Sarah Faith arrived Friday night at 6:57pm.  She was 8lbs 8oz, and 22 inches long.  Isn't she beautiful??!!

We finished our first day of school today.  The kids are all having "quiet-time" at the moment, so I thought I would sit down and update my blog.  I think I'm really going to like the quiet-time I scheduled for all the kids.  The older ones don't have to sleep- they can read or just rest quietly.  So far, so good!

We actually stayed on the schedule pretty well.  I got up at 7am and took my shower and spent time in the Word and prayer.  I got the kids up at 8.  They had to get dressed, make their beds, comb their hair, empty all the wastebaskets, and get all of the laundry to the basement.  We had breakfast at 8:30 and were cleaned-up and had the main floor tidied by 9.  At 9 we ventured to the basement (I made the main area of the basement into a school room this year). 

We started with Bible time.  Then we did math, spelling, handwriting, science, and writing.  During a normal week, we will do history 3 days a week, and science 2 days a week.

Tomorrow I have a midwife appt, so we won't get much if any schooling done.  I'm glad we got started, though.  It gives me a better idea of what to plan and what to expect.

Math was the favorite subject of the day by far.  The girls love it!  I started MathUSee this year, and I'm excited about using it.

I guess that's about it for now.  I have dinner planned, and we have church tonight.  Tomorrow morning it is get up and get ready to head to Soldotna to see my midwives.

Guess that means I'm "it".

ONE BOOK THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE:
"Created to Be His Helpmeet" by Debi Pearl
ONE BOOK THAT YOU’VE READ MORE THAN ONCE:
This is hard to choose just one...  "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery

 TWO BOOKS YOU’D WANT ON A DESERT ISLAND:
The Bible and a hymnal
ONE BOOK THAT MADE YOU LAUGH:
"All Things Bright and Beautiful" by James Herriot

ONE BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY:
"Edge of Eternity" by Randy Alcorn
ONE BOOK YOU WISH HAD BEEN WRITTEN:
Well, the most important Book has been written, so I'm not sure....

ONE BOOK YOU WISH HAD NEVER BEEN WRITTEN:
Koran
ONE BOOK THAT YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING:
"Homeschooling With a Meek and Quiet Spirit" by Terri Maxwell
ONE BOOK YOU HAVE BEEN MEANING TO READ:
"The Three R's" by Ruth Beechick

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I have LOTS of raspberries in my backyard and my husband LOVES raspberry jam.  I don't particularly like raspberries, picking raspberries, or raspberry jam, but I LOVE my hubby.  The rain stopped yesterday, so I got out there and picked berries.  I made them into freezer jam this morning.  I'm glad I made myself go out there and pick them yesterday, because it is raining again today.

Well, so far the only curriculum that has come is Sequential Spelling from AVKO.  I've had a chance to look it over, and I think it will work well for us.  I'm excited to get the rest of my curriculum so we can get started with school.  I still need to make a schedule and become more familiar with the writing program I have.

Today I made a missionary prayer/letter schedule.  I took all the missionaries that our church supports (20 of them) and made a schedule so that we will be praying for 4 specific missionaries each school day.  We will also be writing a letter to a missionary  every day- so each missionary should get a letter from us once a month.  I think this will help my girls to identify with our missionaries as real people, and not just someone they hear about at church.  We can also learn about where each missionary is (GEOGRAPHY!!!).

Hello Homeschool Bloggers!  I have been reading many of your blogs for a while now and I finally decided to join your ranks.  My name is Hannah and I live in beautiful Alaska!  My husband and I have 6 children- an 8yo daughter, 6yo daughter, one baby born straight into heaven, 3yo daughter, 15-month-old-son, and a baby girl due in November.

This will be our 4th year of homeschooling.  The last 2 years I used ACE PACE's, but we will be doing something different this year.  I've ordered Math-U-See, Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy, Handwriting Without Tears, and Sequential Spelling.  I already have Teaching Writing: Structure and Style from The Institute for Excellence in Writing, Old Testament Timeline from Grapevine Studies, and I downloaded several resources from Knowlegde Quest which include maps and blank timelines.  I still need to get history resources, which I'm hoping to be able to do at the library.  I also still need various school supplies.  I'm not planning on starting school until September, so I still have a little time to finish getting things together.

I've been reading a little bit about notebooking.  I think the Apologia is set-up to work well with notebooking.  I think my girls would really enjoy notebooking, so I need to figure it out a little bit more.

I guess I'll quit rambling for my first post.