St. Patrick’s Day

May the sound of good music, and the lilt of a beloved's laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after. Happy St. Patrick's Day

I did not really plan anything for St. Patrick’s Day.  We went over the history of St. Patrick’s Day and some of the folklore around it.  I did not think of a good craft for today so we did this little one.  It is a bit preschool  but he had fun.  He made a rainbow using Froot Loops and cotton balls for clouds. 



I also thought hunting for a four leaf clover outside would be fun since the weather is perfect today.  The little stinker took a 3 leaf clover, tore one leaf in half to make a 4 leaf clover.  I have never thought to do that before. 

Have a good day!

Wordless Wednesday - Curious

Back to Work

We have had a lot going on the past couple of weeks and have half done school. Today we are back to a full work load.  Between all 3 of us being sick, a trip and getting ready for Dad to go to Japan for weeks,  then having his trip canceled we have been busy and tired.  He was to leave the day the earthquake hit in Japan, I am so thankful he was not already there.  We have heard from all of his coworkers, they are safe and working on getting home. 
Today we had a full day of school with handwriting, botany, math, drawing class, history and grammar.  We also learned about Pi and made a peanut butter pie with oreo crust for Pi day.

We are getting to the end of some of his school books and that means curriculum time.  I have begun working on our list for next year and will be making a post later this week.  Since we have switched math programs and finished astronomy it is time to make plans for our next year.  We are a just a few lessons from being finished with Story of the World.  I can ‘t believe it is time for new curriculum again.  I always get nervous and excited when it is time to pick put new books.  Somewhere between the fun of new school supplies and ahhh!  I am responsible for the education of my child.  You can ask my husband I read, research, read reviews, question and question some more every time I get ready to buy schools books.  And he always tells me the same thing, “If it doesn’t work, what is the worst that will happen? You will have to buy new books, big deal”.  I only married him because he is so smart

Have a great week!

Wordless Wednesday

Home Depot Workshop - Nascar Car

Weekly Review

I don't have a review for this week.  We have all been sick.  Kiddo has a double ear infection and lung congestion.  He has felt rotten and tired all week.   Dad has laryngitis and ear trouble.  I thought I was going to make it through until I ended up sick at the end of the week.   Kiddo did a little math because he wanted to.  Other than the math there was a lot of reading and movie watching.  Next week will be better. 

We are getting ready to start back with botany, we have our seeds and light box ready to go.    

Wordless Wednesday - LEGO

A visit to the LEGO store

End of Month Review

This month flew by, I can’t believe it is March already.  I am happy to see spring it is on its way! 
I made just a few changes this month to our homeschool but mostly we were grooving right along.  We started a new math curriculum Teaching Textbooks. It is going along great, he loves doing computer math and I can see improvement in his mental math and confidence.  Since we completed Astronomy we have been focusing on Zoology. With spring on its way this month we will be picking back up with Botany and have experiments planned.  We also added LEGO club through CurrClick which is fun, I will be glad when he is old enough to join the local club.


I am pretty happy with the progress we are making this year.  It is almost time to start looking at curriculum for the next school year.  We are almost finished with Story of the World and I am starting to look at language arts/writing programs.  We will be taking a lot of breaks and doing school lite, as I like to call it, through spring.  Since Kiddo does not handle the heat of summer well, we take time off through the spring to enjoy the weather. 


A few weeks ago we did a subject a day.  Basically we did a weeks worth of lessons in one day on one subject.  Kiddo liked it and did really well.  I will be doing this again this month just to change things up a bit.


We took a road trip this month to the beach!  We used to (before child) take spur of the moment weekend trips all the time.  We decided last Thursday to hit the road on Friday and go to the beach.  It was a little crazy but then again that works for us  It was a great trip and the weather was perfect.  On the road Dad and Kiddo discussed Newton’s laws of motion and I thought the geeky engineer Dad was going to stop the car, get out and do a happy dance when Kiddo told him the 3 laws of motion.  Kiddo also did a little zoology discussing the difference in the seagulls beak colors. We got a few odd looks on the beach while he was going through the classification system for the animal kingdom.  You can homeschool anywhere. He had a great time hunting for seashells, playing in the cold ocean, building sandcastles and riding his first ferris wheel.