Life Science: Plants, has now been moved outside. It's been fun to have a living classroom! The boys finally got to transplant the seedlings we grew inside to the outdoors.
Then they got to work on planting the rest of the garden. We planted corn, pumpkins, yellow beans, tomatoes, carrots, peas, lettuce, and cucumbers. It was a lot of work, even for a little garden like ours.
We got this purple pepper, compliments of Sage Garden from a local craft show called Third+Bird. We planted it out in the garden as well.
Our neighbour gave us some Hostas. We split and transplanted them from her yard into ours. These babies cost almost $10 to buy just one in the store. We transplanted 4 of them.
In Social Studies we learned about the Canadian mail system and how mail gets from one person to another.
Reading practice... Detective stories are always a hit.
A little history... The story of the Titanic from the perspective of former passengers.
Our block clock. Micaiah was learning to tell time.
Abishai finished his spelling, level 1. I even learned some new spelling rules that I didn't learn in school or at least I don't remember learning.
Micaiah having quiet time in the foyer of our house.
Our Tonka Trucks and gravel pit area. I've cleaned up this area quite a bit since taking this picture and layed down some new pea gravel for the boys. It has a fresher, cleaner look now.
Sprinkler time!
Drying off!
Nature walk.
You can't deprive a boy of his desire to climb!
Baseball! I can't believe we can actually play baseball in our yard! I am so thankful to God for this. The main reason we chose to move in the first place was to find a yard big enough for our high energy boys to run around in.
Date night with this little handsome son of mine.
Taking a moment to relax with little Gilead. Gotta love my orange garden boots!
This smiley face keeps me company in the garden.
I've been slowing down with my blogging lately. Since spring has arrived, my work load has doubled. Not only do I have homeschooling, house work, meals to prep and 4 children to care for, but now I have yard work and gardening to add to the list as well. Do you know how hard it is to get yard work done with 4 children at your heels? Almost impossible. Now don't get me wrong, I love doing yard work! Yes, I really do. I love mowing the grass, digging my fingers in the dirt (no gloves here), planting and pulling weeds. I have vision and goals, but never the time to do it! It took me weeks to get a small garden ready for planting (which is still not planted) and from my perspective and probably most everyone else's as well, it still looks like I haven't worked on it! Five minutes after I get out there to work, I find myself stopping to attend to a crying baby, or siblings that are fighting, or helping someone put their shoes on after trampolining or to turn around to who ever is asking me to "Look at me Mommy! Look what I can do!" It's non-stop. How I accomplish anything at all often puzzles me. Anyways, that's my rant on why my blogging has slowed down.
Here's some of what we've been up to over the last couple of weeks in addition to all those things.
Garage sales! A quick bite to eat in between houses.
Mother's Day celebrations!
Spring walks.
A new spelling program! Which we love and are almost done! Abishai has grown leaps and bounds because of this program. It's called All About Spelling.
Our spelling box.
Swimming lessons!
My dad helping to put in a rain barrel to water my garden.
Trampolining with their cousin.
Social Studies: learning about their neighbourhood.
The boys mapping their neighbourhood.
Reading practice about Christopher Columbus and tracking his journey on the globe.
Picnics with fellow homeschooling friends.
Bike rides through local forests.
Riding at the skate park.
