We've always HATED the carpet that is in our dining room. Carpet in the dining room under my messy boys is just a joke. The milk gets spilled, and ground into the carpet, food is always spilled, I'm constantily having to vacuum (ok- have the boys vacuum and revaccuum) the carpet. A "Before" Picture. We did tear the carpet off the 2 bottom steps before we took this- we had to take the steps out to lay the flooring down- it was easier than trying to go around them .
Sunday night- Ben found some laminate flooring listed on KSL.com classifieds for less than 1/3- goodness even less than 1/6 of the normal price. So we made a quick trip to Salt Lake and beyond to pick it up. It's beautiful! Ben has spent the past couple of nights laying it down in our dining room. 
It looks BEAUTIFUL! We still need to put some caulking or something around the edges, and put the steps back in, but WOW! I love it!
Sunday night- Ben found some laminate flooring listed on KSL.com classifieds for less than 1/3- goodness even less than 1/6 of the normal price. So we made a quick trip to Salt Lake and beyond to pick it up. It's beautiful! Ben has spent the past couple of nights laying it down in our dining room. It looks BEAUTIFUL! We still need to put some caulking or something around the edges, and put the steps back in, but WOW! I love it!
Or you can make a triangle shaped box (Use number 3) on a square bottom (Roo calls this an "elk box") not sure why!?
Of course- the Box needed a lid (use number 4) 
or if you'd like- you can call the lid a flag (use number 5) 
If you are ambitious, artistic and adventuresome like Doodle, you can set out without a plan. Clothespins work great to clamp the pieces together while you are waiting for the glue to dry.
Use number 7- a house! Though it's not 3-d like the one we originally planned to make- it turned out great!
each time I give him an assignment I have him write it on the table of contents page, that way we are both sure when the assignment is done and in the notebook. Otherwise things would get done, but he couldn't find them, and they wouldn't get put in the notebook. 
Colorwheels (page from Beyond manual) and ds's painting of the drought.
Roo's version of the Nina. See all the sails. 
Doodle's finished version of The Pinta
And Bug's Santa Maria.
The Final exam- will they float?! It's decided that Clay might help make the sails stand up, but it is too heavy to float, so Roo and Bug's boats don't float. 
The Winner of the Best Floating Boat Competition- Doodle's Pinta
The guy there told him to just microwave it in a paper bag. So after church we decided to give it a try. YUM! The popcorn was delicious. It just popped right off the cob into the paper bag. Here's what it looked like when it was done.
Except for the first one that I burned a little bit. yuck! I hate the smell of burnt popcorn.
What a Fun, simple story with lots of imagination. Monday we talked about how the story happens in the Boy's imagination. We also read a go-along book Harold's ABC's.
Wednesday was math day- we counted the windows on one of the pages, got well over 100, and talked about fractions and pieces of pie.
Thurdsay we talked about the phases of the moon, we read a book about it, How the Moon Seems to Change
and did a simple experiment to show how the moon doesn't really change shape, we just can only see part of it lit up. Using a flashlight, (the sun) a Ball (the moon) and Doodle's head (the ear
On Monday we learned about England and Europe, as Doodle noticed that the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car. We found England on the map, and talked about some of the different words they use. 
We used counting cars that we have to make the patterns in the book. I also found this fun puzzle that we put together. 
Then since Mr. Gumpy "didn't like the look of the clouds" in the sky, we read a book about clouds, and how to identify different clouds. Here are the go-along books we used this week- It was a Fun school week!