I spent about 4 hours last night getting all the school work ready for school to start on January 3rd. I pulled out spelling work sheets, Math pages and Language Arts stuff, there is science stuff and social science, penmanship and Bible lessons to prep. The only thing I have left is to get each child reeds for the clarinet and prep art stuff. This Spring we are doing a science fair and the kids are studying Astronomy through Exploring Creation and loving the weekly science projects.
We have decided to continue school into June and make each week a 4 day week instead of a 5 day week, leaving 1 day a week for a field trip or family fun. Should be a great 2nd half to the school year :O)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Science Presentation Prep
The Homeschool group Science Presentation is coming up in less than a month. We at the Rouge house are super excited getting prepared for it. We do school all together, so I had the children choose what they wanted to learn about and make a presentation board all about... that led us to 3 different science topics; Weather, The Food Pyramid and Dinosaurs.
Today we are putting together the boards with all the information the children have learned this year :o) We are having a great time!!!!
Today we are putting together the boards with all the information the children have learned this year :o) We are having a great time!!!!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Our New School Year
Sounds odd to start mid year, but it all began in April so now every year we change grades in April. Alex is my oldest. When he turned 2 we decided to homeschool. We had great fun :o) The year he turned 5 my mom in law was working for a charter school in CA and they said he could begin Kindergarten on his 5th birthday if it was before mid May. Well, it is. April 24th to be exact. Consequently, he began 1st grade the following April and so on. Then Tylor turned 5 when Alex had just begun 1st grade so we started him in Kindergarten around that time as well. Our baby was ready and willing to do school with the boys so she started Kindergarten November of the year when she turned 4.
That brings us to Spring of 2010. I now have 1 starting the 4th grade and 2 starting 3rd grade. The children are excited, as we begin our new adventure in school. And if you know me at all you know how sentimental I am about my children growing up. And although I would keep them babies if I could, I love to watch a new stone be turned this time each year. So yesterday I ordered all the new school stuff :o) YAY!!!!!
One of the most exciting things I see is that my daughter is 6 and is now going to begin the 3rd grade. How amazing is that? I marvel at how smart my children are. How much they learn, how fast they pick concepts up.
So while we move ahead, our Homeschool group is coming to the end of their year. We are spending the next 2 months getting ready for promotion to the next grade level as well as our science fair. Each child chose a different topic, but we are learning them all together. So the Rouge children have 3 different science topics they are writing reports on, making posters, taking pictures and so on.
Even though we take the spring slow around here, waiting on school supplies, I know that we will be busy learning together. And that is what God has called this family to do.
Happy Spring Everyone!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Holy Potatoes
I need to take a moment to talk about how proud I am of my children. They have been very diligent this year and have gone above and beyond what I have asked of them and are finished with both their math and phonics books. I will be spending this week getting new books for the children.
Alex is reading at an 8th grade level. For Christmas I got him 2 chapter books and my mother in law got him 6 chapter books. He has read through all of those and the ones we got for Tylor too. He is now onto library books :o) What a great hobby for any child to have and love. He also finished 3rd grade math this week, so he will be moving onto 4th grade math and I think that is super exciting. He will be getting into decimals and fractions and that is the part of math I love. :o)
Tylor has showed us this year that his reading is right there with Alex's. We were not sure, because he didn't want to read as much as Alex. But for Christmas we bought him some chapter books in the 6th grade reading level that are more his style and less of Alex's style and he blossomed. YAY!!!!! I am so glad to see him excited about reading too. He finished 2nd grade math and is moving onto 3rd grade math. He loves to do school. His subject is more history and geography. That boy loves geography. It is great! He has had such fun learning all 50 states and their capitals along with where each one is.
Melodey has shown us that when you have 2 older siblings and you are with them all the time, you gain the knowledge too. She just finished 1st grade phonics and started 2nd grade reading. She loves to write and has beautiful penmanship. I think she is well on her way to learning cursive with Alex this year. She also is very mathematically minded. She will be moving onto 3rd grade math with Tylor. She loves math and doing all those long pages of problems that Saxon Math provides. How funny! I never liked doing that kind of stuff, but I have known since she was a toddler that her subject would be math.
We also have been working on and will continue to work on Bible Characteristics. We learn the word and the definition along with a Bible verse for each one. We have done Accountability with Ecclesiastes 12:14, Alertness with 1 Peter 5:8, Attentiveness with Proverbs 14:22 and are working on Availability with 2 Timothy 2:21. It has been amazing seeing God work in their lives as they learn His holy word.
