October/November/December

Wow has life got away from me! I haven't posted an update since the end of September.  I'm going to take the blog to basically do an update of October, November and December. I will start by saying one of the things we love about homeschooling is the flexibility. We can take time off just because. We can have school in the morning afternoon or night, We can do Monday-Friday or we can do some on the weekends. We can take a week off for no reason. We can be flexible if someone gets sick.  We dont have to have snow days.  So with that in October, November and December I think we did half a month each month. October is always a crazy month because of birthdays. I think we did still get in two weeks though. November we had thanksgiving so although we did two weeks we spent a lot of time talking about the Indians. Also we ALL managed to get sick. School with a sick kid or sick parent is NO FUN! Then we had December which meant two weeks off for Christmas. I was only planning on one week but I had an injury and needed emergency surgery so we needed that extra time.  

So during these months I didn't manage to get many pictures but I got some! So lets check them out.

Here is George sitting at his desk doing some work.

We spent some time learning about the sun. You saw in the last post we melted chocolate, Here we are making an eclipse. Sorry the photo isn't better. I have a flashlight pointed at the earth, George is holding a ping pong ball to make the eclipse.  He found this to be very fun. And like usual we have Lilly over watching. You also see an extra chair in the school room. We where re arranging to fit the Christmas tree so this is only temporary.

Working on our magnetic board with our spelling and reading tiles. George has found this to be a great tool and helps make spelling and reading fun!

I tend to use the lip to set up books we use for the day. Here is math and science.

 Must  have been a fun Friday. Dad is helping count tickets! He did eventually save till he got 30 to get the big ticket item in the fun Friday box and he was super happy about that! He is back to saving his tickets.

 School in pajamas why not? lol  Again you can see the ledge I use for books.

And somehow that's all the pics I got. I am trying to keep my camera in the room and get more now. Maybe that along with updating this blog will be my new years resolution.

George is dong good. He is working on lesson 5 of our math book (unless we have a full week we don't really do math it needs to be their every day) He is loving the math. Reading and Spelling he has done up to lesson 8. Reading is really kicking now that hes got all the sounds each letter makes. Sometimes he will just take a guess at the word so as long as i'm their to prompt him to sound it out he gets it.

Science we have done through lesson 3. Each lesson takes two weeks. Week 1 is reading the text and week 2 is the experiments. And who doesn't love those!!!!  He is still hating writing, but he does the work I ask. Language arts we are on our second book of! Partially because we skip the phonics and spelling in each lesson because we do those in other books.

Although I didn't have many pictures to share of school I decided to go ahead and show you the Christmas pictures we got!





Starting the unwrapping!!!!  George was so happy to get home that night and see that Santa left a lot of presents!

What Santa got me a target! How awseome!

The last present a gift from mom and dad.

He got his new bow!!!!

Christmas was good in the house. George got what he asked for, a new bow and a ninja turtles body pillow and comfetor. He got various other archery things, a few games, even a microscope with slides!  I'm going to make an effort to update this again of Friday with how are first week back from break has been.