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10 bags of trash, a rearranged room, hours of scheduling and one very long school supply list......

We are getting ready for the school year!

Can you hear Vector from Despicable Me.....

OH YEAH!!

So excited to start this year. I closed my itty bitty home business to totally focus on the kids. What a challenge this year with a 7th grader a 4th grader and a cute little kindergartner! :)

It's going to be a great year!!

We are starting school Aug 22nd! Can't wait :)

Giving Thanks....

We had our home school Thanksgiving last week.

The kids did a great job cooking all the food.

Take a look at Dylan's bread .......

We read stories about the Pilgrims and watched a cartoon about William Bradford and the first Thanksgiving. Fun day!!

This turned out to be a great unit study.

I missed a couple weeks.
Instead of catching up, let's just start new. :)

We are getting ready for Thanksgiving.....Home School Style.


For the past few weeks we have been learning about the Colonies and the Mayflower. We will wrap it up next Tues. when we will have our own celebration and feast. This is my favorite part of Home Schooling the kids, we (they) will be cooking homemade bread from fresh milled wheat, applesauce from apples picked from the tree's of Pennsylvania (given to us from a friend that just visited there), Pumpkin pie and some more goodies. We have been keeping a Thankful Jar and writing what we are thankful for, we will read these at the table.
Lot's of fun!

week 10

This week finished off our first quarter of school. It was full of parties and fun!

At the beginning of the week we went to a little park to feed the ducks.

Caitlin named every one of them. This one's name is June. She only had one foot and we gave her special attention. :)

Mid week was a stop at the Pumpkin Patch....

By Friday I planned a little class party.

And to top it all off we had our annual Trunk er Treat at church. Our theme was Charlotte's Web.

Here's to another 10 great weeks of school!!!

Week 8 and 9

I thought it would be easy to keep up with this blog.....nothing is easy, right?

We have been reading about our countries around the world. Right now we are studying the Continent of Africa.
We have gone through some of our A beka history book reading on Christopher Columbus, John Smith, Pocahontas, The settlement of Jamestown, Myles Standish and Squanto. I read to all the kids together, even Caitlin is involved at 4 years old. When we recap a story she is the one who usually answers the questions......and gets it right LOL!
I've also been reading a library book on Myles Standish. It's pretty much over their head, talking about all the kings and queens of the Elizabethan era, but if I break it down and explain to them what's happening it opens doors for conversation. Dawson has the best question's sometimes. I love to sit and have talks with him. He is still so innocent at 12 years old.
We did paper mache' last week. There are no pictures because you can't pick up a camera with glue all up in your elbows! What a mess! We will paint them up as pumpkins this week and show them off. They will be decorations for our class Halloween Party next week! :)
I'm thinking of doing a math workshop with the kids. Just take a couple of weeks playing math games and such. Focus on making it more fun to do. We all kinda hate math :)
Typing, reading, spelling words....all doing great! They don't mind those subjects at all! :)
My husband found some old Hardy Boys book's at the thrift store. They turned out to be great books for them to read.
We're doing good! Hope you are too! ")

week 7

I almost forgot to write a post about our week!
They are really getting into creative writing. I don't know what it is about typing, other than they just HATED writing that much, but they will sit and type out a 3 page story on the computer first thing in the mornings. ( not complaining)
I'm reading to them about the Pony Express.
We learned this week about John Smith and Pocahontas.
I bought each one of them a calculator, they take it with them when we go grocery shopping. They like to total up the prices and figure out the price at a certain percent off.
O.k ....short and sweet post. better get ready for next week :)