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Vacation Week

11/11/2016

 
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Hubby had the week off! 

So we took school off too... isn't it grand when you can do such a thing? 
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First job...fix up the trailer... cut up some old carpet to give us a warm floor, fixed up the hole that a bear thought we needed this summer, and water proofed the tenting.   The lad and our student did the carpet, with me providing moral and occasional instructional assistance while helping hubby with the rest.
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Then we headed out camping.   We camped Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Valens Conservation area.   A good half way point between home and Toronto.   I enjoyed a couple of walks, one solo and one with the lad.
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We had a great time at the Royal, we saw lots, laughed, cheered and groaned, and were occasionally amazed.  It was good to see life through the eyes of a visiting lad and to see the joy in another lad.  

And Friday we had hope days.  Children making, creating, doing art.   FUN.  Pokemon Going with Dad in the park, and having a good supper together.

Tomorrow our student is busy all day with the youth group and then going out to a movie with friends.   We are doing karate with our son and then probably heading out as well.

While I've been away I've had some posts up on the blog
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Word Prompt Posts
FMF: Common.
Outside
Colour.

General Posts:
Art Series: Art Play.
Field Trip: Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory.
Recipe: Apple Pandowdy
Hymn Study: There is a Fountain Filled With Blood.

Reviews:
Marie Curie for Kids.
One of the Few.

Devotional

So Turn and Live.  Devotion on Ezekiel 18
Two Eagles, a Willow, The Lord Speaks.   Devotion on Ezekiel 17
Remember.   Devotion on Ezekiel 16 (last few verses)
The Amazing Love of God.   Sunday Sermon on Romans 5:6-11

Linking up to the folks below
Homeschool Coffee Break
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Thanksgiving Week Reviewed

10/14/2016

 
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  Weeks with a holiday in them never seem to go quite right... everything seems so off.

BUT Here is how our week went.

Sunday:
The day started off with service at Church.  The Sermon was on "In all things give thanks".
Dinner at hubby's mom.   We had turkey with all the trimmings.  As usual mom cooked for an army, even if we had an extra guest.  This was in honour of Thanksgiving Day.

Monday:
Lunch at my mom's house.   We had soup and buns, my sisters brought desserts.
The buns were homemade from my house.  RECIPE.
Found my song inspiration for the week: Whate'er God Ordains is Right.

Tuesday:
The lad worked through Veritas Press Bible and History.
Did all three of his smart books: Science, English and Math.
Teaching Textbooks for Math.
Then we hurry scurried off for Art.  A lady we know about 40 minutes from home does an art class for homeschooled children.  This session it's on Perspective.
Dad came along this time as he needed to get out of the house.

I got laundry done, and some trimming done outside.   Some weeds and vegetation cleared away.

Wednesday:
The lad got up all tired and out of sorts.  This is our normal "let's help at the Foodbank" day and he was "I'll come along mom if you really want me, but can we please stay home?"   We compromised.  He would stay home and do all his basics and I would go to the Foodbank.

Did some cleaning tidying in the garage today.  Enough done the bikes could go back inside.  

When I got home we did some history.. we've started a new review for Homeschool Legacy called Cooking up History.    So we learned a bit about George Washington and then decided to make a cherry pie. 
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It didn't turn out as good as we'd hoped.. WAY too sweet.  We used the wrong type of cherries for the type of pie.

The lad went to Karate practice at night.

Thursday:
I was woke up feeling tired, sore and just not happy.   Turned into a bad cough by the end of the day.   The lad did VP history, bible, german, Teaching Textbooks and oh...I know we did something else...but it's all rather a fog.   OH right, we worked on the human body.

Dad was gone to a meeting all day, the lad and I managed to dry off some vehicle stuff for him and put away.   When he got home the two boys went out pokemon going, and our international student went out for supper.

The lad had Cadets at night,  Dad drove since I wasn't up to going out.  :)

Today is Friday so it's our do things differently day.
SINCE I am still not feeling well we kinda put a cap on what we did.   I know the lad did something but since I got about 1 hour of sleep I really haven't a clue.  :)  I think he did some reading....i think.  :)  OH!  I do know he wrote some more on his story. 

