Ready For the New Year

Time to get things ready to homeschool again after our holiday break. Drug out all the stuff from the cabinet. It would barely close and you couldn't find anything. Much better now. We also replaced our broken printer. Almost ready. I need to reorganise the office space and find all the stuff I should've done but didn't cause it got buried. Right now there's a Christmas tree in the way so it will have to wait a few days.

Emily got a 1/4 scale violin for Christmas and has been having fun picking out songs on the keyboard. We're going to play a lot of music over the winter hopefully.

The girls have been busy

Ready to roll

Emily's creations...no grass growing this year...

Emily paints her playhouse door..

Bobcat rides...

learning together...

Emily gets to Post.

i went swimming
two days ago daddy got me a brand new squeaky

alison was swimming with us. and momy was taking a pickcher of me.

Fun in the pool

And the school year has begun...

Emily's volcano: had a little video of it errupting but couldn't down load it.

Emily's volcano picture:

This year since Emily is reading so well things are much easier. Plus with the kitchen done we have space to work. All she does is written on color coded index cards. This helps keep things organised and gives her the freedom of a lot of choices. We have daily cards, weekly, reward, break time, unit studies. So far it's working great.

Emily found monarch remains so we checked it out with the microscope and magnifying glasses..

I'm creating an element unit making memory cards. Also did some sponge painting to make our own.

Emily loves dolphins. This is a shot she took of a book I didn't even know she was reading. Not one of the library picks.

Yardsale find $2.00 for all. Emily loves to read, she did so well on the peabody testing for 1st grade. Scored on a 3rd grade level on everything.

Fair

Oshkosh

Emily took this shot.

Zoo

Proud Mama

I am so proud of Emily! She just had her 1st grade testing and scored on a 3rd grade level. Just kicked ass on all of it and overcame her bashfullness enough to do it. The only bad part is I 'm sad I can't tell mom or Chris, they would've have been so thrilled . Much work to do to ready for 2nd grade but this has certainly inspired me to get on it. Yeah!

4th of July