Okay, so I’m not going to beat around the bush here…this week was challenging. Big Bro’s courses are in full swing which means mucho work and lots of hours of work. In addition to the work load, we still have other things on our schedule collectively that needs to be done. Big Bro goes to swim four days throughout the week in the afternoon…I tutor from 3-6 three days a week…we have church from 6-10 on Friday nights. So trying to get it all in each week is definitely taking some planning and balancing.
And now for a round of applause: Thank goodness for Papa who saves the day each week by tag teaming with me to get Big Bro to and from swim, giving Little Bro playtime when he’s done with “official” school time and pretty much anything else that needs to be done. And although Nana can’t be with us during the daytime hours, she definitely supports our hs efforts. As I type this right now, she is sitting beside me addressing and stamping postcards (and bought them, might I add!) for a project we are doing. She’s always offering good advice, new ideas (like putting Big Bro’s FLVS work in his workboxes) and supplies us with various items we need…buttons, hangers, nylons, you name-she has it! Of course, Daddy helps support our homeschooling by working super hard so that I can stay home to do this. He’s also the math/science brains behind some of the more complex explanations and the science experiments. Thanks to each of you!!!
Okay, so onto some fun photos from the week:
So a little extra material for Big Bro’s unit on Mesopotamia in World Cultures…DVD and books
A life skill lesson in cooking french toast…yummy!
Our new thing is that we are participating in is a nationwide postcard swap…each week we receive one or two postcards from a different state complete with cool facts about each. This was our first week…we received it from Iowa. It’s a great way to memorize state capitals, locations and just some interesting things about our states. We learned about Snake Alley in Iowa which is the world’s crookedest street. (It’s a group of 51 families, each assigned a week to send out a postcard to the other families. Ours will be mailed out the week of October 8…thanks Nana for buying all the postcards, stamping and addressing all 51!) It’s exciting checking the mail now for the kids!
Funny little emails from a couple FLVS teachers…he gets these often from them…fun!
Still working on letter “B”…
Counting with butterflies and doing a button collage
Some morning math work
Reading Goldilocks and The Three Bears and a cutting/sorting exercise
“B” puzzle Building with blocks Franklin’s Blanket on tape
Working on some map work and creating a Sumerian alphabet for an assignment
Sorting A and B items Our friend, “B”, playing a butterfly counting game with dice
The boys working on finding pictures that begin B and cutting them out…fine motor skills.
Big Bro’s math class has a portion called “Math Virtually Everywhere”…this assignment (on decimals) required that he estimate the cost of 10 items, round the total cost and then compare that to the actual cost at the grocery store. I was surprised to learn that he was rather fantastic at estimating the cost of each item. He guessed the Gusher’s to be $2.20 when the actual price was $2.29!
Bad guy fighting time! One of Big Bro’s homeschool shirts and now Little Bro’s shirt
Yeah! Our 2d postcard came in from MN this week. We also received our Book It! program info in the mail. So the boys were super excited to learn they would earn a free pizza coupon each month for reading. That should be NO problem in our house!
Our first “Talkin’ Tater Night”…this idea came from a teen parenting class we have been taking for the past 6 weeks…Lil Bro was asleep and so it was just the three of us talking about “teen” issues and “stuff.” The Five Guys Fries helped to offset some of the uncomfortable topics we touched on…lol!
Celebrating Grandparents Day… a couple weeks late due to time conflicts…Nana got a new Bible and a pedicure given to her personally (meaning we did it) from Lil Bro and I. Papa got a cool homeschool grandparents funny t-shirt and a trip to the golf range with Big Bro. Meanwhile, Daddy made a great meal for them, too!
Lil Bro’s first team sport…Pee Wee Baseball…how cute is he???
Check him out! Yes, he connected!! Umm, is the ball ever gonna get here?
What a wonderful blessing it has been this past month to connect with the boys in a way I never have! I can’t imagine not homeschooling now even though getting it to “work” takes plenty of time. I look forward to what the future holds for us. I know it won’t all be rainbows and sunshine but hopefully the memories from those times will carry us through the dark and stormy daysl…
Until next time,
Crystal
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment