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| Felicity made Gingerbread men after reading The Gingerbread Man |
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| Jeff's Birthday |
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| Box House |
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| Clark and Lissie playing |
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| Dance Party on Daddy |
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| Quinn 3 1/2 months |
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
A Few Other Highlights from April and Early May
We're Going Around the World
From Bits and Pieces From My Life I found out about Around the World in 60 Days.
This looks like a quick and fun Geography/Bible Lesson for each day. I asked Jeff if he wanted to do it in the evenings with the kids and he thought that would be fun. So we he is going to try it and I will do it with the kids on any evenings that he is working late.
I printed one map for each of us and laminated them so we can use them as placemats and have them easy to see when it is time to look at the map.
This looks like a quick and fun Geography/Bible Lesson for each day. I asked Jeff if he wanted to do it in the evenings with the kids and he thought that would be fun. So we he is going to try it and I will do it with the kids on any evenings that he is working late.
I printed one map for each of us and laminated them so we can use them as placemats and have them easy to see when it is time to look at the map.
Monday, May 27, 2013
We Remember
On this Memorial Day we remember and thank each of you who have provided service to keep our country free. Thank you to all our family members, friends, acquaintances, those we've never met, and those who have given their lives so that we can live in America.
Friday, May 24, 2013
In School This Week...
Monday: We spent much of the day at Grammy's house. Kent completed math, piano practice, and studied the 28 prepositions he has been learning for a test tomorrow. Kaomi did handwriting and we finished reading The Adventures of Buster Bear. Katy completed math, cursive, and English.
Tuesday: Katy gave me a very short oral report on a book she read. She also practiced the piano and did cursive, dictation, math, English, and some corrections. Kaomi did math, handwriting, and thinking skills. Kent had a preposition test, grammar, math, piano practice, dictation and a preposition game. Altogether we prayed for some friends with needs and for the families involved in the recent tornadoes. We had storytime.
Wednesday: We volunteered in the classrooms at church. Kent did grammar, math, and piano practice. Katy did English, math, and cursive. Kaomi did handwriting, thinking skills and a color by number.
Thursday: Anticipation of tomorrow being the last day of school is high. We read a missionary story together. Kent complete his piano practice, math, grammar, and dictation. Katy completed her English, piano practice, math, dictation, and cursive. Kaomi completed reading, math, thinking skills, handwriting, and we began reading Uncle Wiggly's Bedtime Stories.
Friday: We read a missionary story. Kent finished math, and did grammar and piano practice. Katy finished English, and did math, cursive and piano practice. Kaomi worked on reading, math, thinking skills, handwriting and we read more of Uncle Wiggly's Bedtime Stories.
School is officially finished! They will have corrections to make. Kent has a day or two of grammar to finish. Katy has a couple days of math and cursive to finish. Kaomi has about 4 weeks worth of math to keep working on and we will keep practicing reading.
We are all ready for a break.
Tuesday: Katy gave me a very short oral report on a book she read. She also practiced the piano and did cursive, dictation, math, English, and some corrections. Kaomi did math, handwriting, and thinking skills. Kent had a preposition test, grammar, math, piano practice, dictation and a preposition game. Altogether we prayed for some friends with needs and for the families involved in the recent tornadoes. We had storytime.
Wednesday: We volunteered in the classrooms at church. Kent did grammar, math, and piano practice. Katy did English, math, and cursive. Kaomi did handwriting, thinking skills and a color by number.
Thursday: Anticipation of tomorrow being the last day of school is high. We read a missionary story together. Kent complete his piano practice, math, grammar, and dictation. Katy completed her English, piano practice, math, dictation, and cursive. Kaomi completed reading, math, thinking skills, handwriting, and we began reading Uncle Wiggly's Bedtime Stories.
Friday: We read a missionary story. Kent finished math, and did grammar and piano practice. Katy finished English, and did math, cursive and piano practice. Kaomi worked on reading, math, thinking skills, handwriting and we read more of Uncle Wiggly's Bedtime Stories.
School is officially finished! They will have corrections to make. Kent has a day or two of grammar to finish. Katy has a couple days of math and cursive to finish. Kaomi has about 4 weeks worth of math to keep working on and we will keep practicing reading.
We are all ready for a break.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Trip to the Log Cabin Village - Part Two
In part one I shared pictures from the hand on cabin at the Log Cabin Village. Here I will show some of the other places we visited at the village.
On our way out of the village we went back by the hands on cabin and the kids all wanted to check out the chicken coop, which they hadn't checked out when we were there earlier.
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| The woodworker showing some toy oxen. |
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| The woodworker demonstrating the lathe. |
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| Pa and Mimi walking with Felicity. |
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| The blacksmith |
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| The blacksmith playing his concertina in his down time. |
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| The sawmill. |
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| Katy ringing the school bell. |
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| One room school house. |
On our way out of the village we went back by the hands on cabin and the kids all wanted to check out the chicken coop, which they hadn't checked out when we were there earlier.
