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!

Summer Time

Kids are still enjoying the pool!

I wish it would wear them out more but here's Samuel and McGee enjoying some rest.  :)

 We took a 3 mile walk around Lily Lake recently and it was a lot of fun, although it was a little long for the younger boys.  

We saw lots of snakes!!

We had some really hot days recently so the only thing to do is swim or stay inside!!  It's hard to believe it's only been a couple of weeks of summer.  We start our summer school plan next week!