Week 2: Snack Mix, Ancient Egyptians, and Tests!

Saturday: The boys started their new season of hockey.  Today was just evaluations and practice.  They won’t find out which team they’re on for another week. Since the boys have hockey during the Lowe’s Children’s Workshop on Saturdays, they weren’t able to participate.  However, the nice guy at Lowes gave us a kit to take [...]

Our Homeschool Classroom

Here are some pictures of our classroom.  I’m not done with it yet (I want to add some bookshelves on the wall, and do a few more decorative things).  But here are several different views of our new homeschool room. When you first walk through the door and look left, you will see Ty’s workspace. [...]

Week 1: And We’re Off!

Our much anticipated 2010-2011 school year started this week.  I can’t tell you how glad we all are!  I’m going to try and change the blog up a bit this year, and give you a snap-shot of our day-to-day activities. We also implemented a new incentive/reward system.  The boys earn tickets that allows them to [...]

Jess Moves Out

We moved Jessica into her dorm room yesterday.  It was insane. It was very hot and humid, and there were people moving in all over.  Thankfully, since Jessica is on the fourth floor, the elevators made the move a little easier.  It wasn’t until we were unloading the last load that we found out you [...]

10 Days and Counting

TEN days until our first day of school starts again!  This time last year I had everything neatly organized and ready to go.  This year?  Not so much. Jess is currently staying in what will be our classroom.  She is leaving for college in ONE week.  Once she leaves, I will have exactly (3) days [...]

A Summary of Summer

I took a break from blogging this summer for several reasons: Since Grandma’s passing in May, my motivation to keep everyone up to date kind of dwindled.  Grandma was the one person I could count on to read this blog daily.  I miss her. We moved in June, and we’re still not fully moved in. [...]

The Big Move

We spent the first week (or has it been two now?) moving into our new house.  What a nightmare!  I’d like to go on record now to say that I absolutely hate moving.  Every muscle in my body is sore.  I am exhausted every day.  I wake up to towering boxes of stuff that I [...]

Week 40: School’s Out For Summer!

Camden officially finished First Grade on Friday.  It has been a fun and eventful year for him.  He has really enjoyed being homeschooled, and he looks forward to Second Grade at home too. This week’s lessons were primarily a year-end review for him.  In Language Arts he focused on syllables, punctuation, and capitalization.  To say [...]

Jessica Graduates!

Congratulations to Jess!  She graduated #2 in her class, and was able to obtain $96,000 in scholarship money.  YAY!  Here are some pictures taken during Jessica’s graduation BBQ:                

Week 39: Evaluation Time

After last week, and all of the events we had to attend, I was looking forward to a more routine week.  I think Cam was too, because for once, he didn’t complain much about having to do the work. We are so close to finishing the year now!  We have roughly one more week before [...]

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