Homeschooling Highlights

Highlights of our first week of homeschooling:
-A FABULOUS tour of the printing press and HomeSat facilities of Bob Jones University
(A three and a half hour tour that I will put up pics of at some point)
At this same tour getting to meet one of the teachers that they had when we used HomeSat
(for those unfamiliar, BJU has satellite classes that we used with the children a few years ago)
-My 11 yob in his spelling placement test placing in 11th grade!!
-My 9yob in history, being amazed as the light bulb went off in his head that the people in the Bible were living during the ice age!
-My soon to be 8yog taking off on her own with her reading and writing (her penmanship is sooo neat!)
-My 6yog feeling the vibrations on her throat as she hums during science lesson
-She also told me at lunch that she loved Ki-weed (when I served her Kiwi!)
-This same 6yog saying that her favorite part in Robin Hood was when Robin pushed Stuart Little (Little John) into the water!
-My 4 1/2 boy telling me that "It's nice for you to have me, Mama".
-My 2yog using a glue stick under her arms as deodorant!!!!!
-This same 2yog almost completely potty trained and deciding that she would go "Peeuu" in the potty chair as well.
-This same 2yog clearing her own plate at lunchtime. (it must be time for another baby).
-All the children building a pyramid like a football team would. "W is digging his knees into me!"
-Hearing them say to me "I love school"
-Being able to buy enough crayons to stuff a 5 quart ice cream pail for under $4.00
-My two older boys getting right to their math first thing, at their own initiative.
-Making a timeline together that we will add to through the whole year.

-The joy of getting to explain to the children that the animals were created in Gen 1:24 and 25 and it wasn't until vs. 26 that man was created (AFTER the animals) and that the Lord did not make the animals after His own image...thus the incredulous folly of thinking that we came from monkeys. I love how even a little child can comprehend this.
-Realizing that Adam and Eve lived in Iraq--can you say MESOPOTAMIA?
And did you know some of the very earliest societies had TOILETS?

-Getting to research about a Shaduf (the first irrigation system) on the internet and printing out pictures for each of them to put in their history folders.
-Sitting all in a row learning how to play our recorders in unison
-Getting to field all kinds of questions that GOOGLE can answer..."Just how do oysters have babies???" This spawned (excuse the pun,) a science lesson on pearls using Google (What did we ever do without the internet?) Did you know that oysters have intestines? And that an oyster can produce as many as 100 pearls at one time?

-Getting to stay in my robe while I taught school till mid afternoon (I won't tell you which day it was/is)
-Having my 9yob call his imperative sentence in grammar, an "imprecatory sentence" (we just heard a sermon a few weeks ago on the imprecatory psalms!)
-My 11yob saying the his baby sister was being a "pain in the thorax" (they get that from Miss Spider)
-My baby asking me to read her a story
-Singing together with my children
"Behold how good a thing it is
and how becoming well,
together such as brethren are
in unity to dwell..." Ps 133 metered version
-The "we made it through the first week of school" celebration (going out for CiCi's pizza and getting to have pinwheels too!)
-The fulfillment in realising that we are learning everyday together as a family.


It's been a busy first week, but we are loving it!