Trip to the Log Cabin Village - Part One
When my dad and mom were visiting we took a trip to see the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. We enjoyed visit there and it tied in very nicely with the end of our pioneer science study. Our first stop was the hands on cabin. This was so much fun, because we could touch everything at this cabin and really get an idea what things were like during pioneer times.
Check out the next post to see several of the other places we visited while we were at the Log Cabin Village.
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| Spinning Wheel |
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| Kent grinding corn |
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| Coonskin cap |
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| Felicity using the mortar and pestle |
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| Grinding coffee |
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| Clark playing with pioneer toys |
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| Pumping water |
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| Kaomi grinding coffee. |
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| This chair is my size. |
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| Katy grinding corn. |
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| Felicity making chicken. |
Check out the next post to see several of the other places we visited while we were at the Log Cabin Village.
Friday, May 17, 2013
In School This Week...
We are starting to wrap up our school for this session. I didn't write down the things we did each day this week so here's a quick recap. We finished history and science for the year. Kent and Katy did an end of year reading project on the last book they read for reading. They made a timeline for their book. I graded them and gave them back. Kent learned a lesson in disappointment when he received a 59% on his project. He didn't follow the directions to summarize each section of his book. He only wrote a phrase for each section. Next time he has a project I think he will work hard to make sure he follows the directions. Katy on the other hand did follow the directions and she got a 93% on her timeline project. She had one section of 18 that she only used phrases for the summary. Kaomi was learning about time in math this week. She had fun playing with a foam clock I found in the dollar section last summer. We started reading The Ordinary Princess for storytime. Katy has several English lessons left. Kent has some grammar left. Everyone still has math to complete. Next week is our last official week of school lessons.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Pictures with Pa and Mimi
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| Mimi with Quinn |
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| Pa with Quinn |
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| Mimi at Playground |
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| Making Daggers on Kent's Birthday |
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| Pa with Clark |
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| Gunfight |
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| Mimi reading a story to Kaomi and Katy. |
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| Pa with Clark and Quinn |
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| Mimi with Felicity |
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| Sleepy Pa and Clark |
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| Pa and Mimi |
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Motherhood
God chose me to mother six children. I am blessed beyond measure. It was fun to watch my babies smile for the first time. I love seeing them learn to do something, like jump or read or walk downstairs without assistance or falling. I enjoy the wonder in their eyes as they watch the birds fly, look at the moon at night or see the animals at the zoo. I like to watch them enjoying the playground or making s'mores in our backyard. My children are special and I love each one of them.
Motherhood isn't always easy. There are days when the whining and crying is constant, no matter how cheerful and joyful I try to be. There are days that I pray my way through, just to get to bedtime. Some days I seem to spend disciplining and training every moment. There are days when children don't feel good and I have have to figure out the best way to care for each one throughout the day. There are days when I feel like I am at the end of whatever I have left and wonder how I can manage for another hour or even how I can manage the next day. Many times by the end of the day I feel like I have nothing left. The job is hard, but God chose me for it and I will struggle to do my best and depend on God to do the rest.
Through all the trials, I find joy. I can't imagine my life without my children. I enjoy seeing when they get the idea of what I am trying to train them to do. It is fun to listen to them tell me about something they enjoyed. It is an honor to serve my children daily, though I may not always remember that at the time. It is a pleasure to work together and have the satisfaction of a job well done. I am their mother and I want them to grow up to be the best children anyone could want. Therefore, I will strive to enjoy each and everyday. I will train them so they will one day be able to leave home and have an idea of what they are supposed to do. I will spend time smiling at them and listening to them. I will try not to get angry and if when I do I will try to handle my emotions in a God honoring way, so my children will see the love of God in my life. There may be moments when I wish I could drop everything to leave and get away from the stress of the day, but I can't imagine ever staying away. I love my children and I want to be the best mother that God has enabled me to be.
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Motherhood isn't always easy. There are days when the whining and crying is constant, no matter how cheerful and joyful I try to be. There are days that I pray my way through, just to get to bedtime. Some days I seem to spend disciplining and training every moment. There are days when children don't feel good and I have have to figure out the best way to care for each one throughout the day. There are days when I feel like I am at the end of whatever I have left and wonder how I can manage for another hour or even how I can manage the next day. Many times by the end of the day I feel like I have nothing left. The job is hard, but God chose me for it and I will struggle to do my best and depend on God to do the rest.
Through all the trials, I find joy. I can't imagine my life without my children. I enjoy seeing when they get the idea of what I am trying to train them to do. It is fun to listen to them tell me about something they enjoyed. It is an honor to serve my children daily, though I may not always remember that at the time. It is a pleasure to work together and have the satisfaction of a job well done. I am their mother and I want them to grow up to be the best children anyone could want. Therefore, I will strive to enjoy each and everyday. I will train them so they will one day be able to leave home and have an idea of what they are supposed to do. I will spend time smiling at them and listening to them. I will try not to get angry and if when I do I will try to handle my emotions in a God honoring way, so my children will see the love of God in my life. There may be moments when I wish I could drop everything to leave and get away from the stress of the day, but I can't imagine ever staying away. I love my children and I want to be the best mother that God has enabled me to be.
