This is my favorite poem we have studied...

Mother's Jewels

Aunt Eleanor wears such diamonds!

Shiny and gay and grand,

Some on her neck and some in her hair,

And some on her pretty hand.

One day I asked my mama

Why she never wore them, too;

She laughed and said, as she kissed my eyes,

“My jewels are here, bright blue.

They laugh and dance and beam and smile,

So lovely all the day,

And never like Aunt Eleanor’s go

In a velvet box to stay.

Hers are prisoned in bands of gold,

But mine are free as air,

Set in a bonny, dimpled face,

And shadowed with shining hair!”

Eugene Field

Another week

We are still having a great year so far. Every one is moving along on their work and progressing nicely.
I just printed out a great notebook at Confessions of a Homeschooler. She has wonderful stuff on there and some great suggestions. If you have never checked out her blog/website you should.
We are doing a class at the nature center at a park near here. It's every Friday and my kids are loving it so far. They are learning scientific method and how to be scientists.

Here is how I found C this morning before we started school. I love when I find them like this.

Our week

We  are in week 2 of Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory and it's going great. We are having fun and learning so much. This weeks bible verse was Galatians 6:9 "Let us not grow weary in doing good, in due season we shall reap if we don't lose heart." Both boys memorized it.
We also discussed Ruth and how she didn't lose heart and finally reaped. Here is a pic of the fields of grain that Ruth gleaned from that the boys made.

 

C would rather write his spelling words on anything but paper so we used the dry erase board.

 We added Jamestown to our timeline. Oh and a funny about this, I was talking to the boys about it and how the men came for gold and they were lazy and didn't want to do any work. Then I told them that John Smith told them that if they didn't work then they wouldn't eat. I said I bet those men were complaining and whining and crying. C said " They didn't cry they are British and the British don't cry." LOL

It was a really great week and I did something different which seemed to help us along. I rotated between subject that required writing and ones that didn't. That way they are not having to write all at once.
Speaking of writing here is a sample of C's handwriting. I decided to use the smaller lined paper to see how he would do and it turned out beautiful.

Praying next week goes and well and is as fun. I have a cold right now and feel horrible but am praying that I will feel better by Monday.

Week 1 of Beyond

We just finished our first week of Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory. We had a great time and learned a lot.
Here are a few pix of what we did. Earlier this week I posted a pic of our world on the floor and learning the continents and oceans.
Here is our timeline for the year.

These are the shields we made to go along with our verse in Psalms.

 This is a map where we marked the voyage of the Spaniards to St. Augustine FL

 And our world of tape on the floor learning continents and oceans.

This has been a wonderful week of school. The boys have been so agreeable and doing their work with no complaints. We rewarded them with a game of Putt Putt today and Sonic afterward.
God has blessed me so much this year and answered so many prayers for me. My health is so much better and that helps in the schooling.
I praise God for this opportunity to school my children.

Week 3 update

This is technically our third week of school but the last two weeks were lighter adding a few things in as we went.
We have done two days of school this week and its been delightful. We started using Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory from Heart of Dakota. We are loving it. It is just the right fit for both my boys and the activities are wonderful. I used the first half of this for C's first grade year but he was just not ready.
We are adding in spelling, reading, math and grammar at his level.
Ju is coming right along with his schooling too. He was agreeable the past two days and didn't complain. He still doesn't want to do phonics but since its 100EZ lessons its short so he's ok with it.
Here are a couple pix of what we've been doing.
Spelling with sidewalk chalk.

Learning our continents and oceans.

First day of school

Today was our first day of school. We are starting slowly because with my health issues we did not get to school this summer, although life is learning.
This year I will be finishing up Little Hearts for His Glory with Ju and C will be doing Bigger Hearts for His Glory.  C will be in 3rd grade and Ju will be starting first.
I hope to be better at documenting our school with pictures this year.

Updates

There have been some challenges this year in our home. I am struggling with a lot of health issues. Also a big change is that I only have 3 children in the home for now. (although my oldest is moving back from MI in less than 2 weeks)
We have been pushing through with school and it has gone fairly well.
My plan at this point in time is to school through the summer, not heavy but some daily.
C will be doing Bigger Hearts for His Glory from Heart of Dakota and Ju will continue on with Little Hearts for His Glory. I still love HOD. I can't imagine not using it now after not using it the first of this year.
I am so thankful and blessed to have this opportunity to have my children with me everyday all day. I would miss them so much if they were away all day.

Next year my daughter will start her senior year. My how the time has flown. :( I can't remember the last time I only schooled 2 children. It has been many years.

God has truly blessed me.