tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39899177911426750502024-03-12T19:59:37.088-07:00Only by God's GraceThis fun and crazy life we live in the sun...Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.comBlogger1064125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-66796845285119069382015-10-17T09:27:00.004-07:002015-10-17T09:27:35.384-07:00Weekly Wrap Up<div align="center">
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This was our first week back after our week break and it's always hard getting back to it that first day. It was Columbus Day so we did some activities about Columbus. Gabe enjoyed working on syllables with his Columbus Day activity.</div>
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Jadyn has moved onto Level 2 in All About Reading and enjoyed this activity to help her identify if what sound "Y" says.</div>
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She also started 2 digit subtraction with renaming. I thought this would be a struggle, but she got it quickly!</div>
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On Thursday we had fun with our co-op with an Elementary Explorers activity. The kids love getting together with their friends and playing games and just having a blast!</div>
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Gabe took a break from the activity to eat some Cheetos.</div>
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Mj was a help with the kids and enjoyed the water balloon fight and hanging out with some of his friends.</div>
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Gabe worked on his shapes this week.</div>
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Jadyn reading "The Grump"</div>
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We learned about Mississippi this week and made Mississippi Mud Pie to enjoy! It was delicious!</div>
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We learned about the Iroquois and made wampum necklaces.</div>
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I always feel bad that I don't get as many pictures of my oldest. I only had 1 this week. Oops! </div>
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<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-46350763227739608002015-10-10T13:02:00.002-07:002015-10-10T13:02:49.274-07:00Kennedy Space CenterWe've been looking forward to this day for a long time and on Thursday we finally got to go to Kennedy Space Center. We were able to have a friend watch Job since we didn't think he would enjoy it as much as everyone else and left very early in the morning for Kennedy Space Center.<br />
We had an amazing time! Here's some pictures from our trip.<br />
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Ready to begin our day of exploring!</div>
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The kids thought this was awesome!</div>
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Gabe ended up a bit wet after this pic.</div>
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Time to EXPLORE!</div>
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Mj at the Rocket Garden</div>
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An impatient Jadyn at the Rocket Garden. She thought we had to hit every thing in an hour! LOL</div>
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Pretty cozy in there.</div>
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Ready for lift off.</div>
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Ready to explore <em>Atlantis</em>. This was the highlight of our day!</div>
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So tall!</div>
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We are so tiny!</div>
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Giving the astronaut a high five.</div>
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This was truly breath-taking. Kennedy Space Center did an awesome job introducing you to <em>Atlantis</em>. It brought tears to my eyes to see this amazing space shuttle and to think of what all it has seen and done!</div>
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It almost look fake! But it was very real!</div>
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The underside of <em>Atlantis</em>.</div>
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Inside <em>Atlantis</em>.</div>
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Inside <em>Atlantis</em></div>
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Jadyn trying out the cockpit.</div>
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Inside the International Space Station.</div>
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Gabe thought the shuttle toilet was hilarious!</div>
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Cool touch screens to learn about the shuttle.</div>
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Spin the wheel!</div>
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Gabe was very disappointed he couldn't do the shuttle take off simulator. He was seriously like 1/8 inch too short, but he thought it was cool to get a special badge and get to watch the people on the simulator on a tv screen.</div>
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Replica of the Hubble Telescope.</div>
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Ready to head to the launch pad.</div>
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The fam at <em>Atlantis</em></div>
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Ready for the bus tour with this crazy girl.</div>
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Family selfie on the bus tour.</div>
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This is the building where they make the rockets and shuttles. It looks small in the picture, but it is huge!!!</div>
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The launch pad where they would build the shuttles on.</div>
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This is the launch pad where they will build the rocket to send people to Mars in the not too distant future.</div>
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The control center. It's 3 and 1/2 miles from the launch site for safety.</div>
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The tread marks from the crawler which takes the rockets to the launch site.</div>
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Launch site 39b</div>
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The crawler. It gets 32 feet per gallon. It takes 5-6 hours to get to the launch site.</div>
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Checking out the Saturn V rocket.</div>
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Saturn V</div>
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Just chillin'</div>
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This lunar module was supposed to go up in Apollo 15.</div>
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This was the lunar module for Apollo 11 or 14. I can't remember.</div>
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Touching a lunar rock.</div>
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Checking out constellations and trying to see how strong they were.</div>
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Future astronauts?</div>
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Last, but not least checking out the 3D Imax movie <em>Journey to Space</em>. </div>
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<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-78263810395470530432015-10-10T12:43:00.000-07:002015-10-10T12:43:00.566-07:00Charlotte's WebWe've enjoyed our week break from school this week!
Just because we had a break did not mean that we were not busy. We had a lot of fun activities planned for the week. One was going to see <em>Charlotte's Web</em> at the Actors' Playhouse. This was Gabe's first experience at a play and oh my goodness! He loved it!!! He's been carrying around his playbill for the past couple of days and telling me who the actors were in the play. He asked when the next one was and he cant' wait to go!<br />
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Ready for a fun day at the play!</div>
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Our co-op group who went to see <em>Charlotte's Web</em>.</div>
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<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-26898527184055347452015-10-02T12:19:00.001-07:002015-10-02T12:19:36.116-07:00Another 6 Weeks Down!<div align="center">
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That's right our second 6 weeks of the school year are over and we look forward to a week off next week (which is getting quite full with fun activities!) This six weeks was not as smooth as the first, but it ended well. We had a nice and easy week. Here's what we did this week.</div>
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<u>MJ - 7th Grade</u></div>
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<strong>Bible:</strong> I helped Mj work on teaching a lesson to Jadyn & Gabe on Isaac.</div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Adjectives. </div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Mj worked on rational numbers, ratios, and proportions.</div>
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I don't get too many pictures of MJ doing school since he does a lot of it independently while I work with Jadyn & Gabe, but I caught him doing his math outside on a beautiful day!</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> Mj finished his chapter on the early European explorers. He loved this study on the explorers!</div>
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<strong>Enrichment Classes:</strong> Mj takes Taekwondo, a World Geography class, and a Art class. He's learning so much!</div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd Grade</u></div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Jadyn learned about poetry and wrote a couplet about snow.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Jadyn finished her chapter on measurement.</div>
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<strong>Reading:</strong> Jadyn was so excited to finish her All About Reading and All About Spelling Level 1 this week. She moved on to Level 2.</div>
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Look at all those stars on her progress charts!</div>
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Of course, she had to wear her princess dress and tiara to start Level 2.</div>
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> Jadyn finished her chapter on land forms and natural resources.<br />
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<strong>Enrichment Classes:</strong> Jadyn is taking Music History, Ceramics, and Ballet. She looks forward to Tuesday - Enrichment day every week!<br />
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<u>Gabe - Kindergarten</u><br />
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<strong>All About Reading - Pre-Reading:</strong> Gabe is doing awesome with his lower case letters. He learned "q", "r", "s", and "t" this week. He loves the abcmouse videos on youtube that we watch for each letter. He's figuring out that these letters we've been learning make words that are in a book.<br />
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<strong>Math:</strong> Gabe learned numbers 20-32 this week.<br />
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We got the unifix cubes out this week to see if him seeing place value would help him understand two-digit numbers. I think it helped. Of course, the unifix cubes quickly became light sabers during our lesson.</div>
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<strong>Art:</strong> Gabe made an owl in art class. We love HomeArt Studio DVDs for art. He watched a video about owls and learned how to rip paper to make a cool feathery effect.<br />
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<strong>Extras:</strong> Gabe was all about the Learning Links this week. This is a great way to work on sequencing without him knowing he's working on sequencing! ;)<br />
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<strong>Enrichment Classes:</strong> Gabe takes Letters & the Bible, Little Chef Math, and Fun with Music. He loves his classes so much! I love to see him get excited about learning and being with his friends!<br />
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<u>Job - Totschool</u><br />
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The Learning Links were a great way to work with colors with Job.</div>
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He was excited that I got the sidewalk chalk out for him to work on colors, too.</div>
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<u>Road Trip USA</u><br />
We are loving our Road Trip USA study from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. This week we learned about Kentucky. We loved watching videos on YouTube of the Kentucky Derby. We also enjoyed supper at Kentucky Fried Chicken.<br />
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We try to get to the library every other week. It's been awhile just with the craziness that is life so the kids were so excited to go today. We stayed for an hour!<br />
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The kids love the new Ipad station.</div>
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Gabe enjoying some reading time.</div>
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Jadyn found her spot to read some books.</div>
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This was the scene on the way home. Everyone has their nose stuck in a book! I love it!</div>
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Heading out on the airboat!
