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woveninhim
Aug. 13, 2008
Continuation
Ok, I've got a little time alone. At least 10 minutes and thought I'd try to get finished what I started last time. Forgive me if I ramble or repeat.
I mentioned the chickens, started out with 8 and a friend brought us 4 more. Our puppy Lilly played two literally to death and one died of natural causes.
Co-op ended for the summer much to my relief. Not that I don't love it but at the time I was suffering from what I thought was some very bad allergy troubles. Within a couple of weeks the congestion in my head turned into complete nausea that wouldn't go away so then I started suspecting something else. A pregnancy test confirmed my suspicions. Come to find out instead of allergies we're expecting baby # 5. I think husby handled it a little better than I did at first. I had big plans for the summer. I was going to continue homeschooling working the CM theory into practice, the baby was going to start potty training, get rid of his pacifier, and get moved into a big bed, and I was going to work in our flower beds and garden. Instead I was out of commission for about 6-7 weeks. I started feeling better late June-early July while the children and I were on a two week vacation in WV. Husby joined us at the end of the two weeks for a family reunion.
After coming home from WV the children and I were at the Farmer's Market one Saturday morning and ended up coming home with our second puppy, Milly. Husby threatened not to let me go out of the house on my own any more. I told him I must have had a sticker on my forhead that read "Sucker" or else she saw a woman with four children and thought we'd have a good home for her puppy. Because the woman came up to us and told me how she was getting married in a couple of weeks, was trying to move, her future husband wasn't very thrilled at the idea of a puppy, and it how it was becoming too stressful. What's an animal lover to do? Well, I may as tell you a few weeks later we also ended up getting a kitten, named Smokey. That story isn't nearly as dramatic so I won't go into details.
OK, Ok back to homeschooling. We started back to school this week. I'm getting us all back into it slowly. Since math has been our hardest subject and we're starting a new curriculum this year (Math-U-See) I decided to only start that this week and begin something else next week. The first day when I mentioned that we were going to begin school the 6 yr old fussed and fussed. After doing one lesson of Math she fussed and fussed that she wanted to do more. So for the past two days I'm been preparing two lessons per day for her. The 8 year old is loving it also. I'm praying that this enjoyment of Math will last. As for the other subjects I am planning on adding the CM theory as much as I am able. I'm really attracted by the short lessons and the nature walks. I'll write more as we get a little more underway.
Co-op starts back after Labor Day. After finding out I was expecting in Jan. the director schedualed me to do all my teaching this Fall, with only one week of break. It wears me out to think about it but I think I've decided that I'm going to teach the same subject in the pre K-K as well as in the 1st-2nd grade class. I think it'll be something they'll all enjoy.
Well, I must close for now. the children are back from Wacky Wednesdays and I must help them get ready for bed.
Until next time.
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Aug. 20, 2008 - Congratulations!
I was delighted to read that you guys are doing the Charlotte Mason styled home schooling, too! It is a great program! We are doing Right Start Math rather than MathUSee, but are probably pretty close to what you are doing in other subjects.
One of the things we've just done is raise some Painted Lady butterflies. You send off for them while they are in the larval stage so you get to watch them spin their cocoons and "hatch" out into beautiful butterflies. Feeding is easy; paper towels saturated in sugar water or slices of fruit with sugar water.