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| My Dad and Mom with all 6 kids. April 24, 2013 |
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Hi!
I've been pretty quiet around my blog lately. We had an irrigation system installed. My parents (Pa and Mimi) came to visit in April. Kent and Jeff have had birthdays. The kids have been playing outside more. I've been spending much of my computer time getting some stuff ready for next year's school. Quinn is growing and Clark is busy like normal. I finally downloaded the pictures on my camera from the last month, so now all the blog posts in my head to go with some of the pictures can be written or forgotten. Clark got hand, foot and mouth disease and shared it with Felicity and Kaomi. I think the older kids were spared the disease, unless they show signs of it in the next day or two. Hopefully, you'll get to see some of the activities we've done over the past month.
Friday, May 10, 2013
In School This Week...
Monday: We had a complete day of school lessons. In science we added food coloring to hot and cold water to see that heat make water particles move faster. Kent dropped Katy's piano book behind the piano so she couldn't have a piano lesson. Kaomi was having a bad day and was coming down with hand, foot, and mouth disease, so she didn't do any school.
Tuesday: We had a complete day of school lessons. We finished reading The Wright Brothers and Their Sister for history.
Wednesday: By 10:30 am Kent finished reading workbook corrections, piano practice, math corrections and grammar. He was ready to do reading with me, but I was working with Kaomi. Kaomi read an e-mail from Mimi for reading. Then she worked on subtraction in math and did some thinking skills with synonyms. Katy first thing this morning helped me make sloppy joe meat to put in the crockpot. We will have them for lunch rather than supper today. Then Katy went to work on English, cursive, math and piano practice. I read a couple books to Felicity and Clark and gave them a coloring paper to go along with the stories. After lunch, we did health all together. Then Felicity and Clark went for naptime. Our other together work was history and science. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy each individually. Then they completed their individual work for science and reading.
Thursday: Kent had a math review, piano practice, grammar, and corrections from yesterday's work. He completed them all by 10:15, so he took his preposition test a day early and got 93%. He had to write the first column of prepositions which was 14 total from memory. Katy did math with me, before completing her workbook pages on fractions. Then she did cursive, piano practice, English, and corrections from yesterday. Kaomi did a reading review and 2 self initiated math lessons. I did reading together with Kent and Katy and gave them their reading project assignment. They will be making a timeline of the book they read for realistic fiction. We also did health, history, and storytime all together.
Friday: Everyone worked diligently on their lessons today. In science we did an experiment with making gases. We used vinegar and baking soda. The kids were pretty impressed and Clark sat in his chair with big eyes watching the cup foam and overflow. Then he grunted something unintelligible. He probably was wondering why Mommy was making a mess.
Tuesday: We had a complete day of school lessons. We finished reading The Wright Brothers and Their Sister for history.
Wednesday: By 10:30 am Kent finished reading workbook corrections, piano practice, math corrections and grammar. He was ready to do reading with me, but I was working with Kaomi. Kaomi read an e-mail from Mimi for reading. Then she worked on subtraction in math and did some thinking skills with synonyms. Katy first thing this morning helped me make sloppy joe meat to put in the crockpot. We will have them for lunch rather than supper today. Then Katy went to work on English, cursive, math and piano practice. I read a couple books to Felicity and Clark and gave them a coloring paper to go along with the stories. After lunch, we did health all together. Then Felicity and Clark went for naptime. Our other together work was history and science. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy each individually. Then they completed their individual work for science and reading.
Thursday: Kent had a math review, piano practice, grammar, and corrections from yesterday's work. He completed them all by 10:15, so he took his preposition test a day early and got 93%. He had to write the first column of prepositions which was 14 total from memory. Katy did math with me, before completing her workbook pages on fractions. Then she did cursive, piano practice, English, and corrections from yesterday. Kaomi did a reading review and 2 self initiated math lessons. I did reading together with Kent and Katy and gave them their reading project assignment. They will be making a timeline of the book they read for realistic fiction. We also did health, history, and storytime all together.
Friday: Everyone worked diligently on their lessons today. In science we did an experiment with making gases. We used vinegar and baking soda. The kids were pretty impressed and Clark sat in his chair with big eyes watching the cup foam and overflow. Then he grunted something unintelligible. He probably was wondering why Mommy was making a mess.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
In School This Week...
Monday: Kent and Katy began with their individual work right on time. I worked with Kaomi on reading and math. Then I read books with Felicity and Clark. Kent finished his individual work and reading by 11:00 am and he took Clark outside to play. Katy finished her individual work around 11:30. After lunch we finished our study on pioneer science and read history. Then I did reading with Katy. Kent and Katy did a science notebooking page. I read The Adventures of Buster Bear to Kaomi. Kent put the finishing touches on his English paper.
