Update and end of school year!

 

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.

 

 

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.

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.

 

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.

 

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.

Weekly Wrap Up! HOD

Week 36, and 37!

We did it we finished Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory last Friday! Buster also finished reading his Amelia Earhart book, and did his Biography project. Daddy was really happy to see the finished product. This week we have been taking our Spring break, and it has been really nice! I took most of the week off from the Internet, which was a much needed break from. I had been spending far to much time on the Internet getting myself worked up over things that don't even matter in the long run. It is really great to get back to basics and focus in on my own family for a time, and to get back into a daily Bible time. We have had some sunshine this week, so we were able to go to the park a few times and soak it up. On Wednesday we had a great time decorating eggs, and cupcakes at my sister in-laws house unfortunately I forgot the camera. Buddy was so into decorating it was kinda funny. On Thursday the kids had their end of co-op term field trip! We went to a couple of local museums, and had a guided tour at the first. I realized when we were there it was my kids first group field trip, and they had a blast! Next week we will resume our school work for 5 more weeks, and then have a summer break in June. I can't believe summer is that close. I hope you are all having an amazingly blessed Passion week, and that you are taking time to draw closer to the Son!

"Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 62And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." 63And the high priest tore his garments and said, "What further witnesses do we need?" Mark 14:60-63

Buster's book project!

We started our Resurrection eggs last week! My husband reads one page out of Benjamin's box each day, and then the kids open the egg and color a picture of the item. We are hanging all the pictures on the wall as a countdown.

Soccer season is in full swing!









The Co-op field trip! My sister and I both left the littles with my mom, and here are the big kids waiting for the tour.

Tour guides!

Telescope!

Sweetpea in a trappers tent!

They got to write with a real ink pen!

and seal their letters with wax!

Sweetpea carrying water buckets!

The kids were divided up into three groups so my sister went with our boys, and I went with the girls! She took these pictures of Buster!

Black Bear!

His ink pen work!

Waiting for their seals!


The whole co-op gang!


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Week 35:

That's right we are 35 weeks into our school year, and I can hardly believe it! Buster will be finishing Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory next week. We have really enjoyed it and can not wait to start Bigger Hearts. Sweetpea is on Unit 27 of Little Hearts, so she will be continuing with that, and I'm going to be doing some other things with Buster. He is still finishing his Latin, and Spelling for the year. We will also continue with DITHOR, and math. For some extra fun Buster and I will be doing a bit of the Prairie Primer until June. We take the month of June off except for reading, and math games. Our new school year will begin at the beginning of July. The girls and I had a fun fairy tea party on Monday while Buster was at soccer practice. Sweetpea requested it after learning about the Boston Tea Party. Unfortunately she could not comprehend why they would waste all that tea. Tomorrow Soccer games start and we will have one at 10, and 3.

Sweetpea's soccer practice!

Waiting for sissy!

You guessed it the girls love Tangled!

Fairy Tea Party! They had to dance to their flower fairy CD first!

Yummy tea and cake!

Play time!

The kids love playing board games, and we played quite a few this week.

Buttercup discovered she could draw people!

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Week 33, and 34:

I seriously can not believe today is the first day of April! Around here March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. Yesterday was the nicest weather day of 2011, and today is pretty grand too. Soccer season just kicked off this week for Buster and Sweetpea. They are super excited! The last two weeks we have been able to take the kids to the park a bunch, and it has been nice to get out and enjoy nature again. On the school front everything is going along as usual except that Buster started Drawn Into the Heart of Reading last week, so far it is a hit. Buster is reading a book about Amelia Earhart, the chapters are a bit longer than he is used to so that has proved a good challenge for him. He was a bit hesitant at first to read a whole chapter in one sitting, but we eased into it by having him read in two parts for a couple days. Today he read a whole chapter very smoothly, of course after a few complaints. Sweetpea has been so into school the last few weeks, and she is just taking off in all areas especially handwriting. She is a lefty, so handwriting has been tough for her. Buttercup is finally officially out of diapers! My first two were potty trained by 2, so this is the first time I ever had two in diapers. I am so happy to be done with that. One other exciting thing that happened in the last two weeks is my awesome husband bought me a NOOK Color! It is super cool, and I also got the chance to review an E-book bundle from Yesterday's Classics! Here are some pictures of the last two weeks:

A family soccer practice to get ready for soccer season!

Buddy is seriously amazing with a soccer ball. He goes right for kicking it and he can even dribble!

A rock!

He found a sand castle in the volleyball court!

I just love this picture that Sweetpea made at church!

Buster working on his time line!

Making her own flag!

We went to the duck pond and had a nature walk!

Buddy loved chasing the ducks! Click here if you want to see the rest of our walk pictures.

The kids first chance to try GoTrybe! We are reviewing this.

Some free painting!

Love the use of color!

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