Be Still, Have Faith, & Teach On!

We seem to have a case of the winter blues around here this week.  We have been dealing with lots of sickness. We have not had any snow, just lots of cold rain! We did manage to accomplish some school this week: Logan: Math: distributive property, domain and range Language Arts: Tom Sawyer, vocabulary words Foundations: alertness, procrastination, time management Thinking: Chess lessons Bible: Joseph History: Acts and Paul Biology:biotic and abiotic Health: articles on health topics Home Ec: Logan prepared supper for us one night. He made Baby back ribs and steak fries. Savannah: Math: adding and subtracting negative decimals, fractions Language: Marriage of Geraint, vocabulary words Bible: Matthew Biology: Body systems tests History: translations of ancient languages, Hammurabi laws Lillian: Math: adding and subtracting multiple digit numbers Language Arts: reading comprehension, oral narration, rewriting of a story in own words, proper nouns S...

We have been passing around some sickness this week, nothing terrible. We are finally getting to feel the benefits of our slow down plan.  Our commitments have ended, the holidays are over, and we have been getting to stay home most days. It has been very nice. In school this week: Logan: Literature: test, active and passive verse, vocabulary, essay on Aristotle. Biology: species, subdivisions, unicellular organisms, worked on an outline Math: patterns, review, test History: Rome Thinking: Chess Bible: Joseph in Egypt Foundations: attentiveness Music: pipes Computer: online safety Savannah: Math: adding and subtracting negative numbers, adding and subtracting fractions Reading: read Gareth and Lynette, read The marriage of Geraint Language Arts: vocabulary Bible: Matthew History: studied area around the Nile and Mesopotamia Biology: digestive system and food Music: whistling Computer: made a word processing file Art: cave paintings Lillian: ...

Our new school plan is in place, and seemed to work really well this first week.  Here is what our school week looks like now. Lillian's new curriculum Monday through Thursday each child is on their own schedule, doing their own individual work.  Logan and Savannah are on the computer doing school with the Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool program for their grades. I am available to them whenever they need help with anything.  I teach Lillian each of her subjects and then she works on her work, with me also available to her if she needs anything. Friday will be used for group art, Drive Thru History dvd lessons, King of Glory dvd lessons, board game school, group biology, or other fun activities. I'm going to try and keep a more detailed account of what each child does each week.  Here is what they accomplished this week. Logan: literature: created a power point presentation on Wordsworth, vocabulary words, reading of Tom Sawyer, book report on a ...

We have had a pretty peaceful New Year break. We got a lot of outside work done this week, trimming trees, smoothing out the yard, getting the garden ready, and just normal yard maintenance. We also got a lot done inside the house, house cleaning, laundry catch up, organization of the kids bedrooms, and Dad got our new heater installed. It turned out wonderful, he did a great job! We did not have a celebration really on New Year's. Lillian has been sick, now Logan and Savannah seem to be coming down with it. Our plan for 2020 is pretty simple. We are going to read through the Bible, a challenge from our dear pastor. We are going to try better to have days of rest as ordained by God to enjoy each other and God's creation.  We are going to try and get the store back up and running. We are also going to just try to walk closer with God and be better people all the way around. I was not able to get any of our 2nd semester school planned this week.  So I'll be wo...