The very freaky cricket

YES you are looking at exactly what it looks like, a cricket with a nut or something stuck on it's head. No we could not believe it either. That thing was jumping all over probally scared to death. Damian held it down with a leaf while he pulled the nut off it's head. The kids were amazed that a cricket had this thing stuck on it's head. Of course it did not learn it's lesson about crawling into stuff at the end you see it has crawled into this curled leaf. Poor dumb bug.

Skylers Fourth Day of Creation

She also learned about the letter G and H so she made an H on her stamp and see. She really likes to do school. So very cute!!!

Damians Map of Eric the Red and his son Leif

We are really liking the 3-D map work. I just wish the pieces could move a bit easier. Damian likes the hands on quality he gets.

Damian watching 500 Nations Volume 1

I thought it to be pretty interesting myself. It was sad though when they showed the slaughter at Wounded Knee. Even sadder when speaking of the infant who survived 3 days next to the dead frozen body of her mother. Damian has asked me many times since we started this study about why white men think they are so great?? It is hard for me to understand the things in the past, how do you make him see it???

A first day of Fall pic

Yes I know it is late. I took it the 22nd though so A for Effort OK.

Sker Bays Kindermusik bells

Skylers instrument for this semester was ankle bells. Aren't they sweet? She also got her two music CD's, a playset about weather, two books, and a back pack. She is getting a rain stick later in the semester. She had fun putting the bells on her bears too.

I have also come to the conclusion that my camera really sucks.

-Last week, last week, last week-

Well I think not too much of anything really got accomplished. Damian took all my time with not cooperating so poor little Skyler was playing all day. (I am sure she was not that sad) We did manage to finish Day 1 of Week 2 and half of day 2 on Winterpromise American Story. Damian was coloring a picture, well he had to go potty when Skyler just could not resist picking up the crayons. I did manage to get a pic of that. After all the crying I thought it was kind of funny. She just wanted to cuwer inian picsures too!!! She is too tooo cute for words if you ask me though.

Here is Damian about to start coloring an Indian picture.

Here is Damians picture after he came back from the bathroom.

Here is poor Damian starting over again!!! Needless to say it never got finished cause it just wasn't the same!!!

Our Saturday

Damian started Very Special Caring Arts today. He did pretty good for the first day. Fox is asking to do it too. It be nice to have him involved in something positive. Fox and I worked on The Hill of Fire lapbook. He could answer quite a few questions about the story we read so it was nice to know he paid attention. They played outside and then played some more so I hope they had fun. Too soon the weather will change, Fall is in the air as it is. The snow will come and home bound we will be. That will be so sad for a little boy who loves to play outside and search for bugs. Bugs and more bugs, he even let's them crawl all over him.

Damians spelling test

Damian took his spelling test today, the first one. He got a 90% so he got a BIG B!!!!!!!!! I was so proud. Tonight we read Hill of Fire with both boys and this weekend we will work on a lapbook for it. They will learn a bit about Mexico and Valcanoes. I think Damian liked the book. They both ran to their room and made a leggo volcano and villiage. Skyler did not want to really do much school today. All though we went to the library and I got her a few booka about weather so she can make a lapbbok. I have the Hands of a Child lapbook, In Like A Lion Out Like A Lamb Weather lapbook for her to work on. For this semester in Kindermusik they are using the theme weather. Well that was about my day in a nutshell. Oh, we did go for a before bedtime walk around the block tonight.

We found a really cool bug!!!!

Yes I do realize every pic is upside down but that is because the bug was upside down. This was so cool to me, Damian and Skyler. None of us has ever seen this bug before. I have no clue what it is but we took alot of pics as you can tell. It just hung there like it was posing. We thought it was great!! Where else but home can you totally interupt school to look at a bug???

Today with school

Damian is catching on. He actually had come to the table, did school and got done. No arguing, no fighting and it went good!! Devlin and Fox have done Istep Tuesday and today. Skyler did not want to stay on task but that is OK she is 4. We did manage to do the third day of creation in her My Fathers World K. She colored her 3 I hung it on the wall. So that was good. We got about half a lesson in math done. She is way too interested in the spooky houses. You can see those pics on the pic page.

Hoosier Academy and Homeschooling.........

It sure is different. Not doing the boys together, a bit more time consuming, but whatever works well for each child Right!!! So Devlin is sure doing well making friends. Fox is becoming Mr. Popularity of course. Damian is really hitting the books as well. Skyler is liking her school. So I guess now we find our routine and go from there and life will all calm down hopefully when winter hits!!!

Changes, Changes.....

I decided that in some way I wanted to make school more official for the kids. An actual name, a new blog look, school colors all that goes with a school. I have decided this year I will keep records and make report cards as well. We will see how that all works out though now won't we?? I have The Master Planner. It is really packed full of organizational forms. I bought it at currclick.com So we shall see how our year will go.......

Fox and Devlin

Fox had his first call home. He did not want to go to reading class. We chatted on the phone he knows there will be some talking and trouble when he gets home. Devlin of course is having a great day. Business as usual for her.

Damians Day

Damians day went all right except for handwriting. He hates it. I was told many many times this morning he is just no good at it. "practice" I tell him.

Today for Skyler....

Well Skyler managed to do her number 2 for the second day of creation. That is her My Fathers World K. We also managed to make a D with her stamp screen and do lesson 2 of her Rightstart Math before she decided that playing with the blocks was way toooo fun to stop. Oh well she's just 4. Good job!!!!!!!!

Kindermusik

Skyler started back at the Fall session of Kindermusik. Usually she has a great time, I think I wore her out today though because.... "She fell asleep 10 minutes into the class." I will be going back to the afternoon naps I think starting tomorrow. I got no pics though. This semesters theme is weather and she will get her take home materials next week hopefully. Usually the class is fairly small but this semster it is pretty big. All though Skylers partner in crime (AKA Kelsey) could not come tonight due to strep throat so she'll start at next weeks class. Hopefully Skyler Bay will be UP for the challenge.

Hoosier Academy Today

Well for Devlin is was business as usual. She got online, did her school, got done had a day. Fox who is finally on the Online School, well a few assignments for him were for the wrong grade. So hopefully this new program gets all the kinks out soon. I will say I am impressed with the Art Print kit that he has for art. It is really cool and the prints are excellent quality, better than most textbooks I have seen.

Damians school day........

Damian started a new reading book today YAY!!!!! We did the first story and all the workbook pages to go with it. We also did math, spelling, language arts, handwriting and of course calendar time. Pretty good after a week or so of confusion. Hopefully tomorrow we can resume with Week 2 of Winterpromise and week 1 of Noeo Chemistry.

Skylers First Day of School......

Today is Little Ones first day. What a busy day it was. We did everything and had so much fun doing it too. She had a blast doing all that school with mommy!!

Skyler and the Weather Board

Today we used our weather board for the first time. It was fun taking her outside to feel the weather.

My Fathers World K

Today we started The My Fathers World K. Our first lesson was about Creation Day 1 . God seperated the light and the dark. So far this seems pretty cute and Skyler really liked hearing about Day 1.
This is the number for Day 1. Each day we study she will add a decorated number on the wall.
These are the alphabet cards and for each creation day we just briefly look at two letters. Todays were A and B