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A little bit of this and little bit of that…

I haven’t really got back into the swing of blogging yet! So here is a bit of a catch up post. :)

I had a lovely day for Mother’s day - with breakfast and presents in bed, and then lunch with Robyn’s family. This is one of the presents I got:

gardening book

I know I will be using it a lot. I also got a few other bits and pieces, including some yummy chocolate!

This weekend we went to my parents’ place to see my sister and her family one more time before they headed home to outback Australia. My Dad had built my nieces and nephew a cute cubby house from bits of wood and cardboard boxes:

cubby1
cubby2

Isn’t it too cute?! Even our older kids loved it. They played in it for hours while us big people had cuppas and chatted. Saying goodbye was sad as we probably won’t see each other for another few years, but we were glad we got to have this extra afternoon together.

Dad sent us home with some more pumpkins, so I really need to get my big pot out and make a big batch of soup! :)

I did a lot of school planning last week. I mostly worked on Science and History schedules. Daniel is doing Apologia’s General Science and there is a lot to get through. I split up the chapters into days and made a simple checklist for him. It is a pretty full schedule, but so far it is ok. Here is this week’s if you’d like to see it:

Apologia General Science Module 3 Checklist

I found a complete schedule for this textbook (and others in the Apologia series) at Donna Young’s website. She has done a fantastic job in putting these schedules together and other resources too. They are free and great to use if you don’t want to make your own.

I also did a schedule for Daniel and Elizabeth for History. We are on Chapter 14 of The Story of the World, Middle Ages. I typed up the review questions from the student workbook with lines underneath them for answers for Daniel. For Elizabeth I typed up some copywork for her to copy onto notebooking pages. I would post these as well, but I am not sure about copyright laws, so I’d better not.

And that about sums up what’s been happening around here….. I’m slowly getting around to everyone’s blogs again and popping in to say hi! :) It’s nice to be back in blogland.

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3 Responses to “A little bit of this and little bit of that…”

  1. Wendy Clark Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Hey Joy! So glad you are back. I was checking and was happy to see you.

    We have been doing Apologia’s Botany for the last couple of weeks and I love it! I have learned so much and hopefully the kids have also.

    We still don’t have our garden planted. We are very late, but it has been very rainy and wet. Unlike last year when we had the opposite problem.

    I’ll be checking in with you. Wendy Clark

  2. jam Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 9:06 am

    Hi Wendy! I’m so glad you dropped in!! I know what you mean by learning a lot from Apologia - I often wonder if the kids are learning as much as I am! LOL! Isn’t homeschooling great?! We finally get an education!

    It’s good that you have rain, but a bit sad when you can’t get the garden in yet and you want to. Still, it will give the soil a good start,and sometimes when you plant late you get an as good as or even better harvest. Let me know when you do start planting - I’d love to know what you’re putting in!

    Love,

    Joy

  3. Mary/Canadagirl Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Hi there,

    Thank you for visiting and leaving such kind words. I have just LOVED your blog. I am trying to remember. Where you at Cindy Rushton’s UHSE ? Well, I am thankful you found my blog somehow. I have loved yours.

    Blessing in Him