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I have been wanting to post weekly updates of our lessons. I'm hoping to get week 1 and 2 up soon. I love having a working keyboard again lol. Anyway off to change baby girl and cut out some lapbook parts. We are working on the Story About Ping this week. |
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Well good deals on books were easy to find last week. Friday I stopped at the library to get some ancient Egypt books. They were having a book sale!! I picked up a book on the arctic cost, 2 cookbooks, a worst case scenario survival handbook student edition, 2 books from the Little House series, 2 copies of Blake Beauty (one for younger readers and one full story), a Toddlers Bible, and another book of Bible stories. And all together it was only 2.00 !!!
I also stopped at one other small library sale and found another Little House set book I didn't have yet for .20. We also stopped at a moving sale on the way home from picking up an order of rabbit caging material. We found some great deals there to! This set of World Book Life Skills library:
And World Book Encyclopedia of Science:
And also another set of Child Craft books. There was a complete base set and then on of the extra year additions I didn't have yet. I've been trying to collect a set of child craft for each child. They would be wonderful to pass down to there children one day to. All the above books were only 10.00!! Oh and I found this great box of word/picture cards for 1.00 at a thrift shop to. I was going to make some of these up now I don't have to. A real time saver!
These are going to make grate additions to our school library here.
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OK so today isn't our first day we started on the 4th. But my keyboard has been on the fritz and I finally got a new one. No more sticky keys!! So now it's time to get caught up on all the posts I've wanted to do. Despite being up late the night before (a big no, no) and a little unorganized we had a great first day of school. We eased in slowly starting with just spelling/grammar and math. I plan to school year round and just take short breaks as we need them. However we took about 6 weeks off this summer after our new baby was born. I really noticed how the littles forget things so quickly and it's harder getting back into the schedule. DD1 (5 years old) all excited to get started. She just loves learning.
Reading is always more fun with a little buddy to keep you company.
Not to be left out dd2 (3 years old) had fun to! Mostly coloring and following a long were she wanted.
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I was searching for something and came across this funny blog post. Since I'm schooling with a 5 and 3 year old and a 22 month old and a newborn it gave me a giggle. |
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I found this nice site this afternoon. It's called Wordsmyth. It has many vocabulary helps, one that I really like is you can make your own customized glossary! |
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We will soon be releasing our new newsletter! Filled with timely seasonal tips.
There is a sign up form at the top of the left sidebar. We would be blessed to have you join us!
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 Less Of Me~More Of Him is hosing a homeschool open house, until Aug. 15 with great prizes to! Here is our entry.
We have 4 girls ages 5, 3, 20 months, and newborn. While we've really been teaching them since birth. I started more formal schooling last year with our oldest. Last year a friend told me about the book Teaching the Trivium. I'm so glad I read that! It both brought freedom and challenges to our homeschool. Freedoms from thinking I had to follow a boxed curriculum and challenges to dig deeper into literature and languages.
Our schedule is fairly relaxed but we do try to be done by noon. But if we are a little behind I'll use the afternoon to do the FIAR activities. Breakfast is 7:30 to 8:00, then we have 30 minutes of clean up time. Lessons start at 9am. We start with writing practice/copywork, then grammar and reading, then math, Five in a Row reading/activates. We also plan to do history 3 days a week and science 2 days a week.
We do most of our work at the kitchen table and curled up on the couch. The perfect place to hold/nurse a baby and read to everyone!
I have two corners of the kitchen set up for storing school stuff. One of our art easels is set up there, its a chalk board on one side and a dry erase board/magnet board on the other. Beside that is a large drawered storage bin. It holds tubs of drawing supplies, coloring books, play dough, and other art supplies.
On the other side of the kitchen there is a small corner shelf that holds my magazine racks with our in use work books and notebooks. Under the shelf is another drawered bin, this has things the kids can't use without me lol. Bottles of paint, clay etc.
Curriculum
Baby
Off the hook LOL!
20 month old
Puzzles and fun play
3 year old
Teaching Your Child to Read In 100 Easy Lessons - I used this to teach our oldest and loved it!
Lots of puzzles and craft fun.
5 year old
Math-U-See Alpha
McGuffey's 1st reader 1836 edition
Spelling Workout A
God's Design For Science - Life science The Animal Kingdom (after we are done that we'll do the human body and plants.)
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Baby Cassandra Faith was born July 27 at 11:22am after a very short labor. In fact Andy delivered her, the midwives arriving just 2 minutes after the birth lol. She's 8 lb 10 oz and 20 1/2" long. We are all doing well, will send more info and photos soon.
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I'm so happy to share that our store Homestead Acres is open! Please stop by and have a look. We are currently offering our Cozy Country Shawl pattern and a yummy Rabbit cook book. More items will be added soon. |
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Well I'm back I think. |
When the morning sickenss got really bad I had to cut way back on my pc time. I could hardly keep up with the other day to day chores. I've been trying to keep up my other blog 
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Well this morning I went to take out the cloth I had across the top of the butterfly terrarium. I figured by now they would be large enough not to get through the little vent holes lol. Well surprise! Over night a lot of them started to make chrysalis! They have attached them selves to the cloth with the little silk button. The ones starting to do this look like a hook shape.
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Here are a few photos of our little painted lady caterpillars. The kit I ordered comes with a terrarium, and little containers to keep the caterpillars in. I decided in stead of having one or two caterpillars in the tiny little cups to put them all in the terrarium now. It's much easier to see! Also they LOVE to eat thistle leaves. I pick 3 or 4 large ones each day for them.
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Here is a site with free classic children's literature to read online or print. It's all out of print/public domain. Some really good stuff here! |
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Here is a free coloring ebook from the National Sunflower Association.
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I found a great site with fables/poems. It has free audio as well as plain text. This would make good copy work etc.
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