Look who's 4 months old!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Weekly Wrap Up!
We had a pretty good week here. Buster finished his 1 Cor. 13 copybook. We did some extra flash card practice for addition trying to get him to memorize all his facts. He found a show called Friends and Heroes on SkyAngel, and the kids enjoyed watching it. One episode was about Purim(which happens to be this weekend) the holiday interested Buster, so we read the book of Esther for school. We went to Wild Life Safari, and Buster was excited that they have an armidillo now. For Geography we started reading about Canada. My mom got us a book about it in Canada a couple years ago. We watched a bunch of olympics too. Buster read two more chapters of Frog and Toad, and would you rather be a BullFrog. We drew monkeys this week and started studying rodents. Buster had a basketball game today, and a shoot-a-thon. He made 13 baskets and was so excited. We also found some School House Rock on You Tube, and the kids loved them. Sweetpea is doing well with her ETC primer, and learning to count pretty high. She counted with me to 100 a couple times this week. She also really enjoys her CLP K nature reader, we read about a bunch of different animals. Buttercup likes to color, play with learning toys, look at books, etc. while we are doing school. I took Buddy to the dr. this week. He is almost 4 months old and weighs 13.5 lbs. He is starting to laugh and play a lot more, and has almost figured out rolling over. I need to remember to use my camera this week ;)
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Weekly Wrap Up!
We just finished our 24th week of school, and here are some things we did.Buster:
Finished math lesson 106, and got 100% on his math test.
He is doing triple digit adding now. He is still relying to much on his fingers, so I taped them together on Friday and he got them all right without using fingers. He thought it was fun.
He learned about C's second sound and oi.
Made it to page 63 in ETC book 4.
We finished Mr. Poppers Penguins, and Buster read two chapters of Frog and Toad. He is reading so well now. We Drew Chimpanzees, and Buster copied 1 Cor. 13:7
Buster and Daddy read about Pilgrims, and finished the Primate chapter in Zoology 3.
Sweetpea is working in ETC primer C. We read chicka chicka 123, and had fun counting. She is loving her swimming class.
I'm getting excited about next year, and have been finding some curriculum already. I can't wait to post everything we will be doing. Two more weeks until our spring break, and we will be going to OMSI and the Oregon Zoo. The weather is getting really nice around here, so we will be starting our nature journals soon. I bought a couple of these off ebay last week for 5 dollars each My Nature Journal.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Weekly Wrap Up!
Well one more week down. This week Buster started reading Frog and Toad. He really enjoyed it and didn't even complain. Daddy and Buster started the Primate chapter, and read about St. Patrick for History. Buster made it about halfway through ETC book 4. He also had his first basketball game last Saturday. It was really fun to watch. Our little buddy decided to actually sleep on his own now and has been going to sleep around 11, and sleeping until 3-6 before he wakes.
Buster at skate church on Monday. He goes nearly every week.
Humpty Dumpty copywork
We went to Mops on Tuesday, and Buster painted this in his class.
Buttercup holding the cat.
Our little buddy having some tummy time
Practice before the game
Buddy is 12 weeks.
Buttercups Birthday
Here are the long awaited pictures from Buttercup's second birthday party!
Having a bath before the party. She loves bubbles.
Her Cake! (Yes my husband and I made it)
Buttercup waiting for singing.
Number 2 pinata.
She started crying when they sang. Poor girl ;(
Blowing her candles.
Fun with her gifts.
New Hat from auntie Shae.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Weekly Wrap up!
We just finished are 21st week of school! Here's a quick list of some things we did this week.
Buster: Read Oscar Otter, Learned about R controlled vowels, Finished Marsupial chapter, Recited Little Boy Blue to daddy, made it to math lesson 93, learned a little about Ecuador, and Guyana, Practiced Spanish words with a new computer program(I got it at Ross for 5.99), copied 1 Cor. 13:4, and had fun with ETC book 4.
Sweetpea: Passed her first swimming class, did a bunch of coloring, asked a billion questions.
Buster has his first Basketball game tomorrow.
Here are some pictures of the kids exercising with a Taekwondo video from the library.
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Buttercup is two!
Our little Buttercup is two today! We had a party for her on Sunday, and I will post pictures from that soon. I still can't believe my baby girl is two. It is so much fun to see her growing and changing every day. Her new favorite phrase is "what's in there" she has been asking me that about everything.
Here she is dancing to GodRocks while we made her cake.
My mom ordered Buttercup The Complete Book of Flower Fairies for her birthday. This is a book I've wanted to own since I was a kid. My dad always told us about his mom reading this to him when he was young. She had an original British copy from when she was a kid in England. These stories and poems are so sweet I'm sure even Charlotte Mason would love them. We will be adding it to our poetry readings
The Tie that binds giveaway.
The Tie That Binds Us blog has moved, and Brenda is hosting a curriculum giveaway! You can check out her blog here. http://thetiethatbindsus.com/
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Guess Who Is Gonna Be Two?
Our dancing, singing, artist, princess, Buttercup that's who!
Buttercup will be two next Tuesday, and we are planning a party for her this Sunday. I can't believe we have had her for two wonderful years. She is such a joy to us all, and thank God that he saw fit for us to raise her.
We are still here!
I planned to post a weekly wrap up last weekend, but never got around to it, so I will just give you a little update now. We are still plugging away at school, and everything is going well. Buster had developed a poor habit of complaining a lot lately. Last week after some prayer I came up with the idea to mark an X down every time he complained during school time. After school before he could do his own thing he owed me one task for each mark. Needless to say I had a lot of help around the house last week. a couple of days of that and his complaining has really lessened. He didn't have one mark today. Buster finished reading Little Bear, and Sweetpea finished her second Explode the Code Primer. We also made it to the halfway point in math last week. Buster started basketball last weekend, and I will post pics when he has a game. We were excited to be able to take the kids to Wildlife Safari with our new membership from my parents, and will be enjoying it all year. Our little Buddy is 2 months old now, and getting bigger everyday. He is such a cutie!
Peek-a-boo!
Dancing!
Working hard on 1 Corinthians 13
The babies
Our Boys!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Weekly Wrap Up, Happy New Year!
I spent all last weekend pulling our school stuff together and planning for January and February. We had a blast ringing in the New Year and all the kids made it until midnight! This week we were back full swing into our school schedule, and except for a few grumbles from Buster it went great. I got pretty excited with my schedule, so we had some full days. Buster finally started his Explode the code book 4. I bought it at the beginning of the year, but it was a little advanced. He did great with it though, and is really taking off with his reading. He read two chapters of Little Bear, and is reading his nature reader on his own now, which he was really excited about. We are almost half way through his math now, and he told me math was the most fun. We are studying South America for the next 8 weeks, this week we covered Colombia and Venezuala. We also practiced Colors in Spanish. My husband finished the Feline chapter with buster. Buster did copywork of Corinthians 13:1, and Little Boy Blue. I plan to have him do one verse a week until we cover the love section, and he will bememorizing Little Boy Blue this month as well. Sweetpea was excited to get back to school. I got teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons from the library, Sweetpea took one look at it and refused to look at it again....lol I don't blaim her it was pretty displeasing to the eye. I put it away and we worked on her ETC primer B and read some Bob books. We also started some new read alouds which I have listed on the side bar. For PE Sweetpea is doing swimming lessons, and Buster will be playing basketball. Sweetpea had her first two swim lessons this week. She was really nervous at first, but loved it once she hit the water. Next week I will actually take some pictures. For now you can enjoy some from New Years Eve.
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