Our Day of School and then some :)

I sometimes feel we have enough to read and sometimes it is just nice to look at pictures.  Here are some pictures from our day today at home doing school, doing life. :)

Starting off, I usually try to get up an hour before the kids, to wake up, get organized, but most of all to study the Bible (because I need all the help from the Lord I can get! :)  ).  Here I was sorting math worksheets.  We are working hard at memorizing math facts.

 The kids eat breakfast and do their chores.  If they get ready (make up their bed, change clothes, brush their teeth, eat breakfast, spend time with the Lord in reading and prayer and do their chores and are ready for school) by 9:30 they earn media time. Ruth got bumped up to 45 minutes because she volunteered to help fold the little girl's laundry last night while Ludie was doing dishes and I was at Bible study.  She really has a sweet heart to help and serve!

We start each day a different way.  Today we started it with Go Noodle's Indoor Party Recess.  On the screen you can see Koo Koo Kangaroo.  It's a happy way to start the day.

 We did not do it this morning but some days we start the school day with learning the books of the New Testament in the Bible and what their main theme is (Walk Thru the Bible resources).  Here is the coloring page for Philippians.  The theme is "Happily Humble".  We then find out reasoning behind the theme.

 Griffin's chore was to do his laundry today.  (He hung out his clothes himself).  You'll see his other chore later.

 He starts school using ABEKA DVD teaching programme.  A sweet friend gave us the DVD's. We are mixing up his curriculum this year.  He is doing Apologia for Science and Classical Conversations for History.

 Here is his teacher for Algebra.

 Complimenting Classical Conversations is Story of the World.  We are combining these two curriculums for history.  Right now we are learning about the Age of the Ancient Empires.   We have worked from Creation up to the Shang Dynasty.  I love this curriculum because it combines the history recorded in the Bible and the history you find in secular textbooks to give you a complete picture of history.  We are working on a timeline of the world.  The kids have convinced me to mummify a chicken since we've been studying Egyptian mummification (but they stress, not the chickens from the backyard).  All I have to say is, those hens better start laying eggs again!

 The girls are working on their quickness of sorting letters by alphabetical order.  This is a fun game they like to be timed on.

 Ruth is very diligent in getting her work started early so she can finish early.

 Emily is working on reading her first chapter book.  Which is a huge deal considering trying to figure out a word at one point brought tears!  She is doing great!

 Here's Bella.  Or as I affectionately call her, "Stinky".  The neighbours I am sure know her name well from us chasing and yelling for her to come.  She has a knack for getting out right when we have to go somewhere.  She comes to us any other time but she will get out and then start terrorizing the chickens. Don't let those little legs fool you, they can move light lightening!

 The kids snack time.

 My snack time.  I found Appenzeller Cheese at the store.  I hid it just for myself.  I share lots but I hoard cheese and snacks sometimes.  My Suisse friend introduced me to Appenzeller this summer.  I fell in love with Switzerland and the cheese!

 Uh oh!  My stash was discovered!

 We don't do a lot of things traditionally.  I don't usually care how the work gets done, as long as it gets done.

 She is scoring her work (I score tests and checkpoints, but they score most daily work).  I spot check.

 I love living 2 1/2 miles from where Ludie works.  That means some days we get to enjoy lunch together. We have fun at home but with Ludie home, the fun level increases significantly!

 Our international friends have introduced this Portuguese sauce to us.  It is called, "Peri Peri".  Of course my fire breathing son loves it.  The best is made from our friend from church that spent many years in Africa.  He gives us his homemade Peri Peri.  We then return the bottle with homemade North Carolina BBQ sauce. We had Peri Peri Chicken Rolls (subs) today for lunch.

 During lunch we like to read classics.  We just finished The Secret Garden.  We are now on the Narnia Series.

 We have the CD of the book.  Ruth and Griffin work on speed reading and keeping up with the CD.

 Then there is recess.  As you can see, not everyone is happy.  We have been working on sportsmanship but we don't always apply what we've learned.

 Oops and what was the S in sportsmanship for?  Sharing.  Uh-oh.  Mom has a cheese problem. 

 We end up all getting along.  At least for the next 5 minutes.

 Here is Griffin's other chore.  We were blessed to get another bed.  No one wanted our old one (I can't say as I blame them).  Instead of paying money to have it go to be thrown away, we decided to use it for firewood.  The kids finished school.  Then I needed to go do some very important errands....

 Picking up our hot sauce order from Amazon.  It's cheaper to get a gallon of hot sauce on Amazon every 3 months than buy the small bottles in Tesco.   Then there were more errands, and then home to cook our favourite: Breakfast for Supper.  A perfect way to end the day!  Somedays there's extracurricular activities after school. Thank God there's not any today.  I'm tired!

A special thanks to the Koester Family, Walsh Family, Tami Packard, Jey Willis, Tracy Waters for helping enable us to have school supplies and your creative ways in getting them to us.