Gardening

 We have turned our homeschool focus toward the garden.

Matthew is starting a mini farming theme.

I had him doing most of the planning and measuring.

We hope to take field trips to a couple of 

working farms to really see how its done.

 

 We also had our first year of use able compost!

I love the lesson here and it never ceases to amaze me.

We put our actual garbage in a pile on the ground and 

now look at this beautiful soil!!

 We have also read a number of books this year.

Most of which the children have loved.

Just in time for Easter I finished 

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

By C.S. Lewis

It was perfect. 

The timing unbelievable.

We also read 

Rascal

by Sterling North

The kids really loved this story too.

Wesley, the most loved all the adventures

with a boy and his raccoon.

Everyone agreed that our latest 

book of Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Brink

Was one of the best.

It is the true story of a pioneer girl.

A girl settled in Wisconsin a few years 

before the Ingalls.  It was just marvelous.

When I  found out her home was still standing 

on the actual property... we drove to 

Menominee, WI and had an adventure!

Wesley said it beat out all of our vacations so far!

Here are the kids on her back porch.

right in the very spot she churned butter for her mother,

Here is her house from the front

here is some of the actual history and events 

chronicled on the wall inside the home.

Here is where I read the last chapter of the book.

Right where it happened...

in Caddie Woodlawn's parlor.

Matthew is looking at what I think 

maybe the grave site of Caddie's sister.

after our tremendous tour 

I took the kids to this little hiking spot

near there.

It was neat and a short hike.

They really loved the adventure.

Now we are still working on the farming unit.

I will have Matthew read Farmer Boy

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

to us for a change :)

Until next time

~blessings

Springtime

My last post it was a NEW YEAR.

Now, it's a NEW SEASON.

This is a little post on what we have been 

up to over the last couple of months.

Trying to celebrate this time of year.

We had a great Easter with all the usual fair...

The kids coloring their Easter eggs

They really are excited to catch some big ones...

I took them over to the lake behind our house to 

try out our luck.

Not much luck, but it was fun.  We can't 

wait for boating season!

As soon as the snow melted we had 

to hit the golf course.

They big boys have already been to the 

range a couple of times and played a round.

It is by far Wesley's favorite sport.

I think he may have a competitor soon.

Taggert loves to golf too.

We have been taking our daily walks looking for all the signs 

of spring.  We have noticed a lot of new things this year.

It is really wet.  Our bog is full of water this year. 

Now we get a first hand account of the 

mallards, wood ducks and 

cute little muskrats!

Tom tilled up the garden and increased the size quite a bit.

I am feeling excited and little apprehensive about this.

(more on the gardening in another post)

 We've gotten in one good picnic so far!

Here we made our own kite.

We called it "big daddy"

Wesley drew "daddy" on our kite :)

No surprises with this adventure...

I can not get a kite to fly :(

This is how we have been celebrating our springtime so far.

Along with spring hockey and baseball.

We finished our spring testing.

The results were good over all.

I now know a few areas 

academically we need to work on.

So, I guess we are going to spend the summer

SPELLING :)

Happy Springtime everyone

until next time

~blessings