Trucking Along

I have to say, we are LOVING our Hearts of Dakota Creation to Christ studies!  I don't feel as if I am dragging the kids along.  I am not falling asleep while reading to the children, which, by the way, makes it hard to tell them they have to pay attention!  And I feel as if each week we come away with some thing.  We create some kind of tangible item that shows what we learned. 

Memorizing poetry:  Kids hated it.  I forced them.  They refused.  I yelled.  They still did not memorize.  I WILL hear Robert Frost's Road Not Taken from two unnamed children!

Nature Study:  making Valentines for the Birds

Just hanging out

Looking for Gall Dwellers

Picking apart a flower

This week I upgraded our family calendar from the laminated poster that we tacked to the wall to this much more beautiful version.

Week 16

We are back to our regular schedule!  We have finally had a full week of school and we were actually fairly productive.  We read about Nineveh this week and Mason is in the process of writing a short research paper on the subject.  We learned about King Nebuchadnezzer and Daniel.  Brady started his business math, opening a sports store, and he is in the process of ordering his inventory and multiplying it all out to find how much it's going to cost him. (not for real, just on paper!)


Hailey read:  Sam is mad at me.  She is loving learning to read and is picking it up quite quickly.
Tyler seems to be picking up new words like crazy. 



1. 5th in class  2.  3rd in class  3.  Answering questions for the Judge

4.  Artwork for the show 5.  Fossil?  6.  Cookie statue of King Nebuchadnezzer's dream.

This was Fun...

http://www.fallacydetective.com/mystery-of-the-missing-mask/

Christmas and New Year's

Christmas was great!  We celebrated with the Green's on Christmas Eve and the Morrison's on Christmas Day.  Next year we will switch.  We had a great time with both families. 

Legos -- a new hobby

Can't go wrong with pics of the kids!

The new coat he's been wanting

a phone!?!

Balls

Even the dog was happy!

The annual retelling of the Christmas Story

The day after Christmas we left at 5:00 am for Ruidoso, NM to go skiing with two other couples and had a blast!

Then on to visit family in Alamogordo, NM.  We got to ring in the New Year a different way than we usually do

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