Mother's Day Weekend!

All I wanted for Mother's Day was to go spend a day at the beach, so we decided to go on the Saturday before. It was a gorgeous day at the Oregon Coast!

Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!

We had a fun day at the Safari with a bunch of cousins while my BIL and SIL were up visiting.

Twelve kids in a van!

Watching the animals!

The Tigers!

Waiting for the Lions!

Time for tug-o-war!

Who do you think will win?

Put your back into it!

Pull!

The little boys just wanted to watch!

Buttercup and A decide to help!

Baby Cheetah!

We did see bears also but no pictures. ;)

Summer School Plans!

We finished our school Year last Friday! Buster has completed all of Bigger Hearts, Sweetpea finished Beyond through unit 18, and Buttercup finished through unit 13 of Little Hands! We will not be starting our 2012-2013 School year until the last week of August. For the summer we will be using the following resources.

Buster and Sweetpea will both be using the Singapore Math extra practice book for the levels they completed. We are also doing a world geography study, and they each will be reading daily.

Sweetpea just started this stack of books last week with the Bible!

These are the books Buster is working through currently.

For Spanish they will be using some Spanish computer games we own. Summer school has gone really well this week and I'm trying to keep it short and fun. One way I came up with to make it more fun was to give us an extra theme for each day. Which go as follows:

Math Monday(we will be playing math games together as a group)

Tea Tuesday(Each Tuesday we plan to have a tea party for lunch and read poetry)

Word Wednesday(On this day we are doing fun things like Mad Libs, Grammar Rock, and Ruth Heller books)

Park Thursday(We plan to meet some friends at the park each Thursday and maybe do some nature study)

Fit Friday(I'm hoping to teach the kids some of those things you would normally learn in PE)

This week we had a special guest for Tea Tuesday!

My cousin is visiting for her brothers graduation and she joined us for tea. I'm kicking myself for not taking pictures of the tea party. It was very lovely.

Other than these school plans we hope to enjoy as much time outdoors as we can, enjoy family, and go crazy with all the parties and weddings. Buster is joining our local swim team for the summer and the girls will be continuing swimming lessons.

Curriculum update!

I just updated the page at the top that used to be called Buster's 2nd grade reading list. It is now called, List of Books for the Beginning Reader, and I have added several titles. I tried to keep the books in order of difficulty but it may not be perfect. Sweetpea will be starting this list shortly. Also I plan to post our Curriculum choices for the up coming 2012-2013 school year soon. As well as our Summer school plans, so stay tuned.