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The first time all 6 of us have ridden an airboat together! It was a blast!</div>
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The boys on the slide.</div>
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Jadyn loved this big slide!</div>
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On the roller coaster. Job was not a fan.</div>
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He liked the merry-go-round much better.</div>
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Mj liked this!</div>
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Getting ready to watch the Alligator Wrestler!</div>
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I'm not sure if this guy is crazy or brave! LOL</div>
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Waiting with my big boy for the little boys to get out of the bounce house.</div>
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Jadyn & Gabe on the swings.</div>
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They loved the swamp buggy.</div>
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Enjoying an ice treat on this very hot and humid day.</div>
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Jadyn wanted her picture with a real native American.</div>
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We had a busy week, but praise God it went much better than last week! We're looking forward to one more week and then a week break! Yay!</div>
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Gabe and Job spent a lot of this week making letters, buildings, and towers with blocks. I love blocks! What a great way to use those motor skills and imagination.</div>
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Tuesdays are Enrichment classes through our co-op. Jadyn has been taking a ceramics class and got to take her first two pieces home. They look beautiful! </div>
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Mj has been taking a fine arts class and I've been so impressed with his talent!</div>
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Wednesday we celebrated the first day of fall by painting some fall trees.</div>
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This week Jadyn learned about land forms in Heritage Studies. She had fun making this land form flip book.</div>
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On Thursday Jadyn and Gabe had an Elementary Explorers activity through our co-op at a park. They had so much fun playing with their friends and playing with the parachute.</div>
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We learned about Florida this week and made a key lime pie! It was yummy!</div>
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Jadyn learned about measure capacity so we made a gallon-bot to help her remember cups, pints, quarts, and gallons.</div>
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Yesterday we enjoyed celebrating Native American Day. Jadyn was so excited to get her picture taken with a real native American wearing real native American clothes.</div>
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We had fun on the airboat.</div>
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The kids loved watching the alligator wrestler.</div>
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It's been a rough week - lots of fighting, arguing, tempers lost, patience gone, just down right yucky things going on. I definitely did not enjoy this week, and I'm glad to see it gone and looking forward to a brand new week next week. We all have those days, weeks, months.... So anyway, this is what our week looked like.</div>
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We started our week off great with some fun review with our Education blocks to review our states and capitals.</div>
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We also made some delicious peach cobbler for our study of Alabama.</div>
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Jadyn's reading has improved so much! I'm so glad we've chosen All About Reading for her.</div>
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Gabe worked on matching the uppercase and lowercase buddies.</div>
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Then this happened. My adorable 3 year old has been testing my patience since he turned 3 (he turned 3 on the 11th). He decided to do his own little science experiment and see if a whole roll of toilet could be flushed down the toilet. It can't. =(</div>
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For a moment he actually did sit quietly and color this week. It was only for a moment. Then he was back to being devious and finding trouble!</div>
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Jadyn finished her All About Spelling Level 1 this week.</div>
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It quickly went from smiles to this note when Jadyn decided to be disrespectful and disobedient. I went to talk to her after I sent her to her room and found this note. It says, "haha, Jadyn, I want to leave 9/17/15) Then there is a picture of me with an x over my face and Jadyn with an "x" over her face. I asked what her paper meant. She said, that we are not friends any more and she would be leaving that day. Don't worry she did not leave and after a couple of hours we were friends again.</div>
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Oh look! Job was amusing himself and not getting into trouble for a brief moment! He actually enjoys when I get this game out and he colors sorts the beans.</div>
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Gabe got his busy book out to practice some number recognition.</div>
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He loved being rewarded with some educational app time on the Ipad for finishing school and doing a great job.</div>
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Yesterday Gabe began learning about clocks. He was so excited!</div>
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Jadyn made a ocean habitat for science on Friday.</div>
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Every other Friday the younger kids enjoy their HomeArt Studio dvds. Gabe learned about symmetry and made a beautiful butterfly.</div>
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Jadyn made an abstract egg.</div>
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Tuesday was co-op day. They look forward to their classes.</div>
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So that was our week. I'm thankful for God's grace and forgiveness! We've all needed it this week! Looking forward to a better week next week!</div>
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be 3 years old!?!? Today my baby turned 3 years old! He has been anxiously awaiting his birthday! Although he thinks he is 5. Sorry, buddy! This momma could not handle that one! ;) <br />
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When he woke up I asked him what today was. This was his adorable it's my birthday face and we're going to take cookies to the firemen face!</div>
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On this day, I am reminded of God's grace to turn my mourning into joy. 14 years ago on this day not only did the horrors of those terror attacks on our country take place, but I said good-bye to my mom for the last time. I had no idea that God would take her home 2 days later. This time of year is always difficult for me as I recall the events of the today and the next couple of days. But 3 years ago, God gave me joy in the midst of my mourning. I was due with Job on September 15 and I always have my babies late so I never thought his birth would correlate with my mom's passing. On Sept. 10, 2012 I went in for an ultrasound because Job was measuring big and so was my belly. The doctors said I would have to have a C-section the next day. God knew that Job needed to come on this day and made it happen even if it wasn't the way I would have planned him coming. As I watched Job today playing and just loving life and being his silly self, I was reminded of God's grace and goodness. I did not deserve to have such good gift brought into my life, but God gave me Job at just the right time. I know my mom would love Job so much just as she would my other 3 children. There is not a day that goes by that I wish she could see them or talk to them. I seriously think she would just want me to FaceTime our entire day so she could watch them every second! LOL</div>
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Job, you are God's gift to our family. You bring so much joy and life to our family! I love the way you say "I wuth you Mommy" and squeeze my neck so hard. I love how you copy everything your big brothers and sister do and then make it your own silly version of whatever they are doing. I love how independent you are becoming and yet need me to see your achievements. You are my dare devil, bug-lovin', fire truck finding, silly boy! I pray that you will know how much Jesus loves you and that He has made you for a specific purpose! We love you Job Michael!</div>
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Some silliness with the birthday boy after his McDonalds lunch.</div>
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Also, today we wanted to show our gratitude to our police officers and firemen so yesterday we were baking up a storm. Seriously, I think Job was more excited about seeing the firemen and police officers than his birthday! He couldn't wait to go give them cookies this morning! We look forward to doing this every year!</div>
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At one of the fire stations they gave us a tour of the fire engine and let the kids try on their gear. The kids loved it!</div>
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Mj said it was very hot to wear all that gear.</div>
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Job just made us all laugh! Where are his legs?!</div>
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They even got a picture with these brave men!</div>
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It's weekly wrap up time again! We had a pretty easy week. We took Labor Day off. Tuesdays are co-op days, and we took today off to celebrate Job's birthday and deliver cookies to our brave police officers and firemen. Here's what we did this week.</div>
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<strong>Bible:</strong> Mj is working through Apologia's <em>Who is My Neighbor?</em> This week we talked about loving our friends and enemies. It's not easy to do, but with God's help we can love those who are mean to us.</div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Mj wrote an ad for a restaurant. He had to use exciting verbs in his paper.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Fractions!</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Mj is studying heredity. We talked about dominant and recessive genes and sex-linked traits.</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> Mj is studying the Renaissance. </div>