Tuesday: We started our morning with several rounds of one-on-one kick ball. We set up a two areas so 4 people can be playing at the same time. This works well so I can play, because Felicity tires quickly and Clark is too busy playing to try joining our game. Kent and Katy completed their piano practice and individual work. Katy wasn't doing her best and didn't get much done before lunch. Kaomi struggled following directions to complete her color by number. She read me a section from a book that she found on our bookshelf and was excited that she could read it by herself. After lunch we read history, talked more about courtesy in health, read from our storytime book and began to learn about Albert Einstein in science. We also did an experiment with an egg to see how strong the shell was. Kent and Katy finished working on their individual work and I did English with Kent. Katy didn't do her copywork, so she'll be doing it tomorrow.
Wednesday: We volunteered in the Children's Learning Center at church. After lunch we did science, health and storytime together. We put water in the freezer and observed it as it froze. Then Kent and Katy worked on their lessons for the day and Kaomi completed two more math pages.
Thursday: Today for individual work Kent did: piano practice, math corrections and new lesson, grammar, and history notebooking. Katy's individual work included: piano practice, cursive corrections and new page, math corrections, copywork corrections, English, and history notebooking.
Kaomi's individual work was handwriting. I worked on reading with Kent and Kaomi on their own levels. I worked with Kent and Katy together on their next reading lesson. With everyone we read science, finished learning about courtesy for health, and read more of our storytime book. The things we didn't get completed from our plans were Katy's next math lesson with me, Kaomi's next math lesson, and Kaomi's storytime. The day ended with a "dance party" with Daddy.
Friday: Kent completed these all by 11:15 am, piano practice, grammar, reading workbook corrections, math corrections, history and copywork corrections and a math lesson where I timed him doing different things to see how many seconds it took him to complete them. Kaomi was having an off day, but she decided to do reading this morning on her second try with a good attitude. Katy completed her piano practice, math corrections, English corrections and new lesson, and cursive this morning. She was having trouble with cursive capital "z", but figured it out. After lunch I gave Kent a piano lesson. He was excited to have some new songs to work on. Then we did history and reading together. I also did reading together with Kent and Katy.
Tuesday: We started our morning with several rounds of one-on-one kick ball. We set up a two areas so 4 people can be playing at the same time. This works well so I can play, because Felicity tires quickly and Clark is too busy playing to try joining our game. Kent and Katy completed their piano practice and individual work. Katy wasn't doing her best and didn't get much done before lunch. Kaomi struggled following directions to complete her color by number. She read me a section from a book that she found on our bookshelf and was excited that she could read it by herself. After lunch we read history, talked more about courtesy in health, read from our storytime book and began to learn about Albert Einstein in science. We also did an experiment with an egg to see how strong the shell was. Kent and Katy finished working on their individual work and I did English with Kent. Katy didn't do her copywork, so she'll be doing it tomorrow.
Wednesday: We volunteered in the Children's Learning Center at church. After lunch we did science, health and storytime together. We put water in the freezer and observed it as it froze. Then Kent and Katy worked on their lessons for the day and Kaomi completed two more math pages.
Thursday: Today for individual work Kent did: piano practice, math corrections and new lesson, grammar, and history notebooking. Katy's individual work included: piano practice, cursive corrections and new page, math corrections, copywork corrections, English, and history notebooking.
Kaomi's individual work was handwriting. I worked on reading with Kent and Kaomi on their own levels. I worked with Kent and Katy together on their next reading lesson. With everyone we read science, finished learning about courtesy for health, and read more of our storytime book. The things we didn't get completed from our plans were Katy's next math lesson with me, Kaomi's next math lesson, and Kaomi's storytime. The day ended with a "dance party" with Daddy.
Friday: Kent completed these all by 11:15 am, piano practice, grammar, reading workbook corrections, math corrections, history and copywork corrections and a math lesson where I timed him doing different things to see how many seconds it took him to complete them. Kaomi was having an off day, but she decided to do reading this morning on her second try with a good attitude. Katy completed her piano practice, math corrections, English corrections and new lesson, and cursive this morning. She was having trouble with cursive capital "z", but figured it out. After lunch I gave Kent a piano lesson. He was excited to have some new songs to work on. Then we did history and reading together. I also did reading together with Kent and Katy.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Kent's Camping Trip English Paper
First Draft:
My Camp out
Fri: We rode with Carlos and his dad to the Camp out. When we got there we set up our tents and then we played with the other boys that were there. Then the air horn blew for supper, so we had go get our soup.
Fri.ni. I read my Bible and Dangerous Book for Boy’s for ten minutes. Then I slept
sat. morn. We woke up and got for the day. I drank some hot chocolate before Breakfast. Then the air horn blew for breakfast, so we had our pankakes. After breakfast we played capture the flag in the ravine. After that we shot Guns. I shot a Bolt action, single-shot rifle. I have a bullet shell as a souvenire for shooting The gun. after that I went to the waterfalls and built a dam.
sat. noon. the air horn blew for hot dogs so we had our hot dogs
sat.afteRn. we went to the waterfalls to work on the dam some more. Then we came back to camp Then to the ravine to play captud the feag.
