I can’t find a link to the Scholastic book, Going on a Leaf Hunt, that the botany teachers read to the little kids but it was SO CUTE! They read the book while searching all over the building for various types of leaves which had been preplaced around the building. …

BOYS WILL BE BOYS: Here’s what the boys have been up to lately. Awhile ago, Josh made a zip line that goes from the top of the swingset down to the bottom of the basketball pole. I was afraid to watch him slide down, but I decided I better watch …

A is for Apple, B is for Butterfly, C is for Crocodile, D is for Duck Our SAGE co-op (more on that in another post coming later… I know I haven’t mentioned it on the blog yet and I will get to that someday!) preschool is doing a different letter …

ME AND MY SHADOW! We are studying poems this weekend. Thanks to one of my SHS friends sending a link for a Diamante Poems interactive tool, we decided to try our hand at one: SHADOW Silent, tall Following, imitating, mirroring, A pantomime that echoes your every move- Copying, reflecting, mimicking, …

CORN MAIZE:Today we went to the corn maize with some of our fellow homeschoolers. I wasn’t going to take the time off from “school” to do this, however, it was SO NICE outside and it “did” tie in with our school when you consider that corn was one of the …

This year Josh and Nathan are both using Apologia’s elementary Botany course with our homeschool co-op. Yes, you read that right. The mom teachers are even doing botany with the preschoolers in our co-op. So far Nathan has learned that flowers make seeds. The first week all of the kids …

MOVING CHURCH! A Lutheran Church in town asked us to move a church from Box Elder to Billings. It was quite an endeavor which took several weeks. When it was close enough to town, Grandma Jan picked up the boys and took them in so they could be a part …

FAMILY NIGHT: I’m guessing most families don’t pick a week night to have their “family night” activities. We do. Our “family night” this year is going to have to be Tuesday night because it’s the only night that we are all able to commit to being home. We are all …

THE BOYS AND GRANDPA WORK ON THEIR HOBBY!TRAINS:Every spare minute the boys are asking to go to grandpa’s house to work on their train hobby. Josh is in charge of working on the Christmas table. Here is the start. It looks like he has a long way to go. I’ll …

JUNE BIRTHDAYS:Nathan – June 1st:Nathan turned 3 this year. What a FUN AGE! Here he’s not sure if he should really blow out the candles or not. He blew and blew and blew and got them all out! I don’t think he knows about making wishes, but here he is …