American history

I decided to deviate from our 

curriculum a bit.

Monday was Presidents day and it inspired 

me to discuss a bit of American 

history with the kiddos.

We talked about George Washington 

and Native Americans this week.

I lightly touched on these subjects to 

give them an idea.  We read stories about the
cherry tree and George's honesty, and Pocahontas. It was fun.


We also worked on learning all the states.

 

So far he can identify about seventeen.

To work on letter recognition I also threw in some
fun word finds for the kids.  I think they really enjoyed it.




After, the school was over we went up and visited
Great grandparents.


They had a lot of fun ice skating on the lake.

Until next week
~blessings

Language arts~ Week 4

This week we reviewed everything 

up until this point.  

We worked on our new words and 

used phonics.

We wrote out alliterative verses
we practiced reading them,
then drew from them.

We read two new stories and continued
like before.

An example of our work

We began painting again this week.

We painted spirals...

We also did some baking.
The kids made mini apple pies

Easy and made a great snack break.

It  was also Valentines day this week.
The boys worked hard crafting dad Valentines.

~blessings

Week 3 ~ Language arts

This week we worked on penmanship.
We wrote out all the letters and this time
added words from our stories.

We used phonics to sound out all our new
words from the past weeks fairy tales.

We started two new stories this week.
We followed our usual rhythm,
day 1~I read through the story.
day 2~He recalled it and
we made illustrations.
Then, we wrote out a sentence from the story.

Here we are creating our work :)

We also worked on spiral forms
First we walked them

Then we drew them in many colors.

~blessings

Week 2 ~ Language arts

(Re-capping the last three weeks)


It has taken a bit of adjustment since 

last time I posted.  Slowly we are 

getting back in the swing of things.

Dad is back at work and we are 

back at trying to put rhythm in our 

day.  We took exactly two weeks to 

rest and really absorb bringing home our 

new life.  

Now we are able to do our studies again.

This week we started back with our letter recognition.

We did a letter matching game

matching the upper and lower case letters.

We went on to read two fairy tales.

We wrote out sentences and illustrated pictures

to accompany them.

We started to work on more phonics.

Practicing sounding out words.

Our second lesson was form drawing.

We covered the entire table with paper and 

drew out all our forms.

~blessings

Homeschooling misconceptions

Like everyone who homeschools well intended friends, family, and even strangers

question this unconventional schooling choice. 

 I questioned it myself.  

I found this article that sums up all the 

questions I've been asked by others or myself.

In case you were wondering or just so 

I can always remember 

...please read the following.

Misconceptions about unschooling

Bro-hawks

~Blessings

Happy birth day baby!!!

Anyone following this blog can see we have been

on a little break.  We have taken the last couple of 

weeks off.  In that time we welcomed our newest 

addition to the family. 

Introducing our new baby boy...

Taggert Thomas

First moments

Princess blessing her new brother

We are all feeling very blessed right now!!!!!