Today was a typical Monday morning. It seems there's always catch up work to do from the weekend. Today has proved no different. Here's our morning up to lunchtime.

Here's when I was giving a lecture in science. We are on earth science, learning on rocks and minerals. We enjoyed researching the earth's plates and how they move. We covered what gems do and do not come from the earth and whatall we indeed to get from the earth's rocks. Do you know the three gems that do NOT come from earth? Do you know where they come from? Oh, and in this picture I DO know where everything is in "my" stack! It doesn't look a mess, ugh? This is us doing school at the dining table, which is currently in the living room. Whenever we get into the addition, the blue room behind me, which is the current boys' room will be the schoolroom. YES, a home for our school books! No having to move them around to eat lunch, etc.

Here's the children, listening to the lecture of the day.

I was imitating the theory of the Big Crash....I mean Boom...err....Bang.  Ha! What a theory. That theory made more impact on my children than telling them they were gonna blink the next second. They were more impressed by my animation. Oh, we also discussed how to disprove evolution by fossils.

Isn't this a mess? While the older children worked on school electives, the younger children and I worked on chores. Actually this is the week for Brittany to do dishes but I wasn't going to leave mess from Sunday for her to clean up. So I caught things up for her to begin her turn. This week is my week for laundry. Actually, I do a little of both when it's not my turn, out of habit I guess.

Jesse vacuumed out the couch and loveseat. This afternoon we must clean the livingroom. At least some of the livingroom is clean. Ha! 

So after chores we had lunch, the children watched a video on the findings of a wooly mammoth(to go coincide with science) and we took a nap.

This afternoon we will tackle grammar, spelling and math. Then there will be more chores and time to cook supper. Then James will be home!