Sat. eveni. The air horn blew for our Briscket Joe’s. Then we went to play in the sandpit for a while until the bonfire, and roasted marshmallows. Then we played wolf.
Sun. Morn. We had beeakfast tacos around the leftovers of our bonfire. Then we played a round of Capture the flag before the Bible time we had a Bible story. Then we went to see the water falls, when we came back it was time to go home
Following Discussion with Mommy and editing by Kent and a 2nd draft, which was edited by Kent the first draft became the...
Final Draft:
Our Camp Out
On Friday we rode with Carlos and his dad to the camp out. When we got there we set up our two tents and then we played with the other boys that were there. Then the air horn blew for supper, so we had to go get our soup.
Friday night I read my Bible and Dangerous Book for Boy’s for ten minutes. Then I slept.
Saturday morning, We woke up and got ready for the day. I drank some hot chocolate before breakfast. Then the air horn blew for breakfast, so we had our pancakes. After breakfast we played capture the flag in the ravine. After that we shot guns. I shot a bolt action, single-shot rifle. I have a bullet shell as a souvenir for shooting the gun. After that we went to the waterfalls and built a dam.
Saturday noon, the air horn blew for hot dogs, so we had our hot dogs. Saturday afternoon, we went to the waterfalls to work on the dam some more. Then we came back to camp Then we went to the ravine to play capture the flag.
Saturday evening, the air horn blew for our Brisket Joe’s. Then we went to play in the sandpit for a while until the bonfire. We had the bonfire and roasted marshmallows. Then we played Wolf.
Sunday morning, we had breakfast tacos around what was left of our bonfire. Then we played a round of Capture the flag before Bible time; we had a Bible story. Then we went to see the waterfalls. When we came back it was time to go home.
by Kent Sears
Grade 3, age 9
April 29, 2013
Grading to the techniques and grammar learned this year Kent received a 94% on this paper.
My Camp out
Fri: We rode with Carlos and his dad to the Camp out. When we got there we set up our tents and then we played with the other boys that were there. Then the air horn blew for supper, so we had go get our soup.
Fri.ni. I read my Bible and Dangerous Book for Boy’s for ten minutes. Then I slept
sat. morn. We woke up and got for the day. I drank some hot chocolate before Breakfast. Then the air horn blew for breakfast, so we had our pankakes. After breakfast we played capture the flag in the ravine. After that we shot Guns. I shot a Bolt action, single-shot rifle. I have a bullet shell as a souvenire for shooting The gun. after that I went to the waterfalls and built a dam.
sat. noon. the air horn blew for hot dogs so we had our hot dogs
sat.afteRn. we went to the waterfalls to work on the dam some more. Then we came back to camp Then to the ravine to play captud the feag.
Sat. eveni. The air horn blew for our Briscket Joe’s. Then we went to play in the sandpit for a while until the bonfire, and roasted marshmallows. Then we played wolf.
Sun. Morn. We had beeakfast tacos around the leftovers of our bonfire. Then we played a round of Capture the flag before the Bible time we had a Bible story. Then we went to see the water falls, when we came back it was time to go home
Following Discussion with Mommy and editing by Kent and a 2nd draft, which was edited by Kent the first draft became the...
Final Draft:
Our Camp Out
On Friday we rode with Carlos and his dad to the camp out. When we got there we set up our two tents and then we played with the other boys that were there. Then the air horn blew for supper, so we had to go get our soup.
Friday night I read my Bible and Dangerous Book for Boy’s for ten minutes. Then I slept.
Saturday morning, We woke up and got ready for the day. I drank some hot chocolate before breakfast. Then the air horn blew for breakfast, so we had our pancakes. After breakfast we played capture the flag in the ravine. After that we shot guns. I shot a bolt action, single-shot rifle. I have a bullet shell as a souvenir for shooting the gun. After that we went to the waterfalls and built a dam.
Saturday noon, the air horn blew for hot dogs, so we had our hot dogs. Saturday afternoon, we went to the waterfalls to work on the dam some more. Then we came back to camp Then we went to the ravine to play capture the flag.
Saturday evening, the air horn blew for our Brisket Joe’s. Then we went to play in the sandpit for a while until the bonfire. We had the bonfire and roasted marshmallows. Then we played Wolf.
Sunday morning, we had breakfast tacos around what was left of our bonfire. Then we played a round of Capture the flag before Bible time; we had a Bible story. Then we went to see the waterfalls. When we came back it was time to go home.
by Kent Sears
Grade 3, age 9
April 29, 2013
Grading to the techniques and grammar learned this year Kent received a 94% on this paper.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
In School This Week...
I'm combining the last two weeks of school in this post.
