Last week we accomplished a lot in our homeschool. Becky has completed three science quizzes and had her first test! She got a B. She has been doing weekly art projects, daily arithmetic speed drills, she had her first arithmetic test and got an A. She has been doing well with her language, reading and spelling and also has been practicing and showing improvement in her cursive writing. Matthew has a lot of enthusiasm for his school. He told me he loves homeschooling! He learned all of his vowels and the short sounds that they make. He can recognize them and the difference between Capital and little characters of each. He also is doing very well with his number recognition, counting objects and circling the correct number to show the amount, patterns and colors. Last week we had our first trip to a new bowling alley. I organized a monthly bowling session for our homeschool group. There were about 18 kids who showed up and everyone had a great time! On their last game Matthew bowled a 73 and Becky bowled a 79! Matthew was so excited because he got two spares! Last week we also went to a local farm with our MOPS group and did some apple and pumpkin picking...The kids had so much fun! We got a bunch of Golden Delicious and Empire apples...I made a very tasty apple crisp that night with the Empire apples ~ it was so good because they were a little tart and complemented the sugary-oatmeal topping very nicely! Here are some pics for you to see... 
Dan and Becky returned home from their Father-Daughter campout weekend. They had so much fun together...The did archery, rode horses, shot .22 rifles, cooked together, played games, had times of devotions and fellowship around the campfire (not to mention the banana boats that Becky said were delicious!) I am so glad that they had a great weekend together and Dan also got to meet a lot of the men from our friend's church and had fun talking and hanging out with them. I'll post pics as soon as I have time to upload them. I also have to post pics of Baby Girl's new room ~ My mom and aunt came over this weekend and helped me put it all together! My mom even made beautiful lavendar curtains to match the valances, which have pinks, yellows and lavendars with white eyelet! It is so pretty and it looks like a new room! I also have to post pics of the new "boys room". Dan put together the new crib for Jake last week and he has been sleeping in there for the past few nights! The room really looks great...I am so happy! :)
Dan and Becky returned home from their Father-Daughter campout weekend. They had so much fun together...The did archery, rode horses, shot .22 rifles, cooked together, played games, had times of devotions and fellowship around the campfire (not to mention the banana boats that Becky said were delicious!) I am so glad that they had a great weekend together and Dan also got to meet a lot of the men from our friend's church and had fun talking and hanging out with them. I'll post pics as soon as I have time to upload them. I also have to post pics of Baby Girl's new room ~ My mom and aunt came over this weekend and helped me put it all together! My mom even made beautiful lavendar curtains to match the valances, which have pinks, yellows and lavendars with white eyelet! It is so pretty and it looks like a new room! I also have to post pics of the new "boys room". Dan put together the new crib for Jake last week and he has been sleeping in there for the past few nights! The room really looks great...I am so happy! :)