We are also working keeping track of and learning about the weather all over the United States, Dinosaurs and the food pyramid for a Science Fair this spring. We are staying busy and loving every minute of being together. What a blessing in our lives to have this time to teach our children and love what we are doing.
Alex is reading at an 8th grade level. For Christmas I got him 2 chapter books and my mother in law got him 6 chapter books. He has read through all of those and the ones we got for Tylor too. He is now onto library books :o) What a great hobby for any child to have and love. He also finished 3rd grade math this week, so he will be moving onto 4th grade math and I think that is super exciting. He will be getting into decimals and fractions and that is the part of math I love. :o)
Tylor has showed us this year that his reading is right there with Alex's. We were not sure, because he didn't want to read as much as Alex. But for Christmas we bought him some chapter books in the 6th grade reading level that are more his style and less of Alex's style and he blossomed. YAY!!!!! I am so glad to see him excited about reading too. He finished 2nd grade math and is moving onto 3rd grade math. He loves to do school. His subject is more history and geography. That boy loves geography. It is great! He has had such fun learning all 50 states and their capitals along with where each one is.
Melodey has shown us that when you have 2 older siblings and you are with them all the time, you gain the knowledge too. She just finished 1st grade phonics and started 2nd grade reading. She loves to write and has beautiful penmanship. I think she is well on her way to learning cursive with Alex this year. She also is very mathematically minded. She will be moving onto 3rd grade math with Tylor. She loves math and doing all those long pages of problems that Saxon Math provides. How funny! I never liked doing that kind of stuff, but I have known since she was a toddler that her subject would be math.
We also have been working on and will continue to work on Bible Characteristics. We learn the word and the definition along with a Bible verse for each one. We have done Accountability with Ecclesiastes 12:14, Alertness with 1 Peter 5:8, Attentiveness with Proverbs 14:22 and are working on Availability with 2 Timothy 2:21. It has been amazing seeing God work in their lives as they learn His holy word.
We are also working keeping track of and learning about the weather all over the United States, Dinosaurs and the food pyramid for a Science Fair this spring. We are staying busy and loving every minute of being together. What a blessing in our lives to have this time to teach our children and love what we are doing.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
February 2010
This month was lots of fun!
Groundhogs day gave us a chance to guess what the groundhog would see. Brook and I both guessed 6 more weeks of winter while all 3 children guessed he would not see his shadow and we would get an early spring. While the idea is fun we did have a great time learning how God placed each season where He wants them. We also did lots of shadow talk :o)
We also had a great president's week. We went to the library and the kids each picked 4 or 5 books about presidents :o) We did worksheets, played president games and learned a lot about what it takes to become the president.
On February 17th we had Ash Wednesday :o) This is the first year that the children have been involved in Lent. Learning to give something up for God is a humbling lesson. We talked about what it all means. Not it being a ritual or routine but as a humbling experience in your life. I had the children brainstorm on ideas to what they could give to God :o) The next morning I was pleasantly surprised with 3 answers. Alex and Melodey both wanted to give God their stubborn hearts and Tylor wanted to ask God to help him learn to listen better. What a precious time in my children's lives!
We also spent this month getting ready for the PACHA geography fair. We learned all about Scotland and had a great time learning all this information. Unfortunately we all got the flu this week and were not able to go :o( But the children did learn a lot and that really is the whole point :o)
March will bring us spring lessons, St. Patrick's Day, preparation of Easter and also the start of our Science presentations. Tylor will be studying and then presenting a report on the weather while Melodey and Alex are going to be working on dinosaurs. I think we will all study them all, but let them each do their own presentation for the May promotion and science fair!
Groundhogs day gave us a chance to guess what the groundhog would see. Brook and I both guessed 6 more weeks of winter while all 3 children guessed he would not see his shadow and we would get an early spring. While the idea is fun we did have a great time learning how God placed each season where He wants them. We also did lots of shadow talk :o)
We also had a great president's week. We went to the library and the kids each picked 4 or 5 books about presidents :o) We did worksheets, played president games and learned a lot about what it takes to become the president.
On February 17th we had Ash Wednesday :o) This is the first year that the children have been involved in Lent. Learning to give something up for God is a humbling lesson. We talked about what it all means. Not it being a ritual or routine but as a humbling experience in your life. I had the children brainstorm on ideas to what they could give to God :o) The next morning I was pleasantly surprised with 3 answers. Alex and Melodey both wanted to give God their stubborn hearts and Tylor wanted to ask God to help him learn to listen better. What a precious time in my children's lives!
