tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27275702044726948262024-03-06T00:10:09.345-08:00"Second star to the right and straight on till morning"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-89542484267002450662013-09-13T12:03:00.000-07:002013-09-13T12:03:42.770-07:00Salem, Riverfront Park, Mission Mill, Capitol!<div style="text-align: center;">
After leaving the coast we headed over to Salem and decided to get a hotel so we could check out some things I have been wanting to see there. It was quite a climate shock coming from highs in the 70's over to Salem on Wednesday and it was 97 and very humid. Our first stop was Riverfront park a favorite of the kids. The Children's Museum was closed so we went to the carousel and splash pad. </div>
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The splash pad was a welcome relief from the heat.</div>
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I have always wanted to take the kids to the Capitol Building so we went over to it after the park. At this point it was closed but we walked around the Capitol park. This was on September 11th.
The flag walk.</div>
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Looking at all of the state flags. </div>
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The steps. </div>
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Flag at half staff for Patriots Day.</div>
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Statue of Jason Lee first Missionary tot eh Oregon Territories and statue dedicated to Oregon's Circuit Riding Preachers.</div>
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After staying the night in Albany we went back to Salem to see the Mission Mill Museum. I first heard about this place from a fellow Oregon blogger and have wanted to check it out. The museum consists of an old wool mill and a set of Methodist missionary buildings that were moved to this site and preserved. The missionaries were among the first pioneers to Oregon and built the first settlement in Chemeketa now known as Salem and also started Willamette University.
The museum is really neat and I highly recommend it.</div>
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First up the Mill. </div>
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Yes Minnie went with us.</div>
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Now onto the Mission houses.
This is the Jason Lee house.
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The Parsonage and missionary dorms.</div>
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Jason Lee house porch. </div>
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Jason Lee's Bible and Catechism book.
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The old church.</div>
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After the museum we decided to go back to the capitol building so we could go inside.</div>
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House of Representatives. Obviously they aren't in session.
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The Senate </div>
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There is Minnie again. </div>
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We headed home after this. Regular school will resume again on Monday. :)
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-65928159634128909992013-09-13T11:25:00.000-07:002013-09-13T11:27:17.509-07:00Heceta, Camping, Newport, Aquarium!<div style="text-align: center;">
We just got home yesterday from a fun vacation trip. We went camping for two nights at the coast with my sister and family and then we stayed one night in Albany so we could check out Salem. I'm going to post about the camping and coast first and then do a separate post about Salem. We reserved a yurt at Beverly Beach State park and were able to check out some places around Newport.<br />
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The kids are all ready to hit the road.</div>
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The first place we stopped was the Heceta lighthouse which has recently been renovated. It was really fun taking a tour of the lighthouse.</div>
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The Keeper's House.</div>
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Next we arrived at our campground and after dinner headed to the beach. </div>
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The crew. </div>
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On Tuesday we went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
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I really liked their new kid area. </div>
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Hurricane simulator </div>
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After the aquarium we decided to head to Nye beach. On the way we discovered a park that had the biggest slide ever.</div>
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After the park it was on to the beach. </div>
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My sister brought along a ice cream maker that you pass around.
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Chilling by the campfire. </div>
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The next day we went to Lincoln city and then headed over to Salem. Buttercup was done with beaches at this point.</div>
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Stay tuned for Salem.
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So once again this year we are doing a 4 day school week with a light morning of school on Friday followed by our mini family co-op. This Friday was our first co-op day and I was hosting. We had a planning meeting last Friday and picked monthly topics. The first is nature so today we went to a local park and had a nature scavenger hunt. I printed up a list of things to find. After having a little talk about the different things on the list we broke into 3 groups and started looking.</div>
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Once the hunt was done we had a snack and played at the park!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-26091014011834070612013-08-30T21:04:00.000-07:002013-08-30T22:21:18.889-07:00First week of school!<div style="text-align: center;">
We started our new school year this past Monday and since this week the Not Back to School Blog Hop topic is a day in the life. I thought I would give you a run down of how are school days go and do our weekly wrap up all in one post.</div>
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We kicked off our school year on Sunday with Schultuete(school cones), and an <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/203013895675957783/">About me</a> form I found on Pinterest for each kid. </div>
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In the cones were candies, some dollar tree mad libs, bookmarks, a new shirt, a new character cup, a toy, a glow stick, and some other random things. </div>
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Here they are telling everyone what answers they gave to the questions. This year Buster says he wants to be a Cop, Sweetpea said Chef, Buttercup said Dancer/Singer/Artist, and Buddy said a Teacher.</div>
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Ok so on to a day in the life or week as it were. This school year I am running 4 Heart of Dakota guides so the easiest way I saw to keep things running smoothly was to plan to have one block of time for me to devote to each kid before lunch and one after lunch. The other kids either play or do independent work while I'm working with one. Here is a run down of a day around here: </div>
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I set my alarm for 7:30 and usually get up a few minutes before that. The kids generally roll out of bed in this order, Buster, Buddy, Sweetpea, and then Buttercup. Sometimes the girls switch places but they are always last. Then we all eat breakfast. Once everyone is dressed and has eaten and I have my coffee ready we start school.</div>
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For the first block I work with Buttercup on Bible, Math, and Phonics. </div>
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During this time Buster does Bible Quiet Time, Poetry, and Science Exploration. <a href="http://s52.photobucket.com/user/twoxcell/media/Facebook/First%20week%20of%20school%2020132014/1235275_10201757094559503_416849914_n.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo 1235275_10201757094559503_416849914_n.jpg" border="0" height="267" src="http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/twoxcell/Facebook/First%20week%20of%20school%2020132014/1235275_10201757094559503_416849914_n.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div>
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Sweetpea does her Handwriting, Hymn, and Explode the Code. </div>
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Buddy plays or does a workbook.</div>
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For the second block I work with Sweetpea on Bible Study, Math,Language Arts(Grammar, Spelling, Phonics.) Reading, and Poetry.</div>
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While I'm working with her Buster is finishing the other subjects I mentioned and if he finishes before I'm done he moves on to either his Drawn Into the Heart of Reading book(He is reading the Hobbit right now.), or Spelling.</div>
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Buttercup does Handwriting or Fine Motor Skills, and Buddy plays or watches a short video.<br />
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For the third block I work with Buster on Math, Language Arts(Grammar, Writing, Spelling, Dictation, DITHOR.), and Logic. At this point the other three kids are generally engrossed in play and making a mess creating towns of toys or towers etc.