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<strong>Co-op:</strong> Mj takes taekwondo, world geography, and a fine art studio class. He is really enjoying his fine art class. The drawings he is making are beautiful!</div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd Grade</u></div>
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<strong>Bible:</strong> Jadyn learned about the Flood this week.</div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Jadyn started learning about verbs.</div>
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Jadyn needed her swimming goggles to do her English worksheet the one day.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Jadyn learned about renaming 10 ones as 1 ten for double digit addition problems. I thought this would be tricky for her, but she had no problems! She loves math! She must get that from her Uncle Dutch!</div>
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<strong>Reading:</strong> Jadyn is doing so well with All About Reading! She is almost done with Level 1. I can't tell you the improvement I have seen in her and the love she has gotten for reading from using this curriculum! If you have a child who is dyslexic or is a struggling reader, get All About Reading! I highly recommend it!</div>
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On Sunday afternoon, I found Jadyn reading her new library books at the table!</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Jadyn is learning about habitats.<br />
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> Jadyn is finishing up her chapter about government and American symbols and landmarks.<br />
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<strong>Co-op:</strong> Jadyn takes Music History, Ceramics, and Ballet. In Music History this past week she learned about woodwind instruments, brass instruments, and percussion instruments. She made a beautiful cross in Ceramics.<br />
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<strong>All About Reading: Pre-Reading: </strong>Gabe is loving learning bout his lower case letters now. He has started noticing that words begin with certain letters. I love to see his excitement when he sees a letter he knows! Gabe learned "g" and "h" this week.<br />
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<strong>Math:</strong> Gabe is learning his teen numbers. This has been a little bit tricky, but he loves trying to find the numbers on the board when I call them out. It's been a fun game we've been playing.<br />
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I can't believe I have no pictures of Job this week doing school things. He usually is sitting and playing while I work with Gabe and I can hear Job repeating his numbers after us or singing the alphabet with us. It's fun to watch him learn!</div>
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<strong>Co-op:</strong> Job and Gabe take the same co-op classes. They are taking Letters and the Bible, Little Chef Math, and Fun with Music. This week they made maracas in their music class. They loved those.</div>
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Today we did some special things to honor the events of 9/11. We took cookies and muffins to our police officers and 2 fire stations near us. The kids loved meeting the men and women who bravely serve in our community. The one fire station gave them a tour of the fire engine and let them try on their gear. The kids loved it! We also went to a memorial service at a park to pay our respects to the victims of 9/11. I know my children will never remember 9/11, but I want them to be able to reflect on this day and honor those who lost their lives.</div>
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Ben surprised us! He's been in Honduras since January and he took a surprise trip home to PA and had a layover on the way back to Honduras in Miami so we got to spend a couple of hours with him! Jadyn did not leave his side!!
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Job was happy to have "Bunny" here!</div>
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We had a week break from school (Yes! I love schooling year round!). We enjoyed some time at the pool to cool off!</div>
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A trip to the zoo is always fun no matter how hot and humid it is!</div>
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Mj and I cooled off in the shade while the little kiddos played on the play ground!</div>
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Taking a snack break at the zoo!</div>
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Awana started and Gabe moved up to Sparks! He was so excited! Job is a Puggle and Gabe & Jadyn are Sparks!</div>
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We enjoyed a Marlins vs Phillies game.</div>
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Mark and I were able to get away for a quick weekend trip for our anniversary! The one night we went to watch the sunset and it poured so we opened the trunk of the mini-van and enjoyed the view from the back of the van.</div>
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Absolutely beautiful!</div>
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The colors were amazing!</div>
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Before we headed back home we went to see Vizcaya.</div>
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We had fun touring the gardens, even though the real feel was 116!!!</div>
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So glad we got a weekend away!</div>
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Back to Bash with our homeschool friends!</div>
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We thought Tropical Storm Erika was going to ruin our plans for our Back to School bash, but it ended up being a beautiful day!</div>
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We haven't just been goofing off, Jadyn has been working on time in math.</div>
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Mj made DNA out of Legos.</div>
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Our enrichment classes started. The kids were so excited on Tuesday morning to go to their classes. I'm also teaching this year and I'm excited about that!</div>
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My one class I'm teaching is a music history class. On Tuesday we started learning about the orchestra. We looked at the string family, and the girls were so excited that I brought in some string instruments for them to try.</div>
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Jadyn has been doing an experiment on if soil is important to grow a plant. Ummmm... yes! Soil is very important! ;)</div>
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For my birthday Mark has been turning our backyard into a beautiful oasis! He made a bench and table and we've been enjoying lunch out there all week!</div>
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Gabe has been enjoying playing with our geometric shapes.</div>
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Job has been all about puzzles recently.</div>
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Yesterday Jadyn did an art project based off the story of <em>Goldilock and the Three Bears</em>. We love HomeArt Studio DVDs!</div>
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Gabe learned about Van Gogh and made this beautiful sunflower picture based off of one of Van Gogh's famous pieces.</div>
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I cannot believe how fast the first 6 weeks of our school year have gone. The kids are so excited (and I'm even more excited!) that next week is our break week! Here's what we were up to this week.</div>
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<strong>Bible</strong>: Mj is using <em>Apologia's Who is My Neighbor</em>?. We talked together about how Jesus came to serve others and the example He left for us. We talked about how MJ can apply that in his life this week.</div>
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<strong>English</strong>: Mj learned about researching skills.</div>
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<strong>Math</strong>: Mj worked on prime numbers and greatest common factors.</div>
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<strong>Science</strong>: Cells, cells, and cells! The focus this week was on aerobic cellular respiration, anaerobic cellular respiration, and photosynthesis.</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> Mj finished the chapter on the China and the Mongols.</div>
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Poor MJ, I didn't get any pictures of him. Most of his work this week was independent. </div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd Grade</u></div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Jadyn's been working on nouns. She learned about common and proper nouns, how to make nouns plural, and how to use commas with items in a series.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Jadyn worked on fact families and how to solve word problems.</div>
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<strong>Reading:</strong> Jadyn loves All About Reading. And I do too! I'm so glad we changed to this program this year and that we started with Volume 1. It really has given her confidence. She's starting to get into some difficult words for her, but I don't see the frustration that I saw last year! This makes me so happy!!!! If you have a dyslexic child and are looking for a reading curriculum, check out All About Reading!</div>
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<strong>Spelling:</strong> We are loving All About Spelling, too! Jadyn's using volume 1 and her spelling has improved immensely! Yesterday, Jadyn was working on "c" & "k" and which one to use at the beginning of a word that makes the /k/ sound. She has always struggled with this, but the way All About Spelling taught it - it made sense to her and she was getting it! Yay!!!!!</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Jadyn learned about living things. We talked about what living things need. We also talked about metamorphosis and life cycles.</div>
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We watched some cool YouTube videos about the frog's life cycle. </div>
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Jadyn also enjoyed learning about the butterfly's life cycle. We enjoyed watching some YouTube videos on that, too. Seriously, what did we do before YouTube! =) </div>
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> Jadyn finished her chapter on community. We talked about community leaders and community helpers. </div>
