Homeschool - Week Three

Last week came and went without me. Actually, it was just really busy.

Mr. Easy Going did photos for a wedding this last weekend and will be uploading them. He's been practicing welding to get ready for the test will likely do that in the next week or so to become certified. It is really nice that he is so helpful in the business. He's now learning the other end of things like bidding and billing. There's a lot to learn in business. He's staying up with school work in the process too.






This is a little one at the wedding. Mr. Easy Going is getting good at his photos.



Designer video taped a dome raising. That's a geodesic dome house out shell being put together by a group of people. He took photos too. Then this last weekend he video taped a wedding. During all this he kept up on school work and this week will be spending all his extra time editing video and burning them to DVDs. He's really enjoying this work. I'll upload video when he gets them together.

Princess Shy is keeping up with school work and going to all the events in our lives too. She does great with taking care of everyone during these events. She took care of Little Miss and Caesar, our boxer during the dome raising and she took care of the maid of honor's one year old baby during the wedding and the gift table. She's really enjoying horse riding lessons too.








Princess Shy on Tino







Little Miss is loving school work. She bugs me every morning until I give in and do school work with her. It's not that I'm not teaching her, it's her insatiable appetite for knowledge. I just am having trouble keeping up with her. She has learned all of her numbers 0-12 and how to write them. She has learned the sounds of A and C and how to write them in cursive. It is amazing how well she is doing.

As you can tell, it has been crazy with events in our life. I'm really praying that it slows down so we can just do school.

Our first week in home school

This is the last day of our home school week. We typically only do "school" on Tuesday thru Thursday. Monday's are for personal exploration, typically the child's gift and Friday's are for play, catch up and individual time. I guess you could say that we unschool on Monday's and Friday's. This has worked very well for us the last couple of years.

Yesterday we added errands to the list of things to do, including going grocery shopping. It was a great education for all of us and a huge drain on the pocketbook. We are blessed to be able to buy groceries in such large quantities. We do know there are many out there that are going hungry. We try to find families to help along the way so we'll keep our eye out for a family to bless this winter.

Our first week went well. It's been busy but we're enjoying the routine of a schedule again.

Designer has stayed up with the higher standards this year and not been quite so resistant to all the learning. I think he is starting to grow up some too. He is really working a lot on his skills that he'll take into his adult life. We're really enjoying the videos and conversations.

Princess Shy is loving her horse riding lessons. She's doing quite well in her school work too. We're at a review phase but she's moving along quickly. It just seems that everything just clicks for her this year.

Little Miss has learned all of her primary numbers and how to write them. She is LOVING school this year. In fact, she keeps pestering me in the morning until I get it together and teach her. Once she learns to read I'm sure she won't wait for me anymore. She has such an appetite for knowledge. We're enjoying our time together too.

Mr. Easy Going has most of his school work done for the week. He'll finish it tomorrow. He's enjoying working in Dad's welding business more than the school work though. He will be doing his welding certification soon. He's ready but Dad would like to see him practice a bit more. It will be a huge help in the business too since Dad let his certification lapse in this area.

Tomorrow and Saturday I go for training using Spell to Write and Read. I'm really looking forward to meeting Wanda Sanseri and learning from her. We love the program so far too.

Saturday the kids and Dad are going to help grandpa with a dome raising. For those of you that aren't aware, a dome home is a home that is shaped like a dome. They are really neat and a bit different. They're building it in the hills of Silverton so it will blend into the surroundings quite well. I can't wait to see it all up. Anyway, most of the family will be there Saturday to build the shell of the dome.

I hope that you all have a great weekend. See you next week.