While I'm working with Buster I generally am able to get something going for lunch while making sure he is keeping on task.<br />
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Finally for the fourth block I have Buddy do his alphabet or number activity if he has one.</div>
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After lunch is eaten we go outside for recess. </div>
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After Recess we have circle time. During this time we do Spanish, Composer Study, Artists Study, Catechism, Music, Folk Tales, and Geography. We do not do all of these daily. Usually about three things from this list per day.</div>
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Next I start our afternoon blocks. Buddy goes first and this is when I read to him from his Bible and a picture book, he practices his letter sounds, we do any other Little Hands activities, and listen to his Bible songs.
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Buttercup comes next. During this time we do Storytime, History, Science, Rhyme, and her other activities/crafts/games.</div>
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While I'm working with the other kids Buster is doing his History Reading, Independent History, and History Project. Sweetpea is playing with either Buddy or Buttercup.</div>
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Once I finish with Buttercup I do Storytime, History, Science, and any other activities/projects/notebooking/crafts/vocabulary/geography etc. with Sweetpea. Some of these I can get her started on and leave her to finish while I move on to Buster.</div>
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For the final block I do Storytime, Geography and Bible Study with Buster. </div>
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Last but not least the kids are all required to do one chore before they can begin free time. At this time I clean up our school mess and stock our buckets for the next days work. The buckets are then placed on the floor by the book shelf so the table is clear for dinner. Once this is done I start dinner.<br />
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This is how are days go Monday-Thursday. On Friday we do a light morning of school(Spelling test, handwriting, Reading, and Khan Academy for Buster.), and then we have a mini co-op with my sister and sister in-law. We have 10 kids all together.<a href="http://bobandabbies.blogspot.com/2013/08/friday-fun-week-1.html"> Here</a> is what we did this week.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-74766494746973666902013-08-19T21:54:00.000-07:002013-11-15T14:28:23.800-08:00Sweetpea's Baptism!<div style="text-align: center;">
Look who got baptized on Sunday the 4th of August! </div>
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My awesome sister in-law captured these photos for me.</div>
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Sweetpea was so happy and she even picked out her favorite dress to wear!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-69559463634282403342013-08-19T21:35:00.001-07:002013-08-20T08:40:06.723-07:00Student Photo Week!<div style="text-align: center;">
That's right folks it is <a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/student-photo-hop-2013/">Student Photo week</a> for the Not back to School Blog hop. Thanks to my father in-law for fixing my camera and to my husband for taking these pictures, I have pictures for you today! So without further ado here they are: </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Buster age 10, 5th grade!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sweetpea age 7/8, 2nd Grade!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"> Buttercup age 5/6, Kindergarten!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Buddy age 3/4, Preschool!</span></span></div>
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This week we are doing what I'm calling math camp, which is just a math review week, and we will start our regular school year next Monday! I will post some first day pictures next week!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-15758696912767359702013-08-12T12:34:00.000-07:002013-08-12T13:40:46.770-07:00Our School Area!<div style="text-align: center;">
It is school room week for the <a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/school-room-week-2013/">Not Back to School Blog Hop</a>! We don't exactly have a school room but we do have an area that has most of our school things in it. It is actually our dining room. Even though we do school in other random locations in our house I'm just going to show you the dining area and where we keep our games and preschool activities.</div>
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This is where we do all of our seat work.
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This book shelf has preschool/picture books on the top shelf, the second shelf has some random extra books, and the bottom shelf of both books shelves has all of my children's lit organized by genre, which makes it easier to select DITHR and storytime books.
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This bookshelf has the girls main curricula on the top shelf, the boys on the middle shelf along with drawing, composer, artist, catechism, and geography books.</div>
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Paper stash! </div>
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Art Supplies. The kids had fun helping me re-organize these.
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My extra teaching supplies stash and my Nook.</div>
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Pencil sharpener, tape dispenser, stapler, math manipulatives, etc.
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More Manipulatives, Toob toys, and CD's.
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I just bought these two new wall maps at Walmart.</div>
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Wall calendar, extra supplies, kids pencil boxes, coloring books, and book basket.
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Preschool/Kindergarten activity shelf in the laundry room. The days of the week stickers are old and I don't use that system any more.</div>
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Our game, puzzles, and extra craft supply shelf. Also in the laundry room.
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School pets. Stick bugs and a pair of leopard geckos. These were both given to us.
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The pets also live in the laundry room. </div>
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That is about it for this week stay tuned for Student Photo Week and Day In the Life Week. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-77818812901127024902013-08-05T14:17:00.000-07:002013-08-14T15:59:26.961-07:002013/2014 Curriculum Plans!<div style="text-align: center;">
Can you believe that it is already that time of year again?<br />
The summer is flying by and we only have 3 more weeks of summer vacation. I'm joining in for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihomeschoolnetwork.com%2F5th-annual-not-back-to-school-blog-hop%2F&h=zAQHsgGV1&s=1">Not Back To School Blog hop </a>again this August and this week is <a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/curriculum-week-2013/">curriculum week</a>. So here is my annual what we will be using post!<br />
I will start with my youngest and go up. This fall I will have a 5th, 2nd, K, and Preschooler.</div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buddy Preschool:</span></span></div>
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Little Hands to Heaven 1st half</div>
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Rod and Staff 3/4 preschool workbooks</div>
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Kumon Workbooks</div>
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Christian Liberty Press Nature reader K to go along with the letters of the alphabet.</div>
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and a bunch of picture books.We do one a day.</div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buttercup Kindergarten:</span></span></div>
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Little Hearts For His Glory(Picking up in Unit 6)</div>
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Handwriting Without Tears K<br />
Singapore Essentials K A/B</div>
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All About Reading 1</div>
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Rod And Staff ABC and GHI Series<br />
Kumon Workbooks </div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sweetpea 2nd grade:</span></span></div>
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Bigger Hearts For His Glory(picking up in unit 7) This covers History(US History), Science, Poetry, Bible, Grammar, Math, Reading, Geography, Vocabulary, Arts and Crafts, Hymns and more.