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I wanted Jadyn to understand that her house is in her neighborhood, which is in her community, which is in the city Miami, which is in the state of Florida, which is in the country USA, which is in the continent of North America, which is in the planet Earth! This was a great craft for her to understand that concept! Thank you Pinterest! =)</div>
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<strong>Art:</strong> We all love HomeArt Studio for our art lessons! Today Jadyn learned about the art of George Rodrigue. They did a painting to resemble his painting called blue dog. I think hers is a pretty close replica! ;)</div>
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<strong>Reading:</strong> Gabe is using All About Reading - Pre Reading. This is a great program for him and he is doing pretty well! He has learned his uppercase letters up through "X". </div>
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Working on how many claps (syllables) are in a word. He loves doing this. Yesterday he would say the biggest words he could think of and just clap them out!</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Gabe learned his numbers through 10!<br />
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On Wednesday, I registered my kids for Awana for this coming year. Gabe is so excited to be a "Big Kid" and move up to Sparks! He wore his Sparks vest all day Thursday and looked through his book any spare moment he had!</div>
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<u>Job - TotSchool</u></div>
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Job is a man constantly in motion. He really does not sit still for long. Usually you can find him running around outside being all boy while I'm doing school with the older kids. He loves to come in and watch a YouTube video with us. He's been looking for tadpoles every day since we talked about the frog life cycle. We find lots of frogs in our back yard, but we're not close to any water where the tadpoles would be. He thinks they could live in puddles! ;)</div>
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I try to have hands on stuff out for him to play with during school time. One day, he actually sat still and played with his Wok and Roll game. Yay for some motor skills work!</div>
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The kids are loving our Grapevine Bible Study. We started at Creation and are now through the creation of Adam & Eve. The kids love drawing along with what I'm reading from the Bible. We have some good discussion afterward. Jadyn told me that she didn't realize that God breathed into Adam the breath of life. She was excited to learn that.</div>
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Our Road Trip USA study has taken us this week to New Hampshire and New Jersey. We enjoyed pancakes for dinner the one night to celebrate New Hampshire's syrup making! =)</div>
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I love these moments where I find all the kids playing nicely together. I wish it happened more, but I'll take what I can get.</div>
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We did it! 6 weeks down and now we get a 1 week break!!! Yay!!!!</div>
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Fourteen years ago today, I married the most amazing man in the world. Seriously, fourteen years has flown by. Standing in front of him, I never could have imagined what our lives together would hold - the ups and downs we would go through and how much I could love a person.</div>
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During this time, my mom was very sick. We didn't even know if she would be able to be there or not. We had all sorts of plans in place for all the scenarios that could happen. The night of the rehearsal my mom couldn't be there, because she was too sick. But my wedding day reminds me of God's gracious goodness to my mom and me, because on that day she was the best she had been in months. She remembered things and looked the healthiest we had seen her. She was looking forward to my wedding day almost as much as I was. Every doctor appointment I would take her to or every nurse that would come see her at the hospital and every visiting nurse knew all about my wedding because she was telling them all the plans she could remember. I'm so grateful that my mom was so well on our wedding day. We had no idea, but a month later she would be in Heaven with her Savior. God was so good to give my mom and I this wonderful memory together!</div>
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It's fun(ny) looking at how people have aged in 14 years! The little girl in white with the blue bow is getting married this weekend! She was in our youth group when we were youth group leaders in PA. Time sure does fly!<br />
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We had such a beautiful day for our wedding and a beautiful place in Hershey to take pictures!<br />
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Our wedding party! A beautiful group of family and friends!<br />
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This is probably one of my favorite pictures from that day. <br />
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We were a bit late to our reception (4 hours) because my bridesmaids got lost on the way to where we were taking pics. So when we got to the reception we had to quickly cut the cake because it was starting to melt. My husband smashed the cake in my face, so I had to return the favor!<br />
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Getting ready to leave for our honeymoon! So many fun memories of that day. I love looking back through our wedding album and video!<br />
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And because 2 people fell in love, we have this beautiful family that God has blessed us with! Oh what a difference 14 years makes! ;)</div>
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I love the words to Josh Wilson's song "What a Mystery" and I think about it every year on our anniversary.</div>
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"There was a garden, there was a man,<br /> He was so lonely, but God had a plan,<br /> God had a plan.<br /><br /> He fell asleep but, never could dream,<br /> He'd wake up to the most beautiful thing<br /> He'd ever seen.<br /><br /> But there she was, and there you are.<br /><br /><br /> What a mystery<br /> Somehow you and me<br /> Are a picture of a greater love<br /> That someday we will see<br /> Oh, what a mystery<br /><br /> The good Lord is working to make my heart new,<br /> And I am more like Him when I'm with you,<br /> When I'm with you.<br /><br /> Oh, you are so patient, you are so kind,<br /> You are my favorite way that God shows His light in my life.<br /><br /> What a mystery<br /> Somehow you and me<br /> Are a picture of a greater love<br /> That someday we will see<br /> Yeah, what a mystery<br /><br /> And day by day we'll chip away<br /> All the things that don't belong,<br /> Every shadow, every wrong,<br /> Until we find deep down inside<br /> The glory we forgot, the image of our God.<br /><br /> What a mystery<br /> Yea somehow you and me<br /> Are a picture of a greater love<br /> That someday we will see<br /> Oh, what a mystery "</div>
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I wasn't able to blog about our week last week so here's our last 2 weeks of school. Can I say how much I enjoy homeschooling - the flexibility, the teachable moments, the laughter and silliness, the fights (ok, maybe not everything LOL). Here's some pics from our past two weeks of school.</div>
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Gabe has been loving when I get the bananagrams out. He puts all the letters that he knows and organizes them.</div>
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My husband was able to take a day off so we did everything that had to do with the letter B that day. So we hit the beach! (I love living so close to the beach!) Mj enjoyed making sand creatures.</div>
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Gabe wrote his name in the sand.</div>
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Beautiful day at the beach with our family!</div>
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Jadyn flying high with some help from her daddy.</div>
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After the beach, we went bowling!</div>
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We've been enjoying our Road Trip USA curriculum from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. Last week the kids made blueberry muffins to celebrate Maine's state berry.</div>
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Jadyn loves All About Reading! She had fun with this hands-on activity.</div>
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Jadyn had a science experiment. She had to see which paper would be hotter. The black paper hit 120 degrees after an hour! It was definitely the hottest!</div>
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Mj has been learning about diffusion so we had to do some fun experiments about it!</div>
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He also did an osmosis experiment with gummy bears. I won't say how many gummy bears were eaten while the experiment took place! ;)</div>
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Why yes, we do go to the beach twice in 1 week! We got to go with some of our friends from our co-op and we all had so much fun!</div>
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I saw this idea on pinterest and thought this would be a great art project!</div>
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Gabe working on his flashcards to review his letters.</div>
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Job & Gabe watching a "P" video on YouTube.</div>
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We love <em>What's in the Bible?. </em>The kids learn so much about God's Word and His rescue plan for us while having fun with the characters. They also love the coloring pages!</div>
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Gabe enjoying some hands-on counting.</div>
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Circling letters and making them into aliens is fun when you're in kindergarten!</div>
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Having some learning fun with our edu-blocks!</div>
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Working on number recognition with a game!</div>
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Jadyn thinks this is a comfortable way to do her math paper.</div>
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My poor Job had to go to urgent care on Wednesday night. He's got bronchitis and was pretty miserable.</div>
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Mj's experiment on turgor pressure.</div>
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Mj made some yummy gourmet burgers and baked fries for dinner all by himself.</div>
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With some meds in him, Job became a ball full of energy! I guess he's back to normal!</div>
