Gabriellia liked math when she first began but as the years have gone by she has started letting me know just how much she dislikes it. This week she has started multiplication and guess what? She likes math again! I am happy to hear it!

Micah is doing very well with his Liberty Mathematics level K. We do two pages each day. Daddy corrects math for mama and then the children do their corrections.

My oldest dd Morgan has been asking me if they can do school. Our 3 weeks on 1 week off schedule hasn't been exactly on schedule. Isn't it great when your children ask you if they can do some school? I must be doing something right then!!

It's been awhile since I updated.

We were doing 3 weeks on 1 week off but with so many things going on and just life in general that hasn't been working so well. And of course when it's nice outside who wants to be cooped up inside doing schoolwork?

We are trying to do school although it has been slowly that it's been accomplished.

Here are a few pictures of some things the children have done around here lately..

went to a sheep shearing field trip

 notebooking

dissecting a flower and then notebooking..

We are now doing an astronomy unit. Recently the children mapped the moon. I wish we had a telescope. It would make our study so much neater!

Monday I went and bought our new curriculum for this next school year. I decided to go ahead and start the pearables studies now. We did one this week and the children loved them!

This is everything I bought. I only have a few more things to get..

This is the main curriculum we will be using..

Anyone used the Christian Cottage Unit Studies with their children??

Sharing some more of our homeschool notebooking with you!

Morgan-Britney our oldest child is doing a bird notebook. We have several different bird feeders in our backyard. It's great to be able to incorporate them into her notebook.

Quentin  (8) read in his science text and then notebooked what he read.

Today my almost 13 year old son made 3 loaves of very yummy zucchini bread! He did a great job and we all couldn't stop eating it!

Micah, Quentin & Gabby are doing KONOS. We're doing the Obedience Unit.

 Here is a picture of a typical homeschool day at our house...the kiddos on around the table and working on their school work!  

About 4 miles outside the place we live is a little town and in this little town there is a baptist church and in this baptist church is a homeschool book store!! I was able to go check it out on Friday and for a small store there is alot of good stuff. I can't wait to get back and take my time looking. Wouldn't you know I got there right at closing! :(

 Homeschool shopping is one of my favorite things...:):)

Last Friday I pulled out my KONOS Volume 1 and decided to again use this with my 10,8,6 yr. olds. I chose to start right into the obedience unit. We're studying the Bible and Light houses. We picked up lots of great books at the library on Friday to use with our study. I am looking forward to learning all about lighthouses right along with them! 

 Josiah and Zeke are reading some good fiction stories which take place in the Civil War to go along with their Civil War study.

Anna Sunday by Sally M. Keehn

All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Phillips Denslow

Morgan has been doing a nature study on birds. We found a very BIG Audobon book at the library which includes a cd of songs each bird sings and what they sound like. It's very neat!

Here is a link to it ..

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-David-Burnie/dp/075663153X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235009848&sr=1-4

She is also reading a guide to birds native to IN.

Her artwork in her nature journal is just beautiful! She draws so well!

We do alot of notebooking in our homeschool. Some examples are my boys are doing notebooking pages on rocks & minerals along with reading in their Apologia Science text. # of the children do notebooking for Bible each morning. We're doing History Scribe also. The Civil War.

Here are some pics..

Gabby notebooking her bible verse

Gabby notebooking about digger wasps

Micah is doing Psalm 23 copywork for his Bible lesson each morning..

We love using notebooking in our homeschool!

I want to blog about our homeschooling days and life. I want a place to share what we're doing and learning!