Monday (4/15): We started school all together. Then Kent practiced the piano while Katy worked on cursive. They worked through their list of work for the day. After lunch we read history, science, and Rascal. We also began studying a new poem. I had planned to go to the library, but we were unable to go because the irrigation control system was being installed in the garage and I didn't want to leave with the garage open.
Tuesday (4/16): The day started on an off note, but we got it turned back around quickly and school was soon underway. Kent and Katy practiced the piano and worked on their individual work. I worked on math and thinking skills with Kaomi. I read some stories to Clark and Lissie and cleaned and de-cluttered the toys in Lissie and Clark's room. After lunch break we completed poetry, history and science together. In history we were reading about the Wright brothers and their bicycle shop. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy. Kaomi and I finished reading The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
Wednesday (4/17): We volunteered at church. My parent's arrived a little earlier than we were anticipating, so we didn't get anything else worked on.
Thursday: (4/18): No School.
Friday (4/19): In art we designed daggers as party favors for Kent's Birthday. We visited our local playground and had a beginning lesson on sword fighting to go along with the theme of Kent's birthday. We used foam swords to prevent any damage, but still had a great learning experience.
Monday (4/22): No School.
Tuesday (4/23): Field Trip for science and history. We went to the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. We all enjoyed our time there. It was a fun place to visit. We really enjoyed the hands on cabin where we could touch and try various things from pioneer times. We also enjoyed seeing the mill with the water wheel that we learned about several weeks ago and the woodworking shop where we got to see a lathe and how it works which we had been talking about last week. The blacksmith also explained what he did and showed us a little bit how he could make different tools.
Wednesday (4/24): We volunteered at church again. After lunch we caught up on last week's corrections and completed history reading about the Wright Brother's and history notebooking.
Thursday (4/25): This morning we read another chapter from Seed Sowers. Then Kent put the finishing touches on the first draft of a paper he is writing for English. He is doing a great job on his paper. I will be posting his paper in another post when it is complete. Then he moved on to working on math. Katy practiced the piano and worked on cursive. She is having a bad attitude about her cursive today, because she doesn't want to do it. I'm hoping when she does turn it in it will be done carefully and neatly, but I'm expecting it to have to be mostly redone, as this is the way she works when she sets her mind to not wanting to do something. Kaomi worked on subtraction in math and reviewed reading words with the hard and soft c sounds. After lunch Felicity made gingerbread men cookies for snack to go along with the story we've been reading several times over the last couple weeks. Then we read history and storytime. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy individually.
Friday (4/26): This morning we headed outside to learn how to play one on one kick ball. We all had a lot of fun and didn't want to stop when our time was up. I told the kids they could play it by themselves when they are playing outside if they want. We came inside and I worked on math with Kaomi while Kent and Katy began working on their lessons. I read stories to Felicity and Clark and read The Adventures of Buster Bear to Kaomi. Then Kaomi did reading and I gave her a writing practice sheet with a sentence from her reading lesson to copy. I worked on reading individually with Kent and Katy. We did a science experiment with yeast to how how it produces carbon dioxide to help bread rise. We also read more of Rascal for storytime.
Monday (4/15): We started school all together. Then Kent practiced the piano while Katy worked on cursive. They worked through their list of work for the day. After lunch we read history, science, and Rascal. We also began studying a new poem. I had planned to go to the library, but we were unable to go because the irrigation control system was being installed in the garage and I didn't want to leave with the garage open.
Tuesday (4/16): The day started on an off note, but we got it turned back around quickly and school was soon underway. Kent and Katy practiced the piano and worked on their individual work. I worked on math and thinking skills with Kaomi. I read some stories to Clark and Lissie and cleaned and de-cluttered the toys in Lissie and Clark's room. After lunch break we completed poetry, history and science together. In history we were reading about the Wright brothers and their bicycle shop. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy. Kaomi and I finished reading The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
Wednesday (4/17): We volunteered at church. My parent's arrived a little earlier than we were anticipating, so we didn't get anything else worked on.
Thursday: (4/18): No School.
Friday (4/19): In art we designed daggers as party favors for Kent's Birthday. We visited our local playground and had a beginning lesson on sword fighting to go along with the theme of Kent's birthday. We used foam swords to prevent any damage, but still had a great learning experience.
Monday (4/22): No School.
Tuesday (4/23): Field Trip for science and history. We went to the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. We all enjoyed our time there. It was a fun place to visit. We really enjoyed the hands on cabin where we could touch and try various things from pioneer times. We also enjoyed seeing the mill with the water wheel that we learned about several weeks ago and the woodworking shop where we got to see a lathe and how it works which we had been talking about last week. The blacksmith also explained what he did and showed us a little bit how he could make different tools.
Wednesday (4/24): We volunteered at church again. After lunch we caught up on last week's corrections and completed history reading about the Wright Brother's and history notebooking.