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Gabe making the letter "T" with his body.</div>
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Brothers having fun playing together and learning.</div>
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Gabe loved working on his dot number patterns with this big dice!</div>
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The kids love finding creatures in our back yard. They found a tree frog and were studying it. We came inside after he finally jumped away from them and couldn't be found and studied all about frogs!</div>
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Creative play! I love it!</div>
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We love the HomeArt Studio DVD's for art. Gabe made a happy sun and learned about mixing colors.</div>
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Jadyn learned how to overlap and made this beautiful watermelon watercolor painting.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago we made bird feeders. We've had pigeons and blue jays visit our bird feeders, but these 2 pigeons have been faithful about coming several times a day for a snack.</div>
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So that was our past 2 weeks. You can check out other homeschoolers weeks at the <a href="http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/weekly-wrap-up-the-one-with-what-feels-like-the-first-week-of-school-in-the-books/" target="_blank">Weekly Wrap Up.</a>Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-65252200550630989522015-07-24T12:38:00.003-07:002015-07-24T12:38:53.101-07:00Weekly Wrap Up - Lots of Learning Going On<div align="center">
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3 weeks down! I can't believe how well our school year has started. I really thought it was going to be awful adding Gabe to the mix in Kindergarten and having Job, my crazy 2 year old running around. I knew Gabe & Jadyn would need my undivided attention and thankfully Mj can do a lot on his own, but still I went into the school year thinking the worst. It's been a great start! God has given patience when needed. Gabe loves school time. He plays happily while I work with Jadyn and she plays happily while I work with Gabe. I've found some great Ipad apps for them to do, too while I'm working with the other one. I'm so thankful for a great start. 3 more weeks and we get our first week long break! I'm loving this year round homeschooling! It's been so unbelievably hot, too that the kids would rather be inside than outside playing. So here's how our week went.</div>
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<strong>Bible:</strong> Mj is doing Apologia's Who is My Neighbor? I love this series and it's been a great study for Mj. We talked together about how we are made in God's image and we desire relationships. We talked about why having a good relationship with our parents and friends is important.</div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Mj worked on dictionary skills. He also started his observations for a journal he will be writing in a few weeks. He's watching our bird feeders from 11:30-12:30 every day to see how many birds and what kinds of birds visit during that hour.</div>
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He worked all morning on this contraption. It connects from our bird feeders to our fort with 2 minions from McDonalds hanging off of it. The minions make noise when they shake. He made it so he can be working on school and hear if a bird is in the bird feeder.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Reviewing Order of Operations and Decimals.</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> Mj finished up his chapter on the Persian Empire.</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Mj worked on classification and the cell theory.</div>
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<strong>Typing:</strong> Mj uses Typing.com to practice his typing.</div>
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I caught him practicing his typing with a little brother watching his every move. =)</div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd Grade</u></div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Jadyn and I wrote a personal story together about our trip to Naples in May. We discussed the writing process.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Jadyn learned how to rename 10 ones and 1 ten. Thank goodness for unifix cubes that helped her visualize this!</div>
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<strong>All About Reading:</strong> Jadyn is flying through level 1. I'm thankful that I chose to have her do level 1 which I knew would be a review. She is gaining confidence and is loving to read!</div>
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<strong>All About Spelling:</strong> She is also doing Level 1 for this and her spelling has greatly improved already!</div>
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> Jadyn learned about continents, oceans, the equator, the poles, and the compass rose this week.</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Jadyn learned why scientists do experiments and then she did her own experiment. She wanted to see if our cooler actually kept things cooler than if the food was outside of the cooler.</div>
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Her experiment worked. The cooler does keep things cooler. She checked the ice after an hour and there was more water in the cup on the counter than in the cup in the cooler.</div>
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<strong>Art: </strong>We love the Homeart Studio DVDs for art. Today Jadyn made a color wheel. </div>
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<u>Gabe - Kindergarten</u></div>
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<strong>All About Reading:</strong> Gabe worked on letters A-L this week. He is loving the pre-reading program and is learning his letters well. He looks forward to watching a Sesame Street video on youtube about each letter, too.</div>
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He loved putting yarn on his L is for llama paper today.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Gabe worked on one to one matching, more and fewer.</div>
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Homeschooling perk: Instead of circling the shape that is different he turned them into monsters. Can't do that in school. =)</div>
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<strong>Art:</strong> Gabe uses the Homeart Studio DVD's too. His lesson today was on primary and secondary colors.</div>
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<u>Job - </u>Totschool</div>
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Job enjoyed a lot of learning through play this week.</div>
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Play dough is always a fun activity for a two year old.</div>
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Job loves trucks, police cars, fire trucks, cranes. So when Mj noticed that there was a crane at the school next door. Job was the first one running into the backyard to check it out. They were putting an air conditioning unit on the roof of the gym so we all had to watch. Job was so excited!!!</div>
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<u>Learning Together</u></div>
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I love our times learning together. We started our Grapevine Bible Studies this week. We talked about the first three days of creation. They love drawing pictures as we read the Scriptures and talk together. I'm loving this program so far.</div>
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On Fridays we watch an episode of <em>What's in the Bible? with Buck Denver</em> and the kids color a coloring page to go with the episode. I love this series to help kids understand why God gave us the Bible. I may sing along with all the songs. What can I say? The Bentley Brothers are my favorite! =)</div>
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We are doing Road Trip USA from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. This week we learned about Delaware. Did you know that the longest suspension bridge in the world is in Delaware. We made our own suspension bridge. It was a great activity on team work and patience. =)</div>
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The awesome thing about homeschooling is letting my kids enjoy being creative and curious! I love watching their imaginations blossom and see them study the things around them without me saying, Hey did you see this. This week, I enjoyed documenting Jadyn's curiosity and creativity.</div>
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We planted some seeds for a butterfly garden several weeks ago. I caught Jadyn and Gabe noticing that there are buds on the plants. They studied them for 15 minutes. Love it!</div>
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Jadyn made a kite out of sticks, yarn, ribbon, and paper. It didn't fly, but it sure was creative.</div>
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That was our week. You can check out other homeschooler's weeks at <a href="http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/weekly-wrap-up-the-one-with-the-first-week-of-school-2015/" target="_blank">Weekly Wrap Up</a>.</div>
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It was a fun and busy week. Here's what we did...</div>
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<u>MJ - 7th Grade</u></div>
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<strong>English:</strong> Mj wrote a book jacket about the book he just finished reading.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Exponents, Square Roots, Orders of Operation</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> Mj finished his chapter on Creation through the Roman Empire</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> Mj is starting a chapter on cells and their structure and functions.</div>
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As soon as his school work is over, you can find him in his room making Lego creations.</div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd Grade</u><br />
<strong>English:</strong> Jadyn learned about fragments and types of sentences this week.<br />
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<strong>Math:</strong> Jadyn kept reviewing addition. We had fun getting our education cubes out this week and rolling an addition equation.<br />
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<strong>Reading:</strong> Jadyn is loving All About Reading. It has been review so far, but the confidence she is gaining is awesome to see!<br />
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<strong>Spelling:</strong> Jadyn is also loving All About Spelling. We got the letter tiles out this week and she loved that. It really is helping her take her time to think about each sound to be able to spell each word. We are doing level 1 for both AAR and AAS.<br />
