Homeschoolin' for the week

This weeks schedule has been planned. The children will be doing regular subjects as usual. As are schedule year goes from February to December we have just a bit more left in our books. We have also started on next years books in some subjects.This week contains lessons on pumpkins, also the girls are doing a bit in horticulture and the fall growing season. besides their school books we will also be doing math in canning as we can the rest of the grapes into juice.
    I love this time of the year there is so many ways to stray from the books and still learn:)
Marissa also is taking her first training class for altar servers. We will be doing a unit on Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
   Carissa will be doing a unit on engineering. So she needs to make a bridge out of gumdrops and toothpicks.
    Larissa is still working on learning to read. I know she can do it. As I continue to fight with the insurance company for them to pay for speech.
   Tarissa jean is learning about the rain forest. What things I am learning as well lol.

Its the Little things in life

Hard to admit but it didnt use to be the little things in life. But now it is..... When I was younger everything needed to be new and I wouldn't wait for things, very impatient I was. When we bought our house it didnt have a screen door onit. Which bothered me and I looked at ones at Home Depot and such stores. My I thought they were pricey at least for our budget. So I found a use one on craigslist I knew how much I could afford but I also knew that this had been on there a long time. So after some emails I convinced him to drop the price to $20.00 I thought woohoo. But I knew it would take for ever for it to be put on as my husband is always working.
      Went shopping after the girls league bowling and to my surprise My husband had a cancellation at a property and when I got home I had a new to us screen door and a new porch light that works. This just made my day!
                            Have a good rest of your weekend everyone.

October and fun

Hi All,
    So, this week has been a busy one. We had  an AHG meeting and then we had Daddys birthday party. We also did some service time. Had practice on Wednesday for bowling.
    Today was the big day for our new girl chicks to be put in their pen outside. We also needed to get the rest of our fall chores done before the rain sets in. I only have 1 left to do the wood onto the patio.
     The girls got some extra pages done in their workbooks today so tomorrow they can practice measuring while baking. Always a fun math class:) We also are finishing up our lapbooks for voting. We have a busy weekend coming up we have league twice and a tournament. 


                        Well ciao for now.
                           Michelle

fall

We have entered Fall season at frist with warm weather. Then it started to get chillier as the days have gone on. I love this season with the crunch of the leaves, the colors of Fall for those who live near that.(We mainly have evergreens here). We have bought the Halloween costumes, we will be going to the pumpkin patch next weekend. It will be time soon for the apple press at the grist mill.
  We got our last pears off the tree today. Then as I was walking out of the garden I looked down at what I thought was just strawberry vines getting ready to go dormant and seen 3 bright red strawberries on it. So for snack tonight the kids had pears and grapes and strawberries all from our garden. We still have lots of grapes on the vines I hope they all ripen soon. Want to make some grape juice yum.
    Now it is also time to change the seasonal clothes in the girls dressers and see what they need new.
I find there are just as many tasks in the fall as the spring that need to be done.
                                      Ciao for now
                                           Michelle