school round up!

i enlisted nate to help photocopy and binder his school!  can you believe im  in the last quarter of the school yr! AND im on track! i spent a good chunk of march break planning and prepping, purging and cleaning the school yr. cause thats what march break is for right? ha  

nate's final course selections for gr 8.  

and

im keeping record in a book for this yr, mostly to practice for his transcripts for high school....NEXT year!  but for now this bad book is working.  marking his work takes up a great chunk of time.  and im thinking it will only get longer from this point till graduation...i plan on naming our school and purchasing a transcript  program for high school

joey is doing good!  she always surprises me!  i pegged her for the hardest one to teach because shes so easily distracted and emotional...but shes the EASIEST to teach!  i explain something once and she's got it.  her reading and spelling. we should be done by the end of march

still using the planner. best idea EVER! i dont plan the girls, instead i write down what we DID!

ellie finished beta and started gamma this wk

ellie finished her language arts as well

both girls finished our canada study and grammar

it was easier to combine the two, they also finished science as well

then i ripped my school room a part. now that i have a good idea of what curric will work for each girls im able to purge and get rid of things i no longer need/won't work/etc... i have 2 empty shelves! 

i did splurge and get this to read over march break.  i finished it in 2 days!  EXCELLENT book for a first time novelist

more purging and sorting

i am having a book sale in april, i have 6 BINS of books i no longer need. im hoping to make enough money to buy high school books for nate as well as add to our library 

the new bulletin board ...that ill add daily to it. ha

my to do list is DONE!

i got these 2 books last night off marketplace for 10.00. im so excited.  from the ashes has been on my to read list for about 6 months. i was hoping to find it used and i did! i stayed up till 12:30 reading last night...cant wait for the kids to go to bed tonight. ha

we have a new morning set up.  im now doing morning time with the girls.  we do our copy work, and read out louds.  im reading fables for march and Benjamin  rabbit. 

then we split off for our 1 on 1.  joey sits like this. ha

this quarter shes working on math, reading, spelling, language arts and science

we are starting this on friday

i want to do something virtues related but im not sure. i have this book, so i might turn it into a family activity....not sure

morning set up

our read out loud for march/april

ellies done her language arts but im going to use this as a refresher until we are done school

ellie's books

and tada! im going to introduce fairy tales and fables!  i took the zoom class about fairy tales and the story of christ!  most fables and fairy tales (the REAL ones, not disney) have a thread of the salvation story through them!  im researching some teaching materials on this. but really interesting and eye opening!

my plants! they are ALIVE! joey and i are taking great care of these guys. ha!

as we head into spring i want to do more outside school activities.  nature journals, walks and lots of play dates!  but this is a quick peek into our school life!

school definitely takes a lot longer.  its 3-4 hours. nate is usually done way before me. ha.  but its just a season and totally worth it!  
 

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Posted by mel at 5:21 PM

before march break!

once again i find myself so terribly far behind in the blog.  the days are long! but the years are short! ive had the opportunity to have coffee almost weekly with a dear friend.  we have our fav cafe and try to meet up weekly.  we missed one so far.  its refreshing to sit and chat. i always splurge and get a treat. and its the BEST coffee in moncton! 

ellie has this pink book that i write her nites in every night, one day i asked her to come up with a list for our night away at the cabin. she made a list. it had over 30 different activities! haha  we had a snow storm so the kids were off for the day.  jessy came over and the kids went outside. i went to check on them and found this.  they made a snow couch, a remote, and turned the cardboard box into a t.v.  ellie was inside the box pretending to be a news castor while jessy sat back and enjoyed his hot cocoa and snacks

so funny!

after swimming i found this little one on the couch wih her bestie. haha

how much love we have for you little joey girl!

i decided to take ellie to the cabin for her one on one...an overnight date.  joey was so upset to not have me with her for 12 hours. after coming up with a plan for her....nate spent the night in her room, he slept on the top bunk and they had a sleep over.  nate saved the day!  they had a lot of fun and joey was ok with me  not being around.  she wrote me a song called "i will miss you so, so, so, so much" and sang it to me. hahaha

date night!  first stop. the dollar store to pick up some stuff .  ellie found the dog aisle and spent a good 10 mins going over EVERYTHING and making a list for the dog.!  dog update!  mama dog is pregnant! the litter is due late may. we should have our pup by july!

we got our snacks and hit up the cabin...where we were met with a good 3' wall of snow!  i shoveled us in and got to the door where i got stuck, after spending an hour digging myself out, i wanted to turn the car around and got stuck again!  i gave up and told ellie we were stuck for the night. ha 

her choice of activities...we played the xbox, i played too!

painted a squirrel feeder

watched 2 movies, had supper, painted

and cuddled by the fire.  she slept in bed with me and in the morning i texted chris that i needed to be rescued

and this ladies is what a hero looks like.  he loaded up the snow blower and drove out to the cabin to get us out.  with out one complaint!  then cleaned off my car, warmed it and had it ready for me to pick nate and joey up

on our way back to the house to get the other 2, ellie crashed!  i guess it was a bit too late the night before. ha

but we had a great mom and ellie night.  lots of conversations, one on one time and memories were made!
 

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Posted by mel at 4:07 PM

the next day

we got back to the cabin and found a spot for the new feeder

and saw that a woodpecker has been busy!

joey was warm inside

i left out craft supplies and joey got to work. she made a zebra!

then ellie joined her and more crafts were made

there is nothing like a quiet evening in the porch reading a book. its so nice watching the sun go down

 

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Posted by mel at 4:07 PM