Homemade books

love the mermaids

In their free time, the girls can be found making homemade books, we have at least seventy books between the two of them!

These Past Few Weeks - In Pictures

~New Grandson, Baby Caleb Jeremiah~

Bonfire

Y is for Yellow

~Chuck Norris )

helping Dad

Math with the abacus

Started our fence!

And we recently found out that J (13) is allergic to cats, dogs, grass, trees, etc.........

but Gus (above) is not phased by that at all........ :)

H is for Hot Dog!

What We've Been Doing Lately

Enjoyed biographies of George Washington Carver and Robert Peary.

We are still reading By the Shores of Silver Lake.

Trying to watch of Liberty's Kids a few days a week. This brings back great memories with my older kids. I'm glad to have a second chance!

This is "for the birds"

Spotted around the bird feeder

Spotted at the land

These were spotted near the bird feeder

Homemade birdhouses

Woodpecker

K (9) surprised me with her birdhouse--not sure what I'm gonna do with this one :)  She is ready to trap wild birds now!

Searching through field guides

  Then a game of hide the bird!
  The best thing is that none of this was
  prompted by me!

Our "no school" learning day

Today was sort of an unschooling day.  I had to deal with attitude (mine).  While I took today to gather my thoughts, I noticed everyone going along, doing good and useful things.
As the day went on, I decided to make a list of some of those things.

*individual reading -- required
*math --required
*worked on story
*worked on comic strip
*keyboard practice
*discussed the words-- infamous and fluent
*worked on spelling the word - technician
*traced shapes, glued, and colored for paper cookies
*cardboard gun
*horse crafts
*made some bird feeders which led to bird field guide/made bird blind
*peeled and cut potatoes for crock pot
*rowed Madeline and worked on scene along with some other scenes from previous rowed books (used playmobil and clay)

This ended up being an encouraging day for me.  Maybe it will encourage someone else too!

Lucy would love to get in the bird blind too!

**There are some other things that didn't make this list.  Also, not everyone did every activity.

What We've Been Doing......learning......playing in leaves

Cave!!

 Our One Glow Worm :)

Another fun suggestion from Five in a Row with Angus Lost.