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 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 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 [...]

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 37: Don’t Call Me Camden Anymore

The following conversation takes place Monday night at 8:30pm: Cam:  Hey Mom? Mom:  Yes? Cam:  Don’t call me Camden anymore. Mom:  What?  Why? Cam:  Well…um…I like the name Camden, but…I just want you to call me Cam. Mom:  Ok…why don’t you want to be called Camden anymore? Cam:  Because whenever someone calls me Camden, it’s [...]

Week 36: May Days

This month has been hectic.  And we’re only on the 7th day (as I type this).   Where to start? Let’s talk about Jessica for a moment.  Jessica isn’t homeschooled.  She has been attending a private Christian school for the past year and a half.  She graduates in exactly two weeks. It has definitely been a [...]

Camping….*LIVE*

It’s 8:19pm, and the boys are camping in Ty’s new tent…in our back yard.  Cam is super pumped up.  Ty…not so much. They are camping with a flashlight, sleeping bags, walkie-talkies (in case they need to talk to Dad), and Holly, the ‘fierce’ protector.   We were going to have Domi cast as the Great Protector, [...]

Week 33: If You Build It…They Will Play!

Last Saturday, I signed the boys up for the Lowes Workshop.  They were building miniature baseball stadiums.  While the projects were really cute, I couldn’t help but contrast Lowes vs. Home Depot: Quality of Project: A tie. Extra “Perks”: A tie.  At Lowes we received the project, an apron, a child-sized hammer, goggles, a project patch and [...]

Week 32: It Was Bound to Happen

This week was like wading through mud.  Everyone was kind of ‘hungover’ from Easter, and with Jessica home for her Spring Break, it was difficult trying to focus on our school work.  In addition to that, both of the boys have nasty colds. But we managed. Ty is almost done with Kindergarten.  We’re literally counting [...]

Week 30: A Reading Dahl-A-Thon!

I mentioned last week that the boys and I are currently reading the Roald Dahl collection.  So far we have read: The Twits The Enormous Crocodile The Magic Finger The Vicar of Nibbleswicke I have since returned those books to the library, and we now hope to read: James and the Giant Peach Fantastic Mr. [...]

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