Week 18

Christmas school this week!  We finished our book, A Ghost Tale for Christmas, and did quite a few Christmas-themed worksheets to review some math and just have fun!  Everyone enjoyed the change of pace.  This picture below shows Samuel with a cat barrier because every time we sat around the tree together, she came out to bite one of us.  Ha!

We also played family Bingo a couple of nights, until my work schedule interfered!

Baking is done, the house is cleaned so just grocery shopping and the fun can begin!!!!!

Week 17

We had a field trip this week to find out what Christmas, and life, was like 100 years ago!

Nathan and I started a unit on a book called How to Catch Santa so we had a lot of fun with different activities!!

Hunter working on spelling:

Our read aloud put Samuel to sleep:

More Santa work:

A history craft that actually worked out:

The cat offered Lily support for her math review before a quiz:

This was our last week of regular work before the Christmas break!!  

Week 16

A full week this week!  We had snow to play in!

Samuel's picture:

We baked Christmas cookies:

Brian and the boys made peppermint-scented play dough:

Nathan worked on making a Faberge egg for our Russia study:

We babysat:

Lily and Hunter worked on flips at gymnastics.  Nathan chose to not do flips but he did get 2nd place in the contest (no idea what the name of it was).

We did school on the floor, by the tree this week.  We used this board for math this week so Nathan wanted to draw a picture when he was done:

Samuel and I worked hard on converting our balance into a scale.  It was harder than it looked.  

Hunter and I working on Math:

Lily working on our craft of the Trojan horse, which was too hard!!

Week 15

Back to school except we had to remove the homeschool table for the tree!  So school is done on the couch or the floor now.  

Nathan opened the box on Russia because we are reading a book located there.

We learned about Pangea in science so they tried to put the continents back together.

Working on coloring sheets:

Hunter has been interested in oil pastels since his last art class.  I happened to have some so I picked up this black art pad and all the boys drew a picture!

Samuel working on measuring inches/centimeters with his Barton tiles nearby.  

Thursday was a review day for history so we used our excavating skills to find the treasure in the pharaoh's tomb.  :)

We had another sick day this week. We did manage to get reading done but otherwise, it was just a restful day for all of us!

Week 14

This week was super short!  We had school on Monday and then we were off.  We had planned a field trip Tuesday but we had too many sick kids to make it that far (it was 2.5 hours away).

Nathan turkey bowling at Scouts:

We decorated for Christmas:

 This is from Hunter's and Nathan's Lego class.  This is the honey badger in its habitat:

Week 13

This week we did a science experiment showing that the deer population needed to increase for the cougar population to increase.  They enjoyed this one!

Nathan got to enjoy some Thanksgiving-themed activities.

We built the wall of Jericho and knocked it down!

Hunter helped slice cranberries for the cranberry bread Nathan and I made in honor of our book, Cranberry Thanksgiving:

These 3 colored the areas on the map that the 12 tribes of Israel occupied:

MHSAP classes ended for the session.  Nathan and Hunter worked on this honey badger in their Lego class:

We took Friday off, partially for my stomach bug and partially because my Mom, Lily and I had plans to surprise Hunter with Dr. Strange! 

Week 12

History involved Chinese dynasties and silkworms this week!

Meanwhile, Nathan studied Japan and tried out an origami dog.

Nathan and I spent some time at a park while the twins were at class and Samuel was with my parents.  He said he was teaching me to have fun!  Ha!

We took Friday off and did family swim, a picnic, shopping and got ready for our big weekend!

Saturday was the family birthday party for Jamie, Hunter and Lily.

These 3 all have braces now!

Sunday was the twins' birthday so we celebrated all day long!!