Today I will be getting things put together for school. I have some changes to make. Tom hasn't really done any Bible so we will be adding "Days of Discovery" dvds. We have gotten them in the mail for quite some time but haven't opened many of them. So, we will add about 1/2 hour a day of these. The few that we have watched are very good.
Tom does like to watch educational videos and then he writes a report or a few paragraphs about them. This is good because he doesn't have an actually teacher to take notes from.
I did want to buy the Pilgrim's Progress Curriculum from www.answersingenesis.org but Ed thought it was to much money. $59.99...I think that is good. Tom watched the newer movie and loved it. He also watched the animated "Dangerous Journey" and enjoyed that also. Maybe I could talk Ed in to it. If you have used it let me know your thoughts.
I have to get more writing in for Tom. He is doing latin, and 2 spanish curriculums. The one is on the computer so it doesn't really require writing. He seems to pick up languages very well. I have to get moving on the lapbooks. I found the Periodic Table lapbook at www.homeschoolshare.com and we may do that. I have to order the book "Fizz, Bubble, Flash".
We have a Chemistry set here but I need a little help from Ed getting the water into the little containers. I mess up all the time. ~blush~
I have been using the games from Facebook to help Katie with math. She adds and subtracts with Fishlife and Fishworld!! LOL!! She loves it. I have started showing her place values with the points.
I'm very disappointed with Tom's math. He has such a hard time with this. It is not his subject at all.. He's probably going to be a missionary/pastor that speaks many different languages!!
I think we will work on the girls' fairy wings today. Becca had helped me (did most of the work) with the headdresses (crowns).
Time to get moving. I've been on this computer way to long already.
Love Ya,
Margarete
P.S. Katie and Ana say, "HI POP POP AND BANGI!!!!!" WE LOVE YOU!!!! ANA SAYS SHE IS PLAYING WITH HER HORSEYS (SP???) AND BARN AND GATE. KATIE SAYS SHE IS PLAYING WITH HER HOUSE. BYE BYE!!
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- MARGARETE
- I have been happily married (32 years) to my husband Ed. We have 8 children and 2 daughter-in-laws and 2 grandsons.
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I have to tell you, I hated math. HATED IT. I went up to Calc I in HS and did a college Calc and still was miserable. To me, it was so pointless (I am a literature and languages person). It wasnt until I took a class for fun that was all about the history of math and put it in a more ethereal sense that it clicked for me. I actually kept the textbook (and would be happy to pass it on). It is called Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline. But what it did was really give me the impetus to learn on my own. And I found out that I love the art and history behind math. Did you know that early mathematicians thought that mathematics was the way God communicated? Or that Pythagoras was deeply spiritual and a vegetarian? There is so much I never knew because I was taught the outcome and never the process! It really opened my eyes!
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