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Storytime selections.<br />
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A Reason For Handwriting T the cursive section, and Pentime 2.</div>
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Heart of Dakota Emergent Readers and more. You can find the list <a href="http://bobandabbies.blogspot.com/p/busters-second-grade-reading-list.html">here</a> she is on Days With Frog and Toad right now.</div>
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Rod and Staff English 2 and Spelling 2</div>
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ETC end of 4 and 5
She has a few pages left in Phonics Pathways and part of Reading Pathways
Singapore Primary math 2a/2b US</div>
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Ruth Heller grammar books</div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buster 5th grade:</span></span></div>
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Hearts For Him Through Time Creation to Christ. This will cover History, Science, Geography, Bible, Poetry(Robert Frost Poems), Water color painting, Grammar, Writing, Dictation, Math, Literature, Crafts/Projects, and more.</div>
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Rod and Staff English 4 and Spelling 4</div>
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Write With the Best</div>
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Pentime 4</div>
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Singapore Primary Math 5a/5b US</div>
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Logic Countdown and Logic Liftoff</div>
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Drawn Into the Hearts of Reading 4/5</div>
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He will do the literature study with: The Hobbit, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince, Rabbit Hill, and The Saturdays.</div>
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He chose the following books just to read: Childhood of Famous Americans George Washington, Johnny Tremain, Moho Wat, and Gentle Ben.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">For everyone together:</span></span></div>
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Spanish: Getting Started With Spanish continue from last year. Salsa Spanish <a href="http://www.gpb.org/salsa">videos</a> and Instant Replay <a href="http://www.knowitall.org/instantreplay/content/LanguageIndex.cfm">videos.</a></div>
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Composer study: Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Handel using Opal Wheeler bios and Music. Carnival of the Animals.</div>
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Artist Study: Norman Rockwell, Michelangelo, Picasso and Rembrandt.</div>
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Catechism: Second half of Big Truths For Little Kids</div>
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Geography using the Holling C Holling books, Paddle to the Sea, Seabird, Trail in the Tree, and Minn of the Mississipi.</div>
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Fables/Stories: The Burgess Bird Book For Children(finish reading), The Blue Fairy Book, Indian Fables, and Tales From The Arabian Nights. </div>
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Drawing: Draw Write Now and Usborne Playtime books. We use these sometimes for notebooking assignments as well.</div>
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Music Appreciation: Folk Songs(Wee Sing on Spotify), Christmas Carols,
Hymns, and Patriotic Songs(Wee Sing America)
I have our year divided up into four segments so in general we will be
going over one thing from each of these categories at a time.
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">With Dad:</span></span></div>
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Apologia Botany(They are part way into this)
Apologia Anatomy(second half of school year)
Missionary Bios: Gladys Alyward, George Muller, Wilfred Grinfell, Amy Carmichael.</div>
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I forgot to add PE to the list.<br />
Buster will continue with Swim Team, Sweetpea is currently in the last level of Swim lessons before team and will continue that in the fall. She will most likely play spring rec soccer. Buttercup will start up swim lessons again in the fall and may do spring rec soccer as well. Buddy will start swim lessons when he turns 4. Other than these things the kids are always getting exercise in other ways. ;)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-85468146644560383122013-07-22T15:25:00.000-07:002013-07-22T15:25:08.437-07:00Summer time!<div style="text-align: center;">
Well this summer has been really busy and packed with fun, and we have really been trying to enjoy the time off from school. Buster and Sweetpea have still been reading and doing a bit of handwriting practice but other than that we haven't done any school work. The girls are doing a once a week art class at our church and they really enjoy that. The kids also have had the chance to play with cousins from out of town. My husbands brother and fam were up in June and had a new baby in July, and my brother and his kids were here visiting yesterday. My big kids got to spend the night with them and have some fun. Buster is continuing swim team through the summer and Sweetpea is now in the Shark level of swim lessons which is kind of a transition class between lessons and team. Buttercup is taking the summer off of swim lessons because there was not a good time for her class. I have been trying to take her to open swim time and she is swimming like a fish. Also my nice camera broke so I was without a camera for most of June and these pictures are not the best since they were taken on a little point and shoot. Other than this here is some of the things we have been up to. </div>
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Board game time!</div>
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4th of July!</div>
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Waiting for the city fireworks! </div>
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Berry picking!</div>
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Our half price fireworks.</div>
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Slip and slide and fireworks!</div>
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Park time!</div>
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Buster turned 10 and had a Hobbit sleepover!
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Graffiti night cruise!</div>
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Buster got to ride in a friends car for a spin around the parade route.
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Buttercup with cousin E!</div>
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I'm starting to think ahead to this coming school year and getting things ready. Hopefully I will be able to post soon about curriculum and such.
