Finished our 1st quarter!

We finished our first quarter this week! I can't believe it, it's gone by so quickly. This week Regan started her Book 2 reader. Her reading is improving everyday, it exciting to see! Micah is almost through reading all the Kindergarten readers for the whole year! I am going to have to find more reading material for him in another week or two. In History we studied the different continents and in Bible we are reading about Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness. Regan has been sick this week and we had some Dr.'s appointments and MOPS so it has been a low key week. No field trips or big projects. Grandma is visiting for the weekend and the kids are enjoying spending time with her and reading all the books that she brought with her. Tallulah said "Grandma" (or actually "Mamma") for the first time yesterday. Sorry Mom, looks like we have another kid who does not want to say Grammy :) .

More pictures from our Fall Party

Another week has past. As I mentioned in my last post Grammy and Poppy came to visit last week so our school week was abbreviated. We had lots of fun visiting tho ugh and did manage to get all our 3 R's (reading, writing and arithmetic) in. We also finished reading My Fathers Dragon, a big hit with the kids and I will be off to the library to find it's sequel this week :) I am posting some more pictures, they are a few weeks old, but later is better than never! The first picture is the kids helping Daddy rake the leaves in the back yard a few weeks ago. The picture on the right is of Regan and Micah with their Sunflower. We traced their hands on yellow construction paper to make the petals and then week went on- line to find pictures and information about Sunflowers. We learned that they can grow 9-10 feet tall. We could not make ours quite that tall, but we did the best we could!

This picture of Tallulah has nothing to do with home school, it was just too cute to not post!

Here are a few picture from our Fall Party on October 25th. We spent the afternoon of the 24th making and decorating cookies. Here is Regan hard at work rolling out the dough.

The finished product! they turned our well, but it was a lot of work, all in all probably more than 4 hours of baking and decorating!

I painted a bare landscape on a roll of white paper (an idea I got from another home school blogger, Danielle, who happens to be my step-mother-in-law's niece). The kids had fun decorating the bare landscape with foam leaf, acorn and pumpkin stickers.

Here is a picture of the whole group. One family was not able to come due to sickness, but we had fun none the less!

Some of the pictures I promised...

Grammy and Poppy came to visit this week!



We went on a field trip to the farm for a hayride!

Everyone loved the hayride, especially Tallulah, she was throwing hay everywhere!

Here are some pictures from our field trip last week to the Children's Museum.

Police Man Max!

Regan, Micah and Max in the fire truck.

Where to begin...

I have been thinking it would be fun to record our adventures in and outside our "little white schoolhouse" but I am not sure where to begin... This summer we made the decision to home school Regan and Micah when the Lord's leading in that direction became more and more clear as we prayed, researched and talked with other homeschooling families.

Our adventure officially began in September. We have been using Sonlight's Core C, Language Arts 1, Science K and RightStart Math. There is too much to tell to fill you in on all we have done over the last 7 weeks, but here are some of the highlights:

We have read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Box Car Children, Apple and the Arrow and are currently enjoying My Fathers Dragon.

We have been on quite a few field trips: Williamsburg, the Virginia Air and Space Museum, and a Bug workshop where we learned that honey is bee throw-up!

Micah is reading, (very exciting!) and Regan's reading and writing is improving daily:)

So, that brings us up to this week. We have been reading about Moses leading the Isrealites out of Egypt, and of course had to watch "Moe and the Big Exit" (veggie tales) to supplement our reading. In history, we have been learning about government and politics, rivers, lakes, oceans and seas. Thursday we had some friends over for a Fall Festival in the morning. Regan made us a Pin the Leaf on the Tree game to play and we bobbed for apples. Wednesday we spent the whole afternoon making and decorating cookies for the party. I will have to post picture later, as I just sent them in for developing! In Science we have been learning about plants and flowers and how then are pollinated. Yesterday we used kidney beans to start plant seedlings, we are all excited to see if they will grow!

Today was a big field trip day. Phil took the morning off work and we went to the Home school Day at the Children's Museum and the VA Sports Museum. Max skipped preschool to come with us and the kids had a blast "driving" the fire truck, bus and police motor cycle at the Children's Museum . We also learned that our arm span is equal to our height! At the Sports Museum Regan climbed to the top of FedEx Stadium on a stair master!

There is so much more to tell, but this is a good beginning. I hope to have pictures up soon so you can see and not just read about what we are doing!