Heritage Acres Homeschool

Aug. 21, 2008

Schooling

Good Morning!  Lately I can't seem to blog about anything but my kids... I can't help it, I love them.  They are SUPER! Each one so unique and precious and lovely in their own ways.... BUT, they do have one thing that is the same. It is quite interesting too.  Let me show you some pictures... Do you see it?  No, it isn't their intensity in their work... hahah! I have 4! lefties!!!!  Yep, 4!!!  Shannon and I are not lefties, but all of our children are.  I think that is pretty interesting.  I am so pleased with how our schooling is going.  There are some things I am seeing that I want to change up a bit, I think I have too big a workload on us, but one thing that I am pretty excited about is our new 'curriculum'.  We are learning chronological history, history that is intertwined with biblical history as well! It is so AWESOME! I am enjoying planning and teaching.  We also have a timeline that helps with all of us visual learners.  I will take a picture of that as we add some more facts to it, as of right now we have just talked about creation and the fact that dinosaurs were created on the same day as the other sea and land animals.  You didn't know that???  Maybe you should look into this curriculum! Well, my bunch is ready to be educated so I must go feed their bodies and their minds.  Have a GREAT day!!!

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Aug. 13, 2008

A Trip to the Pet Store

Hello there!!! We set up our aquarium over the weekend and had to wait 48 hours to get fish.  So yesterday evening we went to PetSmart to buy fish.  The pet store is almost always an exciting trip.  We got to look at the fish and the birds, reptiles and rodents... The kids always ask plenty of questions and it is a fun time. Here the children are looking at a ball python and a bearded lizard. Abram had a blast with the parakeets, on the front the cage is glass and on the side the cage is open.  When one of the parakeets would fly over to hold on to the cage, Abram would yell, "Hey! Whatcha doing?" And the bird would fly away, he LAUGHED and LAUGHED! What we came for... the fish. We went home with 2 angel fish, a sucker fish, 2 shark with black tips called bela sharks, and one albino shark.  Needless to say we stayed in the semi-aggressive tropical fish family. Here is just a sweet picture as we were finishing up our trip through the bird aisle... And YEP, it was counted as school! My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

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Jul. 25, 2008

VBS is Super Fun...

Hello Dear Ones... I hope your week has been especially sweet.  Lately things have been a bit crazy, but last night as I was teaching my class at Vacation Bible School I was just overwhelmed with God's goodness and mercy.  I love teaching children about our Lord.  VBS is super fun... here are a few pics from this week and the great thing is, we still have tonight and tomorrow!!! Our theme is Outrigger Island.  And the motto is~ Know the Truth Speak the Truth Live the Truth So we are all dressed in Hawaiian clothes... Last night was Mu-mu night.  I felt like Mrs. Roper... remember? I didn't get a full body shot, but you can kinda get an idea from this picture Cameo and I took before we left... Here are some pictures from the first night... If it weren't for photobooth I would never have pictures of me.. haha Here is my Carlie Jean and Logan... Here are the girls in my class... My Cameo is there on the far right.       I am excited for tonight and tomorrow and hopefully will have a bunch more pictures.  Have a great Friday! My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

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Jun. 16, 2008

Excitement

Good Morning, my dear friends, I am so pleased you dropped by on this beautiful Monday!!  I tell you, there is joy in my heart today.  Joy that has not resided there for a long time.  We are in revival at our church, and our revival preacher is being used by the Lord in a mighty way... The Lord spoke to me about some sin in my life and I gave it to Him... I feel that this heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am able to breathe again... Thank you Jesus! I am SO excited about tonight!! He will be here through Wednesday. Something else that excites me, but in a totally different way... I went to the Used Homeschool Book Fair on Saturday, can you say WOOHOOO?!?!?! Let me show you the result of my goings... And there are a few things that the children scooped up and have taken off with them that is not in the picture!! I ended up spending around $30! Yes, I said $30! There are books for the kids, curriculum books, books for me... I would like to have emptied my little take along cart and went back through if time had permitted... it was GREAT! Mrs. Mo... I WISH you could have been there!! There are some things that I didn't get that I will go to the new book fair to look for, but WOW, I am so tickled over what I did find! So, I have something to use for Math, Penmanship, History, Bible, Science, Geography... if I did not buy one more thing, I think I would be covered... I am challenging my children through the course of the rest of the summer to finish remembering the 43 presidents.  We know up till 26 already and then we know from 35-43... I started with some of the last with the first... weird I know.  So along with some reading on their own and with me, and learning the presidents, we should keep our minds sharp.  I LOVE school! We are working around the house and cleaning out some rather messy spots and getting some much needed house work done today.  This way, if we decide to start 'officially' counting our days at the end of the week or next month, or in September...we will be ready. I hope you have a BLESSED day, and again, thanks for stopping by! My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

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Jun. 13, 2008

Chores? How do you do them?

Good Morning!  I have been mulling over something for a while now.  Around our house we all pitch in on chores, that has we do it... we help each other until the chore is done.  Well, I have been thinking of a way to help organize things around here because it seems we can get on one thing or another and not move on... make sense? Well, I want all the kids to be helpers and sometimes Cameo feels like she has to do everyone's job.  I don't want her to feel that way.  I want everyone to see that they have a part.  I am a visual learner, I feel that my kids are pretty visual as well, so I thought a chore chart would be good for us.  I bought one of those large foam boards and scored it off.  I made a place for their names and the days of the week.  I then made little rectangles with the job written on it and push pinned it on the board.  This way, if Cameo sweeps on Monday, I can swap it and have Eli sweep on Wednesday or something like that.  That way everyone is learning something new and everyone is helping.  Once the day is over I will go back and reset them for the next day.  I don't know if this will work perfectly or even well, I think it will work nicely but you never know until you try it.  One thing I think I need to do is go back and make some smaller squares so I can fit more under each name... 2 is hardly all we need to be helping with for the day.  I just figure this can help until it becomes second nature for each of the kids to be helpers with any task.  So is there something that you do? Something that works really well for your family? If so please let me know, I might be able to implement it in with my chart.  I want to thank you for stopping by... I appreciate each and every one of you!  Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend... I am going to the used homeschool book fair tomorrow! WOO HOO!!!

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