Photo dump

This post is pretty much a photo dump.

What our science study sometimes looks like. Eaden will simply read and then write what was most interesting to her from the reading.

 At other times science might be a bit more interesting.

 

Grammar study.

 Brothers playing.

 Cousins.

 A typical view from my kitchen window.

 I cleaned the window after taking this next picture.

 Naia had her end of season softball party at Sweet and Sassy.

 Spelling rules. Super exciting.

 History.

Eaden is learning about the Jewish people and reading stories from the Bible. The Old Testament is not presented as complete historical fact, but is still important when attempting to understand the ancient Israelites.

 Joseph's coat of many colors.

Keeping Mirek occupied.

What Eaden does while waiting to go to gymnastics practice.

Back at it

Here are Naia and Eaden last Saturday before softball and gymnastics. Eaden was supposed to dress up as a superhero.

 My grandpa died last week and Lynni had a death in her family as well. She had to drive to Mexico and I was driving back and forth to New Braunfels. We took the week off of homeschool.

But back to normal this week!

 We have been sending and receiving lots of mail.

Taven was very excited to get a postcard from his buddy Aidan.

 Naia received mail from her cousin Abby.

 We finally finished our Aztec lapbooks. I am thinking we will start using Story of the World again for history. It makes things a lot easier for me and if the kids are not interested in something we will just skip it.

 Working around Mirek can be a challenge!

 And of course no one saw him turn into a smurf.

 

This week's poem.

Learning about the Aztecs and making feather fans.

 Bathing chickens.

 We actually lost two of our chickens yesterday. They were the last two left of our original three. I am not too sure what happened, but I think the younger chickens may have had something to do with it.

We learned about why we have night and day and seasons.

 A play-dough Earth and a flashlight sun.

 Naia started up fall ball!

First Week of Homeschool

This week was the first week having Lynni over to homeschool with us. We started the Tuesday after Labor Day.

The early mornings are spent in circle time. All of the kids have folders where we write the date, track the weather, and do a little daily math. We also work on poem memorization.

After circle time, Eaden and Lynni do spelling, cursive, math, phonics, and reading.

 After lunch we do either science, history/geography, or kitchen and art.

Tuesday is a science day and we went on a nature walk.

Wednesday we baked cookies. They did all of the measuring and mixing themselves.

 We also did an art project. We put some blue paint in a spray bottle to make the rain. I think it rained every day this week and so this was a fitting project.

 The poem to memorize for the week was Hey Diddle, Diddle. Here are Eaden and Naia's pictures.

Reciting the poem.

Working on math facts is a lot more fun with a friend!

 Naia building a double decker couch.

 Thursday is a history/geography day. We read about the ancient Maya, watched a few youtube videos, and made salt dough maps of the region where the Maya lived/live.

 I got Lynni involved in the housekeeping.

 Both girls were VERY excited to get all of their words right on the first spelling test.

 Lessons in chicken keeping.

 They locked themselves in the coop on accident and I told them they had to stay there for a while.

 Experimenting with magnets.

 Taven really liked moving his toy car around with the magnets. Very cool.

It was a great week. Everything ran smoothly and all of the kids got along very well. Obviously we need more of a schedule now that we have Lynni here during a certain portion of the day, but I think we will still have room for creativity and spontaneity.