Last Saturday, Hannah and Abby volunteered at a fundraiser for the homeschool athletic team they play volleyball for. It was a road race, 2 mile and 10K. They passed out water to the runners. Dad was there, too, and since I wasn’t able to be there, big brother Calen went in my place. They stood…
It’s been a busy week here, full of schoolwork and church activities. Monday’s are the only day no one has to be at church. Seriously. Every other day one or all of us has to be at church at least for a couple of hours. Good thing we only live about 5 miles from church!…
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As part of The Schoolhouse Review Crew I received a free Vocabulary Spelling City.com online subscription to review. Vocabulary Spelling City offers over 42,000 spelling words with customizable sentences and definitions, a real person who says each word and sentence, free home pages for teachers and parents to save lists, teacher training videos, free…
We had a great first week back in the books! Everyone is liking their new books. Some are finishing up a few books from last year, so will get new books as they go along. We don’t have a schedule per say. More of a routine. I prefer the kids to be up, finished with…
We worked on our Olympic Lapbooks again this week. Unfortunately, we haven’t finished them yet. We will continue next week with them and with our England Unit Study. Life kept getting in the way of finishing. Life such as taking a child to the doctor for a tick bite, then getting stung in the parking…
This week has been all about the Olympics. We’ve been watching as much as possible live, and then watching what we missed. We’ve had lots of great discussions about time differences, the metric system, and sports rules. We’ve been working on our lapbooks, also. We haven’t had any of our English Olympic food yet, but…