Throughout the week I've been keeping up on the #write31days challenge

This week we've covered the following word prompts:
Mail. Aware.  Sky. and  Question.
I was able to pull together a few reviews:
Make and Move Monsters.   Aren't they cute?   My friends son had so much fun with them.
Art Collage Book.  This is part of my art series.  Nice use it up book for children.
Sunshine.  Fantasy fiction.

Let's See, what else did I do.
I've continued reading through two books coming up for reviews.
Paul Tripps' Parenting and Jason Ladd's One of the Few.   Enjoying both.
The lad has started reading through The Warriors series by Erin Hunt.

Yesterday and today I've been doing soup and tea and bouillon.  :)   Trying to clear up this silly cold.

Oh.. I wrote a couple of posts.
Another in my series "Letters to Pastor's Wives".  This one on Lord's Day.
Oh.. and a field trip we had to the Aviation Museum.
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I am ever so pleased that I was able to continue regular devotions in Ezekiel.

The Lord's Anger at Abominations.
God Acts against Abominators.
The Glory of the Lord Leaves the Temple.
Is the Church today like old Israel?
Linking up at the following:
Homeschool Coffee Break

Writing, Field Trip and More, a week in review

9/18/2016

 
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Our second week of school.

Monday: schooling at Gramma's did his daily of math and English from the "smart series" of books, reading 1/2 hour, and a surprise.. out with Gramma to McDonald's.  "boy, those mcflurry's ARE good!" said Gramma.   Before we left in the morning started to mock up a routine for the lad in his planner.   Dinner out with international students.

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Tuesday: Veritapress History and bible,  Writing program, dailies, and art.
We've started our six week art program with other homeschool students, the teacher used to homeschool her young but they've all graduated now.   This six week session is all about perspective.

Wednesday: Food bank, dailies, Veritapress History and bible, did some work on his map for our new writing program.   He also did some work on that today (Sunday) unasked.   I deliberately didn't take a really clear picture as the lad kinda wants folks to see, but not totally.  :)  
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Thursday, the Science Centre :) We brought along our international student and spent the day exploring the museum.   At first Wendell just looked and looked until I encouraged him to touch, and feel and do.   A paper airplane was made, and then a music and sound section was discovered, and then gradually, ever so gradually his marvellous grin would appear.  :)   The Ontario Science Centre was a hit!!!!   :) 

We spent a fair amount of time watching this perpetual machine, seeing where the balls went, anticipating sometimes correctly, sometimes not where the balls would go.
Friday, let's do it differently.   On Fridays we start our day with a walk, do Veritapress History and bible, then head upstairs to work on an item from our shelf, this week we did a solar oven and sand art.
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We finished out our week by visiting my mom for Supper Friday evening, and then hitting up our denominational camp's fundraiser on Saturday.

Time Recapped

6/16/2016

 
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Life has been busy for the past while... I sometimes feel like I am on a roller coaster... but it's okay.. I have moments to breathe.. I have to, my achy feet won't let me continue to do too much all the time.  Anyways, thought I'd share some of it.
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Putting new walls on my rabbitry.  I needed to make a change that would keep my bunnies cooler this hot summer, my solution was to build walls that air could pass through freely.  They are MUCH happier now.
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We have squeezed in field trips, day camps, working at the food bank, actual hands on book work and my son is delighted that I mostly have him following our summer schedule of Veritas Press bible and history, math and 1/2 hour reading daily.
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Reading books and writing reviews... it all takes time you know.   Formatting, creating pictures, thinking of how to write them, and actually writing them.
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Doing Art With a Boy child, doing an official program which takes WAY longer than our 15 minutes of art a day that we've been doing...

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Taking pictures of flowers and posting them to facebook, such a fun way to connect with friends and family. 
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Rhubarb season is in full swing so I've been making Rhubarb pudding, cake, crisp, sauce and more.  

