Our homeschooling and home building story.
We are the family who loves to do everything! And we weren't having time for everything and were still finishing up homeschool at bedtime...which is stressful and doesn't work...so we had to cut something. I started out cutting the educational videos. That worked. We had time to get everything done...but the kids didn't appreciated it,... Continue Reading →
The end of the school year is always a busy time. We've had graduations to attend, school, and Sabbath school parties, a death in the (extended) family, had a bunny spayed and had lots of fun and outside time. Our butterflies hatched and we were able to release all but one of them. One of... Continue Reading →
Frog week! We have tadpoles and we have chrysalis's. Two of the chrysalis's hatched today. Cas knew they were getting close and he spent an hour this morning staring at them. He ate his breakfast, brushed his hair and his teeth and got changed watching the chrysalis...walked away for 5 minutes and...one hatched. He was... Continue Reading →
It's been butterfly week! Unfortunately I've been slacking on taking pictures. We had gorgeous weather last week and got outside by the levee and caught tadpoles and water-bugs and threw rocks in the water and had a good time. Over the weekend, the weather turned cold and wet again and we huddled inside. Our caterpillars... Continue Reading →
Next we've been doing r for rock and j for jewel. We did some sorting of rocks and learned about birthstones and looked at a video of the late queen of England to see some royal jewels. The kids have been doing more cooking and helping around the house. Ari vacuums her room and the... Continue Reading →
Since my last post we have had many friends and church members and family come and help us on our house! Ari commented on it one day, that we have such a caring and helpful church community. She asked if all churches were like that and I said...well, they should be. We did everything on... Continue Reading →
This is not the post I'd hoped to write today. We were scheduled to have our final inspection today. We had done everything our regular inspector said we needed to do and then he would pass us. He failed to mention that he isn't the person who does final inspections. He said that we could... Continue Reading →
We've been having fun around here! Kids earned more prizes with their read aloud challenge. They chose to camp out at the house over the weekend and to have a board game night. We've also been learning about insects. We made play doh insects, ate ladybug snacks, watched youtube videos on ants, sang the ants... Continue Reading →
Water water everywhere. It's the perfect week for studying water because we're getting lots of rain! We've studied the 3 phases of water, exploring liquid, solid and gas: water, ice and steam. We explored evaporation and absorption and saturation. We did watercolor painting and went out in the rain and felt it on our skin... Continue Reading →
This week was dinosaur week! We forgot to take a picture of our books but we had a lot of good ones! Favorites included When Dragons Hearts Were Good, How do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?, and Three Little Dinosaurs. Ari's favorite was Dinotopia and I can't blame her. The... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 