Thursday (4/25): This morning we read another chapter from Seed Sowers. Then Kent put the finishing touches on the first draft of a paper he is writing for English. He is doing a great job on his paper. I will be posting his paper in another post when it is complete. Then he moved on to working on math. Katy practiced the piano and worked on cursive. She is having a bad attitude about her cursive today, because she doesn't want to do it. I'm hoping when she does turn it in it will be done carefully and neatly, but I'm expecting it to have to be mostly redone, as this is the way she works when she sets her mind to not wanting to do something. Kaomi worked on subtraction in math and reviewed reading words with the hard and soft c sounds. After lunch Felicity made gingerbread men cookies for snack to go along with the story we've been reading several times over the last couple weeks. Then we read history and storytime. Then I did reading with Kent and Katy individually.
Friday (4/26): This morning we headed outside to learn how to play one on one kick ball. We all had a lot of fun and didn't want to stop when our time was up. I told the kids they could play it by themselves when they are playing outside if they want. We came inside and I worked on math with Kaomi while Kent and Katy began working on their lessons. I read stories to Felicity and Clark and read The Adventures of Buster Bear to Kaomi. Then Kaomi did reading and I gave her a writing practice sheet with a sentence from her reading lesson to copy. I worked on reading individually with Kent and Katy. We did a science experiment with yeast to how how it produces carbon dioxide to help bread rise. We also read more of Rascal for storytime.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Quinn is Laughing
Last night I was trying to keep Quinn from fussing before everyone said "good-night" to him. I was making a sing-song sound and moving his hands to clap and touch his face. He started laughing about it. Then today Katy was helping with him and she was bouncing him in the bouncy chair and talking to him and he started laughing at her. He'll be 3 months old tomorrow and this is one of those fun milestones to get to.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Happy 9th Birthday, Kent!
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| Special Place Setting! |
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| Robin Hood Cake |
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| 9 Years Old! |
Grammy came over in the afternoon to say "Happy Birthday". Kent and Daddy did a little BB practice shooting and we topped off the day with presents.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Why Do Kids Seem to be Out to Get You?
Why is it that any normal day things are always the same? - Children bickering, diapers needing changing, babies wanting to get up in the morning, nursing on a fairly regular schedule, school, chores being completed in a timely manner, breakfast, etc.
Then on the day Mommy finishes her quiet time and decides to get a good start on the day just a little earlier, everyone acts out or up and everything that Mommy usually does is way behind. -Children fighting and arguing, diapers needing changing more than once, babies wanting to get up earlier than usual, older kids who are supposed to be working on their chores are bothering the baby who was contentedly laying in his bed and when they leave he starts crying and thinks he should eat again, some children don't finish their chores by the designated time, cereal and milk are spilled all over the floor, etc.
Now the bell has rung to start school and I haven't had breakfast, I'm running on overload, not ready to start and haven't even started my morning responsibilities yet. I did manage to make the bed and put the mail in the mailbox before all this started.
Maybe we can set time back and start over? Then I won't try to get anything done just a little earlier and maybe the morning would be normal. Or maybe this is going to be the new normal? Maybe I should have skipped writing here, but I was using it as an outlet to decompress and hopefully reboot my brain at least.
Then on the day Mommy finishes her quiet time and decides to get a good start on the day just a little earlier, everyone acts out or up and everything that Mommy usually does is way behind. -Children fighting and arguing, diapers needing changing more than once, babies wanting to get up earlier than usual, older kids who are supposed to be working on their chores are bothering the baby who was contentedly laying in his bed and when they leave he starts crying and thinks he should eat again, some children don't finish their chores by the designated time, cereal and milk are spilled all over the floor, etc.
Now the bell has rung to start school and I haven't had breakfast, I'm running on overload, not ready to start and haven't even started my morning responsibilities yet. I did manage to make the bed and put the mail in the mailbox before all this started.
Maybe we can set time back and start over? Then I won't try to get anything done just a little earlier and maybe the morning would be normal. Or maybe this is going to be the new normal? Maybe I should have skipped writing here, but I was using it as an outlet to decompress and hopefully reboot my brain at least.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Don't Blink
If you want to catch the action around here you better not blink, because Clark will be gone in a second. This morning we started school and in a flash there was cereal all over the floor. Then Katy was bringing Clark downstairs where he is supposed to stay. Then I catch him trying to pick Quinn up from the bouncy chair. I help him get busy in his room playing Legos and cars, then hear a cry of distress "Clark!" from upstairs. Kent brings him down. He eats some cereal from the floor. Then Quinn is fussing. Clark is trying to "-old it" again. I get Quinn and take him to change his diaper. Clark sneaks into my room before the door is closed starts singing "Jesus Loves Me" and grabs a bottle of BB's off Jeff's desk. Fortunately I caught him before he absconded with them. I finished changing Quinn's diaper and called Clark to come hold him. Clark is upstairs again. I bring him down and he "holds" Quinn and gives him lots of kisses. He gets a book and sits at the table in Felicity's chair "reading" it. I take a couple school books upstairs, put them on the shelf, give hugs to Katy and Kent, write a silly message on the white board and am gone less than 5 minutes. When I return Clark is sitting in Felicity's chair with a card game and has shredded the box it was in while trying to get it out. I get him down. While I fix the box with packing tape I hear paper rustling. When I finished fixing the box and went to put the packing tape away he was playing "doodle -oo" with the wrapping paper and had partially unrolled a couple of rolls. Oops! I guess I didn't latch the door and he noticed. I roll the wrapping paper back up and he starts to tear Felicity's butterfly off the wall. Since I'm right there I am able to put a quick stop to it. I fix the tear with a piece of tape and run up the stairs to catch Clark. I strap him into his high chair and fix lunch for a short reprieve.
