9-11 Lest We Never Forget

Today we have taken some time out of our studies to remember those who have fallen victim on September 11, 2001. As part of our tribute, we adopted a soldier who is currently in Iraq serving our country. We went shopping for all of his wish list items yesterday, The kids had a blast finding all the items their soldier asked for. Today we boxed everything up and wrote letters and drew pictures and sent it out.

Organization Underway

Today my oldest daughter (8) and I made our menu for the next month and our shopping list to go along with it. We grocery shop for a month at a time and I am trying to be more frugal when it comes to our shopping. This was a great lesson for her in organization since she is worse than me. She also likes knowing that she had an input in what meals we will have.

My children listened intently as President Obama spoke. The speech was excellent and kept my children's attention for the whole twenty minutes. I have given them a follow up assignment after our discussion to come up with five goals for this school year. Tomorrow we will put them onto poster board and hang them in our classroom as reminders. I am curious myself why us home schooling parents seemed to be left out of the "teacher" speech, but that will be another asignment for a later date.

Four Weeks into Home Schooling

As I sit here and type this it is 11:45am. My children have already done their morning work and doing free play. One is playing play-doh the other legos. The babies are down for naps and we are getting ready to tune into the ever controversial Obama speech. I have been pondering my decision to home school my children and if I am doing enough for them and thier future. We have been utilizing an awesome program called Time4learning, that has really helped to keep my children focused on the work end of schooling.