We also spent this month getting ready for the PACHA geography fair. We learned all about Scotland and had a great time learning all this information. Unfortunately we all got the flu this week and were not able to go :o( But the children did learn a lot and that really is the whole point :o)
March will bring us spring lessons, St. Patrick's Day, preparation of Easter and also the start of our Science presentations. Tylor will be studying and then presenting a report on the weather while Melodey and Alex are going to be working on dinosaurs. I think we will all study them all, but let them each do their own presentation for the May promotion and science fair!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
January 2010
We have done quite a lot this month! With my subbing at the local high school, Brook has taken over a couple of days a week. He is an amazing Daddy and teacher!
We had a Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Lots of fun activities and our best day of school was our 100th day of school.
We made 10 groups of 10 and glued the objects to 100s cut out of construction paper. We had 100 PE with 100 toe touches, 100 jumping jacks, ect. We did a 100 beat song with the rhythm instruments. Wrote 100 books. It was a blast!
February is full of fun days as there is so many lessons in the month alone. Today we talked about the groundhog, taking a poll on what we thought the groundhog would see or not see :o) Momma and Daddy won, as we picked 6 weeks of winter. We are going to keep track of the olympics, we have Valentine's day, Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays, Black history month and I have a book all about Ruby Bridges. We also have Momma's birthday and a Valentine's slumber party planned. We also are doing a geography fair on the 26th. Our family is learning all about Scotland, as my great grandmother was born there. We also are starting the book Where the Red Fern Grows and at some point going on a field trip to where the book takes place :o)
Busy Busy, but fun! And I would change a thing about our lives!
We had a Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Lots of fun activities and our best day of school was our 100th day of school.
We made 10 groups of 10 and glued the objects to 100s cut out of construction paper. We had 100 PE with 100 toe touches, 100 jumping jacks, ect. We did a 100 beat song with the rhythm instruments. Wrote 100 books. It was a blast!
February is full of fun days as there is so many lessons in the month alone. Today we talked about the groundhog, taking a poll on what we thought the groundhog would see or not see :o) Momma and Daddy won, as we picked 6 weeks of winter. We are going to keep track of the olympics, we have Valentine's day, Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays, Black history month and I have a book all about Ruby Bridges. We also have Momma's birthday and a Valentine's slumber party planned. We also are doing a geography fair on the 26th. Our family is learning all about Scotland, as my great grandmother was born there. We also are starting the book Where the Red Fern Grows and at some point going on a field trip to where the book takes place :o)
Busy Busy, but fun! And I would change a thing about our lives!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Epiphany Activities
When we decided to Homeschool, our main reason was to give them a biblical background and foundation. Taking the Church year as a way to show events that are in the Bible is a great way. We do the Christian events as well as most Jewish ones, as that is the background and foundation for Christianity.
Today is Epiphany. The day of the Wise men. Today we have some fun stuff planned for the kiddies. We are going to make a prayer star, to help the children remember what to pray for. We are going to make Epiphany cookies and then have a treasure hunt using the 12 days of Christmas. 12 items that they have to find using a Bible verse clue. Ending with the cookies wrapped in foil to look like rocks. Then after dinner we are going to act out the Bible story of the wise men as a family.
Very fun stuff planned for today :o) Have a great day with your children as well.
Today is Epiphany. The day of the Wise men. Today we have some fun stuff planned for the kiddies. We are going to make a prayer star, to help the children remember what to pray for. We are going to make Epiphany cookies and then have a treasure hunt using the 12 days of Christmas. 12 items that they have to find using a Bible verse clue. Ending with the cookies wrapped in foil to look like rocks. Then after dinner we are going to act out the Bible story of the wise men as a family.
Very fun stuff planned for today :o) Have a great day with your children as well.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Back to School
Yesterday was the first day of school for 2010 :o)I didn't teach the kids thought. Brook did as I subbed at the high school for a teacher who had fallen over the weekend. Things seemed to have gone pretty smooth considering. But with Tylor, Brook had to keep reminding him that it is a Monday, a school day and NOT the weekend or a holiday to play games. It will take some time to get back into our routine, but it was a much needed break.
I have a question for any of you veteran homeschool momma: what work do you keep? do you store it all? do you make a best of the best folder and toss the rest?
I have a question for any of you veteran homeschool momma: what work do you keep? do you store it all? do you make a best of the best folder and toss the rest?
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