Week 25-28: Furious February and Awanas Olympics

As you can see, my little blog has been severely neglected this month.  It’s just been SO busy! The boys are both doing well in their subjects.  Some new things we did this month: Cam is learning multiplication Ty is learning about matter Cam is learning about writing a friendly letter Ty is doing better [...]

Week 21: Yay! Imaginarium Day!

This week was full of great anticipation because it was our monthly trek to the Imaginarium! This week’s topic was, “Florida Marine Life”.  The Imaginarium was transformed into a beautifully overwhelming, underwater extravaganza!  Truly, it was amazing.  I told my friend Lisa that I was going to bring Scott back to it – it was [...]

December 2010: Finishing the Semester With Success!

Wow.  The month of December just flew by, didn’t it?  As you can see, I failed on keeping up to date on a weekly basis. We did so many things this month: Field trip to the Imaginarium Ty brought his Reading grade up from a B to an A Both boys finished up their Heritage [...]

Week 13 – 15: Holidays and Field Trips

As you can see, there hasn’t been much time to update our blog.  Instead of me rambling, I’m just going to post pictures from the past two weeks.  Enjoy! Cards From Jessica: Silly Bandz From Jess: Imaginarium Day!  Florida’s Weather Thanksgiving Cooking Craft: Thanksgiving Day: The Tree: A Boy and a Marker Turns Into Luigi: [...]

Week 9: Learning About the Kennedy Space Center

Monday: I have decided to scale back on Story of the World a bit.  With the holiday season ramping up, I wanted to shift focus to doing a few fun unit studies instead.  We will pick SOTW back up in full swing after the holiday season. Today we jumped right into our lessons with renewed [...]

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 21: 100 Days of School!

As of Friday, January 22nd, we have officially completed 100 days of school!  I can’t believe that we are almost done with our first year of homeschooling.  What an adventure this has turned out to be. On Monday, we had our cousin, Kendall, spend the day with us.  Kendall will be going into Kindergarten in [...]

Week 18: Twas the Week Before Christmas…

…and we were rapidly losing our focus on lessons. Thankfully, we had a field trip to the Imaginarium planned for this week, otherwise, I don’t know that the boys would have hung in there before our Christmas break.  As it was, they were bouncing off the walls with excitement. So on Tuesday, we headed over [...]

Week 10: The Study of Life

One of the activities that inspired our “Animal Unit Study” was the Turtle bread.  I ran across this recipe online, and when I saw how cute it was, I immediately started planning for the animal unit study.  We took a bit of a shortcut with the recipe, in that, we bought bread dough from the [...]

Week 5: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part I

Our fifth week of school was a lot of fun.  On Monday, we started a unit study on Johnny Appleseed.  This was in addition to our regular curriculum.  We started our unit study by reading, The Story of Johnny Appleseed, by Aliki.  We then started our Johnny Appleseed notebook.  This is just a 3-ring notebook [...]

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