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We did it we finished our 2012-2013 school year! I really feel like it was our best year yet but I am excited to have a break. All of the kids worked really hard this year and learned a ton. Buster finished Preparing Hearts For His Glory and he really enjoyed all of the books we/he read. It was really fun for him to be able to show daddy everything he learned about this year by going through his science and history notebooks together. I already packed up Preparing and put out Creation to Christ. I'm excited for Buster to do that in the fall. It looks awesome! Sweetpea finish Beyond Little Hearts and up to Unit 7 day 4 of Bigger Hearts. She will continue with Bigger Hearts all of next year. Buttercup finished her preschool work and up to unit 6 day 2 of Little Hearts. I had her stop at that point because that was the end of the first storytime book. I didn't want her to wait all summer to fins out what happened if we started a new one. She will continue with Little Hearts all of next year. Buddy is really getting into doing his preschool workbooks and he loves that he goes first for storytime. I have been reading to him out of A Child's First Bible and a picture book every day. He loves reading time and listens really well. He will start Little Hands to Heaven in the fall.<br />
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My husband finished Exploring Creation Zoology 2 and started Exploring Creation with Botany. They will continue with that throughout the summer and start Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy in the fall.<br />
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The kids made it a little over halfway through memorizing their Catechisms. We will do the second half next year. We read about Bach, and Beethoven and enjoyed their music. We also learned about Degas, Van Gogh, DaVinci, and Raphael. We are up to lesson 37 in Getting Started With Spanish, and I hope to do some review this summer.<br />
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Sweetpea played soccer this spring and she really enjoyed it. Buttercup is doing swim lessons and finally started swimming really well and she absolutely loves to swim now. Buster is still doing swim team and loving it. He had a meet in May and shaved 19 seconds off his 50 back. He was so excited about that and so were his coaches. This summer Buster will continue swim team, Sweetpea will be doing the top level of swim lessons/pre-swim team, and Buttercup is taking the rest of June off of swim lessons and might do them again in July and August. The times for her lessons changed and there isn't really a good time.<br />
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Other than swimming we will be enjoying the sun this summer. The kids will continue reading and do a bit of math review and some handwriting practice. We also are working on some home improvement projects this spring/summer. Buster will be going to his first kids camp and we have VBS. I plan to get a post up sometime this summer about our plans for the 2013-2014 school year.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-31476414347694326452013-04-12T12:59:00.000-07:002013-04-12T12:59:09.035-07:00Spring Break 2013!<div style="text-align: center;">
We took a camping trip earlier this week. The trip was pretty casual and we had a bit of fun. Of course as usual someone had to get sick part way through and we got a bit rained out the last day.</div>
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Playing at Bastendorff beach and camping:</div>
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Being silly in the cabin.</div>
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Playing some tunes for us as we packed up. </div>
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Feeling sick on the second day.</div>
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Heceta Beach.</div>
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Bundled up because she was sick.</div>
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We stopped at a tiny Museum in Florence. The volunteers there were so sweet.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-76344433156465075972013-04-12T12:46:00.001-07:002013-04-12T17:53:46.477-07:00School Update!<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been terrible this school year about posting Weekly Wrap Ups for school. I just wanted to give an update about where everyone is at regarding their schooling. This week we are taking our spring break. I will break it down by kids.</div>
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Buster grade 4:</div>
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He is still plugging away with Preparing Hearts For His Glory and he completed unit 27 last week. I know I have said it before but I'm going to say it again I absolutely love this guide! Buster has learned so much this year. He is totally into the history, science, poetry and storytime. The other subjects are going great too, but of course they require more work so they aren't as exciting. Since the last time I posted about school he has finished learning about ancient times and moved through the dark ages and into the middle ages. Buster was especially interested in the Vikings.
This was supposed to be a Roman Emperor leaf crown but I forgot to tell him to put the leaves sideways.</div>
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For science he has been studying stars, constellations, coral reefs, and Columbus.</div>
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Constellation map.</div>
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Model of a coral polyp.</div>
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For Drawn Into the Heart of Reading he has read The Sign of the Beaver and The Little Pilgrim's Progress. Both of these books were a hit and here are the projects he did for them.
Character mask! Daddy interviewed him as if he was Matt from The Sign of the Beaver.</div>
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He made a map of Christian's journey.</div>
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Buster decided on his own to make a map of Oregon and label all of the counties.
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As far as the rest of the subjects are concerned he is just plugging away.
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Sweetpea grade 1/2:
She finished Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory at the end of February.</div>
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Panning for gold!</div>
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I then took a month to review math with her. We read Little House on the Prairie, If you traveled west in a covered wagon, and The World of Christopher Robin. She also continued with her handwriting, ETC, Reading Pathways, Phonics Pathways, and HOD Emergent readers.</div>
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Last week she started Bigger Hearts For His Glory. Starting now allows us to continue doing school 4 days a week. She will complete 9 weeks of school before summer break and pick up where we left off, so that she will finish at the end of next school year.</div>
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Sweetpea was super excited to start and our first week went really well. It is an adjustment for her because Bigger Hearts takes longer and is more involved than Beyond. I attempted to use the dictation from the back but it was a bit too hard, so she went to the second spelling word list for now.
She really enjoyed learning about Columbus this week for history.<br />
Her Ocean painting. </div>
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Learning the continents and oceans.</div>
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For storytime right now we are reading through a few D' Aulaire Biographies. Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Buffalo Bill.
She is still plugging away at the Beginner's Bible because she has taken breaks from it to read other books such as, Dust For Dinner, Mouse Tales, Dolphin, and Snowshoe Thompson.
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The biggest surprise for me this past week was how well she did with Singapore 2a and Rod and Staff English 2. She also is really enjoying the Poems and Hymns. </div>
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Buttercup PreK/K:</div>
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Buttercup was still going through Little Hands to Heaven this year and in the last month or so we kind of rushed through a bunch of units. She was really ready to move up, so I decided to start her in Little Hearts For His Glory the same week as Sweetpea moved up. She will also be doing it 4 days a week.</div>
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Buttercup was so eager and excited to start Kindergarten, and she proved to me that she was ready. Her first week went awesome after a couple minutes of resistance the first day. For math she is using Singapore Essentials K.</div>
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She was learning about same and different this week so we played memory.
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For Phonics she is doing All About Reading Level 1 which she is really enjoying so far.<br />
For handwriting she is using Hand Writing Without Tears.</div>
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Buttercup really enjoyed our reading time also. I let her color this picture the first day while we were reading Reddy Fox. </div>
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Reddy Fox turned out to be a big hit. She also enjoyed her history and Science.<br />
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Buddy Preschool:
For the most part he just plays and all of the kids take turns doing things with him.
He loves his Kumon workbooks.<br />
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Playing with rice. This picture makes it look so sweet but it really was quite a mess.