I also been coping with a hubby not home, hot weather, rescuing bunnies from heat stress, writing blog posts, and..... Preparing for a yard sale.  We'll be moving at some point (though we don't know when quite yet) so I'm clearing book shelves and selling what we don't need (including bunnies) and just tidying things up. 

I love keeping stuff and this house is amply filled with the evidence of that.   So it's very hard... actually REALLY REALLY hard to weed through stuff and see what doesn't need to stay here from old clothes to books to just stuff...But hopefully I can get rid of stuff that I really don't need and just get on with the rest of life eh?   In the end I don't want to move stuff that we really don't need.  :)

Today was better, not great, but better

4/5/2016

 
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After two weeks of not getting much done in the way of schooling due to cold/flu running through the house, WOOT WOOT.. today I woke up with energy!     (granted that energy ran away quickly and by 1 p.m. I was barely function and by 330 was shivering in a warm house).  :)  BUT HEY!!!   Got some schooling done so YEAH!!!!!

Anyways, what did we get done?

The lad worked his way through Veritas Press History and Bible.
Then attacked his A+ Interactive Math.. he loves the short lessons.   As long as he gets 80% or higher I don't require extra work.
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After this we worked on our Homeschool Copywork.  Took a bit of figure out what was wrong with my printer (hubby needed to help) but finally printed off enough sheets for the next bit.   The lad is really enjoying the copywork for the Dragons in the Bible book.
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Math, reading, science all done.  YEAH!!!  
To end our time as I was running out of brain power we did some reading.
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The Natural World book had us reading about eels today, so we looked up garden eels on Youtube.   They made us laugh.
Isn't God amazing with some of the creatures he has made???   Just amazing.  :)

A Day in the Life: A Guest Post with Michelle

3/13/2016

 
Today I welcome Michelle to my blog, talking about how she does school with her kiddos.   Please, enjoy seeing how this mom (a new TOS crew friend) helps her children learn well. 
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When I decided to begin this journey called homeschooling, I knew that I wanted my children to have a genuine love of learning. Over time I lost focus of that, but I am slowly getting back to my dream. 
As we are transforming our learning into a more enjoyable, and dare I say, fun environment, our days are changing as well.  It would be impossible to let you see a typical day since those aren't really happening right now. Instead, I thought I'd share with you the ways we are enjoying learning together. 



One thing that will not change, we always start our day reading the Bible. Currently, we are using Grapevine and learning about Jesus and His ministry. My kiddos really enjoy learning more about Jesus. I think this is all of our favorite time of the day!


Another staple for us is Dyslexia Games. When we found out last November that our 7-year-old was dyslexic, I was so lost and scared! Enter Sarah Brown and her amazing dyslexia therapy! It uses art and logic games to help visual thinkers learn symbol recognition. It has been an answer to our prayers. I have seen so much improvement in him! The other 2 enjoy it as well. 


The kiddos enjoy sensory play. One of our new favorite things to do is listen to classical music or audio books while we play in our kinetic sand or pay-doh.



Everyone in our family loves puzzles. They are a great way for me to incorporate learning in a fun way that keeps them interested. 



I use reading time as snuggle time with each kiddo. It is a great way to spend one-on-one time with each one. Whether it is the EPIC app, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, or simply a read aloud that the individual picked out, we snuggle up for special time together.




Our main math is a little more curriculum based right now. We use a mix of Math-U-See, The Thinking Tree Journals, and board games.  We try to learn from our math books at least 3 times a week.

One set of pictures that I don't have to share with you are our kitchen. We learn a lot in the kitchen. The kiddos are always helping me with lunch and snack preparation. We use this time to learn about counting, sorting, and measuring. I think we learn great life lessons in the kitchen. 

