Week 1

School is in session!  Everyone was up and ready on the 1st day!

Lily's writing program is not her favorite subject but a pink DVD player helps...  :) 

Brian was in charge of keeping Nathan busy with crafts on the 1st day.  Nathan quickly fell asleep after this.  :)

Opening our Egypt box:

Fresh Thinking Putty to play with during our read aloud time:

Nathan's favorite activity this week was working on a color wheel:

He also really loves handwriting:

Picking up with Samuel's math program, which he also really enjoys most days:

Working on reading and rhyming: 

Samuel working through math problems:

The kids made their own Senet board for history:

Samuel's reading and writing shown here:

Nathan feeding the monster words after he reads them:

Samuel thinking hard in math:

Hunter and I played a math game to practice money counting:

Introducing recorders for a fun music class:

Making maps:

Penguin Paradise:

Skull Island:

King Cow:

Lilyopolis:

Hunter working on math in a quiet space:

Lunch was in their new lunch bags on the 1st day, per their request!  :)

It was a full, busy week but we had a lot of fun and made great progress!!

Classroom Ready!

I've spent a lot of time planning our 1st week of homeschool and cleaning, organizing and decorating our homeschool space.  I thought I'd share what we have so far:

Brian put up this peacock for us to count to 100 days of school:

Our calendar and weather area:

My planner stands up with a cookbook holder!

Nathan's map for Five In A Row:

Pencils!

Teacher cabinet:

The kids all have a bin for their school supplies:

Fun weather pictures and school supply clip art:

Math and art supplies fill this cabinet up!

All of my teacher books:

This space is ready for completed work:

Library books have been picked up so we are ready to learn!

Summer Time Part 2

Brian and I celebrated 16 years of marriage!

Brian treated the kids to new fishing poles and they got to use them on Father's Day.  They don't get a chance to fish very often but they love it!  

Walking the trail:

The twins were baptized this summer!!

Lily and I had a day camp through American Heritage Girls and it was a lot of fun!

Hunter got braces.  Another orthodontist bill--boo!

We saw Toy Story, the play:

We had our first family camp out, which was interesting.  :)

Summer is wrapping up and we are trying to get ready for the 1st day of school, which is coming up August 22!