Thursday, May 24, 2012

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!
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Watching the animals!
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The Tigers!
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Waiting for the Lions!
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Time for tug-o-war!
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Who do you think will win?
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Put your back into it!
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Pull!
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The little boys just wanted to watch!
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Buttercup and A decide to help!
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Baby Cheetah!
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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.
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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!
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These are the books Buster is working through currently.
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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!
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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.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

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.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Weekly Wrap Up!

Wow it has been quite awhile since I posted a wrap up. We have been crazy busy, had several weeks of sickness, vacation, and Easter. Our school year was supposed to end at the beginning of May but because of some extra days of we will be done in the middle of May instead. Buster just finished unit 31 of Bigger Hearts and is learning all about the Wright Brothers right now. Sweetpea finished Singapore Math 1a and will be starting unit 17 of Beyond next week. She is also almost done reading the 4th CLP reader and will be starting the emergent readers soon. I have been better about getting to Buttercup's school lately and she is on unit 13 of Little Hands. I have also been making sure to read stories to her whenever we do school we read the complete tales of Madeline and now we are reading the Eric Carle Storybook Collection. Buddy has been potty training and is doing awesome with that! It is weird having no one in diapers.

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It is soccer time! 
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Chalk is fun!
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Sweetpea made this paper woven blanket for school.
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Marbles take super concentration.
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I posted my final review for The Homeschool Crew last week. I decided it was time to take a break from writing reviews for the time being. 

Visit Weird Unsocialized Homesschoolers to read more wrap ups!

Family!

My sister in law snapped some family pictures for us a week or so ago, and I think they are beautiful!
We needed a new picture for our wall with all of us, because Buddy has been asking why he isn't up there.
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Some new pictures of the kids:
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Sweetpea
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Buttercup
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Buddy 
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We haven't taken a picture of just us in years!
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Just for fun! 

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Easter 2012!

We had a great Holy Week and Easter Weekend and I'm finally getting around to posting pictures!

We had a fun egg decorating party at my Sister in Law's house!
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Holy Week Candles, and Easter Garden!
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Daddy reading Benjamin's Box along with the Resurrection eggs!
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The kids put on a Easter play for us, and let me tell you it was so sweet!
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More Egg decorating!
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The baskets!
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Bubble fun after church!
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Basket hunt at my sister's house!
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Egg hunt and painting pots at my in-laws!
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This was serious work!
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More bubble fun!
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