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Do a Dot art.</div>
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Buddy will start Little Hands this fall.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-4269674278623550692013-04-03T21:13:00.001-07:002013-04-03T21:15:29.356-07:00Lent week 7 and Easter!<div style="text-align: center;">
We had a very blessed Holy Week and Easter! Here are some of the highlights.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="text John-13-31"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, <span class="woj">“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.</span> </span></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="text John-13-32" id="en-NKJV-26663"><span class="woj">If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.</span> </span></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="text John-13-33" id="en-NKJV-26664"><span class="woj">Little
children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me;
and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I
say to you.</span> </span></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="text John-13-34" id="en-NKJV-26665"><span class="woj">A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.</span> </span></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="text John-13-35" id="en-NKJV-26666"><span class="woj">By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:31-35</span></span></i></span></div>
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We read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Easter-Lori-Walburg/dp/0310722713/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365045390&sr=8-1&keywords=the+legend+of+the+easter+egg">this</a> book and had an egg and spoon race.</div>
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We learned about Jesus being the Lamb of God and the kids made these lambs.
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Maundy Thursday!<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i> <span class="text John-13-12" id="en-NKJV-26643">So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, <span class="woj">“Do you know what I have done to you?</span> </span><span class="text John-13-13" id="en-NKJV-26644"><span class="woj">You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.</span> </span><span class="text John-13-14" id="en-NKJV-26645"><span class="woj">If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.</span> </span><span class="text John-13-15" id="en-NKJV-26646"><sup class="versenum"> </sup><span class="woj">For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.</span> </span><span class="text John-13-16" id="en-NKJV-26647"><span class="woj">Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.</span> </span></i></span><span class="text John-13-17" id="en-NKJV-26648"><span style="color: purple;"><i><sup class="versenum"> </sup></i></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: purple;"><i>If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. John 13:12-17</i></span></span></span></div>
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Feet washing and learning about the Last Supper.
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Good Friday!<br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="text Luke-23-44"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>Now it was<sup> </sup>about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. </span><span class="text Luke-23-45" id="en-NKJV-25981">Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. </span><span class="text Luke-23-46" id="en-NKJV-25982">And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, <span class="woj">“Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’”</span> Having said this, He breathed His last.</span> </span></i><span class="text Luke-23-47" id="en-NKJV-25983"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><sup class="versenum">47 </sup>So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous Man!”Luke 23:44-47</span></i></span></div>
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Hot Cross Buns and a caterpillar that Sweetpea put on the cross.
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Holy Saturday!</div>
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It was a gorgeous day and we had lunch and an egg hunt at my Sister and Brother in law's house.</div>
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Egg dyeing and Resurrection eggs with daddy.
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Easter baskets ready while the kids are asleep.</div>
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He is Risen!<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i> <span class="text Luke-24-1"><span class="chapternum"></span>Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. </span><span class="text Luke-24-2" id="en-NKJV-25994"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. </span><span class="text Luke-24-3" id="en-NKJV-25995">Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. </span><span class="text Luke-24-4" id="en-NKJV-25996"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>And it happened, as they were greatly<sup> </sup>perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. </span><span class="text Luke-24-5" id="en-NKJV-25997"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? </span> <span class="text Luke-24-6" id="en-NKJV-25998"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, </span></i></span><span class="text Luke-24-7" id="en-NKJV-25999"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i><sup class="versenum"> </sup>saying, <span class="woj">‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’</span>”Luke 24:1-7</i></span></span></div>
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Egg hunt at Gumpy and Moogy's!</div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="text Zech-9-9">“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!</span><br /><span class="text Zech-9-9">Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!</span><br /><span class="text Zech-9-9">Behold, your King is coming to you;</span><br /><span class="text Zech-9-9">He is just and having salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Zech-9-9">Lowly and riding on a donkey,</span><br /><span class="text Zech-9-9">A colt, the foal of a donkey."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="text Zech-9-9">Zechariah 9:9</span></i></span></span></div>
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I can't believe we are entering the final week before Easter already! I hope that you all have a blessed Holy Week with your families.</div>
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Here a few things we did last week.</div>
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An Easter and St. Patrick's Day mural.</div>
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We played Easter pictionary.</div>
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Buddy was really intent on drawing a cross.
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We finished our Easter garden.</div>
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The kids made a crown of thorns.</div>
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I taught the kids about the wordless book and they each made one.
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On Palm Sunday we did a little re-enactment of the triumphal entry.
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We also read about Passover and watched Prince of Egypt and the Ten Commandments. </div>
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This is one of the hymns we have been practicing this year and it is our favorite.<br />
"In Christ Alone"</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-38510674968233955992013-03-17T21:05:00.000-07:002013-03-17T21:05:09.362-07:00Lent weeks 4 and 5!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><i>"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."
1 Corinthians 5:17 </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"> </span>The days are marching on and we are getting closer and closer to Easter. Here are a few things we have done the last few weeks.</div>
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The grass we planted sprouted quickly.</div>
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We have burned through stacks of candles.
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and the kids are always thinking of creative ways to extinguish them.
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The kids love singing hymns.</div>
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We made this sign for the window. Yes I did terrible outlining the letters, </div>
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but the kids did great coloring them in.</div>
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The kids made Easter bookmarks to give to friends.</div>
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We made butterflies to remind us of the Resurrection and our new life in Christ.
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The kids worked on Easter cards for family.</div>
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We learned about St. Patrick with this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Patron-Ireland-Tomie-DePaola/dp/0823410773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363577598&sr=8-1&keywords=st.+patrick">book</a> and this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UociNQHztiY">video</a>, and had a little celebration.