Don't blink because if you do you will miss Clark and just see the aftermath of his adventures.
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Don't blink because if you do you will miss Clark and just see the aftermath of his adventures.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
In School This Week...
Monday: We started with The Pledge of Allegiance and then Kent and Katy worked on correcting work from last Friday while I worked on reading and math with Kaomi. She also completed her handwriting. During this time Clark played with a toy and read a book in his chair at the table and Felicity played with some animal cards, horses, and a doll. Kent and Katy worked on math and English. Kent began reading Bud and Me for extra history reading and Katy did a couple pages in her cursive workbook. Before lunch I read The Gingerbread Man to Felicity and Clark and a couple other stories. Then they decorated a foam gingerbread man with markers and I added glitter glue where they wanted it. After lunch and a short break we did poetry, history, and health all together. After Felicity and Clark went down for their naps we completed storytime and science. We got to pop air bubbles that come in packages in the mail as we learned about how popcorn pops. Kent and Katy had science worksheets and copywork for health. Then I completed reading with each of them and they finished up their school work for the day.
Tuesday: We started with the pledge and began learning our verse for the week, Proverbs 17:22. We worked on poetry, too. I gave Kent his piano lesson. Then Kent and Katy worked on their individual work. Kaomi did reading, math and a color by outline paper. I read The Gingerbread Man and some other stories to Felicity and Clark. Then they had a coloring page with "two picnicking bears" from our story. After lunch I read The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Kaomi. Then we completed poetry and history together and Kent and Katy added to their timelines.
Wednesday: This morning we were supposed to work in the classrooms at church. It ended up being a rough morning with lots of fussing which drained my energy before it was time to leave, so we didn't go after all. So Kaomi practiced reading her lesson from yesterday and I did reading with Kent and Katy together. Kent and Katy also practiced the piano. We also completed history, science, and storytime.
Thursday: This morning after the pledge we practiced our verse and poem. Then Kent and Katy worked on piano practice, math and English on their own. Katy also completed copywork and cursive. Kent worked on his extra history reading. Kaomi did a reading lesson and a color by number. After lunch we talked about history and started reading the realistic fiction book Rascal for storytime. Then Kent and Katy worked on a history notebooking page. They all spent a lot of time looking out the window watching our front yard being dug up for an irrigation system.
Friday: Kent and Katy started off the morning working on their piano practice, English, math and other individual work. Kent finished quickly. He's going camping this week so I guess he worked extra hard to get done early. Kaomi did reading, math, and handwriting practice. I read Felicity and Clark The Gingerbread Man and other stories. After lunch we did science, our verse, our missionary story and poetry together. Then I worked on math with Katy and read The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Kaomi.
Tuesday: We started with the pledge and began learning our verse for the week, Proverbs 17:22. We worked on poetry, too. I gave Kent his piano lesson. Then Kent and Katy worked on their individual work. Kaomi did reading, math and a color by outline paper. I read The Gingerbread Man and some other stories to Felicity and Clark. Then they had a coloring page with "two picnicking bears" from our story. After lunch I read The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Kaomi. Then we completed poetry and history together and Kent and Katy added to their timelines.
Wednesday: This morning we were supposed to work in the classrooms at church. It ended up being a rough morning with lots of fussing which drained my energy before it was time to leave, so we didn't go after all. So Kaomi practiced reading her lesson from yesterday and I did reading with Kent and Katy together. Kent and Katy also practiced the piano. We also completed history, science, and storytime.
Thursday: This morning after the pledge we practiced our verse and poem. Then Kent and Katy worked on piano practice, math and English on their own. Katy also completed copywork and cursive. Kent worked on his extra history reading. Kaomi did a reading lesson and a color by number. After lunch we talked about history and started reading the realistic fiction book Rascal for storytime. Then Kent and Katy worked on a history notebooking page. They all spent a lot of time looking out the window watching our front yard being dug up for an irrigation system.
Friday: Kent and Katy started off the morning working on their piano practice, English, math and other individual work. Kent finished quickly. He's going camping this week so I guess he worked extra hard to get done early. Kaomi did reading, math, and handwriting practice. I read Felicity and Clark The Gingerbread Man and other stories. After lunch we did science, our verse, our missionary story and poetry together. Then I worked on math with Katy and read The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Kaomi.
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