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> This week we learned about the compass rose and directions. She loved getting maps out and finding what direction different oceans and continents were.<br />
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<strong>Science:</strong> Jadyn is learning about scientific process skills. She observed, measured, predicted, and inferred.<br />
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Jadyn also finished up her swimming lessons and passed level 1. She was pretty excited about it!<br />
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<u>Gabe - Kindergarten</u><br />
<strong>Phonics:</strong> Gabe has learned letters "A" through "G". We took a day to work on writing his name since he has learned all the letters in his name.<br />
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He loved "rainbow tracing" his name.</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> Gabe worked on sequence patterns and reviewed his shapes.</div>
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Working on a sequence pattern at his desk.</div>
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After we had finished school one day, Gabe ran around the house bringing me things and telling me what shape they were. It was so cute!</div>
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While I worked with Jadyn, Gabe could usually be found playing blocks.<br />
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<u>Job - Totschool</u></div>
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With Jadyn's swimming lessons, our school time has been cut short, so Job got to play during school a lot which is the best way for a two-year old to learn anyway! =) He loved the wooden blocks this week.</div>
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On Friday we took a day off from book work, to enjoy the beach with a friend of mine. We got to see some flying fish and learn about them. It was the first time we've ever seen them. The beach never gets old!<br />
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I caught Gabe making letters in the sand! This was his letter "A".</div>
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Well, this week we started our school year. We're trying out schooling year round so we'll be schooling for 6 weeks and then take a week off. My oldest was so pumped today when he realized in 5 weeks he gets a week break! LOL</div>
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Our first activity was coloring our first day of school pages and doing our first day of school interviews. I love seeing them all working together around the table (without fighting ;)) and having fun being creative.<br />
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Job is in Totschool. </div>
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Gabe is in Kindergarten this year. That's hard to believe!</div>
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Jadyn is in 2nd Grade. She's been begging me to start school cause she wants to be a 2nd grader!</div>
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Mj is in 7th grade - Ummmm...... I'm having a hard time with the reality that my boy is in 7th grade!</div>
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Seriously, the days are not easy. But I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to homeschool these crazy kids! I really have just been enjoying them this week, watching them learn, just soaking it all in. They are my mission field. I sometimes struggle with feeling like I'm not doing enough, that being a homeschooling stay at home mom isn't important enough. I see so many other women being used and able to do things that I just can't do because of the stage of life I'm in. I've had people say hurtful things, but you know what?! If I fail these 4 kids, then I've failed at the most important role I could possibly have. So I really have enjoyed this week with my kids and being their mom!<br />
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So here's what our first week of school looked like:</div>
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<strong>English:</strong> I use BJ Press for English and really like how it is set up. So far this has been review for Mj - subjects, predicates, types of sentences, comma splices, fragments, and run-on sentences.</div>
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Job thought he could help MJ with his English. I love when I walk in on moments like this. =)</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> I use BJ Press for Math as well. Lots of review for him, which is good. He tends to be in a hurry when it comes to math so I made sure he was checking his answers and being neat and orderly. He may not have been very happy about it. ;)</div>
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<strong>Literature:</strong> Again, he uses BJ Press for Lit. He read two stories this week. His favorite was about a boy who was scared of the dark and his friend wanted to have a camp out. It was pretty funny!</div>
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<strong>Science:</strong> We are using BJ Press' Life Science this year. The first chapter has been an introduction to what science is, the importance of world view, and why it's vital for Christians to study life science.</div>
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<strong>World Studies:</strong> And, yes, we are using BJ Press for this, too. Mj started looking at Creation through the birth of Christ this week. He's not a big history fan, but he told me that he thought it was interesting.</div>
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<u>Jadyn - 2nd </u>Grade</div>
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Jadyn started every day this week with swimming lessons. </div>
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<strong>English:</strong> We are using... you guessed it... BJ Press. Jadyn loved her first week of English. She learned what a sentence is, that a sentence has a subject and action part, and she learned about telling sentences, commands, and exclamation sentences.</div>
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Can I give a shout out to technology? I love that when Jadyn says, "Mom, please take a picture of my good handwriting and my sentences and show it to daddy" I can take a pic and text it to him! So awesome!</div>
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<strong>Math:</strong> We are using BJ Press for Math. Jadyn reviewed addition.</div>
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<strong>Reading/Phonics: </strong>We are using All About Reading. Jadyn struggles with dyslexia and I had heard some great things about this program so we're trying it out this year. She's using level 1, because I wanted her to feel confident in her reading. So this week has been very easy and she's so excited how easy it has been for her to read!</div>
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Feeding the monster the word bones.</div>
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<strong>Spelling: </strong>We are using All About Spelling. We are using Level 1 and I'm excited to see how this will work. Already, I can see her thinking differently about how to spell and really listening for all the sounds in the words.</div>
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Job had an bathroom emergency, so I asked Mj if he would help Jadyn with her spelling lesson. They had so much fun doing this together! Proud Momma Moment! =)</div>
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<strong>Heritage Studies:</strong> We are using BJ Press. Jadyn learned God creating the world and sin entering into the world. She also learned about cause and effect.</div>
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Jadyn had some spare time on her hands and really has gotten into Legos. She worked a whole afternoon on making a store for her Lego friends. I love watching kids play with Legos and letting their curiosity go wild!</div>
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Working on his calendar notebook. He loves tracing the month and the day of the week.<strong></strong></div>
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<strong>Phonics/Reading:</strong> We are using All About Reading. I'm having Gabe do the pre-reading level. He is a slower learner and so I just want to take my time with him and give him a good solid foundation. No need to rush! =) (You can tell he's my 3rd child and not my 1st. lol - I've learned from previous mistakes!)</div>
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This week we looked at letters A, B, C, & D. We watched a Sesame Street podcast each day for each letter. He loved those.</div>
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He loved the poems in <u>The ZigZag Zebra</u> book.</div>
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Using Ziggy Zebra to help him find the letters we learned in the alphabet magnets.</div>
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Working on making blueberries for his "B" paper.</div>
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Reviewing his letters with the ABC's of God app.</div>
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Gabe really struggled with learning "C" so I had him find all the C's in the rice bin and say it's name and sound.</div>
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He was so proud of himself for find the circle on the book he was reading!</div>
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<u>Job - Totschool</u><br />
With the busyness of swimming lessons, and getting the older ones lessons in, Job got an easy week. He'd rather be playing anyway! He did a lot of coloring with us, though and when I pulled the alphabet magnets out, he wanted to find letters, too.<br />
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We will be doing <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler's</a> Road Trip USA this year. We learned about the regions of the United States and Washington D.C. this week.</div>
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The kids watched a virtual field trip of Washington D.C. on you tube.</div>
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It was shark week this week - a highlight at our house! So most afternoons you could find the kids watching some shark documentary! Their favorite was the Ninja Shark one.</div>
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I love when free time involves Bananagrams and Rummikub! I loved that Gabe started taking out the A's and B's since he had learned them and I didn't even ask him to do it! =)</div>
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<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-53959078890247046402015-07-05T13:51:00.002-07:002015-07-05T13:51:42.269-07:00Fourth of July!We got home yesterday from the Wilds and went right into celebrating our amazing country!
We enjoyed dinner with friends and then fireworks!
