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I noticed I hadn’t posted in 2 months.

Here is a glimpse at what has been keep me busy.. and it’s far from over.

Right now I need to make a counter top decision. Laminate? Concrete? Quartz? Two things I know: under-mount sink and butcher block for the island, the rest is up in the air right now. Factors that will be making the decision for me: price & time. The sooner the better.

The girls work at the dinning room table (where as Josiah works in the office).

Celena is in Grade 3 and has been home-schooled her whole life. She loves school and especially loves her fairly spotless 100% test score record!

Typing she does on the laptop at a little table we have up against the wall in our dinning room. For those that are curious we are using Abeka Book for Josiah and Celena. The typing program is Mavis Beacon (bought at Staples).

Each Friday I write up their schedule for the following week. This is what her’s looked like this week.

After lunch she practices piano and then she is free to play.

I forgot to get a photo of Ariel at the table with her books but you get the idea. She is in Grade 7 and has been homeschooling since Grade 4. She uses Abeka Book for LA, Health, Science, and History. Math and Spelling she does online and for Typing she uses Mavis Beacon.

In the afternoon she practices violin.

Alex home-schooled from Grade 5 until just a few days ago. He is back in Public School for the remainder of the school year as prep for the fall, when he will be attending MCI (a private Christian high school).

So that is our school day in a nutshell. Hope you enjoyed.

 

My blog is in need of some posts; since the photography front is usually slow in the winter months; so I thought I would post a little bit about our homeschool.

Josiah started Kindergarten in the fall and loves it. I told him today that he loves everything about school but he said, “No.” Then proceeded to show me which books he loves by pointing to each and EVERY book on the shelf.

This is where the two of us work each morning from 9:00-11:00 and these are his books. The second stack from the right is mine but the rest are his. You can also see the stack of reading cards on the right.. he can read them all, that’s 85 one vowel words so far. He does great with the cards but we are still working on transferring that reading knowledge to books (he gets distracted by the pictures).

We also work on counting by ones, fives and tens, recognizing pennies, nickles and dimes (so far) and math facts (adding and subtracting).

I am so proud of how far he has come in the last few months and love every minute we have together!

Sunday we celebrated Alex’s 14th birthday. He will be entering High School in the fall.

10 years ago.

And today. Time just flies.

Love that kid!