EVERYDAY LIFE
Spring arrived this week! Ah-maz-ing! With warmer days, the snow melted fast creating a new 'pond' right where our driveway used to be...and I found out that Sam's rubber boots no longer fit by the dripping wet, winter boots lined up in the foyer. (What 9-year-old can resist a big ol' puddle to wade in.) But I'll take it! There's nothing quite like opening windows, even briefly, to let fresh air flow through the house after being shut up for months.
Even 'the girls' got to stretch those wings. Olive and Opal, the ducks, went swimming in the frigid brook, and Ony, Speckles, Musty, Sassy, Lil' Rhodie, Rhodie, Ava, Nutmeg, Butterfly, and Amber found the only patch of visible brown grass to scratch up. They rewarded us with finally laying eggs again.
But oh my! the road is a muddy mess. I'm going to need an alignment!
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MENU
✿ Hamburgers & Pasta and Veggie Salad ✿
✿ Scrambled Eggs, Hickory Smoked Bacon, Fresh Pineapple & Biscuits ✿
✿ Spaghetti with Ground Chicken Meat Sauce & Steamed Green Beans✿
✿ Marinated Beef Strips with Broccoli & Baked Fries ✿
✿ Boston Cream Pie Ice Box Cake ✿
✿ Hamburgers & Pasta and Veggie Salad ✿
✿ Scrambled Eggs, Hickory Smoked Bacon, Fresh Pineapple & Biscuits ✿
✿ Spaghetti with Ground Chicken Meat Sauce & Steamed Green Beans✿
✿ Marinated Beef Strips with Broccoli & Baked Fries ✿
✿ Boston Cream Pie Ice Box Cake ✿
SCHOOL SNIPPETS
Sam does "van school" while Cati is at Jazz and Concert Band and her clarinet lessons. I keep most of his work in a binder, slipping Easy Grammar inside and his current reading book. (I keep pencils and a hand sharpener in the van.) Do you ever do school-on-the-road?
Cati wrote Name Poems and Word Patterns poems this week. She's getting close to finishing up her study of basic 'formula' poetry. (I'd share the unit with you, but it's something I have from my student teaching in 1998 and it was OLD then.) She's also only 12 lessons away from finishing up Saxon 76.
In U.S. History we watched NROC on WWI and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR and The New Deal. We skipped art study this week and spent more time outside...and began to 'spring clean'.
At STEM school, Jake switched his Physics research topic from 4D to antimatter, continued to build a steam-powered power plant, focusing on the turbines, commuted projectiles for Math to get a ball into a basket without practicing, and "learned the things he hasn't" in Astronomy. (I'm not sure what that means!)
Sam does "van school" while Cati is at Jazz and Concert Band and her clarinet lessons. I keep most of his work in a binder, slipping Easy Grammar inside and his current reading book. (I keep pencils and a hand sharpener in the van.) Do you ever do school-on-the-road?
Cati wrote Name Poems and Word Patterns poems this week. She's getting close to finishing up her study of basic 'formula' poetry. (I'd share the unit with you, but it's something I have from my student teaching in 1998 and it was OLD then.) She's also only 12 lessons away from finishing up Saxon 76.
In U.S. History we watched NROC on WWI and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR and The New Deal. We skipped art study this week and spent more time outside...and began to 'spring clean'.
At STEM school, Jake switched his Physics research topic from 4D to antimatter, continued to build a steam-powered power plant, focusing on the turbines, commuted projectiles for Math to get a ball into a basket without practicing, and "learned the things he hasn't" in Astronomy. (I'm not sure what that means!)
BOOKS
Mom- Seeing A Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Cati - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sam - Invisible Stanley by Jeff Brown
Mom- Seeing A Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Cati - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sam - Invisible Stanley by Jeff Brown
PEOPLE & PLACES
✿ Jazz and Concert Band & Clarinet Lesson (Cati) ✿
✿ Cub Scouts (Sam & Jake) ✿
✿ Wayback Wednesday at Movie Theatre: Back to the Future (All) ✿
✿ Boy Scout Camping (Jake) ✿
✿ Jazz and Concert Band & Clarinet Lesson (Cati) ✿
✿ Cub Scouts (Sam & Jake) ✿
✿ Wayback Wednesday at Movie Theatre: Back to the Future (All) ✿
✿ Boy Scout Camping (Jake) ✿
FAVORITES
ON THE 'NET
I got a chuckle out of this Lego Pain Scale from Facebook. Those of you with Lego enthusiatists will understand all too well.
ON THE 'NET
How to Have a Perfectly Clean House
50 Best Unschooling/Self-directed Learning Posts in 2013
As always, special thanks to these weekly wrap-ups:
50 Best Unschooling/Self-directed Learning Posts in 2013
As always, special thanks to these weekly wrap-ups:
"Decrapifying" -- that cracks me up!!!
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I am ready for spring and spring cleaning, too. I love your chicken pictures and wish we had the space to raise them.
ReplyDeleteI love the Lego pain scale. That is so cute.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Dawn
Ooh, more chicken pics. I sorta missed them, which is a bit odd for a suburbs girl. :-) I love the pain chart, I'm going to have to use that.
ReplyDeleteHow I wish we had chickens. Huzzah to some fresh eggs! Loving the menu! That Lego pain scale too cute, I had not seen it until now. Enjoy your weekend
ReplyDeleteWe did a major clean this weekend. We finally have the basement to the reasonable state. Still a lot of decluttering down there but it is a start. We have school related discussions in the car but no written work.
ReplyDeleteI just love the chicken picture - not even sure why! LOL Also got a kick out of Jake "learning the things he hasn't" That's actually pretty descriptive! ;-) Hope you're having a great week.
ReplyDeleteI love the Lego pain scale! I also love that spring has arrived at last! It's mud season at our house too!
ReplyDeleteHi Jessy! I've been trying to catch up with some of the blogs that I haven't taken the time to read recently. Now that I don't have any nursing babies, I don't have that built in reading time anymore! LOL...I loved the "decrapify" graphic. My house is in serious need of some of that! I've started some Spring cleaning, but the progress is painfully slow (not lego painful though ;-) )...To answer your question about schoolwork in the car, Rose asks for schoolwork to take with her in the car (or at least a coloring sheet) so she won't be bored.
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