Cake decorating

We participated in our local library's cake decorating contest. Neither of us won however it was fun to practice. We had a few of the teens come from our co-op and decorate too. My book theme was Owl Babies and the older girls did the book D.U.F.F.

A new friend

Playing in our water bin.

We now have a new friend to play with. Meet Xay. You will see more pictures of her with our family in posts to come so I wanted to introduce her.

Our school room

 

Most of our schooling is done at the dining room table or the living room floor. I try to convince the girls to stay OUT of their bedrooms as more often then not I find Koda asleep on her bed with her nose stuck in her book.

We work mostly with a modified "workbox" method. All of our stuff is in milk crates and are color coded. Koda is red, Kirky is purple and Nani is yellow.

We have a large flannel board with our calender cards on it that we got from Counting Coconuts. Our favorite seems to be the Disney characters and Nani promptly tells everyone how she is just like each of the princesses.

The newest addition to our " room " was this art inspired by Busted Button . She is pretty much my favorite crafty lady right now. I turned our tree into a ABC tree complete with scrapbook stickers and BUTTONS.

 

one of my new favorites

Also we have our companions at "school" time of our piggies:

Marshmallow and Carmel

 

 

Curriculum choices 2013-2014

This year we are up to 3! Kirky, Koda and Nani will be my students for the year. Below is the breakdown of what we are "scheduled" to do.

Koda - 11th grade

• Life of Fred - Beginning Algebra and Advanced Algebra ( We are reviewing Algebra 1 to make sure we understand it perfect before moving on)
• Easy Peasy for Chemistry and British Literature here 
• Finishing Simple Schooling History ( we didn't get to finish last year) Here 
• German with Mango languages here

Kirky- 8th grade

• Geography- Unit studies pulled together by me. We are going to spend a few weeks on each continent.
• Easy Peasy for Vocab/ English here
•  Life of Fred- Beginning Algebra and Advanced Algebra
• Irish with Mango Languages here
• Tag along with Chemistry
• Bible study of some kind ( I haven't picked it out yet)

Nani- Preschool

• Animal ABC  here

All Together

• Ancient Art here
• Pastel here

I havn't disappeared

So there is a few reasons why I havnt been blogging more. Plenty has been going on I just haven't documented it because:

• Ding dong me forgot my password
• I have been stretched a bit thin 
• We moved (yet again)
• Started a new job ( yet again) 
• Have I mentioned I'm a bit thin?

Everyone has been doing well. Little baby boy isn't so little as he crawls around the house and destroys everything. Nanners decided that she wants to be called "Nani" now and has been doing great through therapy with the move. We were homeschooling Koda originally but now Kirky has joined us again full time. She will be starting up in the fall after Labor day. Koda is still doing summer homework as we took several needed breaks throughout the year so we are a bit behind. But I'm ok with that. It is one of the many perks of homeschooling.

I am hoping to get a 10 post series on why homeschooling works for our family. In the meantime enjoy a few pictures of the minions to keep you going.

Back in the swing

So we havnt done as many hands on fun activities since Ryder was born. Between moving twice and new jobs we were stretched thin. I am hoping to start up again now that we are settling down. We are homeschooling now full time Koda and Kirsten along with the 2 little ones. I cant wait to see what this new year holds

Homemade ornaments

A great sensory experience. Nanners enjoyed making these. Good smells and funky texture
3/4 cup applesauce
2 containers cinnamon

Mix all up, roll it out and use cookie cutters