The kids put the Christmas tree up this weekend when I was away speaking! I went to do a Christmas outreach event at a local church, and when I got home all the Christmas stuff was up! It was awesome. They did a great job, too. They decided to try to colour coordinate this year (can you tell they're both girls?), so they put only the blue and silver and purple balls and decorations on the tree, and the other stuff went in bowls elsewhere. It looks nice.

So now we start out December homeschooling. We'll be much more low-key. Katie's already 2/3 of the way done Saxon Math 6/5 for the year, so we're going to back off entirely. She'll still do spelling, but she's almost done her Grammar book, too, so we'll back off that.

What we will do is the special unit study I bought on Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, probably The Best Book Ever Written That Was Not Written by Jane Austen, in my opinion. We're going to have a lot of fun with it.

With Becca we're just going to work on a few essays, and let her quiet down a bit. She's worked hard.

We've been collecting knitting machines to ship over to the Children's Home in Kenya that we support and that we'll go work at again next year (we were there last year), and I think I might pull one out and do a few sweaters on it this month, too. But all in all, I'm just glad it's December.

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Posted by mumof5

Ooohh! I had forgot about that book - think I'll pick it up and read it to the kids.

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Posted by rebecca

Hey Sheila!!

My crew is going with our group to see the play production of "BEST CHRISTMAS" next week! Isn't that so much fun!

December has never been a great month for getting a lot of schoolwork done, but we are having to go hard at it with my high schooler. We will go through the 15th and then take three weeks off.

love touching base with you on the blog!

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