Getting excited!

We are nearing the end of our curriculum for Jayden (Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory) and having a blast with it. She absolutely thinks George Washington was the best person ever and is really enjoying listening to our Paddington book. Math has moved on to fractions instead of the dreaded addition, so she's enjoying that again, and she's ALMOST through with her nature book and is excited about going on to the next reader. I'm getting excited about the next stuff we are planning! After we end the curriculum I'm going to be teaching her how to cook.... how to use the stove, read recipes, and put meals together. The end goal will be her being able to fix a meal from start to finish, and theoretically having her fix a meal once every couple of weeks or so. Then we will be moving on to our next curriculum (Bigger Hearts For His Glory) which from the looks of it is a very very exciting year! We'll start out slowly and build speed as we get into the winter.

Grace and Julianna are doing well in their curriculum (Little Hands to Heaven) and we are on schedule to finish sometime in November or December. Tomorrow they get to build the wall of Jericho and get to tear it down by eating it (it will be made out of graham crackers and peanut butter)

Evie has been working on climbing and walking/running... she is all over the place. Here that's not so bad, but other places that aren't familiar I feel the need to actually watch her.... she gives me a workout!

Lots of Learning!

Besides the fact that we've been "doing school" just about every day for the past couple of weeks, getting back in the groove after playing during early spring, we've been learning a LOT.

We've still been outside most of the day.

We've planted in our garden and planted seeds in pots. We have talked about how different/similar each of the plants are and seeds are.

We got to watch ants in action. We saw a few scouts come and investigate a spoon on the ground, find peanut butter on it, and go back and tell the others. Then we got to watch seemingly millions of ants come out from under our driveway....

We have learned about the doppler effect by listening to the ice cream truck. We have also learned the value of money by discussing the prices from the ice cream truck and comparing them to the prices in the store.

We have started t-ball/coach pitch with Jayden and Grace and have been working on hitting the ball and fielding with all three big girls.

Some of the day is inside though.

We have seen ginger root, garlic, and onions and talked about the differences and similarities.

We've cooked and cleaned.

We've discussed the nature of strep bacteria and how antibiotics can help keep others from getting strep throat :(

Both inside and outside we have been working on behavior... trading desirable behaviors for undesirable ones.

And Evie has been working on walking and climbing :)

I love homeschooling because you can do SO MUCH MORE than just school.