3 times as fun!

History (and Geography) is 3 times as fun at our house!

Singer-Songwriter Mongi

Monica is always making up songs. She sings to herself and then will come up to us and say"...I have a song want to hear it?" To which the reply is obviously "YES!" Tonight as we were going to bed she had one to share. Here are the words:

God knows we are sinners,
but God isn't a sinner cause he does not do anything like that
[pause] God.
[pause] Spirit
[pause] Jesus
[pause] Three in one

And when we asked her to sing it again...same tune, same words. The girl's got major talent!
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Inspired by Hagia Sophia

In history the kids learned about the Hagia Sophia. We talked about the mosaics that combed the buildings and went online to look at pictures of them (most were of Christ so we didn't look too thoroughly at them). So we took a large chunk of the little amount of school time we have on Friday to make a mosaic. As the kids were doing their small masterpieces Ayva said, "Wow it must take a long time to do a mosaic".

Fun-filled Friday

The kids had a fun filled Friday yesterday. First they did a craft during school (blog post soon), which they loved cause they didn't have much work. Then at Joy Singers the whole group- beginners, primaries, intermediates, junior and high school, and loads of parents did rhythmic movement, the chicken dance and square dancing. It was super fun!

Then at night we went to a Freedom fest for two candidates that are running for office. There were rides, a big slide, a rock wall, and a concert. There were lots of friends there and we all had a lot of fun! Monica was adorable, all she wanted to do was watch the performers...she's dreaming about her future! That was the fun-filled Friday!

Sketches By Owen

Here are a few sketches out of Owen's current sketch book. We have a rubby maid container full of his books! He still loves to draw!

He's starting to only use pencil to draw:

Squeaky, Franklin and Hannah

Owen, Ayva and Monica have their first pets...three little goldfish!

Mommy was working at the Botanical Center and they were giving away goldfish, bags of them. Mommy was only bringing 1 bag home, providentially the bag she picked had 3 fish! Squeaky is Monica's, he's the brownish one. Hannah is Ayva's, he has a little black on his tail (the one on top in the picture). Owen's is named Franklin, and he's a pretty typical goldfish but he does have black on his eyes. They have been fed and are in a glass pitcher. We're waiting to see if we want to get a tank with decor...of course Miss Ayva's already asked for rocks and a treasure chest! We're hoping to add a tree frog or turtle to the family soon too. This was a nice way to cheer up our sicky household.
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Little Taxonomists

For Science this year we're doing Apologia's Botany. Today Owen and Ayva were little Taxonomists. Taxonomists classify things in nature. So our activity was to classify shoes. We had four kingdoms and we broke them down into phyla, classes and orders if we could.

Yes they are still in their pjs...that's the beauty of homeschooling!!
(PS They are sick, can you see how red Owen's nose is?)