There are many other aspects to our learning that I could never fit into a single post. We are learning to make 'school' and learning a part of our every day life. There is a lesson to be learned in pretty much any scenario. We are learning to find them. I love watching their curiosity come alive. That's the best part for me! 
Those are some of the great ways that we are learning to make learning fun again! Thank you for joining us! I hope you will visit us over at Creatively Crunchy Mom!
Blessings, Michelle

A Day in the Life: Guest Post by Cassandra

3/7/2016

 
Welcome with me won't you?   Cassandra, a new friend from the TOS crew.   She teaches a disparate age grouping and has found a way to make it work for you.  Thank you Cassandra for guest blogging for me today. 
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A Day at Our School

Have you ever wondered how other homeschool families run their school? I know that I certainly have. I am very thankful to my new friend, Annette, for inviting me over here to her blog to share what a day in our school looks like. So how do we do school in our house? Read on...

Our school may or may not be set up the way your school is. Do you teach more than one grade? Are the grades you teach close together (like 1st and 2nd) or are they spread apart? In our school we have two completely different, spread apart grades. I teach 7th grade to my son and 2nd grade to my daughter. It took some planning to get my head wrapped around teaching two separate grades, but once I got a few “systems” set up, it has been a fairly smooth process.

So how do I do it? How do I home school when I teach different grades? How do you teach 7th grade and 2nd grade in the same day? We use Sonlight as our curriculum and it really works for us. It is highly reading based (which I really love being an avid reader myself) and it works well for independent work too. Sonlight works great in our home because we have two completely different personalities in our house. My early riser is my 7th grader. He has always been a morning person and would be up before the sun if he was allowed to be. So his school day starts first. This does two things in our school. One - it allows me time to work one on one with him and get the subjects that we work through together done right away (Sonlight has readers that the teacher reads to the student and readers the student reads to the teacher). Two - it gives my second grader time to get up, wake up, and take a slower approach to her morning which she really needs. She is my night owl and just doesn't wake up well if she is rushed (she has earned her nickname Beast when she is forced awake).  So we set up a schedule that works for us based on this.

Every day I make sure that the books each child will need is listed on our patio door which doubles as our "marker board" when we work around our dining room table which is 90% of the time. When each child knows what books to grab, they can have them right where they are working and there is no wasting time looking for books in the middle of lessons. After they grab the books they need we start our day. We have Bible, history, readers, read aloud books, math, science, Spanish, language arts, spelling/vocabulary and grammar. My seventh grader also works on a web design class online. My second grader has handwriting that is part of her work.
Our "marker board"
We typically start our school day around 8:00 am for my 7th grader and 9:00 am for my 2nd grader. The system that works for us is to rotate what we do. I work with the 7th grader first on anything we have to read aloud - readers, history, Bible, etc. While he is reading and after she gets awake, my 2nd grader is doing her book work - math, spelling, handwriting, etc. She will ask questions and get help while I am working with my 7th grader, but she is really good about trying her best to figure it out before asking. When I am done reading with the 7th grader, we flip flop. He does his math, science, Spanish, grammar, language arts, etc. I should also tell you that when I initially work with him on the reading, we will go over what he does in these subjects so that he can work quietly while I read with the 2nd grader. He already knows what to do so he is set to work independently. He does have questions sometimes, but he does a good job of setting work aside when he gets stuck and starting on the next subject until I am at a point he can ask questions (this is totally a learned thing that took many years of practicing to get down). While he does his quiet work, I do the reading parts of school with the 2nd grader. She reads to me and I read to her. Any work not done by 1:00 pm is homework. This was a tough place for me to draw the line, but I had to do it otherwise the kids would take a very long lunch break and we wouldn't finish school until almost 5:00pm. That made supper late and my housework would not get done. So we set the rule of anything not done by 1:00 becomes homework and the kids know that and respect it so they work hard not to have homework.

Reading through History
Working on science
After all the school work is done, I grade it each day. This helps me know if either child is struggling in a subject and we need more time on a concept and I can give immediate feedback on their work. It also helps keep me organized because I don't get behind and have to spend hours grading a mountain of work. We also make sure that at the end of each day that each child puts their books back on their shelves and puts away their supplies (they each have a caddy for their pencils, pens, erasers, etc).

