We had a few days of cooler temperatures this week which was wonderful! It was so nice for the children to be able to play outside even in the middle of the afternoon and cutting goat hair is much better when it is not 100 degrees. It takes about an hour to an hour and a half for each goat.
Monday I had a dentist appointment in the morning and ran a couple of errands all by myself.
Tuesday morning we cut goat hair and our Ag agent and 4 H Program Assistant came out to the house to check on our animals and weigh this year's market goats for us. They have to weigh 45 pounds for county and district and 50 pounds for state. We got very young goats this year and I was worried they didn't weigh enough. One was 46 pounds and the other 43 but they gain 3-5 pounds per week so the little one should be fine for the fair which starts on September 3rd.
Wednesday the children had dentist appointments in Texarkana. Art needed to buy some things from Lowes and a steel place so he took the day off. We also went and bought some boots and belts for livestock shows and went to see Hotel Transylvania 3 (it was a bit cheesy but ok I would have rather seen Christopher Robin.) We were gone all day.
Thursday we didn't have to leave the house until Lily had piano.
Friday we did our grocery shopping and other errands.
Saturday morning we went to the fair grounds to do some clean up to get ready for the fair. We also had to have our chickens blood tested to make sure they are free of disease and can be shown at the fair. They were fine.
We also worked on our fair booth.
Art is building a livestock trailer so we wont have to transport the animals in the van anymore. He and the boys worked on that all weekend after we got back from the fair. The blazing hot weather returned for the weekend so they were roasting out in the shop bending steel and welding.
They worked on exercising goats and walking them for the show.
Week 2 in our Homeschool
Bible: We are working on Answers For Kids Vol 4 and read through 5 lessons.
History: In America's Story 3 we completed lessons 3 and 4 on the Wright Brothers (that was familiar to us because we read a biography on them last year) and Henry Ford's Model T.
Spelling: Christian and Anthony completed step 18 in AAS Level 5.
Language Arts: Emmie's new Reading Eggs workbook arrived (upcoming review) and she just loves it! I had planned on her completing the lesson on the iPad and then doing the corresponding sheets but she got a hold of the workbook and just kept going. Lily did 2 lessons in Hake/Saxon Grammar and Writing 3. Christian and Anthony will start IEW next week.
Math: All of the MLFLE children completed 4 lessons in their books.
I hope you had a great week!
Happy Homeschooling!
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