Week 16 Immanuel, Rhode Island, Vermont, Daniel Boone, Weather

Ice skating at the MARC with Molly's old class mates from NTC

Making snowflake tortillas for a snack

lDid you know Ben and Jerry are from Vermont??

The kids made paper snakes to see how air moves

we had a really good week, I was actually was very glad to get back to a regular routine again. We read a box car kids book taking place in Vermont giving us the idea to make snow cones - we took fresh snow from that morning and poured real maple syrup ok, our syrup wasn't from Vermont - it's local but worked just as well.

a break from our usual studdies

We took some time off from the usual studies to spend time in the kitchen preparing Christmas goodies and to work on presents for others and our Christmas cards, we watched Christmas movies and read Christmas books. We would have done even more, but teacher was sick the whole week. As you can see they decorated their house all by themselves.

Week 15 Jesus isThe Way, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Birds

Christmas caroling with our co-op group at Woodland Ct. Nursing home
I just love how homeschooling can be done on occasion in your Pjs under a desk with your little sister.
These are donkeys like what Mary would have had rode on to Bethlehem

Week 14 Jesus is The Way, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, Birds

Science gone bad, we are reading Farmer boy in the little house series and Almonzo takes a cup of popcorn and adds it to a cup of milk and it's supposed to fit, I don't know why ours did not work.

Molly has been begging to learn cursive, so I got out this dry erase book to practice letters, I will let her work on it a few minutes a day and see how she dose. I have been trying to tell her her printing is not perfect yet and maybe we should work on that before cursive.
In Science we have been learning about the state bird for each state we study. We learned about Robins and then made a robin's nest. Mud - chocolate and Peanut Butter, dried grass - shredded wheat, twigs - chow mein noodles. We were suppose to use green grapes for eggs but all I had was red so not all that authentic.

Thanksgiving Week - Giving Thanks, Thanksgiving, Pumpkins

Molly's hand Turkey

Counting by tens to determine the number of seed in our squash

Hand and foot turkeys

You might be a Homeschooler if you combine bath time with science, history or any other subject.

Indian Vests

Woven place mats for Aunt Kiki and Uncle Nick

Molly's Thanksgiving poem, she read to her uncle on Thanksgiving day

for this week we only did 3 days and spent time learning more about the first Thanksgiving, we did crafts and because I could not find a pumpkin we had to use a squash for science. We had to make predictions about the squash and then through experiments determine the actual. We made predictions on weather it would float, it's weight, it's circumference, and number of seeds.

Week 12 Birds, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Birds

Molly's bird watching binoculars, don't worry dad got out the real ones and taught her how to use them.
Welcoming home troops in Rhinelander

painting pictures from the Nutcracker while listening to songs from the Nutcracker Ballet
Making Peach Cobbler for the state of Georgia
Celebrating with Chocolate the conclusion of our reading of a biography on Milton Hershey for the state of Pennsylvania
Learning to play Monopoly after learning about it's beginning from the state of New Jersey

What a fun week this was. We began a study of birds and are beginning to study each state in the order it became a state. We learn about the state's location, state bird, abbreviation and some other fun facts and whatever we find interesting. For a special field trip we went with my friend Susanne to a welcoming ceremony for troops returning from Iraq. It was a real tear jerker, thinking about these men and women and what they have endured over the past year and their families. When we were leaving Molly said "mom can girls be soldiers too?" " I think I might want to do that someday."

Week 11 Giver of Living Water, President Washington, Water

Molly's liberty bell


Waiting for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to begin

This week on Monday we went to another play at the Grand and Papa came with. Molly was excited because we got to sit up top this time. It was a short musical version the the Chronicles of Narnia. During this week we study more about the life of George Washington and how he became the first president. We studied more on the revolutionary war and the Constitution.