Week #4-5

For YD preschool we have worked on learning letter Ii, number 3, squares and doing a week of reviewing letters and numbers already learned. Week#4 I didn't take alot of pics.

Sorry for the shirtless girl I am lucky she at least has bottoms on.

We have been doing alot of bird watching as a family. Looking through books and trying to figure out what kind of birds keep visiting.

So this week OD has done Saxon Math lessons 15-23, SOTW 3 chapters 3&4 (we took a field trip to Jamestown that I will post soon) and finished lesson #2 The Sun in science. She is currently finishing up her paper mache sun. (We are making our own sun for our solar system since the one we have didn't come with one.)

OD started LA Lifepac #3, skimming and outlining information.

She worked on her Earth globe for Geography.

And finished!!!!

We worked on the different parts of a story using Love To Write.

Week #3

This past week OD finished her L.A Lifepac #2.

For Saxon she did lessons 11-14. We use the Dive CD for teaching the lessons. I absolutely love it!! She does too>

The boys were home from school on Thursday and they wanted to get out the playdough. I hate playdough but they love it. We don't get it out often so it was certainly a treat.

For Science OD started Lesson #2 The Sun. She had alot of fun melting chocolate and burning holes in leaves.

We did alot of paper mache this week. For Geography we are making a globe and since our planets kit didn't come with a sun we are making our own. Finished product will be in next weeks post.

For Pre-k we did more Letter Ee activities. Review of all shapes and colors. More number 2 printables.

We rented a ballet lesson video and she did it several times throughtout the week.

YD doing an elephant tracing worksheet from creations of a homeschooler.

Week #2

We had such a great eventful school week!!!

For preschool we finished up our Letter A activities on Monday and started Letter Ee. We worked on number 2, the oval shape, reviewed all the colors and had an Elephant theme!!

For 6th grade we did our Saxon 7/6 lessons 6-10, Language Arts Unit 2 finished (almost) she is also writing a 2 page fictional story. We started Geography this week. We are using A Child's Geography Vol 1. She got through SOTW Chapter #2 and science lesson #1 finished.


Here she is doing an apple color matching puzzle.

Our theme this week was elephants but we also did some egg stuff since it works so well with the letter E and the Oval shape. This was a counting egg activity.

We are still working on Creation for our Bible lessons. This week we did Day #3.

A letter Ee tracing page.

She loved doing this color by number printable. This was her first time doing one she did great and wants to do more!!

Math!!!

We made a large matchbook astronomy mini book .

This was soo fun. I found a clearanced solar system set at Kmart. We were going to make our own planets but this was a little less work. The visual effect of the planets hanging in order help her to memorize the planets using a Mnemonic sentence.

Preschooler stamped letter E's on an E printout.

Some sweet and cuddly reading time:)

And yet another busy weekend. We had some friends from NC come to visit for the long weekend. So we took them to Baltimores Aquarium.

We also spent labor Day in D.C.

These are about half the pictures i took this week. I just couldn't make my post pages long.

Our First Week Of School Finished!!!

So we made it through our first week of school!!!

We start off our days with a Bible lesson. We are starting with creation. This week we focused on Day 1 and Day 2 of creation.

After Bible 6th grade D does her Saxon Math 76. She did lessons 1-5 and test #1.

She helped me to make rice krispy balls on a stick for our first day of school after school snack!!

We do our Story of The World on M,W and Fridays. Lesson #1 (The Holy Roman Emporer and The Riches of Spain) finished!!!

Then our Exploring Creation through Astronomy on T and Thursdays.

Our Health lesson this week was about cells. We made a cell model out of Jello and candy.

For pre-k we focused on name recognition and the spelling of her name, letter Aa, number 1, triangles, colors and patterns all using an apple theme.

Here she is placing a certain number of apples on the tree.

We made a "snake" with playdough and then shaped it into an Aa.

This printable is from the Letter of the Week Curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

One day this week I watched a boy from our neighborhood and they used blocks to measure how tall they were.

Another Letter of the Week printable this was a cut and paste sheet.

To finish off the first week of school with a blast we spent the weekend in Ocean City MD with some friends :)

School starting next week!!!

We will be starting school next week!! I am excited and yet I still feel like I have so much to do to get ready.

So I will be back next week with all the details of our first week:)

Our 6th Grade Curriculum

I am joining in at Heart of the Matter for a "Not Back-to-School Blog Hop. Thought I would share what curriculum we will be using for sixth grade this year!! Preschool will be a bunch of different resources so I will just share ideas as we go. We will be doing a base study of Creation and then adding to that.


For Language Arts we are using Lifepac from Alpha and Omega.

For Math I am using Saxon Dive program.

Our Science curriculum is Apologia's Exploring Creation Through Astronomy.

We are using Story of The World Vol.3 for History.

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For Art=

She takes piano lessons for Music and She will be involved in different sporting activities throughout the year for P.E.

Introduction To My Family

This is my hubbie!! We celebrated 11 years this past February!!

This is our oldest who is 11. Isn't she such a beautiful young lady!!

These are our boys 7 and 8 years old.

This is the baby of the family (4) and our pet pug Charlie.