The pictures above: the top picture is our little K, age 2 and quite spunky - she was "helping" with our world cake for ECC - Exploring Countries and Cultures. The beauty in the middle is our dd A - 12 1/2 and so very helpful with the little's (we also have a 4 year old), preparing meals, shopping and entertaining the littles. The other beauty is my mom. I was so thankful she was at our home this day, she helped get A started on her world cake. The middle picture is A taking charge of the decorating. The last picture, obviously our finished "world cake". A fun and delicious activity! I plan to take some more pictures of what she's done, but realized after looking, this is the only one we have! We're still working on making this curriculum work for us. We love My Father's World, but A is not a worksheet kind of kid.. at all! So recently I've been trying to give her more creative ways of covering the geography material that includes a lot of worksheets. She is supposed to be make a sugar cookie of Europe and decorating to show the bodies of water. I need to look around for some ideas too. We've worked out science. Instead of using the Apologia General Science (she looked it over and was not at all interested - which I figured) I have had her choosing an animal or two from each country and create lap/notebook pages. In addition to that, I get out a bunch of books on the other science topics listed: deserts, rain forest, forests, lakes and ponds etc. She has to read those books along with doing some of her own research. She is currently researching lakes and ponds and enjoying learning about them very much!
Our oldest is N and he is a 9th grader doing AHL Ancient History and Literature. He's been quite a challenge lately to educate! He doesn't mind what he has to read, but does not like "wasting time" doing things like - science experiments for Biology! I have recently began a new "schedule" for him. He has made some comments about going back to public school, which I know he really does not want to do - he's gotten quite comfortable with having light work on Friday's and beginning his weekend early. That said, I needed a way of keeping better track of what he's doing and the time he's spending. I found that he was rushing through his assignments, doing them very poorly just to get done. So I implemented a "period time schedule". Basically he's now having to spend 40 minutes in each "class(period)". I make sure he has 8 per day. We've got some scheduling change to make. Here in our state, they have to take art or music. So, I started him on the clarinet. Why? because I got one practically for free and we still had the cd on learning how to play it from when he was in public school. He's not like that choice. I'm going to explore some other options for him to try. He enjoys drawing little cartoon type characters so I'm going to see what I can get form the library for him to try out. He's a very bright young man and needs to be challenged, but he also needs to apply himself. We're still working on some heart issues with him. I know he's had a good foundation in the Lord, even though he did attend public school. So, the roots are there!
Our two little ones, whom I refer to as "the littles" are very busy and keep my going all day long! As I stated above I do a preschool with them, but not MFW. I'm excited however, to say, in the fall, little J, who will be 5 in October, will be starting MFW Kindergarten! YEAH!!! I'm excited about it. I'm planning on moving slowly through it though. I don't want to rush him. We'll see how it goes! The Lord is helping me with making the plans for our current school days. I'm going to be adding much more about that and photos too! I hope you've enjoyed reading this very long post! God Bless!
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