A lot of the pictures below are from my cell..via facebook so they are BIG or slightly distorted..I apologize!

 

I am working on getting myself blogging at least once a week now.. I need a new point and shoot camera.. the DSLR is great..but too big for when we hike and such.

 

We are going back to Disney in the fall.. can not wait!!

 

The kids are taking their end of the year test in 2 weeks!! Thats exciting and nerve wracking at the same time. Ziah has caught up reading wise but is still “behind” in math.. taejan..well he’s still Taejan and “behind” in everything.. it is what it is..lol

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Well hello there.. not sure if anyone is reading.. why would you it’s not like I post often. I am going to try hard to update this site more..I promise!

So I’m going to skip a huge catch up post.. no point..it’s been too long since I posted much! I will start with September. We did nOT start school like the rest of the world..instead we took a 3 week vacation:

No long trip report this year..I wrote one.. it’s on the message boards I go to WDWmagic

The rest are not in any particular order..but all occurred in the last 2.5 week..lol.

Taejan is back using reading eggs and progressing nicely!

it’s sometimes frustrating for him as you can see:

We have been using our stash of educational games a lot.. almost daily.. it’s a nice break from book work but continues the learning:

We went apple picking with some friends who are new homeschoolers:

We took a field trip to Yankee Candle ( complete with a tire blow out on the side of the road and 2.5 hours of waiting there for it to be fixed..good times!)

after my kids wrote their letters to Santa I saw this tacked up..too funny!

We went on a field trip with a few families to a local farm.. we got to pick pumpkins, go on a hay ride and play:

So far our year has been stellar.. the kids are easier,more independent and Taejan has really calmed down..

Taejan has been helping me cook..often..here he is making meatloaf:

He has some pencil grip issues so we got these awesome helpers and they have made a world of difference:

He has taken 4 tests/quizzes thus far..scoring 100% on each!

We are going thru a quick US History review and when we learned about the voyages across the sea we made Ship Biscuits like the people on the ships would have eaten:

Here’s Ziah practicing her times tables:

and all 3 working on some science:

Taejan using our old Math U See blocks and a quickly made “number street” to learn about place value..it finally clicked with him!

Declan using my iphone to do some work..I love the apps..they are making my year so much more productive!

In an effort to help Ziah’s reading we went back to basics.. she’s doing Learning Language Arts Through Literature Red book… she’s flying through it.. and here she is doing some ABC order:

Declan has taken his big brother role much more serious and does a review of our History with Taejan:

We got this new game The Reading Game and it’s awesome in helping with sight words..Ziah is reading one of the books:

Declan doing some reading comp:

Math for 2:

and for one:

Our behavior chart..life saver.. has totally helped our days ( and nights).. so glad we took this step!

more science:

Another learning app:

and math..lol

a nice craft:

Physics:

So we are all caught up now!

We are very busy wrapping up summer, getting ready for our actual vacation and then , of course, getting school stuff ready. Anyone actually reading this? I want to get back blogging but not if I am blogging for the wind!