Posted in art, Daily log, Home ec, PE, pictures, recipes on Feb 5th, 2010 2 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to…. 1. Making deviled egg sailboats. 2. Continuing to read our Revolutionary War diary. 3. Having guitar lessons with Daddy (for Victoria and Anna). 4. Doing art. by Victoria: by Jack: 5. Creating games and busywork. 6. Running businesses. I love how Jack creates his own spelling [...]
Posted in art, cooking/home ec, Daily log, geography, history, Home ec, math, PE, pictures, reading, social studies on Dec 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
We’re getting back in the swing of homeschooling around here. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to… 1. We’re reading book two (Utah) of the “Wright on Time” homeschool series. (Geography, social studies, reading) 2. We’ve been sledding, taking walks and playing in the snow. (PE) 3. The girls have been taking photographs [...]
Posted in nature, PE, pictures on Dec 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
I took the boys for a walk today and pulled Alex in the sled. It was bitterly cold but bright and sparkling white everywhere. Jack had quite an adventure even navigating our front yard! Here’s Jack giving Alex a hand to pull him into our yard. I got quite a workout pulling Alex and sometimes [...]
Posted in cooking/home ec, Daily log, Field trips & tours, Fun, history, Home ec, magical moments, math, nature, PE, pictures, science, social studies on Aug 9th, 2009 7 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to in between illnesses, arguments, emergency room visits and general craziness. This will be a very camping-intensive entry! Home-Ec: We made homemade ice cream with all different recipes and inclusions. We used whole milk, whipping cream and half and half to compare the differences in fat [...]
Posted in art, Charity & Community Good, Daily log, Fun, nature, PE, pictures on Jul 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’m still playing catch-up here, especially with Victoria STILL sick and Jack and Alex both sick with some sort of flu that caused pretty high fevers the past couple of days. Everybody but Anna is on forced rest, like it or not. Here’s a bit of what we were up to before the boys got [...]
Posted in lesson plans, math, nature, PE, plans for the day, science on Jun 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
It’s not usually hard to find fun ways to homeschool in the summer time, but here’s a few ideas I had for spicing things up around here. 1. Have a trivia obstacle course. Set up an assortment of balance beams, hula hoops, kiddie pools and other props in some sort of fun way and get [...]
Posted in Alex, Anna, Daily log, Fun, Jack, math, nature, PE, pictures, plays, reading, science, testing, Toddlers on Jun 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
Egads, we’ve been busy! Summer is always such an explosion of activity. On the one hand, it’s wonderful to have so many opportunities. On the other hand, it gets a wee bit overwhelming. Here’s some of what we’ve been up to…….. 1. Jack started T-ball and is loving it! His first game was in the [...]
Posted in Daily log, geography, Jack, math, nature, PE, pictures, reading, science, spelling, Victoria on Jun 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to this week… 1. Jack started T-ball for the first time ever! He did great and we’re really excited for him. 2. We’ve been studying the Rainforest — reading books, learning songs, making rainforest mix and match bread, doing rainforest spelling words and putting them in alphabetical [...]
Posted in Daily log, PE, pictures on May 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s a few snapshots to capture what we’ve been up to the past few days….
Posted in Fun, nature, PE on May 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
We met Erica at a nearby lake today and had such a blast! It was a perfect day, just barely hot enough to make it good for swimming with a big wind to keep bugs away. Daryl got two old inner tubes for free from the guy who owns the local tire shop (we’ve given [...]
