Week 18

This week Charlotte started 102.

I added some more little fish words for her to practice with.

The older girls did some more random worksheet activities.

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This week our little pigeon bird { wild } that sat and lived outside my kitchen window ledge every day got attacked by a cat, and so it succumbed to it's injuries and died.  It was always at risk, I suppose, being loose but so closely available to random cats passing through.  It broke all the girls hearts.  It had been an amazing pet - even though it was completely wild.  Very tame for wild.  So tame I could pick it up.  We fed it and in return it roamed the backyard and blended itself nicely into the family.  

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How I often find the girls at meal times, particularly in the mornings at breakfast.

What I'm reading to Miss 4 this week.

The language is as of the days of old, where they actually used decent academic vocabulary.  This has caused me to love the book exceedingly.

Bible by Miss 9.

and yeah, this afternoon hoping to get the girls out to the local homeschool get together!

Thanks for visiting.

Plutarch

Well, I'm sitting here in the future, back posting and planning reading for one of the girls next year, and some reading for me too of course, you understand........

In particular, I am printing out Plutarch.

The Life of Romulus

& 

The First Volume of his Morals

So, for good keeping,

in case anyone is interested in these types of readings,

they may be obtained via this link:

PLUTARCH

Week 17

A paper plate craft we did recently:

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This week we made the jump to have our online maths subscription to CTC maths transferred over to the Australian curriculum - mathsonline.  Same company, pretty much the same thing, just set for the different countries.  I figured that since Chloe is going to be doing high school { homeschool } next year I should sort of start lining that up.  

Speaking of highschool:  I already have her English and Science organised too.  The only subject I haven't settled on is History.  Should we take a detour year?  Should we do Australian History?  Yeah, I haven't settled on that one, yet.

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Books we're reading to Miss 4.

and she did her FIRST ever test:

The older girls....

Bible - Read, Outline, Write, Illustrate { trace the picture }.

Favorite photo of the week:

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Week 16

This week Bible Stories from the Heart start a new Bible Study.  Come and join us on facebook.

Just click on their banner to go to their facebook page.



They also share free Bible coloring pages that correspond to the study.

I thought I'd freestyle this weeks verse though with this:

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In school news:

We hit the 50 book number for Charlotte this week.  Yep, I'm keeping score on how many books we read to her. I am hoping we can get to 365 or more by the end of the year.  If you want to see the titles, just click on the 2016 book tab up the top there to go and check them out.

Week 15

This week Hannah started Saxon 6/5.  Yep.  We've been following the Robinson Curriculum method of using Saxon for mastery and wow, can I just tell you how impressed I am with the results.  Amazing.  By the way, it's made amazing by the fact that Hannah is only 6 { although she will be 7 in a couple of weeks }.

These days she does a lesson a day.  She hasn't had to re-do any lessons yet { she scores too high - like in the 90's }.  Then in the afternoons for FUN and POCKET MONEY I let her do a few CTC Maths online lessons.  Yesterday alone set me back 50 cents - that's 5 lessons.When I first started paying them for the online lessons I thought 20 cents a lesson would be ok, but I had to drop it because of the amount of lessons they wanted to do.

Art by Hannah:

Art by Chloe:

Read, Trace, Outline, and write a small paragraph.

By Phebe

By Hannah

We're detouring from our usual scheduled Rod and Staff for a month or so with Rocks and Minerals.

Vocabulary Cards & Types of Rocks

Vocabulary - cred { believe }

This week I'll be linking up with:

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Week 14

This week Chloe started a new English workbook.  I did start her below her grade level when we first started using this series, but she is doing great in the catch up department.

Some Bible time:

Noah continues to grow.

Vocabulary was also on the books this week as well.

Looks like we had a slack week, but yeah, nah, we still got on with the work.

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Week 13

For the past two weeks on my facebook wall I've been showing people how to make their own Language Arts program without a curriculum.  Yes, without a curriculum.  All you really need is a good reading book.  We tackled one portion at a time.  It's been fun.

At any rate, I've saved you a copy of the download, so you can try it out too.

Just click the page below.

This week in our homeschool......

The girls came to the end of their exercise books

{ well, so close that I felt we needed new ones now }.

It took us a whole 3 months to fill them.

What they look like stacked.

Yep, nice and fluffy.  We fill them up with all sorts of things.

Nature Drawing this week:

Charlotte tried some new stuff:

and kept on working on her 'morning work' { on the right there }.

{ k } is for koala.  :o)

The two older girls are nearing the end of their Climbing to Good English workbooks:

They turned out to be lovely little hidden gems.  I don't think that they are very well known as a curriclulum, and I only stumbled upon them because of my Rod and Staff love.  I really love them for English.  They cover so much and I love their style.

Even Hannah is doing great with it.  I only ask her to do one page a day.   I feel confident that she "could" easily do more, but yeah, I don't push it.  I save that for her Maths.  ha ha ha.

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