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We also took a nature walk and kept our eyes peeled for things that reminded us of the life of Christ.<br />
A spear and the cornerstone.<br />
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Living water.</div>
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Purple flowers for royalty and suffering.</div>
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Thorns.</div>
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Straight and narrow and the stone that rolled away.</div>
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A vine and a cross.</div>
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Clovers that remind us of the trinity.</div>
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We also found an Ent by accident.</div>
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I hope that you are all taking time to reflect on the life and work of Christ this Lenten season.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-5418639372021373732013-03-02T15:47:00.000-08:002013-03-02T15:47:03.565-08:00Lent week 2 and 3!<div style="text-align: center;">
We have been continuing with our Lent activities and I thought I would share a couple things we have done the last few weeks.</div>
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The kids each have a piece of paper with a lent tree that they are coloring one thing on per day(except Sundays) to count down to Easter.</div>
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The kids each planted a pot of grass seeds. The grass represents new life in Christ, and we will transplant them to our Easter Garden closer to Easter.</div>
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Another day the kids painted wooden crosses. The purple represents the pain and suffering of Christ and his kingship.<br />
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Sweetpea put them in our sand box.</div>
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We made homemade pretzels, which symbolize praying hands. </div>
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These were my gluten free ones. The regular ones turned out much more fluffy. </div>
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We did some other activities as well such as learning and praying for persecuted Christians, and we let the kids choose a charity to give to. They chose <a href="http://www.handsandfeetproject.org/">The Hands and Feet Project</a>.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Joel-2-12">“Now, therefore,” says the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-12">“Turn to Me with all your heart,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-12">With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-13" id="en-NKJV-22325"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>So rend your heart, and not your garments;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-13">Return to the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-13">For He is gracious and merciful,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-13">Slow to anger, and of great kindness;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-13">And He relents from doing harm.</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-14" id="en-NKJV-22326"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Who knows if He will turn and relent,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-14">And leave a blessing behind Him—</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-14">A grain offering and a drink offering</span><br /><span class="text Joel-2-14">For the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God?</span></span></i><br />
<span class="text Joel-2-14"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Joel 2:12-14 </span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-65705541928041649182013-03-02T15:23:00.000-08:002013-03-02T15:23:23.635-08:00An Impromtu Trip!<div style="text-align: center;">
We got our tax refund a couple of weeks ago and my husband decided we should take a quick weekend trip somewhere. We decided to head south because it has been awhile since we went that way. I found a couple of educational places I wanted to check out and we took off. A friend of ours told us about a Rock museum so we stopped there first. It was called Crater Rock Museum and the kids loved it. If you want to see a lot of rocks in place this is the place for you. Also the price was pretty low.
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After the rock museum we checked out Jacksonville. I remember going to a museum there when I was a kid but we couldn't find it, so we checked out the cemetery.</div>
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The next day we headed to Ashland and visited the Science Works Children's Museum. It was pretty similar to some other places we have been, but the kids enjoyed it.
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After the museum we went to Lithia park and took a walk.</div>
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On the way home we stopped in Golden Oregon, which is a tiny old Gold rush town that is just a ghost town now. Only a few of the original buildings are still there. The kids thought it was great fun running around and checking them out. </div>
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Oh, and Buster didn't actually kick this building. ;)</div>
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In the end the kids thought we had a great time and I checked a few field trips off of my list!
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-12871232284351265792013-02-17T22:03:00.000-08:002013-02-17T22:09:16.966-08:00Lent Week 1, 2013!This past Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent for 2013. We are doing nightly candle times again this year with the special 40 hole candle holder that my husband made. Along with lighting a candle each night we have a quick activity. The activities vary and I found many of the ideas online. I also picked out 8 hymns for us to practice together. Here is the list of hymns for this year; In Christ Alone, Amazing Grace, Oh For a Thousand Tongues to Sing, Nothing But the Blood, The Old Rugged Cross, In the Garden, Because He Lives, and Christ the Lord Is Risen Today. My husband spent some time picking out the best versions he could download from Amazon. We are also reading through The Story For Children. I wanted to share a few pictures of our first week with you.<br />
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The first candle.</div>
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This was the second night activity. Sand is a symbol of Lent and represents the Israelite's time in the dessert and the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert fasting and being tempted in preparation for the crucifixion. The kids took turns pouring it in.<br />
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Playing with sand is very relaxing.<br />
This sand container will stick around for Lent.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"<span class="text Mark-1-12">Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. </span><span class="text Mark-1-13" id="en-NKJV-24229">And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.</span><span class="text Mark-1-14"> Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, </span></span></i></span><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Mark-1-15" id="en-NKJV-24231"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>and saying, <span class="woj">“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”</span></span> <sup> </sup></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Mark 1:12-15</sup></span></i></span> <br />
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Will you be doing anything special with your family this year to celebrate Lent or Easter? I would love to hear about your plans.<br />
I hope to post weekly about the things we are doing. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-63271762598764741892013-01-30T22:57:00.000-08:002013-01-30T22:57:25.420-08:00Buttercup is 5!A sweet little Buttercup turned 5 last Saturday! I can't believe she will be in Kindergarten in the fall. We had a party for her last Sunday and here are some pictures of the festivities.<br />
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We gave her a bike on her real birthday.</div>
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Cupcakes!</div>
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She wanted a Beatrix Potter party and her favorite story is the Tailor of Gloucester.
