Week 23: Egypt is on Fire

As I watch the turmoil in Egypt, I am acutely aware of the history being made right in front of our eyes.  I want the boys to understand it as well, but it seems we can only focus on the damage being done to history within the museums of Egypt.  We have been studying the [...]

Week 8: A Week in Pictures

Another week of me falling down on the job with this blog.  Between tax deadlines and my 40th Birthday (!) I was just too busy to document our daily routines.  So I offer you a pictorial of our week instead (in chronological order): That’s it for this week.  I should be back on track for [...]

Week 5: Invasion of the Lego Mini Figures

Monday: It wasn’t a great start to our week.  First, Cam woke up and wasn’t feeling well.  He did feel well enough to do school, but he was a bit ‘off’ today.  I did give him the choice of staying in bed or doing his lessons…he chose school. As we started our day, I noticed [...]

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 [...]

Week 6: All About Owl Pellets

Saturday/Sunday: Saturday morning we took the boys to Lowes for their Build and Grow workshop.  I thought they were building a firetruck, but the project ended up being a puppet theater.  It turned out really cute! They also had the Red Cross, Coast Guard, and a few other ‘disaster preparedness’ groups handing out information about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Week 34: Struggles and Successes

Ty finished his Reading/English DVDs for Kindergarten on Friday.  I was left feeling a little sad that we wouldn’t be seeing Chef Cookie anymore.  Some of our best memories of this year have been doing ‘Snack of the Week’ with Chef Cookie.  And Ty’s impression of Chef’s “bon appetit!’ is hysterical.  We will definitely miss [...]

Week 8: “Roads? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads.”*

*Dr Emmet Brown – Back to the Future Every now and then I go through these phases where I ascribe movie quotes to real-life events.  It’s one of those weird, quirky things about me.    The movie quote I really wanted to use for this week was, “I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat”, [...]

Week 4: Cooking Project Week

Now that we are using the DVD lessons instead of the online lessons, our school day runs like a well-oiled machine!  We are digging the homeschool decision! This week I unofficially dubbed, “Cooking Project Week”.  I think we did a cooking project every day.  All of the projects were yummy too.    I picked a [...]

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