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The snakes were fun to watch!</div>
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The kids loved watching the fireworks!</div>
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So much fun!</div>
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Ready to watch the BIG fireworks!</div>
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I love my crazy and silly Gabey!</div>
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Job and Mark were both pretty exhausted, but were still happy to hang out with our friends!</div>
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Brothers!</div>
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Mj helping Zoe with her glow sticks.</div>
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Gabe was saying, "I can't believe this! This is awesome!" LOL</div>
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Love me some fireworks!</div>
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Job wasn't too happy with the loud bangs. He would hide under the blanket and then look out to see the fireworks for a little bit.</div>
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I'm so thankful for America! What a privilege to live in this great country!</div>
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The kids love to have a fun activity surprise each day. One day I got dish soap, water, and bowls out. </div>
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While Mark went on a missions trip to the Dominican Republic, we had our very own exciting stay-cation - Just mommy and the kiddos.</div>
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We explored the Everglades.</div>
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The kids found lots of grasshoppers. I love how Job is getting as close as he can without the grasshopper jumping on him!</div>
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Of course, we saw lots of gators.</div>
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Our Everglades selfie.</div>
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We also visited the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.</div>
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I think one of our favorite trips was to the Science Museum in Fort Lauderdale.</div>
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The kids loved making clouds.</div>
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And the hurricane winds was a blast!</div>
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Gabe liked learning about the digestive system.</div>
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Our science museum selfie.</div>
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We traveled to Key West for a day to visit the aquarium there. They loved petting the sting rays and feeding them.</div>
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Gabe wanted to get as close to the sharks as he could. He loved watching them get fed.</div>
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Crazy kids!</div>
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The touch tank was a favorite, too.</div>
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I love Job's face in this pic!</div>
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We spent a morning swimming at the Mortensen's pool.</div>
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And, or course, we went to the beach for a morning.</div>
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Perfection!</div>
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There has been a lot of reading going on this past month.</div>
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A day at the water park with friends is great summer fun!</div>
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The kids just watched the Box Trolls and had to make their own boxes so they could be box trolls.</div>
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We celebrated Father's Day! My kids have the best daddy!</div>
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Jadyn had fun at her friends princess party.</div>
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They got their nails, hair, and make up done. She's absolutely beautiful!</div>
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Job got hand, foot and mouth disease and was not very happy about it.</div>
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And we just got back from a fun trip taking our youth group and JBCers to the Wilds in North Carolina. Here's our JBC crew!</div>
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JBC on the rock wall!</div>
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Mark and I had so much fun getting to know our friend Jocy better. She came as a sponsor, too and got to surprise her twin brother Javi who is working at the Wilds.</div>
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Javi and Mark playing an intense game of Ping-Pong.</div>
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We met up with our JBCers on Thursday to make sure they were ok and see what they were learning. MJ surprised me with my favorite candy bar. Jack saw me taking a selfie and had to get in, too! =)</div>
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Our JBC kiddos!</div>
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Our teens at Family Reunion.</div>
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Mj's cabin. The coolest part was that he got to room with his friend from PA who was at camp the same week! I'm so glad they got to be together!</div>
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Mj playing one of the games at the Wilds!</div>
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So it's been a great, busy month! Time to get back into the school routine as we start tomorrow. I'm ready for some more normal schedule! =)</div>
<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-46368524740429293762015-06-12T10:31:00.003-07:002015-06-12T10:31:35.146-07:00Happy 7th Birthday Jadyn!I cannot believe Jadyn is 7 years old today!
Time flies and it's exciting and sad all at the same time. Jadyn is our answer to prayer. We prayed for 5 years for a baby. I still remember seeing that positive pregnancy test and falling to the ground shaking and overwhelmed at God's miracle in my life. <br />
Jadyn is quite the personality. From her labor until now she's a stubborn little spit fire, but she is learning how to use that stubbornness for God. She is one of the most creative people I know. I've learned that if she can't get a concept in her learning if we turn it into an art project she'll learn it. She loves bright colors and making a mess in her artistic endeavors. She is a mother-hen to her little brothers and any friends that are younger than her. She has a lot of love in her heart to share with those around her. You can't meet her and not fall in love with her. Seriously, it's impossible! =) <br />
Last night as I was tucking her into bed, I talked with her about the answer to prayer she was in my life and her dad's life. It brought tears to my eyes as I talked to her about the many tears I shed, asking God to give me another baby and then seeing that answer to prayer in her. I told her the struggles I had during that time and that sometimes I would doubt that God could even do the impossible, but God is a God of the impossible and she is a reminder to me every day of God's grace. I went over again with her the importance of her name. Jadyn means "Jehovah has heard" and her middle name is Grace because it is only by God's grace that He allowed us to have our precious princess.<br />
Happy 7th Birthday Jadyn Grace. We love you more than you can imagine! We pray that you will continue to allow God to use you and that you will grow in your relationship with Jesus more this year. He loves you even more than your mommy and daddy do!<br />
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Every year I take a picture of Jadyn in my wedding dress. It's a fun tradition that we both look forward to.</div>
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Today, we had a fun mommy/daughter date to go get her ears pierced! She was so brave - didn't even shed a tear! I told her I have been looking forward to this day since she was born. I have a great memory of my mom taking me to get my ears pierced and now I was able to share that fun experience with my little girl!</div>
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Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-8942667643541016232015-06-02T09:57:00.004-07:002015-06-02T09:57:42.730-07:00Vacation to Bonita Springs & NaplesLast week
we were able to get away and take a vacation to Bonita Springs and Naples. It's so beautiful on the west coast of Florida and it's a nice change from the city life of Miami. We had a relaxing time enjoying the beach and just being a family together without any interruptions. Here's some pics from our week.<br />
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Monday: We went down to Naples and enjoyed one of our favorite beach spots.<br />
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Seriously, even though we live close to the beach we just can't get enough of the beach! We all love it!</div>
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Job getting ready to dig for some buried treasure in the sand.</div>
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My little fish Jadyn, took a break from swimming to dig in the sand.</div>
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Mark and Mj had a blast throwing their wave ball back and forth.</div>
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Taking a pic of our beach hair.</div>
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Learning never stops, and even on vacation we were discovering cool sea creatures that God created. The nine-armed sea star was so cool and we found a lot of them every day! We've never seen them before so it was exciting to discover them. We got to see some that had regenerating arms.</div>
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Jadyn loved catching the sea stars.</div>
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Even Job held one.</div>
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Mj found a cool conch shell.</div>
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Tuesday - We went to Wiggins Beach in Bonita Springs.<br />
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We got to see this turtle enjoying a snack on the side of the road.</div>
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In the afternoon the waves got bigger and the kids had a blast!</div>
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We enjoyed dinner at Chick-fil-a and it was Kids' Day so Jadyn got her face painted as Wonder Woman. She lost a tooth the evening before. Seriously, I think she needs dentures. =)</div>
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Gabe was excited about his snake painting.</div>
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We went down to the pier in Naples. The sunset was beautiful with a storm n the background.</div>
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Rain, Lightning and Thunder in the distance.</div>
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Looking for dolphins.</div>
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We found one.</div>
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This guy was showing off for everyone.</div>
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A pretty good family pic on the Naples' Pier.</div>
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We ended the evening at Rita's.</div>
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I love Rita's. We only get it when we go to Naples since they don't have them in Miami.</div>
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Wednesday - We went back to Wiggins beach for the day.</div>
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My book worm enjoying the shade of our tent.</div>
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Exploring.</div>
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Job being his silly, silly self.</div>
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Mark found a sand dollar.</div>
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My explorers looking for sand dollars and sea slugs.</div>
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Big clam shells they found snorkeling.</div>
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Surf's Up Dude!</div>
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Sand Ball.</div>
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I was laughing so hard at this picture. The kids were trying to sit on their boogie boards, but the boards would fly out from under them. I caught this shot at a funny spot.</div>
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I love watching them enjoy the beach.</div>
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We went to a nice park before dinner.</div>
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This park was a lot of fun.</div>
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Cool drinking fountain.</div>
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Scooters, Fountain, Red Cheeks - Fun at the park.</div>
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Dinner and dessert at Sweet Tomatoes.</div>
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Thursday - We found a cool water park that we all enjoyed!<br />
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Mj trying to make it the whole way across.</div>
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Gabe & Job loved this water slide.</div>
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Silly brothers.</div>
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His face says it all! They had so much fun!</div>
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Friday - Before we left to head back to Miami, we went to a park to let the kids get some energy off before the car ride home.<br />
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Job loved this digging area.</div>
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Gabe climbing the rocks.</div>
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The nature trail was cool.</div>
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Enjoying a walk.</div>
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We had a fun vacation. So thankful for our time together.Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-46597020739452019422015-06-02T09:39:00.000-07:002015-06-02T09:39:03.121-07:00We Finished Our School Year (A Couple of Weeks Ago)Guess what? Yep, I got behind again.
The end of the school year got completely crazy and I got behind on my blog. But we did finish our school year and are looking forward to several weeks off before we being in July. <br />
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We had a promotion day at Co-op to celebrate the end of the school year.<br />
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Gabe finished preschool and will be in Kindergarten! (That is crazy! How is he old enough for Kindergarten. He's so excited though and prays about his school books every night!)