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The Cake!</div>
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Chilling with auntie B.</div>
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Rabbit and Carrot!</div>
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Hot Carrot!</div>
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All the kids!</div>
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Pinata! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-46099081245850894262013-01-19T12:44:00.000-08:002013-01-19T12:44:08.541-08:00Weekly Wrap Up!This is the first Weekly Wrap Up that I have posted for this entire school year. Yes you read that right. I have been a total blogging slacker. 2012 was a crazy year for me, but our school year has been going very smoothly despite that. Just to give you a quick run down of what all of my kids are doing. Buster just finished unit 16 of Preparing Hearts For his Glory, Sweetpea is in unit 30 of Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory, and Buttercup is in unit 17 of Little Hands to Heaven. I will start with what Buster has accomplished this week and go from there.<br />
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<b>Buster grade 4 Preparing Hearts For His Glory:</b><br />
Preparing's history focus is an overview of world history including biblical history in chronological order. I can not even describe to you how much I love Preparing. It is just simply awesome, and Buster loves it as well. This is what he did broken down by subject:<br />
<b>History:</b> Alexander the Great Conquers the World; he learned about Alexander, Socrates, King Phillip, and the first Punic war. His history project this week was to create a picture of Greek pottery. The readings came from A Child's History of the World. I let him watch an old movie about Alexander the Great on Netfilx as well. He also started reading Little Miriam of Galilee. Buster also has watched a few episodes of Drive Through History.<br />
<b>Bible:</b> He is currently memorizing Psalms 98:1-6. In this guide the memory selection are longer passages that build on the week before so for several units they are memorizing the same passage adding 1-2 verses a week. He is also reading through The Young Christian's Introduction to the Bible.<br />
<b>Language Arts:</b> He is using Beginning Wisely from Rod and Staff and just finished lesson 59 and is currently learning about Verbs. For spelling he just finished lesson 17 of R&S 3, and dictation passage 101 of level 2.<br />
<b>Literature:</b> His book for DITHR right now is The Sign of the Beaver. He is also reading the D Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths.<br />
Free Reading: By his choice he is reading Prince Caspian.<br />
<b>Poetry:</b> This school year he is studying poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. As part of his curriculum he does a writing assignment once a week based on the poem selection. This week the poem was The Hayloft.<br />
<b>Math:</b> He finished Primary Mathematics 4a, both the textbook, and workbook.<br />
<b>Science:</b> The science he does with Preparing is independent. He is currently learning about stars and constellations. This week he read from Find the Constellations, started a star/constellation book in which he is drawing constellations, answered 5 questions about what he is learning, and did an experiment to find out why stars appear to twinkle. My husband is also reading to the kids from Apologia's Exploring creation Zoology 2. Also the kids have watched several animal documentaries on netflix.<br />
<b>Research:</b> He has a once a week research assignment and this week with my help he researched Greek Pottery online.<br />
<b>Vocabulary: </b>He has 5 words each week that come from our history readings. He finds them in a dictionary, copies the meaning onto an index card, draws an illustration of it on the back and then alphabetizes it in a card file.<br />
<b>Geography:</b> He studied on a globe some of the locations and places from our history readings. We also talked about the equator and the northern and southern hemisphere.<br />
<b>Storytime:</b> I finished reading A Triumph For Flavius with him and started reading Fountain of Life.<br />
<b>Timeline:</b> Once a week he adds cards to his timeline. This week he added one for Socrates and one for Alexander the Great.<br />
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Sweetpea grade 1 Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory:<br />
With Sweetpea her guide has 5 days per unit but we only do it 4 days a week so each week is not a full unit. This week she did Unit 29 day 3- Unit 30 day 1.<br />
<b>History:</b> She learned about Pioneers traveling down the Ohio river on flat boats, Pioneer schools, and started to learn about pioneers traveling west by covered wagon. Her readings came from American Pioneers and Patriots.<br />
<b>Bible: </b>Her verse was Deuteronomy 5:16 for unit 29 and unit 30 reviews one verse we have already done per day. Sweetpea loves the songs from Hide 'Em in Your Heart Vol. 2 that go along with her verses.<br />
<b>Language Arts: </b>Every day she does Phonics Pathways, ETC she is in book 3, A Reason For Handwriting T, and words from Spelling list 1 found in the back of the Beyond guide.<br />
<b>Literature:</b> Sweetpea read a book called Dolphins this week, and 1 chapter from The Beginner's Bible.<br />
<b>Poetry: </b>Her poems were the Planting of the Apple-Tree and Written In March. I read this aloud to her each day and then she does copywork with part of the poem.<br />
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<b>Math: </b>She is currently working in Primary Mathematics book 1b. She also likes doing activities with C-rods, base ten blocks, triangle number bond flash cards, and drawing pictures and number stories to go with them.<br />
<b>Science:</b> Beyond uses God's Wonderful Works as a text reference for the experiments. We are just reading straight through it instead and then doing the experiments when they come up. This week for science she learned about the parts of an apple tree and made a drawing of one. She also joins Buster in listening to daddy read from Zoology 2. She watched several animal documentaries along with Buster from Netflix her favorite being one on Dolphins. She was really excited about that one because she had just read a book about them.<br />
<b>Geography: </b>For Geography this week we talked about the Missouri and Mississippi River and studied them on a map.<br />
<b>Storytime:</b> Right now I'm reading All of a Kind Family to her. I'm excited about this readaloud because it was a favorite of mine as a child.<br />
<b>Timeline:</b> She added traveling down the Ohio river in flatboats to her timeline.<br />
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<b>Buttercup PreK Little Hands to Heaven:</b><br />
The last two weeks I have really kicked it into gear with her and have been making a conscious effort to get to her school work a little each day. She was sick this week so we were able to do 3 days of Little Hands. Buttercup has really started to get into doing school work and has been asking to do it. Even when she was sick she asked me to at least read to her. Her handwriting is really great for her age and she is memorizing her letter sounds really well. This week she was learning the letter N. I let her pick out 1 picture book each day for me to read to her. Most days she picked our complete works of Beatrix Potter. She loves her bunny book(that is what she calls it). She practiced writing Ns and a few words that start with N, and I made a giant N on the floor. Right now she is using R&S ABC series book C. We also are practicing number 1-10 writing and recognizing. Buster joins in with her as he desires. <br />
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<b>As a group:</b><br />
I try to get to our book Basket each day. This is a time where the kids learn together. For Book basket each day the kids are practicing Catechisms with a book called<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Truths-Little-Kids-Teaching/dp/1581341067/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1358626310&sr=8-8&keywords=big+thoughts+for+little+people"> Big Truths For Little Kids</a>. I absolutely love this book. The kids are all engaged by it and they are doing amazing at memorizing the answers. Even Buttercup has most of them memorized. once a week we read a story that goes with the new chapters questions and answers, and the other days we learn and review. Once a week we do composer study. Right now we are studying Beethoven with a book called<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Beethoven-Chiming-Tower-Bells/dp/0974650560/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1358626508&sr=8-6&keywords=Opal+Wheeler"> </a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Beethoven-Chiming-Tower-Bells/dp/0974650560/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1358626508&sr=8-6&keywords=Opal+Wheeler">Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells</a>. I love the books in this series. We also listen to the music of Beethoven. For our weekly Artist study we are currently studying Pierre <span style="font-size: small;">Auguste</span> Renoi<span style="font-size: small;">r, and the book we are reading is </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pierre-Auguste-Getting-Greatest-Artists/dp/0516200682/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1358626656&sr=8-13&keywords=getting+to+know+the+world%27s+greatest+artists"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Pierre Auguste Renoir (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></a>For whatever artist we are currently studying I have Dover art cards that I have displayed on a magnet board. I started reading the Burgess Bird Book For Children to the kids this week. I have had it on my Nook for awhile now. After we read the first chapter we looked up wrens online and in Buster's bird guide. We also do Spanish lessons during Book Basket time. The Spanish lessons are directed at Buster and Sweetpea. I just recently downloaded Getting Started With Spanish and we are using that now. I really like it so far and it is moving the kids from leaning just basic Spanish vocabulary and phrases to actually being able to converse and translate Spanish. After the first time we did it Buster said, " I like this Spanish it is real Spanish and not for little kid like the other things we have done." <br />
