Volunteering and Chewing

Today was our day to work at the food bank at our local church. The children love, love doing it and the ladies that run the food bank were once again impressed with how hard the children worked. Today they stocked shelves, filled orders and helped people take their food out to their car. It started off pretty slow, but then all of a sudden 4 orders came in all at once.

As for our new student, he has takin' a liken' to my slippers, (yes, I have Hom*r Simps*n slippers that someone gave me as a joke thinking I would not wear them. Well I do as they are so comfy and protect my sensitive toes) socks and yesterday I saw a little black fur ball run by with some little boy whitey tighties dragging behind....eeewwww! Ahh puppy hood.

New Student

We are in love....

Kissy, kissy!

He's Here!!

In early February, this happened, so we have been looking for a puppy since then. Well, we found him and he is a sweet little boy. He is 12 weeks old today, very smart and very calm.

My first dog after collage was a black lab named: Tin* Turn*r

Next was, Di*na R*ss the Boss, my beautiful Rottie.

This male is looking for the name of a great country singer.

Olympic Review

We loved the Olympics! We watched as much as possible. The boys loved curling, ski jumping and of course...snowboarding. That was a big hit. Some of my favorites were short track and bobsled. My 6th grader mostly liked the opening and closing ceremonies as she likes any kind of party. LOL!

I had purchased a PDF curriculum from CurrClick and we used just a bit of it, but mostly watched and read up on the sports we liked the best. All the kids learned to recognize flags from other countries which was neat to watch as Pre-K was usually the first to be able to name the flags. We used scores to determine greater than, less than and equal to for 2nd grade and just really enjoyed the whole event. Can't wait for the summer Olympics. (Still miffed a bit that Chicago did not get them...we would have so been there!)

On other review... 2nd grade is testing out of his units today and so far has received an 97% on Language Arts with 100% on the spelling test, a 100% on Bible and is studying at this moment for History and Geography. It is a tough one as it focuses on customs of other cultures regarding holidays. Poor kid don't stand a chance as we tend to not follow "traditional" customs ourselves. LOL!

Week in Review

We had a goood week that was more settled than last week.

Pre-K is on book 15 of a 17 book series of pre-decodable books. He is loving reading and I have started copy work. I am starting to think about what to do for Kindergarten... I guess I am leaning towards using Alpha Omega's Lifepac although it is not "wowing" me at this time.

2nd grade will hopefully test out of unit 5 for all subjects except math. (we are behind again on math; for some reason, the math units have 5 sections while the others have 3, it catches us every time) He has decided that he wants to try Switched on Schoolhouse (SOS) next year. We will have to take a pretty quick typing course this summer.

6th grade is clipping along. She has lots of writing and research projects for several of her subjects that need to be caught up on in the next couple of weeks. 6th grade does not want to use SOS next year, but has not thought of an alternative. We are shopping and praying about it.

Some weekend schooling to catch up in 2nd grade.

Recess Day & Night

We had a nice amount of new snow so we had recess both in the morning and then again at night.

Everyone slept so well last night!

Happy Birthday!

Today is James' birthday! He is 9 years old. So far he has received $10, an army guy and chocolate cake. He is a very easy to please child, works hard in school and on chores and loves to meet new people.

Happy Birthday, Son.