New Blog

I started an awesome blog all about homeschooling. I love homeschooling my kids and it's been very therapeutic for me to keep a record of our activities and all my thoughts on the subject. If you're interested it can be found HERE!

Asa's Visit

 Brad and Asa got up early to go deep sea fishing. They caught lots of fish!

 Several Harbor Seals ate up all the fish guts while they were being cleaned for us to take home.

 Then we went to Redding

 And Lassen Volcanic Park

 
We did the Paradise Meadows Hike

We took Asa to the sun dial bridge and splashed in the river a bit.

The next day we ate AMAZING breakfast at Deja Vu and sent Asa off to the airport. On our way home we stopped for a swim in Whiskeytown.

We also stopped in Willow Creek at the Big Foot Museum

Family Visits

 The first night Meg and Joe got into town we whisked them away to dinner and a show. We got to see the Watkins Family Hour which was great. They are such good performers and afterwards I got to meet Sara!

 The next day we drove through Avenue of the Giants and met up with Asa.

Then on Wednesday we met up for waffles and went to the zoo! Also, no one in this family can get enough of Mr. Miles!

Then we went to Fern Canyon:

 

 

Ruthie

Ruth has been learning a bit about sewing during our weekly sewing group. Sister Smith has been patient enough to sit with Ruth and help her do things by hand and on the machine. She's also been showing lots of interest in cooking. Last weekend she and Brad made AMAZING gourmet burgers...she even made onion rings (from scratch) to put on the burger!

Summer School Completion!

 Reward time! They finished their entire summer schooling 2.5 weeks before the due date. I'm really proud of all the work they did and the progress they've made. Ruth has read over 40 chapter books including "Phantom Tollbooth" (her favorite book so far), "Matilda," "A Little Princess," and "Alice in Wonderland." She also finished second grade math, most of which was review, but included beginning multiplication!

Will also worked hard, but had much less work to accomplish since he's just beginning kindergarten this year. His great improvement was in reading. He is much more confident in sounding words out and is remembering more sight words. But he definitely LOVES math and puzzles. Reading is hard work for him but math comes very easily to him. He mastered writing all the numbers and can add and subtract two digit from one digit.

They also both finished their pre-test on Let's Go Learn for the new school year. I am anxiously awaiting their results so we know what we need to focus on this year. But I know they both did well, although they both answered a few questions wrong that I knew they knew the answer to, oh well!