By taking the time to figure out what works best for us in our school, I have been able to keep it running smoothly and the kids know pretty much what each day will look like. I don't want to mislead you into thinking everything always runs perfectly. We do have days that fall apart because we are real people and live real lives. We get sick. We are involved in activities outside of our home and we are part of a homeschool group at our church. So not every day looks like this, but most of our days do. I truly believe the non-negotiable part of our school is flexibility. If I were not flexible or my kids were not flexible we would be a mess. There are days we have to adjust for orthodontist appointments or Bible study at church. Every once in awhile we get the opportunity to go on business trips with my hubby and I love the fact that my kids are flexible and we can adjust our school so we can take it on the road with us. When situations arise, we become flexible and figure out a way to make our school work. It wasn't always that way for me. I remember how rigid and inflexible I used to be when I first started homeschooling and that just led to frustration and exhaustion for me. So I learned over the years to be flexible and willing to adjust where and when it was needed and it has made a huge difference. I taught my kids to be flexible and adjust so that when we need it, they can roll with it. The biggest piece of advice I can give you about homeschooling whether you teach one grade or five grades is to be flexible – go ahead and plan for what you want to happen, but be flexible enough to make changes where they are needed or to adjust for the things that you cannot plan for because they will happen.


Cassandra is a Child of God, a wife of 17 years, a mom of 2, and a friend to many. She is a city girl turned country. She and her family live in the country with their husky, two outdoor cats, and the chickens. Cassandra blogs over at A Glimpse of Normal where you can take a peek into normal, everyday life over at their house. She blogs about everything from homeschooling to reviews to recipes to crafts to trips to you name it. She loves crafts, cooking, reading, and baking. She also has a crazy Pinterest addiction.

Day in the life - guest post with Kym

2/28/2016

 
Join me in welcoming Kym to my blog today.   I've had the privilege of getting to know this kind, knowledgeable over the past few years through the TOS board.   Share my delight in spending a week in Kym's home.  :)
Describing a typical homeschool day is rather difficult, since each day has a routine of its own. Instead, I'd like to have you join me on a quick tour of a typical homeschool week for me and my two high school age students. My 17 year old son will graduate this year, and my 14 year old daughter is a freshman. They both do a majority of their schoolwork independently, so I don't have to spend a great deal of time actively teaching. My job is more to keep us all on track and to do all the grading and record-keeping. The mornings all start in the same way. I get up with my husband when he leaves for work, and supply us both with a morning coffee. Then I have almost two hours to enjoy my coffee, do my morning Bible reading, and get started with my email, blog, lesson planning, and whatever else I need to do during that quiet before everyone else is awake.  I make sure the kids are up and started on schoolwork by 9am, but for the most part I allow them to decide what they need to work on. My son prefers to start with math. This year, that's a Consumer Math course. My daughter has been choosing to start with Literature lately, because she can stay in bed and read the novel! Good thinking! Once or twice a week, I sit with each of them and work on Grammar. And once a week - on a day when my adult son is working a morning shift at his job, we get together to view a DVD lesson from the Student Writing Intensive. On Mondays, I take my daughter to her guitar lesson right after lunch; and on Tuesdays both kids attend a co-op gym class in the afternoon. Then on Tuesday evenings, there is Civil Air Patrol for the boy, and chorus rehearsals for the girl and for me. Needless to say, Tuesday is a very light day for academics! We generally are able to stay close to home the rest of the week, but the times that we are working on school independently or together vary. Now, I am supposed to be on top of the grading and record-keeping, but that's often a moving target as well. Somehow it doesn't seem to work out that well for me to ask the kids to bring me all their work every day, so I check their work in bits and pieces along the way, and every now and again I will have to tell them to "bring me all your science (or whatever) so I can catch up with the grading!" Of course, almost every day winds up with interruptions or challenges along the way. My kids are not the only ones getting distracted by social media and technology - it certainly happens to me as well! In addition, there are days when I need to make an extra trip to town to run errands or get to appointments, and there are extra things on the to-do list. For example, every other week I direct a worship team at church. My husband and daughter are both on the team as well, and lately my son has started playing with us as well. That means that I need to make time during a weekday or two to pull together my set list and prepare all the music, and we all need to get to the practice. It's something we all enjoy very much, and we're very involved in the life of our church in other ways as well. Because we're homeschooling we can adjust our schedule to make that work. Another way we adjust our schedule almost every week is to allow the kids to sleep just a little later on Monday mornings. You see, they work on Sunday evenings as scorekeepers for their dad's hockey league. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to stay out that late every week if they had to be on a schoolbus early Monday morning! In a way, that sums up our everyday experience with homeschooling. It gives us so much room for flexibility and individual attention to everything from curriculum to daily scheduling to family vacations.
Kym is in the middle of her 18th year of homeschooling her four kids, two of whom have graduated. She and her husband of 28 years are Canadians transplanted to Maryland. Kym loves coffee, history, and homeschooling, and you can join her for coffee break at her blog, Homeschool Coffee Break.

