{ The Week We Have Off School }

This week we had a week off school.  I still did the odd school planning.  The grade 2 lesson 5 spelling resources are now available.  Hoping to get the others finished before Monday.

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So today I thought I'd share a little conversation with you all by a daddy and a 3 year old.

Miss 3 at the back door:  "Let me in."

Daddy in the kitchen:  "Use your manners."

"Let me in."

"Use your manners."

"Let me in."

"Use your manners."

"Really?"

"Yes, use your manners."

"Please."

Well, I've just rifled through my camera to see what I took this week for sharing.

Pictures of Noah,

a half smile,

and a coloring page done by Hannah.

Phebe had a morning out at the dentist and today we'll be at the park with some of the other local homeschoolers.

We watched "The Great Gatsby" last night and now Chloe has gone off with the novel in hand for a read.

Anyway, I hope your week went well too.

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Non, je ne regrette rien

This morning I heard Hannah singing this particular song in the house.  Then I thought of you all here in blogland and decided to grab you a copy of the lryics and the song to sing along to as well.

Non, je ne regrette rien

Non ! Rien de rien
Non ! Je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égal !

Non ! Rien de rien
Non ! Je ne regrette rien
C'est payé, balayé, oublié
Je me fous du passé !

Avec mes souvenirs
J'ai allumé le feu
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux !

Balayées les amours
Et tous leurs trémolos
Balayés pour toujours
Je repars à zéro

Non ! Rien de rien
Non ! Je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien, qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égal !

Non ! Rien de rien
Non ! Je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie, car mes joies
Aujourd'hui, ça commence avec toi !

Stamping Morning

This week we're relaxing with a week off school.

So I went out with a friend to a craft morning.

What do you do when you don't have a name tag?

Yep, you make one right there and then.

Then you mess around for a couple of hours until you only have this almost completed.

Wow, am I super un-organised and baby brained out.

Never the less, a lovely morning out.

Rounding by Tens, Hundreds, Thousands

Welcome to February~!!

Today I want to share a quick little freebie for practicing Rounding by Tens, Hundreds, Thousands.

A set of cards.

The pack also includes a black and white version.

Also included is a recording worksheet.

This is a CONDENSED VERSION - 3 in 1 center.

One set of cards - three different game settings.

Just have the child select whether they are doing tens, hundreds, or thousands.  There's a space to write their game level on the page.  Then use the cards { which are numbered } to work out what their answer should be.

Just click ANY picture to download this FREE pack.

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Weeks of Clean - Fridge & Freezer

Welcome to my freezer:

Before:

I pulled the very bottom shelf out and this is what I had.

It's been a while since I cleaned the freezer.

After:

Then I put the tray back in.  So while it's now clean, we can't really tell, oh well.  Nice to know in my mind though.  :o)

Here's my fridge on the day I had a tidy:

After:

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{ Week 6 }

Can you believe that we're already into week 6 for the year?

This week we had a number of changes to our homeschooling subject curriculum.  Now, while we've been up and running doing English with a workbook I've been agonizing over what to do about Chloe's "writing".  I hadn't actually settled on a particular curriculum until this very week.  Up until now she's just had a fill me in workbook titled:  Climbing to Good English, which has been great, but yeah, I really want her to get along on the business of writing.

Remember too that she's Grade 5 this year.

I've been wanting to go back and try the progymnasmata again via Memoria Press with Classical Composition: Fable, but yeah, that hasn't worked for us yet.  Then I started seriously eyeing off 'Writing & Rhetoric Book 1: Fable' by Classical Academic Press.  I was so close to purchase!  It's still in my cart, but in the end I settled on this:  The Complete Writer: Writing with Skill, book 1 by Susan Wise Bauer.

Just click the picture to go to where you can read about or purchase a copy, just in case you've been wondering about what to do for your 5th graders writing too.  I don't have any affiliates.  I'm just passing along information that's awesome and good for sharing.  I bought the $23.00 pdf { because I'm an instant girl and all }.  It is a hefty 568 page book.



Twenty three dollars for a full years writing curriculum with everything inclusive is a bargain, even more so, I can use it with subsequent children { 4 more of them }.  So an exceptional bargain if I do say so myself.  There is an additional instructors guide available as well.

I highly recommend reading the description on their website.  I also perused a number of online reviews for the product as well.  Between those two things I was sold.

The very first lesson had me hooked. I know, I'm easily excited.  Can't wait to peek over her shoulder throughout the year. One week down, 35 more to go.  :o)

This week Hannah wanted to do a heap of Greek.  Here she is working on her alphabet.

One of the days we did the following for our "activity".  Just click the photo to go and visit Leslie's shop on TpT.  I thought it was great for $1.50.  I can't wait to get some more of them.  She has them in all sorts of different themes.

The girls also pulled out our Rod and Staff English text books.  I suppose that's one of the advantages to having all sorts of curriculum just laying around:  when you get tired and want to do something else, you can.

Another activity we added in this week:

This mapping activity was found FREE.

Just click either picture to go and grab your copy.

Yesterdays English work for Hannah { 5 }.

1st draft - essay on Zebras.

This week the girls listened to this french nursery rhyme:

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Painting

Some of our latest paintings.

We also found these OLD drawings done by Daniel.  He got them out to show the girls.

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