Holidays & Homeschooling

Things seem to be really crazy. I'm just running around all over the place we get some subjects done somedays and somedays we just don't. The cool thing is that it's okay because we have plenty of time to make it up later on, we get out of school at the end of the year later than others. We just make getting ready for the holidays part of homeschooling, baking and house cleaning and learning what real life is about. Not just 1 Plus 1 equals 2 or how to spell holiday it's about learning what the holiday means to the family, to friends & to ourselves.  Hope your days are filled with loved ones and lots of Christmas Cheer. Christmas Carols are playing and decorating is happening! Baking at end of week. Simple Cookies is all we have this year which is hard cause we love baking all types of cookies. But taking what we have and are blessed we have it!!

Liberty Kids

  Hailey has a hunger for history. Her favorite President is Abraham Lincoln. We got a great deal on Amazon and got the full series of Liberty Kids for $5. So each day we watch one episode and then after that episode is over we have a discussion on what took place. When they talk about something that she recognizes she just lights up in excitement with knowledge.

  Watching White House Down last weekend and listening to the daughter on it, I saw that being Hailey when she's a little older. I just need to keep feeding her with knowledge. This is another amazing thing about homeschooling.  We get more time to feed what they love not just what's required.

We Got it!!

Wow so she fought me almost daily to do any math. As math has always been a natural for me, it was driving me crazy. She wouldn't even try. If you asked her out load she would tell you with no hesitation. But to do any written or advancincing work she would shut down. So I changed up how and what we do. And now we do skip counting with CC and we do drill worksheets broken up and she is now flying through it. Still looking at mammoth math to see if that will work. But she was even excited that something that had taken her an hr to do half of took her only 9 minutes to do today. Yeah so happy for her (& me hehe).

Another Great thing about homeschooling

So made pumpkin butter overnight and had too much cinnamon in it so had to run to the store really quick and grab some organic pumpkin. So when I was at the store I noticed that roast were on sale so decided to grab a roast and some vegetables to make my family dinner and since I don't eat meat then I had to make me something for dinner too which ended up being Black Eyed Peas with vegetables in it. So getting a super late start to our homeschool day, the wonderful thing about that is now I don't have to stop early to prepared dinner as dinner will be ready whenever we're ready. Hailey got to enjoy her organic carrot snack while I was putting everything together so she was happy. :-)

Some of our favorite Homeschool moments

Random stop for a song & dance break.

We call this music class.  :-)

<3 my daughters heart for music!

A bit behind.

So this year has been a bit all over the place. With Second grade we came into new adventures.

Hailey didn't enjoy Math at all so we have been looking everywhere to find a math program for her. Right now we are kinda all over the place looking for one still while we test them with her and just having her working in any math direction I can each day.

Time for Learning was no longer working for us so we had to move on.

Then we tried Easy Peasy. Which was ok but just didn't reach the levels of learning we wanted to reach.

So now we are in SchoolHouseTeachers.com and we really are enjoying it.

We are still dealing with Hailey's migraines often. So some days our breaks are longer and some things we teach with a video we can watch laying down.

She still attends the HSA and loves it. She has made some good friends. And they are at church as well so she see's them a few times a week.

Spelling City

I am so excited to be reviewing Spelling City. Hailey has had a good start to spelling words but we are always looking for new words. And this website has some amazing list that we often don't think about. Like States, Capitals, Compound Words, but a lot more then those we forget about Math & Science lists. This website offers those and many more. They also have games to encourage learning, as well. Can't wait to start and give you a more in-depth review.

www.spellingcity.com


Have a wonderful day!