I took pictures everyday from the front porch of our snow melt down from the end of last week to the beginning of this week.
Feb 18th
Monday, February 22nd there was still some snow and ice on our road but it was navigable. Many schools in the area were still closed because buses could not get down rural roads. I HAD to get to the grocery store and the feed store. Alex went with me so I would have help. We made it back tot he house a little before lunchtime. Monday was also a bread and cookie cooking contest for 4 h. I was not going to have the children participate because I had not bought anything special to bake with, we had so much work to do in the barn and the house to get caught up from the week before, and we had taken a week off of school the week before. But, they wanted to participate. So I told them they had to be able to make their recipe themselves so I could do some work and they had to use ingredients that we had on hand. Usually I stay with them when they are cooking to make sure they get all the ingredients in and bake them correctly but this time they worked almost completely on their own (I did help Emmie and Anthony figure out what they had done wrong when their dough didn't look right because they didn't add enough flour, and I popped in the kitchen occasionally to make sure nothing was burning.) Emmie made Snickerdoodles, Lily made Brownies with peanut butter chips, Christian made Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins, and Anthony made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. We dropped off entries and they announced winners on Facebook. Ribbons will be mailed. They all won first place but the thing that I was most proud of was how well they did finding and making their recipes. I called that life skills for school for the day and had them do their math.
Monday was a pretty day. It was close to 60 and the sun was shining. I went and walked a couple of miles at the park while the girls were at their gymnastics class (I do this every Monday unless it is pouring down rain.) The pond in the park looked really cool. The half in the sun was melted but the half in the shade was still frozen.
Also, after a day or so the mama goat decided that the baby boy was in fact hers and started taking care of him again! I was so thankful! She is taking good care of them both and they are doing well!
Since January, Chelsea has been doing an internship at a local public school. This means that the babies are with us Monday-Friday from 7:-3:30. We did not have them when the school was closed for snow but they were back on Tuesday. Liam found some snow that hadn't melted and we introduced them to the baby goats. It was 75 degrees on Tuesday! The week before the low was -14!
We got a phone call from the heat/air people saying they could install our new unit the next day. We had to do some moving/ re-arranging of the downstairs. This meant that we would not able to be downstairs the entire day when the men were here working (10:30-6.) We spent a lot of time outside, put Willow down for a nap on the living room couch, and Liam skipped his nap (it was too loud for him to fall asleep.) We had no water because they had to move the hot water heater to put the new unit in. The good news is that it is much more efficient then the old one. I was able to lower the thermostat 4 degrees!
Friday Liam was super excited to help me make a cake for his mama because her birthday was the next day. The girls added some frosting decorations when we finished the cookie cakes.
We did get some school done this week.
Bible: We finished the New Testament a few weeks ago. Since then I started reading from the Ergermeiers Storybook Bible and reading a Psalm each day.
History: We read about the Petrobusians and Waldensians, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and The Jews of the Middle Ages.
Geography: We covered Wisconsin and Minnesota this week.
Latin: We skipped this week.
Science: Independent work.
Reading/Spelling: The boys finished AAS 7 and Emmie finished AAR Level 4!
Language Arts: The boys are reading Tom Sawyer (Memoria Press) and working on Expository Essays (Essentials in Writing.) Lily is reading Heidi (Memoria Press), and Emmie started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Lightning Literature.)
Math: Independent Work
I feel like I'm forgetting something.....
We are reading Little Town on the Prairie and The Hardy Boys The Sinister Sign Post in the evenings before bed.
I hope you had a great week!
Happy Homeschooling!
2 comments:
If you're forgetting something, then it will probably come to you in time to add it to next week's post. :)
What a lot of good things! I think I'm most impressed with the kids finding and making their own recipes for the baking competition . . . and you letting them do their own thing while you got other work done. :)
I've never heard of The Sinister Sign Post. I'm off to look it up!
Oops! I just realized it is a Hardy Boys book. That didn't register earlier. :) :) :)
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