Lemonade stand...

Yes it's nearing the end of January... I know that... my kids know that. BUT, they do not know that people will not buy lemonade any time during the year. And due to that we got a good easy lesson in economics!

Jayden and Grace were going to do a pretend lemonade stand yesterday. They made a sign, took their little table up to the road and sat there. Matthew reminded me that we have lemon juice in the fridge, so I mixed up a bit of lemonade for them. Then they told me they were selling cups of it for 50 cents each (or in their words, two quarters...) So the bank (of Mommy) gave them four quarters for change. They went out there and proceeded to sell all of it in less than an hour!

After playing outside for a while longer, they came inside and started the math/economics lesson. I spread their money from their cup out on the counter. Jayden counted it and told me how much there was (2.75). I reminded her that she had taken out a loan from the bank of four quarters (yes I talked about how each one was 25 cents and four of them make up a dollar) and that she needed to pay the bank back. She paid back the bank, then she counted again (1.75). I then told her about when you start a business and someone else uses their time and equipment and 'stuff' to help you get started that you pay them for "parts and labor"... I charged her 15 cents for the lemon juice, water, sugar, cups, and pitcher and 10 cents for my work. She had to add up 15 + 10 and then pay me what she owed me.

After that, she counted again and figured up that they made a profit of 1.50!! I'd say a profit of 1.50, plus learning how to start a small business is pretty good for a lemonade stand on January 26th! They are already having Matthew and me help them figure out how to make more money in the summer.

It's finally the weekend!

Before I get started... if anyone has tried to make a comment on here and it's not gotten published, I'm sorry. The only comments I've been asked to moderate have had a string of hyperlinked periods after them that goes to a strange looking website. So I've not published them. I'm sorry if this has happened to anyone.

And I'm exhausted. It's actually the middle of the weekend and I'm even more than usual exhausted. Evie is teething. Jayden had a sleepover last night and didn't go to sleep until around midnight, and as usual she was up at 6ish... so she only got about half the normal amount of sleep she gets. Grace has some sort of swollen gland or something on her neck and is complaining of it hurting, and considering that she has an outstanding pain tolerance that is a lot. I have no idea what's wrong with her.....

As far as school goes... We had a pretty good week. We only got 3 days of curriculum done, but the other two days were filled with learning. Jayden finally caught up with her reading, did handwriting every day, and has learned about 6 Bible verses.

Grace did a bit of school this week too. She did puzzles like crazy, as well as playing Guess Who. She also did 3 pages of handwriting, 2 pages of her fine motor skills book, and we went over 22 lessons of "Reading Made Easy" They were pages she's already done, but its' been a while so I wanted to see if she could still remember them. She did great until she got bored with it ;)

I've figured out that I'm happy with only doing 3 or 4 days of curriculum a week as long as they do some sort of something I can count as school without searching for ways to make it sound good on paper for 4 or 5 days a week. And with basketball on Monday and Saturday, Awana on Wednesday, and 4-H on Friday it's pretty easy to get there!

Hopefully, we'll all stay well and I'll be able to take pictures and post them next week.

We are back.

Now that we are fully back in the swing of things after the new year I'll start back posting again. :) The holidays were so busy and tiring, but we have pretty much recovered. 

I'm getting on the ball with actually regstering our school... I'm concerned that there is something I'm missing, but hopefully in the next month or two we'll be official! 

We are now in week 18 of Heart of Dakota's Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory with Jayden. During the four-ish weeks of our break we did one week of our curriculum as well as about a weeks worth of "extra" basics to catch us up with reading, handwriting, and keeping us on track with math.  We also focused a lot on Awana verses during this time, and Jayden has now learned how to memorize/learn something on her own and then come recite to me! This will make life easier on both of us. :)

One of the fun things we did was learn the different parts of a river: source, banks, bed, mouth. We also got to make a model of a river out of playdough and actually put water in it to see how each part worked and was formed. And I know in the next few weeks we are going to be making canoes out of bread dough and baking them to eat.... fun stuff!