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What better way to learn about dogs than by owning one!  yesterday we added Maddy to our family.  She's a gentle sweet 5 year old Basset hound. 

Elliott helping with cooking and baking, as always!  He's my sweet little helper.

We've been spending some time working in our 'workbooks' on phonics and math.  It's interesting because I feel like I have to almost drag Noelle along in the phonics department (not that she isn't good at it, just not motivated).  But she loves math!  Elliott loves everything:)

Sorting buttons by size

Putting buttons in groups according to size

The kids spent lots of time playing with our nativity scenes.  On the first snow day, we took out all of our winter and christmas books, and have slowly been decorating for Christmas.

Noelle asked to have this set in her room, and she makes up stories and plays with them during her quiet time:)

Sorry I haven't been as good at keeping track of stuff....just getting busier and busier!  Oh yeah, another fun thing the kids did was go on a fieldtrip with their dad to the Imax to see a show about whales and dolphins!  They had a great time.  We spent some time before hand learning about whales and dolphins so they would be prepared.  What fun!

Week 8 and 9 (so far)

Oops!  I guess I'm getting bad at posting!  Here's some highlights from last week and the beginning of this week:

Noelle writing a letter to put in her shoebox gift.



Measuring in our Franklin workbooks

Learning with Dr.Seuss

Noelle and Elliott's Tinker Toy Teradactyl

Making caterpillars out of dish scrubbers!

We also finished our Passport to India study, and started reading Madeline.  Hope you're having a great week!  (Notice how we're wearing our pj's in lots of the pictures?  One of the benefits of homeschooling!) 

Week Seven!!!

Wow!  Time has flown by!  This week I decided to take it back to basics and focus on Phonics and Math.  I have some great books I picked up at Liquidation World of all places!  Elliott works in his own "workbook" which is usually something I've picked up at Dollarama.  Noelle is doing really well....sometimes she has a hard time realizing that she needs to do her work...sometimes she just wants to be done right away, so I try to explain to her that if she were at school she would be working all day!  She's doing well, though.
The story we were doing from Five in a Row is called "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel".  At homeschool co-op they learned about steam, ice, and water (gas, solid, liquid).  They also got to hear a great devotional about hearing from God.  Later that evening we were dancing in the living room to some worship music, and Noelle said something like "When I was dancing, I was thinking about Jesus!" so we started talking about worship, and what it means.  Then, for the next half hour at least, she kept hearing from God!  Here are some of the things He told her:
"I like it when you do that (dance for Him)"
"I love you Noelle, I love you!"
"You can worship Me when you're climbing a tree, when you're working, whatever you're doing!"

She was so excited, she could hardly contain herself!  It was such a good reminder to me that homeschooling is not necessarily just about what we get accomplished, but what is happening in their hearts. 

Elliott's Steam Shovel