Weeks 2 & 3

We have been home schooling! I promise! It's just been so busy around here with vacations and a family reunion. We're all back home and in our normal routine again and it's nice. I missed my kids over vacation. Yes, we were all together. We spent a week in Nauvoo, IL and visited my sis in St. Louis, then had my family reunion at my house (eek!). It was a shuffle along here and lets go over there, and here, play with your cousins! type of thing. I didn't get to read to my kids or help them with their school work. Home schooling lets us really be together and talk and have quality time learning and enjoying each other. I love it.

Anywho... the fun parts of week 2 & 3 are the pillows that we made and when we studied bats. The girls enjoy reading Paddle to the Sea. We don't do any map work with it at this age. We just talk about it. I'll occasionally pull up pictures on the internet to explain locations. My big map of the USA is packed away at the moment. I need to pull it back out and hang it up again.

We also just read the first story in James Herriot's Treasury for Children. I knew they would love it.

We're studying New Testament at the moment. They've memorized John 3:16 and James 1:5 so far. Savannah is learning the hymn "How Firm a Foundation", "I Lived in Heaven", and she has already memorized the poem "Turtle Soup" by Lewis Carrol.

Charlotte is learning "Teach me to Walk in the Light", "A Child's Prayer", and the poem "Beautiful" which is found in The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett. I love that book, by the way. It contains every worthwhile story, poem, and saying of moral value. Awesome.

She put fish and butterflies as food that bats eat. I corrected her, but I thought it was cute. She also named her bat Sara. I think it meant the technical name of bats, but at this age, who cares. We watched a great video on Youtube about bats, but I can't remember which one it was now.


"We're just a pillow-making family!" -Savannah
They did great. I showed them how to sew the first pillow. Charlotte was satisfied with just one. Savannah went on and made a few more by herself. I was impressed! They now know as much about sewing as I do! (I know, sad).