Peek At Our Week 28

        After a billion computer, camera and Internet issues I think I am finally back up and running! I think between me and all the kids the sickies have finally passed us along as well. Seems like one of us has been sick every other day for weeks and waiting for the computer parts to come in to repair this thing has been NO FUN! We are still moving right along waiting for summer break though! A few weeks ago Skyler informed me she is tired of forensic science and just don't want to do it anymore so we had to switch some stuff up for her and she is now learning all about the environment and how to make it better! I had to get her a kit, I mean I am science kit queen so of course she needed a kit!

Peek At Our Week 17

        Besides the Medieval Fair this week it was pretty boring around here. It seems like January and February are always the let down months. The holidays are over and school gets pretty routine and boring. Skyler did work quite a lot in her new grammar journal this week though. I am so thrilled she still loves her journals!

Peek At Our Week 16

       This week in Fox was suppose to be making an orange sponge cake. This week we realized it is very important that you read the entire recipe and watch what you are doing... It started off a bit rough when we realized we needed a special pan called a tube pan. We didn't have one and no way to go get one right then and there. We researched online and people stated they had used a loaf pan and it turned out fine. Great!! We had two of those so perfect! It would all work out, right...??? 

  
        I have taught Fox over and over how to separate the egg yolks from the egg whites and no matter what if I do not stand over him I catch him using his hand!! GRRRRRRR. Gross!!! I am in no way a chef but an actual chef did teach me how to do that so it gets frustrating when my child won't listen! I guess he will go his own way like everyone else though and hopefully do better in time!!

Peek At Our Week 14

         This girl is already on her second grammar book for the year!!! She adores her Thinking Tree books! What a way to start the new year, in new jammies and with a new book. 

Fox is still moving right along in Guest Hollow Chemistry in the Kitchen. This week he made cheesecake. This is my all time favorite cake of course. His did get a bit brown but it still tasted delicious. 

Peek At Our Week 11

        The kids are so hyper for Christmas this week! They did the bare minimum for school. Little Elf did make his appearance this week so they all had fun with that. 

Peek At Our Week 10

This week Fox made brain sludge! It was an experiment in one of his books for Guest Hollow Chemistry and it was gross and neat at the same time. He added some milk to vinegar and it did actually create little blobs that look like brain matter. It was pretty neat to see.         

Peek At Our Week 9

        What a week! It started off decent enough. Last week everyone was sick and I had hopes this week it was getting better, sadly it did not. We even ended up in the hospital with the boy child. Things happen, you just got to keep moving. You know they say you make plans and God laughs and laughs. That has been pep talk lately. Skyler finally dug into some of her CSI kits! She looked so professional! I need to find her a white lab coat!

        She is so cute surrounded by all her doo dads!

Field Trip!!!!!

        Since we are studying Medieval Times this school year, I was thrilled to learn of a museum not too far away! The Medieval Torture Museum! I knew it would be a fun day! The kids adore Medieval and field trips so win win!! I really wasn't prepared for the amount of torture though! I never dreamt there were that many ways to torment a person. I will warn you the pictures are pretty graphic. This stuff don't phase my kids but it may phase you! Skyler was also amazed at all the things they did to so called "witches". That was almost a field trip in a field trip for her! We posted all of that stuff on her Magic School Blog.

        Group pictures are becoming so rare!

Peek At Our Week 8

        The week before Halloween!!! We are taking Halloween week off. This week we studied Halloween History besides doing regular school. Fox made meringue cookies in chemistry this week. We have made these several times so i am not sure what went wrong this time they turned out very brown. 

Peek At Our Week 7

        This week we took a lot of our school to the library! I love the library and for the most part the kids do too. Rhyli is doing math while Fox is watching videos for Guest Hollow Chemistry. 

