Exciting New Edition

Well we have had an exciting couple of weeks with the arrival of Lil T, that's right he arrived August 26 and is the cutest, sweetest little guy. We just love him ❤️ 

Proud Mommy and Daddy

Sweet little baby T 

I am so happy and excited for all the fun times yet to come. We already love spending time with him. 

New nick names😃

So after some thought I have decided to change my boys blog nicknames. 

Trucker will now be referred to as TJ 

Jag will stay Jag

Gamer will be Guy

Sweetie is still Sweetie ( TJ's wife)

And Daddo is still Daddo ( my Hubby)

I felt like I was labeling my boys with their nicknames and my oldest keeps switching jobs 😃 So there we have it.

From left to right Jag , Guy, TJ my boys

TJ and Sweetie and my soon to be born grand son Lil' T 

Daddo and I 😃

Wrapping Up Our 2nd week of School

As we wrap up our 2nd week of school, I can look back and say wow we have got a good start! 

Playing basketball for P.E. 

We are loving Science

And we are loving Wednesday's as our extras day. Gamer has picked Spanish for an elective this year and so far it's been great. 

We have had our ups and our downs, I can see where I need to do some tweaking and can see where it works as is. We have had mostly great days, and a couple of not so good days. That's ok because I know each day is a new start! And I wouldn't change it for anything! 

I have my planner filled out until October and we are going to try and follow it. We really need the structure right now, coming off of summer break. 

Well hope you have had a good start if you have started school, and if you haven't then I hope you have a good start when you do start back. 

Gearing up For the 2015-2016 Homeschooling year

So for us summer is coming to an end. We start school on August 3. So what has this mama been doing? Planning, planning, planning😃 Before School ended last year I was lucky enough to be able to order our books for this school year. So I was able to plan for the next school year before our fifth-grade year was over. I was excited and planned my little heart away ,I had a new planner book and just stuffed our days full. Now as I am looking over it, I see I forgotten to plan for a few things. Like we like to do hymn study, art and art study, typing, Journal, and this year I really want to incorporate nature study with Gamer. So I decided to take one day and make it a day full of enrichment activities like these.

Before

After

I chose Wednesdays for this day. 

We can't wait to try out our new schedule. ( ok I am probably a little more excited than Gamer is😉)

Of course we will incorporate some TV days, and a field trip or two if we can.

Staycation Fun

Hello hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July🇺🇸 We sure have 😃 My husband took off most of the week and we have had lots of fun on our staycation. We have went to antique shops, an Artist Colony that had tons of cool shops, we have went swimming, and worked together as a family. We have watched movies and just hung out. It has been great to spend time with my family. For the forth we went to Trucker and Sweeties house for a cook out , volleyball and ladder ball and of course shoot off fireworks. 

Sweetie, Gamer and Daddo watching Fireworks

Trucker lighting off fireworks

God bless you always😃❤️

Reading at The Griffiths Academy

Reading, Literature and Poetry are all part of our homeschooling too. But I didn't really have a set curriculum for them.

I have found a ton of great books at thrift stores, Half Price books and have even bought some online. So for reading I have assigned reading, were I pick a book for him to read. Usually a chapter book that I know he will enjoy reading. He has read The Hardy Boys, Star Wars, The Bridge to Terabitha (although he really did not like it so we switched to something else) and he has free reading where he gets to pick out his own book to read. These have been Diary of a Wimpy kid, Lego stories etc. Right now he is reading a Biography on Albert Einstein for assigned reading and The Strange Case of Origami Yoda for his free read.

For Literature we read together. We have read Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robertson, A Christmas Carol, Chronicles of Narnia, Shakespeare and more. We are currently reading Little Pilgrims Progress. We enjoy our reading time together. And I plan on doing this until he no longer wants me to or he graduates.

For poetry we read poetry together and talk about it briefly.

We have recently started using Easy Peasy all in one Homeschool for extra reading and are enjoying it. So far we are reading through poetry and answering questions about it. We are using level 5 Reading. I don't know if we will use it all year but we just might!

http://allinonehomeschool.com/     - Easy Peasy