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By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3-4

• Sep. 23, 2006 - Week 4 - LA is a hit!

Well, Mei begged to do more LA this week!  She loves worksheets and completed all this week's work in about 2 days.  So we played a game where I hid the letter cards near objects that started with that letter.  She had to name the object and make the letter sound when she found it.  Then she hid the cards for me to find.  Turns out we have a lot more B things in our house, than F and A things!  We will have to try more of the phonics games since she enjoyed this one so much.

 

Mei is still loving math.  It is what she chooses to do first every day.  She is starting to understand how numbers work and almost has the days of week down.

 

Mei's interest in AW seems to be fading.  I hope this week to include more hands-on activities besides the crafts.  I think if we were doing more experiment type things she would like it more.

 

If  you have a moment, please read my previous post about my 3 top priorities.

 

Mei busy at math.  Our school area is this desk between my family room and kitchen area.  A storage cabinet in the family room holds our supplies.  That is her play kitchen on the far side of the desk.

 

Mei and I made Barney the Butterfly - mine is the one with purple antennae!  Mei took this picture of me.

 

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• Sep. 27, 2006 - Hello!

Posted by Joyceemarie
I found your blog and couldn't help but notice how much fun your are having in your school. It is so great to see your pictures.

We are adopting from China, We are almost ready to send in our INS forms...

Have a great day!

I have added you to my friends list!
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• Sep. 27, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous
Hey!

You guys are having so much fun! That's what homeschooling should be, especially at Mei's age.

I love the pics she's taking!

In reply to your question, no, I'm stuck at 166. I haven't been exercising as consistently as I should have and I'm having trouble getting my medications organized. I freeze and I'm burning up. But I'm glad to be stalled at a lower number than at a higher number.

I tried to subscribe to your blog via Net News Wire and wasn't able to. Drats.
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• Sep. 27, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by DraiochtSchool
Thank you for the encouragement. I forget sometimes just how small they still are. One or another child is always going through a growth spurt and the days fly by so fast, all filled up with things to do, and it seems like if I blink, when I open my eyes again, they'll be late to take their SATs.

Yep, those are their real names. Sterling's biological mom named him, Sterling Tyger. The middle two have Hebrew names. It's traditional not to put the Hebrew name on the birth certificate, so we translated them. Verdi's Hebrew name is Descha from Psalm 23 ("green pastures") and the best we could translate it into English was as "Verdi." Bear's Hebrew name is Dov, which means Bear, from a verse I can't recall without looking it up. It was about how God acts like a mother bear, fiercely protecting his cubs and ripping up unrighteousness. And the baby's Hebrew name is Lebana, which means pure white that illuminates, like the light shining off the moon. It doesn't really correspond to his English name but we didn't want to name him Moon, that was a little bit too hippy even for us. So his English name is after a different celestial body: Terran.

If you only read one attachment parenting article, it should be this one:
http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/articles/jeri/gcmap.php

That said, my most favorite attachment parenting sites are:
http://www.continuum-concept.org/reading.html
http://www.naturalchild.org/articles/

And I bet you would like to look at this Christian website:
http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/articles/

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