welcome!  let me intoduce you to our children.

sarah is 19 ( she's my mother's helper now that she's graduated )

ben is 12, parker is 5, hannah is 4, rebekah is 2 and jamison just turned 6 months.

i thought i'd use this blog to chronicle what we do each day in school so here goes.!

since i'm writing this early in the day i'll write what we did yesterday

today we started out reading scripture. we are in psalms.  then we got down to business with schoolwork. ben started a new saxon math book- 87- so he did review in the 1st lesson. while he was doing that i was reading to parker and hannah  for science-  rainbows  was the themeof the book.

then park drew trees from his eyewitness book "tree" and we talked about how some stay green all year long while others don't.  hannah and bekah were doing their art projects during this time and then parker joined them- glue, beads, crayons and paper made up today's craft.

then we (mom, hannah and parker) made rock candy!  mmmm!!!

ben was drawing his cartoon during this time.  he has one that he has been doing for years- it's called madcat.

after lunch- ramen noodles with mixed vegies and cheese sauce, never the little msg filled foil pouches! - i read to ben about the missionary  samuel morris.  we are in the first chapter.  the littles all watched a vegie tale movie about loving their neighbor. it falls into line with the book i read afterward to them called "adam raccoon and billy garumph."

after reading both parker and ben did their spelling.

ben did handwriting- he's working his way thru proverbs for this- and parker and hannah and rebekah watched "in between the lions".  afterward parker practiced his handwriting using the words he learned from the show.

then parker drew a picture of shadrack,meshach, and abendigo ( spelling is wrong i'm sure) after we read the story in his child's bible.  all during this time  ben read about medievil times and castles.  (he has a series of architectural  templates picked out on his list of wants. )

parker then picked out nouns and verbs from his workbook. hannah worked on writing her alphabet and starting subtraction in her workbook.  ben started building a bridge across the stream that runs behind our house.

then all the kids went bike riding with their neighborhood friends. :)