Our school day begins the evening before as "the evening and the morning were the first day." We have family Bible reading time where we all gather in the family room and read a portion of Scripture (reading through the Bible - not skipping anything), discussing, and answer the correlating Balancing the Sword questions. Then we gather in a circle, holding hands to pray
Our Text of the Week:
This week's reading was Leviticus 8-13.
Opening Time: Our school day begins with prayer, pledges, sword drills, hymn sing, or missions study, depending on the day. This week we sang: "My Anchor Holds" and "Higher Ground." We sing along with the congregational singing I found on the internet.
Sword Drill Time, "Attention, Draw Swords, Charge"
Scriptorium: This week we started memorizing and scribing (in Edwarding-type calligraphy) the Romans Road. We pretty much already know it by heart, but it's always good to review.
Wednesday Chapel Time: This week we listened to (& took notes) Dr. Adrian Rogers' sermon on "Living in the Last Days". I just love the internet in that my girls are blessed to hear many of the great preachers like I have had the privileged of hearing over the years.
Listening to our chapel speaker and taking notes.
Bedell Curriculum: We are continuing in Volume 4, Lessons 19-21 in the Bedell books. Here are some of the things we were learning/discussing this week...
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The Seriousness of Worshiping God (Nadab & Abihu's Sin)
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Some Churches Offering Entertainment Instead of True Worship
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Detailed Study of Clean & Unclean Animals
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Leprosy (Human & Household - how it's like sin)
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Hemorrhaging & Anemia
(Note: Since we use the Bible as our No. 1 textbook, sometimes we don't have a Bedell lesson to correlate with the day's Scripture).
Hands-on American History: More fun lapbook inserts with Homeschool In the Wood's Time Travelers "The American Revolution". This Week: Liberty Bell; Thomas Jefferson; Battles of NY; George Washington; Nathan Hale: God's Hand of Providence; Soldiers of the Revolution.
Music & Ministry: We had our first AWANA meeting (actually of fun Kick-off night with dinner at the church and more like an AWANA carnival). The children are darling and full of energy. Amber & Anna are so excited to be leaders and it will be such a good experience for them. Anna also found out that she is old enough to serve in the nursery and is all excited about that too. And this morning (Friday) we helped at the local nursing home (we do this twice a month) and we had so much fun there too. Anna serves in the salon and Amber & I help the Activities Director. They have a new Director and she is so much fun - we did ceramics today.
Science: We did a kindof introduction to geology and discussed the Canopy Theory vs. the Hydroplate Theory.
US Geography: The girls continue to work hard - researching about their states of Kentucky and Arkansas. They will have 2.5 weeks to research and prepare their oral & written reports for the family. They love geography!
Language Arts: They are both pretty much done with language arts except Anna is doing a little BJU Spelling that she didn't finish last year. Not one of our favorite subjects but we keep plodding on.
Equestrian: The girls continue with their weekly lessons and practice. We continue to make good progress. It is getting more difficult to practice now with school in full gear and less daylight hours. Last night we went out to practice, but the bees were too bad and we had to throw in the towel. Horses and bees are a dangerous combination.
Home Economics: Amber continues cutting out quilt pieces for a doll-size log cabin quilt for her Christian Light Home Ec. book and Anna is enjoying book one.
That's it for this week's review. I broke our camara by forgetting it out on a barrel with the horses - when I came back, it was buried in the sand. I'm now at the mercy of using Anna's camara - but she has to download it on the new computer since I don't know how. Isn't it sad when our youngest children know technology better then we "experienced" adults.
Have a Good Weekend!
Mrs.Cuddles 
