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Solar Ovens

Mon, 4 May 2009 15:43:00 -0500

Has any one made a solar oven? We are going to take on that project for the Month of May. It should be interesting . We will be making reports on how we made it, What we cooked in it , how long it took and how it came out.

Phyllis<><

books

Sat, 2 May 2009 20:48:00 -0500

I have a questiion for anyone who is reading this blog.

Question is : If you have a relunktant reader, Is Audio books good for them.

My pros are: They are hearing the words, HIstory, or what ever they are listening to. It will help them to pronounce words better, As they hear them.

My cons are: They are not seening the words, it is not helping with word recognition, does not help with spelling,

What to do what to do. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

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Sunrise

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:21:00 -0600

As I was driving my son to work this morning I took this picture with my phone camara. It does not do it justice but does show the glory of God.

Happy New Year! 2009!!!

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:23:00 -0600

Welcome to a new Year!

Wow I am a bad blogger. It has been a while since I have Posted.

I have two Sons that are Homeschooled . An eighth grader and an eleventh grader.

We are using Robinson Curiculum. Saxon math, And the Bible. If you want more info I will be glad to answer any questions I can.

My oldest Home schooler is into Photography and I will post some of his pictures from time to time. The Youngest one is into drawing, and I will post some of his work as well.<

Here is looking forward to a New Year of learning, growing in God, and Serving Him.

The Poz

Where does the time go

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:26:01 -0500

Here it is a whole new year and three months have already gone by. How does time slip past so fast? We have been working along in school work all year. Had a few set backs due to illnesses. But should finish up just about on time.

Son no. 3 has taken off on his photography self learning lessons. The church has him taking pictures for them for special events that we do.

Son no. 4 will start baseball this week. It is his last year with the little league do to his age. His team was one of the best last year. This year they have new team members and old ones have moved on. There is still 3 or 4 old members from last year. Has a great coach . He can' t wait to get started.

Hope to ~~keep~~ this up at least once a week.

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The beauty of fall!!!!

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:26:00 -0500

Fresh Start

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:15:00 -0500

Hi All,

I have not been blogging for a long time. So I am going to start again.

We are still Home schooling, Only now there are just two left out of the eight. Daughter number four has just started College and first time job (cashier at Sears). She is only carring one class (math) for this fall. But will up it to two in Jan. So I only have Sons three(11 grade) and four (7th grade) homeschooling.

We have been spending more time outside than inside with books at this time as the weather and fall have been so nice. We do a lot of exploring in the forest preserves by us. Also a few fishing trips with Dad.

Over the summer we have done a little home improvements. We have put in three new windows. Painted the kitchen. Up dated the upstairs Bath.

One of the books we are studing is "The Genesis Record" by Morris. It is amazing how much science is in the first chapter alone.You have space-matter-time continuum. Energy, gravity,and nuclear forces. Primeval hydrosphere , atmosphere for the terrestrial sphere. Earth's lithosphere and plant biosphere. The Celestial sphere. All of this is to prepare the world for living creatures. You could spent a life time just studing the science of the first three days of creation!!!!

Another book we are reading is James Ussher's Classic Survey of the World History. "The Annals ofthe World". It also starts with the book of Genesis and ends at about 73A.D.

These two books alone are what my 7th grader will be using for Bible, Science, and History for the next two or three years.

Got to run and do some laundry (It ain't going to do it's self) and some more cleaning done.

Phyllis<><

Snow, Snow, Snow

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:54:00 -0600

Snow is white, snow is light, snow is cold, snow is fun, so we decided to have fun yesterday in the snow. But forgot the camera, so no Pictures.

We got up early, did schoolwork, and I put dinner in the crockpot and at one we headed out to meet a few other homeschoolers at Plum Creek Nature Center to go sleding down the 30 foot hill. I wish I had pictures to show you how steep the hill is, you have to go to the edge to see the bottom because of the curve of the hill.

My 5 yr old grandson was already at the bottom of the hill before I got to the top. This kid has no fear. My sons Eddie(11) and Pat(15) went with us. We had great time and dinner was done(yeah!!!) when we got back, as I was still frozen when I went to sleep.

Isn't it wonderfull to be able to do school work and to have fun before it gets to cold outside?

Dickens

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:56:01 -0600

We are listening to C. Dickens "Great Expetations" on DVD. Older kids, 17 and soon to be 16, thinks it is boring. But I been hearing alot of laughter as they are listening to it.

This is one way to make sure they are reading the book and I am too. They do art and crafts while listening. My 11 year old seem to love it. I know I do as I can get my crocheting done and hear a book I want to read at the same time.

Don't you love tecnology?LOL

New Years Res: Col. 1:29

Back to School!!

Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:00:00 -0600

Christmas bbbreak was fun. But, now it is time to get back to school. I don't know about you but we drag on the first week back. Getting back into the routine after 2 of 3 weeks of really no school is big ajustment for us as we are slakers. You know them there lazy people.

So this first week is catch up on what we didn't finnish in Dec. So we will be ready to dig in next week. You know, hard core , toe the line, no slacking. It is going to be hardest , I think on me, I got lazy, sleeping in till 8 just about every day.