We're DONE!!!!!!

Wow. It feels so good to be DONE with 1A!! I just can't believe we got here. I know you are laughing at me, but it just feels so good to see that we are doing SOW the way it was meant to be done!! We'll be taking these last two weeks before Christmas off to do a few crafts and we'll use Simple Homeschool's Christmas school stuff probably too. Can you believe it's Christmas time? Wow! Time is sure moving fast.

Recap of 1A12...

Let's see, we learned about Joseph as I mentioned in the last post. My son did the creative writing assignment, which was really neat to see. He wrote a letter to a man named Bob about why he was in prison & what it was like.

Here it is:

Dear Bob,

I am in because I told Saul about God. The prison is very old. I get a roll, potato, greens & plenty of water. My body hurts the way I sleep. God is helping me though.

Write back.

Love, Superkid

P.S. Here is a verse that helped me. Psalm 55:17 - Evening and morning and noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.

Cute wasn't it? I thought so. There were a few misspelled words and several non capitalized sentences or missing punctuation marks, but we worked through those. I didn't think he did too bad though. ;o)

Anyway, this past month was a little rough on time and resources, so we weren't able to do the field trips and experiments like I wanted. Oh well. I have a few pictures I'd like to post, but it's just not happening. We did get a new camera, but now I am having issues with the USB ports on my laptop. Sorry guys!

Oh, we watched a video about the moon that we got from the library. We did chart the moons phases & quizzed ourselves on them. Also, we have been charting what the moon looks like this month. This month it is hard to remember to look at the moon though, since there are so many other things on our mind! Maybe I should post the calendar page up by their bed so that they remember before they go to sleep.

Well, I guess that's it. I'll see you next year!

(Unless of course we do something really fun in the meantime that I just have to share...)

First day of 1A12

We had such a nice week off. It felt like a month! It was so refreshing to have NO SCHOOL at all. ;o) Lots of playing, enjoying life & hanging out with Super Dad. Eventhough we have our "light days," I think we still get a little burnt out. It felt really good to just relax and be Mom again.

This week we're hitting the books again though.

We started today by reading our scripture & that took MUCH longer than I expected. Thankfully I didn't read it. I planned on using the audio bible I mentioned in the last post, but it wasn't working for some reason. So I did a search and found the audio gateway bible. That worked ok, but it was kind of slow. The other bible we have used tends to talk faster so it doesn't take as long. It took hours (ok, I don't know how long exactly but it felt like a long time since we had to start and stop in between so many times because of interruptions.) While we were listening we would stop it also to make sure that everyone was following and to write our notes about the outline. That's what we usually do, then pick the most important 4 to draw. So, we did that.

AND...that's all we got done.
Yep.

Ok, Superkid did some independent work too, but the reading alone took so long that I just said, "Let's put away our school books & go play outside!"

I am so thankful for these precious times I have to enjoy my children. That I am able to slow down and enjoy the quiet moments and the not so quiet ones as well. LOL!