A Day in The Life: Guest Post by Lori

2/21/2016

 
Hi Folks, I am SO delighted to welcome my blogging TOS crew friend here to my blog today.   Lori...thanks so much for welcoming us into your home.  :)
Hi there! I'm Lori and I blog @ At Home: where life happens. Welcome to a day in the life of our classroom. But, really, it isn't a single place or space or room. We homeschool wherever we are most comfortable and wherever we are when the conversation comes up. photo A20Day20In20the20Life20working_zpslajvwvbn.jpg Our days start off fairly benign and quiet. I get up around 7, get some tea (plain black, please), and spend some time reading my Bible in the quiet. (Right now, I am working on a 90 day reading plan for the entire Bible; I do best with a plan.) This is my sanity saver and makes a tangible difference in my day. If I miss this time, I feel it and my attitude and patience pay the price. The girls start rising around 7:30 and are responsible for their own breakfasts. They are generally required to be dressed, have eaten breakfast, and have made their beds/picked up their rooms by 8:30 or 9. We are flexible but try to keep it somewhere around there.   After everyone is up and about, we get started. The girls get out their work boxes and get busy on their assignments. Both of the two older giggly girls (ages 11 and 9) have a list that they work from. Miss E has a planner that she works from and Miss L has created a list that she taped into her pencil box. They do not have a set schedule or order in which they must work. If they work steadily, they will have their work completed by lunch time or shortly thereafter. The youngest giggly girl just turned 7 and she needs a lot of direct teaching. Miss J distracts easily so I spend a lot of my time by her side, keeping her on track. She also can have her work done by lunch if she'll stick to it.  photo A20Day20in20The20Life20workboxes_zpsqfwgiypo.jpg I try to ensure that the girls have all done a spelling/phonics/grammar lesson, math lesson, science lesson, and history lesson each day. They also have additional items but these are the “biggies” and kind of act as anchors for our daily work. **I would like to add a thought here about something that I try to keep in mind when working through daily lessons – relationships are massively important. Between us and God but also between each other here on earth. If lessons are not going well, we try to take a breather because frustration does not lead to good relationships. Frustration also does not lead to good learning. So, when things start going badly, we either take a break from it all or at least a break from that. Some days, it is time to just put it all away. And we do. And we try to get out in some sunshine and fresh air. Because my job from God is to love my children, not to frustrate them. So, when needed – put it all away and love each other.** We take a break for lunch and either At Home Dad or I read to them. We try to do a short devotional (this is the time that works best for the family due to At Home Dad's work schedule) and then we always have two read alouds going. Generally, At Home Dad reads to them over lunch. Right now, they are reading the Great Brain series and are working on Great Brain at the Academy. I am reading them Little Women. Both books are a huge hit, though completely different styles and subjects! Afternoons are spent in art or music practice (one is working on flute and one on violin), play time, and any errands that need to be run. This sounds so cut and dry and boring but really – it rarely looks exactly like this. Most days there is something that keeps us off track and we have to work around whatever is going on. Tuesdays the girls and I attend Ladies' Bible class at the church so schooling normally happens in the afternoons. Wednesdays the girls have dance classes at the end of the afternoons so I try to press them to be done by lunch so they can have some down time. Friday afternoons we go to the library and the art center for art instruction. We try to throw in a field trip every other week, as well. So see – keeps us on our toes.  photo A20Day20in20the20Life20field20trips_zps5ourvam1.jpg Something that shocks a lot of folks - we do not have scheduled independent reading times. This is because my girls are voracious readers. Seriously! We go to the library every Friday and the girls come away with a minimum of 30 books between the three of them. And they are generally all read. We allow them to pick whatever they want to read, though we try to point them to at least one book that relates to something they are studying, be it WWII or elections and Susan B Anthony or maps and season. Books are windows to the world and we love that our girls have found just how big that window can be!  photo 0a5c6415-a167-4efe-8e29-6ed64dd54319_zps5tiavkds.jpg This is a glance into our schooldays. It isn't glamorous but it is full of family and full of love and learning. We are so blessed to be able to educate our children at home. We have such fun and I learn as much as they do. Hope you enjoyed the ramble and will join me over at At Home: where life happens. I'd love to have you as a subscriber so you can follow our life and homeschooling journey. Thanks for reading! Lori

