We are having a great time with our homeschooling experience! We are experiencing our ups and downs as we learn more about how best to teach, learn, and have fun with school.

Yesterday after school was over, Taite said he wanted to "paint his face." That meant he wanted to put black lines under his eyes like a football player. Then he wanted to write his favorite Bible verse on the black lines - John 3:16. I guess that's his own form of Tebow-ing. ;-)

On Monday for math we worked on measuring. He drew a football field on a piece of construction paper using his ruler. He measured each ten yard line to be at the inch. Then he got creative and used thin red tape to make the 'N' for Nebraska in the middle of the field. It is now hung on his wall. So the thing I learned this week is to utilize football as much as possible while learning. ;-)

Today is a full school day of phy. ed. Travis took him to Buckhill Ski Resort in Burnsville to go snowboarding. They are both taking lessons and snowboarding for the day. I hope to post a picture of that.

Taite loves phy. ed. and anything causing him to work out. I'll post his work out regimen when I figure out how to add pictures.

For spelling right now I'm just taking the words I find him misspelling and using 10-15 of them each week. We have writer's workshop twice per week. He writes stories for that - but I find him writing more often outside of this designated writing time. He likes to write - and he's good at it. He's great at attempting to spell things.

All for now. I'll try to be consistent at posting funny stories or fun things we do with homeschooling - or just plain old life. Have a super day!

Kate

We are starting a blog! Too many fun things going on in our lives in 2012 to not document it. I've contemplated doing this for awhile. Instead I've had a notebook where I keep all the funny stories about the kids...and nowhere to keep the details of our adventures.

In January 2012 we started homeschooling, an online Bible study I wrote called Introducing...Heaven (I just penned it, I didn't create anything), a new MonaVie year - 2.0, and a new Family Heritage year. It's sure to be our best year ever!

We'll be seein' ya!

K