Math, Animal Diagram Labeling

These are still pictures from my kindle.  

Our computer is still not all the way together.  Yeah, I know.  I posted that it was fixed.  It was until I figured out my 1,000's of pictures were missing.  

The computer man just put everything back on another hard drive so I need to go through that and find the pics. AND Tom's Teaching Textbooks grades.

The girls enjoy learning from the chalkboard.

Today Katie learned a little bit about square roots and squared.  

Katie and Ana are wanting to learn more and more about animals so today we labeled:

A Lhasa Apso Dog

A rabbit (we had our rabbit "Pancake" as a model)

A horse  (of course) 

I find these diagrams on the internet or in books and just draw on the board.  It surely saves on paper. :)

Math, Frogs and more

Computer down, again (update)

Wow! Update:   He just brought it back.  He took it 2 days ago.  Yeah!!  He saved all my pdf's.  which included many lapbooks.  I am so happy.  ~LOL~
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My computer is back at the shop.  Everything will be getting erased  except for my pictures and my notebooking pages.  I can't use this Kindle to post...
it is not cooperating.  Maybe a picture or 2. I am so frustrated!

Can you color like this?

Computer is fixed

We now have our computer back!  It seems so weird to be on here. I have been staring at a Kindle screen for much too long. 

I'm going to have to get back into posting again.  

I have to get many pictures posted.  

I did get a new camera for Christmas but I'm not too happy with it.  It is a Samsung.  No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the pictures clear, especially the ones taken inside.  It is very frustrating.  

I have been thinking about our homeschooling for next year.  Some of the changes that I want to make is to do less lapbooking (WHAT!!) and add in Beautiful Feet Early American History and the Horse study for the girls.  

I will come back later.  Ed just walked in from work.

~Margarete~

Anatomy

I was thinking of posting Tom's lessson plans for the anatomy "class" I put together for him. I would make another blog or post it on my page at www.hslaunch.com .  Would anyone be interested?

Computer troubles and pig dissection

I  have not been on my blog because of computer problems and my kindle died.  My son got the kindle replaced for me this past weekend.

 The girls have done some experiments and Tom dissected a pig today.  We actually got the pig from a friend/and his farmer friend.  The pig died at birth yesterday.  I have some pictures on the kindle but they are not that great. Oh! Maybe I will post them anyway.

Just to let everyone know, this was a natural death on a pig farm.  It was not born to be killed for dissection.

Our "new" downstairs

Wow!  I haven't been blogging for a while.  We have been extremely busy working on our living and dining rooms.   Ed put in new flooring and we painted everything including the dining room paneling.  Eventually, we will get new living room curtains.  It's like we live in a new house.   Ed still has some work to do on the living room but here are a few pictures.

The table is now back in the middle of the dining room and someone gave me a glider which I put where the table is in the picture.
The picture below will give you an idea of what it looked like before:

How awesome it is to walk downstairs in the morning or come in from the outside and see such beautiful rooms!   

~Margarete~ 

Wordless Wednesday

 First snowman of the season.

 Quick pic.

 Trying to get a picture of the birds in the backyard.

 first snowfall

Wordless Wednesday

State Park Field Trip

 Squirrel in our backyard

 Firepit

(Volcano science project in the post below)