Peek At Our Week 5 And 6

       When witches go riding and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, tis near Halloween!!!!! Halloween has landed here the past two weeks that is for sure! In between decorating we of course did some school too! We always have fun setting up everything for Halloween. This year Skyler was big into helping. Usually she sits back and watches but she took charge of a few projects this year! First up was the living room. 

       Chucky just insists the new baby be by him all the time! 

       sadly we had to put the new member of the family in a cage, she just hasn't grasped that we don't eat the family pets yet!

       Rhyli just adores Little Chucky! 

Peek At Our Week 4

        This was International Home School Spirit Week, we didn't do every theme for each day but we did do a few! Foe out and about day the kiddos got to go watch Fox get his driving permit!!!! He was a happy boy!

Peek At Our Week 4

       This week Fox finally got to use the whip cream maker and he had a blast! The experiments for Guest Hollow Kitchen Chemistry are truly fun for him since he loves to cook and bake. He made orange creamsicle flavor and it was really good!

   

Peek At Our Week 2

       Week 2 was a bit more work to get used too. Nothing too bad though, don't want to overwhelm the poor kiddos! Skyler is not hating Cover Story Writing. I don't think she has yet to figure out how she feels about it, but she doesn't hate it. I will mark that as a win for now! I personally like it and think it is a really neat way to get kids writing and being creative. Hopefully she won't start to hate it as time moves on through the school year. 

Peek At Week 1

       Week 1 is done!! The kids of course took the week trying to understand their planners and figure out a routine to get all their work done each day. I think I spent the day hearing, what next? I spent the day saying, look at your planner! 

   
       Rhyli starts every morning with her favorite thing in the world, cursive!

Planning Planning Planning!

       Planning, planning, planning and tons of printing! That has been my last two weeks anyway! I usually do a separate post for each kid but I think I am just going to lump it into one to make it much easier on myself! Figuring out what three different kids were going to do all year was a bit of a challenge, even more so since they all have different goals and different needs. Our fun-school schedule is tailored to each child. They will most likely still watch each others science and all but for the most part they will be on their own and I will be around to help and teach lessons as needed. 

       

       So after much research and planning I think I have the year pretty much set! Besides the stuff I have planned I will also be using Kahn Academy. I think their videos especially math are extremely valuable and helpful. It also happens to be free so even more of a winner in my book!

Summer Week 11

      Since our amazing field trip to see dinosaurs was so much fun we decided to have some dinosaur days!! Months back I had made a dinosaur basket but we had never really messed with it much so this was the week for dinosaurs! It is so hard to find cool dinosaur stuff for older kids. Everything is usually for much younger children or it is dry and boring. Skyler finally decided to crack open her Dino Doodle Journal and start working in that. She loves her journals. 

Summer Week 10

        We sure did learn about bees this week! Skyler is pretty big on bees, I mean they are a friend of the fairies after all! The first thing we did was learn how bees smell. She had fun picking stuff out of the spice cabinet to use for this one!

         She made little cups and had to close her eyes to smell and guess. She had to do this two times to see if she got them right each try and she missed on the second! 

Field Trip

        I bet every kid that has ever been to the Jacksonville Zoo has a picture like this! My kids have several, I think they should start a wall of fame at the zoo for all the kids pictures. I am sure many kiddos have literally grown up alongside this turtle! We really like taking the same picture at different times to see how things have changed through the years. This is the first zoo turtle picture my oldest isn't in. I didn't realize until later when looking through them that the kids still grouped together as if there were another child there. They have been a group of four and i don't think they will ever stop expecting her to be there. 

       Giraffes are one of the coolest animals ever and I love taking pictures of life size models next to my kids. It makes it seem like they are still small!!

       We stopped off at the gift shop first, we just had to hunt around!

Summer Week 9

       This week Skyler finished her Shakespeare Globe Theater! She was pretty pleased with herself too!

       She also did a bit of work in her fairy gardens. The plate is for bees to have water she is calling it a bee lake!

        The fairy cook book came out and she whipped up some treats!