Easy Monday

We decided to ease back into class. For language arts there was a good game of scrabble happening:
and for math class they played The Allowance game.
They also played Bible verse hangman which led to many hanged men LOL! Gotta work on that!

5th and 10th grade begin a writing assignment where they will be writing a short story. They started with character development today as well as deciding on important scenes that will be relevant to the story. I look forward to seeing what they come up with.

Up Up and Away

We start back to school in the morning and it is under much protest. I can't even blame them as I am not overly excited to start up again yet either, but I am looking forward to being back on more of schedule. Our semester ends in 2 weeks, so I will be doing progress reports to let the students know where they are with their grades.

I found a new math site with free printable drill sheets. I try not to use them too often, but they are good if a student needs a little reinforcement in an area.

Peace,
:)De

"Me A Heart Too!"

My 4 year old is very delayed in speech. In the year that he has been home with us, his speech has improved a great deal. He has many words now, but struggles to put them together in order.

Today he was not feeling well: runny nose, scratchy throat, so we have just been lying around and snuggling. He was laying with his ear on my chest and sat up quickly and said, "What dat mama?"
Me:"What baby?"
Him: "In dere." (pointing to my chest) "Boom, boom, boom?"
Me: "Oh, that's mama's heart you hear."

I ask my oldest to grab the stethoscope and I put it in his ears. I let him hear mine first and then his. His eyes lit up so big.

Him: "ME A HEART TOO!!!"
Me: " Yes, baby, you have a heart too."

Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy New Years to all of my blogger friends. Don't cha' feel like shouting, "Whew!!! We made it!!!"

We pray that the new year brings you much joy and prosperity. Have fun tonight and see you in the next.

A New Tradition Has Begun

Dollar store Christmas was so fun!!!! I am so amazed at the gifts that the little boys picked out for family members. They were right on target. We are known as a family that has less-than-popular-traditions in some areas (See "Our Thanksgiving") and this I think will be our newest. We had so many laughs that we are going to have a Christmas in July celebration just because. The rules were that each of the 8 members of the family bought a gift from the dollar store for the other 7. In school last week the kids made personalized Christmas cards with really funny couplets in them. Many gifts that were opened were greeted with the statement, "Oh wow, I wanted/needed one of these!" I got lots of lavender smelling lotions (lavender is my favorite) and lots of dental hygiene products, (as I kind of obsess about good tooth care.) My 7 year old got a bottled water and you would have thought he hit the jackpot! He carefully refrigerated it so it could be cold and ready.



Our little tree with many little gifts (some little gifts in really great big bags)

Tunneling Out

This is an old picture of our Rottweiler and the fun she would have after every big snow.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Peace,
:)De