Week 11 - Check!

Whew!  What a busy week!  Our church had revival services Sun.-Wed. nights, and then on Thursday, I had my young moms ministry in the morning and a homeschool event at night.  Both of these were held at church too.  I love church, but I will be glad to have a break until Sunday!  :)

Needless to say, we have been a little tired.  We still took care of the basics this week and we squeezed in a few extras.  I wasn't thinking earlier or I would have taken pictures while the boys carved their pumpkins.  Oh well.  I'll try to get a picture of the pumpkins in the morning.  It is too dark now.

We are on target in all the major subject areas.  I need to be a little more diligent in art especially.  But I am making progress in faithfulness.  Thank You, Jesus!

Three more weeks and we get to take our second break!

Homeschool Share Night Projects

Seth:

Isaac:

Joshua:

Erik:

Week 9 - Check!

I haven't have the time (or the motivation) to do a summary the past several weeks.  Week 7, we were trying to wrap up for our break.  I was really ready for that break and didn't feel like rehashing the week when it was over.  I just wanted to get on with the break!  Then week 8, we had friends come visit in the middle and that was a BLAST!  But it did force us to cram extra stuff into days that were already full, so no summary.  And now week 9 has just ended.

School is running MUCH more smoothly now.  We are used to a more rigorous routine.  Finally!  We all thought it was going to kill us for about the first 5 weeks.  Now that we are 'in the swing of things', our attitudes have improved overall and I even made the older boys laugh while teaching them grammar today.  Now that's a major feat in and of itself, since grammar doesn't have much to use as a source of amusement.

I LOVE FRIDAYS!  I know I have mentioned that before.  

Today we completely switched things up.  We had prayer, then Isaac and Seth did their geography page on longitude.  Joshua, Erik, and I went over sentences they had diagrammed yesterday.  We had a good discussion about where to put several prepositional phrases.  Since we haven't officially studied how to diagram those, we just had a good time trying to guess where the right place to put them would be and why.  (That was a challenging exercise, and I, at least, had fun participating in it.  And, as aforementioned, I did manage to make them laugh, so I hope they enjoyed it somewhat as well.)  So... you've already probably guessed that studying prep. phrases will be coming up soon, and you are right!  Exciting event coming soon to a homeschool near you.  (Next week as a matter of fact.)  After that we watch Amazing Grace, a video of the history of 5 hymns:  Amazing Grace, Silent Night, How Great Thou Art, What a Friend We Have In Jesus, and It Is Well With My Soul.  It was SO good.  The boys and I really enjoyed it.  Besides that, we studied health and then we went to the library.

The rest of the week was spent covering the core subjects, as usual.  It's hard to find a lot to say about that because it's just the nitty-gritty work of each discipline.  The boys finished all their work this week, except for the older boys having to do a little science this weekend.  

Tomorrow, Robert and I will be ordering NEW windows for the house.  Trying to snug up before winter and take advantage of the tax credit offered.

Good night!

My Goal is to be a Fit Granny!

I'm using these fine woman

as a motivational example.

Fit Grannies don't wait until 

they are old to get started!

Parents are Disciplemakers

I just read the most fabulous rendition of

1 Corinthians 13 over on the blog,

At the Well

The entry is all about how education

is secondary to helping our children

to come to know the Lord and

to have an intimate relationship with Him.

SO GOOD!!!

A must read for every Christian parent!