City On a Hill Academy

• Mar. 3, 2006 - Regrouping :)

Well, Here I am again, and hopefully this time I'll have a little more frequent "presence" at my blog. January was filled with the rest of Advent, our 16th wedding anniversary, snow, and generally keeping warm! February had birthdays, art shows, Valentine's Day,....we finally took down the Christmas Tree, and of course the Olympics! We downloaded Amanda Bennet's Olympic study, after using the 1st week that was free here at Homeschool Nation's e-newsletter. My daughter absolutely LOVED it! We also stayed up every night till 11:30 pm to watch all of the coverage. This is pretty odd for those of us that generally don't watch regular broadcast TV (Or much of anything else... we still have rabbit ears... no cable). So, life was very busy, which may have something to do with why I didn't spend much time here! Now, March has arrived, and we are breathing a huge breath of... spring and organization(Although spring is still a long ways off, and organization in my household seems to be even further!) We've begun a new "start to our morning" routine. This is what it looks like~ *Read the verse for each day from our Sunday School paper *Go over the next 4 verses for each child in their AWANA handbook (This works great... it's Friday today, and they both know their verses!) *Pray for one person or family that we know. We got this idea from a fellow homeschooler on the FIAR boards. We have all of our Christmas cards in a basket, and each day, we take the card from the front, pray for that family, and then place the card in the back of the stack, to be cycled through. We will add the various other cards that we receive through the year as well. I'm very excited about this, as I had been looking for a way to make prayer more meaningful and less "rote" for my littles. *Read 1 Chapter in whatever our "spiritual growth" book of the moment is. We started the Year with "Little Pilgrim's Progress". Now we are going through "The Chronicles of Narnia" in chronological order, and utilizing the study guide "ROAR" to encourage discussion, and bring out scriptures that coordinate with some of the themes. Following our reading, we go to math/phonics/writing for each child, and then we do our current FIAR book/study. Well, that will do for now... I'm going to add one more blog today, with some pictures from our Maple Sugaring Field Trip this morning. See ya! Lis

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