer space.

Here are some of the fun things we did this week.

* All activities marked with an asterisk can be found at Homeschool Creations in the Ocean Preschool Pack.

Morning Circle Time

Bible Stories - The Farmer's Seeds and A Tiny Seed and a Big Tree from The Beginner's Bible, I'm a Little Seed action rhyme, Little Seed Song, Mustard Seed, Clickety-Clack, Under the Sea From A to Z, Weather Watch, Calender


Dolphin Paper Craft -  Printable Paper found at Activity Village and Dolphins found at First Palette.

Ocean Sticker Pages

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Ww Tracing Page*

Whale Size Sorting*

Fun Fish Lunch

Ocean Graphing*

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Today's Adventures - Monday September 26, 2011

Today's Verse

Then Jesus said, "Come to Me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

Today's Quote
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~ Author Unknown

 Working, Learning and Playing Together

During circle time this morning Michael chose these number puzzles to work on together. This is one of his favorite activities.

Austin brought in a Katydid from outside for us to see.

Our preschool/kindergarten theme for the next few weeks will be Transportation. Austin helped Michael with this picture/word matching activity from the Transportation Preschool Pack  from Homeschool Creations.

Amanda folding laundry.

Austin shredding old paper. We use the shredded paper in the guinea pig and Amanda's pet rats cages instead of buying litter for them.

Luaren and Michael playing with transportation flannel set I made to go with our tranportation theme.

Creating

Today I made this block for the patchwork curtains I am working on for the playroom.

Here are some I did over the weekend.

From the Kitchen

Michael helped me mix up a double recipe of Homemade Egg Noodles.

Here are the noodles drying and also a two loaves of Traditional White Bread that had just come out of the oven.

Critters
Amanda's new cat, Sheena, is still getting used to her new surroundings.

Pepper thinks she has found a new friend but Sheena doesn't want to play.

Favorite Homeschool Activities from Austin and Amanda

 Austin said his favorite part of our lessons today was this short video about the Giant Prehistoric Bear.

Amanda's favorite part was the three chapters I read aloud  to them from The Tanglewoods Secret by Patricia St. John.

Tonight I Am Grateful For . . .

This goofy guy who keeps showing up in my kitchen window.

Every day is an adventure and I never want to forget.