Along with the Science my husband does with the kids he is also reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/David-Livingstone-Africas-Trailblazer-Christian/dp/1576581535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358627075&sr=8-1&keywords=David+Livingston">David Livingston </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Story-Children-Storybook-Bible-Deluxe/dp/0310732220/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358627110&sr=1-1&keywords=the+story+for+children">The Story For Children</a> to them. We just have the book. The the three older kids are all doing swimming right now also. The weather has been pretty cold and dreary and we are all looking forward to being able to get out in nature again. we did have a sprinkling of snow last week but it didn't stick.<br />
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What I have been learning:<br />
This year I'm joining <a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/01/the-1-habit-god-really-wants-for-your-new-year/">Ann Voskamp</a> in memorizing Romans 1, 8, and 12. So far I have memorized Romans 1:1-4 and am working on the next two verses. To go along with that I found a podcast of a series of sermons from John MacArthur on the book of Romans. I listen to these using my Nook connected to our CD player in the kitchen. I also downloaded Towards a Philosophy of education by Charlotte Mason and started reading it. I'm also still reading through the book of Psalms. As always I have spent a bit too much time on The Well Trained Mind Forum and learned a few good things from the ladies there. I know this is a really long post but since it is my first of the year I wanted to give you a glimpse of everything we typically do in a week.When we get our tax refund I want to get some books for myself on the topics of Homeschool, Parenting, and Faith. If you have any suggestions for me I would love them.<br />
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To read what other people are doing visit <a href="http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/">Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.</a><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope that all of you had a blessed Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany!
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<span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-60-1">"Arise, shine, for your light has come,</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-1">and the glory of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> has risen upon you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-60-2" id="en-ESV-18824"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-60-2" id="en-ESV-18824"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-2">and thick darkness the peoples;</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Isa-60-2">but the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will arise upon you,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-2">and his glory will be seen upon you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-60-3" id="en-ESV-18825"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-60-3" id="en-ESV-18825"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>And nations shall come to your light, </span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-60-3">and kings to the brightness of your rising.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Isa-60-4" id="en-ESV-18826"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Lift up your eyes all around, and see;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-4">they all gather together, they come to you;</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-60-4">your sons shall come from afar,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-4">and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-60-5" id="en-ESV-18827"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Then you shall see and be radiant;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-5">your heart shall thrill and exult,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-ESV-18827a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-60-5">because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-5">the wealth of the nations shall come to you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-60-6" id="en-ESV-18828"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>A multitude of camels shall cover you,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-6">the young camels of Midian and Ephah;</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-6">all those from Sheba shall come.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-60-6">They shall bring gold and frankincense,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-60-6">and shall bring good news, the praises of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>."</span></span></div>
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Below is a slide show of pictures from the 12 days of Christmas, New Years and Epiphany!
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I hope that you all had a blessed Christmas season!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-62728965672495087812012-12-26T12:07:00.001-08:002012-12-26T12:07:11.288-08:00Advent!Wow we have had a very crazy year it seems, and this blog has suffered because of it. I really don't want to get into the details here. I do want to say though that God has really been teaching me some hard things this year and I hope that I am actually learning them. I'm hoping 2013 will be a bit calmer and I can get to blogging a bit more. Today I just wanted to share some of the things we were able to do for Advent this year. Since I am posting the entire month all at once I think I will go ahead and put up a slideshow. Once again we used our wooden Advent calendar and had daily activities planned. I tried to take pictures of all of them but I did miss a few things. It seemed this December our kids really got to learn about and practice giving. The pictures aren't in any particular order and include all sort of things i.e. baking, frosting, light parades, Advent wreath time, live Nativity, making bracelets for Wally, St. Nicholas Day, my birthday, etc.Some of the things that I forgot to take pictures of were an Angel Tree lunch that we helped at, Drive Through light display, Getting warm things to donate to a local place that helps the homeless, etc.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653440109970264527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727570204472694826.post-45143844434620376752012-11-17T13:59:00.001-08:002012-11-17T20:44:07.193-08:00A Couple of Birthdays!<div style="text-align: center;">
We have two birthdays close together in the fall. Sweetpea turned 7 on October 31st, and Buddy turned 3 on November 9th. Here are some pictures from the festivities:</div>
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Sweetpea had a horse/rainbow party!</div>
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The kids made tie-dye bandannas.<br />
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Straw creations!<br />
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She broke it on the second hit!<br />
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Buddy! He had a Cookie Monster party!<br />
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We have been trying to get together with my sister, sister in-law, and cousin on Fridays for some nature walks and science learning. The kids are enjoying that very much and I'm enjoying our new schedule of 4 full school days and 1 lighter day. Here are some pictures from a few Fridays:</div>
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Learning about Butterflies and flowers!</div>
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Human Digestion day! The kids made stomachs and learned how we digest.
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Bird watching and nature journaling!<br />
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Pumpkin Patch field trip with local homeschoolers!
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There were two other Fridays in here but I must have forgot my camera.
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