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Jadyn finished 1st grade.</div>
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Mj finished 6th grade.</div>
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Officially done!</div>
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The kids also finished their Awana programs for the year. Job loved Puggles this year!</div>
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Jadyn finished book 2 in Sparks.</div>
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Mj received the Timothy award for finishing his 4th TNT book!</div>
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Gabe finished his 2nd Cubbie book. I'm so sad he will be moving out of Cubbies. At least I'll still have Job in Puggles. =)</div>
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The last time they will be in Cubbies and Puggles together.</div>
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The last time the 4 of them will be in Awana together. Mj moves up to Youth Group next year.</div>
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After the school year was finished I went into OCD Spring Cleaning mode. Thankful for my little helpers even though they sometimes made the work take longer. ;)</div>
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My kitchen looked amazing as did the rest of my house!</div>
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Can I just say that the past month and a half has been absolutely crazy. Here's what's been going on....<br />
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The end of March, I ended up with what we thought was the flu. A trip to the ER, we discovered it was not the flu, but a virus. I was sick for about 2 weeks.
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The day I finally started feeling better, MJ & Jadyn had their Enrichment Showcase for their classes they've been taking at LIGHT. Jadyn was a beautiful ballerina and MJ did great with his Tae Kwon Do and we got to finally see his finished project from his Stop-Motion Animation class. (My husband started feeling sick on this night - keep reading...)<br />
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We enjoyed counting down to Easter Sunday using <em>Sense of the Resurrection</em>.</div>
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My husband had to miss Easter Sunday service because he was sick, but these four were feeling great and we so excited to celebrate our risen Savior.</div>
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A couple days after Easter, my husband ended up in the ER with a very sore throat that was getting worse. Come to find out he had an abscess on his tonsil and had to be admitted to the hospital. We are so thankful we got to the hospital when we did and for the doctors who took good care of my husband.<br />
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We got to take a field trip with our Co-op to the fire station.</div>
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Job was in awe of the fire truck and fire fighters.</div>
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We thought our sickness was finally over, but then Mj & Job got the stomach bug right after my husband starting feeling better. We seriously had someone sick for 5 straight weeks. I wanted to cry at times.</div>
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The one day that Mj was sick, I decided to take my princess to see Cinderella. Such a good movie!!!!</div>
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We did get some school in during the 5 weeks of sickness. Mj learned about genes and DNA. We actually extracted some of his own DNA. I love when a science experiment works! =)</div>
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We got a surprise - Uncle Jonny came for a couple of days from NYC. The kids love spending time with him and we had a blast!</div>
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We took a beach day while Uncle Jonny was here! I love living close to the beach.</div>
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We're starting to finish up some of our curriculum, which is a great feeling!</div>
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And our new curriculum is starting to arrive. I can't believe that Gabe is going to be in Kindergarten! He has been looking at his "teaching" books every day!</div>
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I love to see the progress the kids have made this year. This is Jadyn's handwriting of her name. She writes her full name on the first of every month. </div>
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Jadyn has been learning about gravity. Job wanted to get in on the fun, too.</div>
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It's been beautiful here in Miami, and we are enjoying the unusual cool weather for a day or two.</div>
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So that is very quickly what has been going on around here. We're thankful for healthy and that we have 2 more weeks of school left for the school year! It will be nice to have a break and get my house clean again! LOL I feel like the house work has fallen behind and I'm looking forward to do some spring cleaning that first week off of school.Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-35414037403619931742015-03-21T11:53:00.002-07:002015-03-21T11:53:23.668-07:00A Great Week!<div align="center">
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This week was great! The kids were really cooperative, school wasn't a "chore", we had some fun activities. It was the best week we've had in a long time. </div>
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We started our school week at the beach! Maybe that's why our week went so well! ;) One of my favorite things about living in Miami is going to the beach. This was the first we had been to the beach in a couple of months, because believe it or not the days we would plan to go to the beach would be cold (I'm talking in the 70s - and yes, that is cold to us in South Florida ;))</div>
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Mj has been working really hard. He's learning about the space shuttle and International Space Staton. We had a lot of fun looking up youtube videos about exercising in space, sleeping in space, eating in space. Lots of fun learning going on! </div>
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Mj also finished up learning about ancient Rome. We both loved the Drive Through History videos on ancient Rome.</div>
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Mj's been working on measurement in math and adjectives & adverbs in English.</div>
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Jadyn has been writing books. I love to watch her trying to spell words all on her own and she has been reading a lot more. </div>
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In heritage studies she started learning about Jamestown. She thinks it's pretty cool that I've been there.</div>
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In science she's learning about the sun, moon, and stars. One day we got some Oreos out and learned the phases of the moon. I won mom of the year on that day! ;)</div>
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Gabe has been learning about the letter "T". He loves to sing his "T" song. </div>
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Job has been working on his colors. He loves sort his cars by color. </div>
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This week we started watching a live Eagle cam. My kids are addicted. We leave the Ipad on the counter and they check on the momma eagle throughout the day. They've gotten to see both the mom and dad at least once a day. We are anxiously waiting for the 2 eggs to hatch! </div>
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On Friday to celebrate the first day of spring, we bought some flowers and planted some seeds. We talked about what seeds and plants need to grow. It was a messy and fun activity to do together!</div>
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We started our fair experience watching the high divers.</div>
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They were very fun to watch!</div>
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Jadyn & Gabe got their pictures with 2 of the high divers.</div>
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Jadyn and Gabe were so excited to find their artwork they entered for the craft exhibits had both one first place! Their pictures are the Egyptian pyramids behind them. (We looked all over for Mj's project but couldn't find it. We'll look again when we go to the fair again in a week or so)</div>
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We were glad to go to the fair with our friends Ali & Zoe. They loved the fire truck.</div>
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Cute tomatoes.</div>
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Mj and I checking out the fun stuff at the fair. Ummm... he is seriously almost as tall as me!</div>
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Gabe loved the butterfly exhibit. This butterfly stayed with him the whole time.</div>
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Hello camel!</div>
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Job loves animals! He loved mooing at the cow.</div>
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Fun with friends at the fair!</div>
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<br />Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266498030805061509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3989917791142675050.post-20433533082343024502015-03-13T16:19:00.000-07:002015-03-13T16:19:03.241-07:00I'm So Behind!I've gotten so far behind on my blogging. My blogging has taken a back seat the past couple of weeks since life has just been... well... busy! Here's some pics of what we've been up to. Learning is going on. Flexibility has been going on. I have to remind myself that when my day doesn't go as planned, it's ok! The kids are learning life lessons and life skills and homeschool is not just about learning from a book!<br />
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Mj and Jadyn learned about Greece for their co-op's geography fair. They did a great job on their presentation!
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We've had a blast at the zoo. Right now the zoo has dinosaur exhibits throughout and the kids are loving learning about the different dinosaurs!</div>
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Gabe loves the ABC's of God app.</div>
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Most days you can find Job either playing cars or playing balls. He's a man on the move. He seriously only stops to sleep at night. He's even given up his afternoon nap! =(</div>
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Gabe has really gotten into Legos and I'm thankful that Mj's such a great big brother and helps Gabe put his sets together!</div>
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Mj & Jadyn competed in the Awana games a couple of weeks ago. It was Mj's last Awana games so it was the last time they'll be competing together. They did great! I was so proud of them!</div>
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Gabe loves different kinds of puzzles.</div>
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We've had some fun learning about frogs and this frog has been hanging out on our back porch. I love that they can get up close and personal to all the fun wild life in our own backyard.</div>
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So that was a very quick summary of what we've been doing. I've started working on getting next years curriculum and I have decided that next year we will homeschool year round. I'm really excited about it. I think it will be a great fit for us. </div>
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