Snow on the Ground, Tears in the Eyes

2/18/2016

 
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I have to admit, this has NOT been a great homeschooling week.   Been a combination of things setting us off.

1. Monday was Family Day here in Canada so we basically took the day off.   We had a cart ride with some horses, visited with neighbours over cookies, watched a movie in the community and had pizza for supper.  :)
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2. Tuesday was odd...trying to remember why.  OH.. NO ONE felt like doing school AT ALL.   Tiredness or what. .Not sure what was at play but schooling with books was SO nt for us, so we worked on building mouse feeders instead.  Project based learning is good too right?
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3, Foodbank Day.   So the lad does bookwork and helps out as needed.   Normally we have a shipment come in but something got messed up so it didn't come in so the lad helped me with some organizing instead.
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And that brings us to today.

Math... the lad was brought to tears today by math.   It was odd.   If I asked him the question he could do it in his head. Explain it all to me and everything, but doing it on paper simply wasn't working for him today.   So we did four questions verbally and said "done".    It was beyond frustrating for him .. I can see the answer mom but every time I try to write it down it's WRONG and it's NOT MY FAULT!!!!  Seeing as he could do it verbally I had to agree that it wasn't his fault it was just a brain glitchy day.

Grapevine studies.  We've started a new review for Grapevine.   Working through the New Testament.   I have to admit, the lad was simply having fun with drawing the characters today...i would show you up close what he was drawing but he begged me not to,but this image passed his inspection.   I don't mind silliness as long as the message is getting through.
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Geography.  We changed this up a bit.  The lad HATED drawing out the shape of the country.  He could never get it perfect enough and it was driving him crazy, so now he has to find the country that we are studying and colour it in.  This week we are learning about Azerbaijan.  It's rather interesting how studies of other countries help us understand our own.  How like many Azerbaijan's are Muslim by identity but not by belief.   Much like Canada eh?
We did our reading together.   We covered Octopus/Squid; John Knox; Hudson (after whom Hudson bay is named for), Mrs. Quack; Two poems...one which just weirded me out (and the lad found interesting), and something else.  :)

The lad did his narration, copywork (starting a new study on Astronomy), and... Logic of English.

I have to admit, we aren't following the lessons very well with Logic of English. We just aren't, if we do my lad stresses out too much, so we use their materials in our own way.  Today we were working on knowing if phonographs have two letters or one.  He had fun!   OH MY.   So nice to see my lad having fun with phonographs.   Our biggest battle is helping him figure out what things sound like... he gets that from me, its just the way it is.  We often guess at how words sound and hubby is frequently correcting us both.  :)

We also use the cards differently.  I give him three cards per week to study,  One of the cards always has a spelling list on the back and I'll randomly throughout the week ask him to spell words.   Keeps him practicing without adding the stress of "I HAVE TO BE PERFECT" to his day.
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So that's our week/day.  Tomorrow will be different again as we'll planning to be out of the house most of the day.
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