Assateague Island

A Few More Williamsburg Pictures

~The Magazine (Armory)~

~The Brick Maker~

The molds are leaning up against the bench
~Bricks drying in the sun~ ~The kids checking out a brick~

~The Brick Ovens~

This is where the bricks are baked

The wigmaker

~ curling irons on the edge of the table~

I will keep adding more to other posts.

Sunday

On this beautiful morning, we are getting ready to go to church. It will be myself and the kids. Ed is now sick.

I all ready have our roast beef done and I will make the potatoes when I get home.

Guess what I did? I had bought two large roasts so I cut each in half and put them in a freezer bag. Well, I didn't wrap each one separately so when I took the bag out they were all stuck together. The result..... cooking all the meat at one time and I'm glad I did. Jon came over for dinner! ~LOL~ He probably could eat one roast all by himself! I'm not kidding. Everytime I see him he seems taller. He's 21 and seems to still be growing!

I did take some out and froze it in gravy for a later date. This can be used when it's just a few of us.

I decided to print out a lapbook for Ana. She is so excited. I printed 'Make Way For Ducklings' lapbook from www.homeschoolshare.com I also printed a few of the extra duck booklets. I also printed out some pilgrim booklets for Katie so she can get some more writing done. I did cut out the booklets for them. That makes it alot easier.

Don't forget about www.enchantedlearning.com . They have so much. I printed out some of their "wheels". The seasons, months, punctuation, parts of speech, etc. This will be very useful. I honestly think you could use alot of their maps for middle school. So, take a look. It's $20 a year. I did get a membership with a group so it only cost me $2.00!

I haven't forgotten about posting the other Williamsburg pics. I will try to do it later.

Enjoy your day.
~Margarete~

Slow Motion

Katie had caught this moth before we left on vacation. She put a bit of sugar water in the bottle and it was still alive when we got back. Well, it somehow ended up into the water and couldn't move it's wings. We took it outside and it let us look at it for awhile and all of a sudden its wings opened up and it flew away.

I feel like we are moving in slow motion. Our schoolwork seems a little slow or just not as busy as I would like it to be. I know the girls are enjoying the crafts and having me read to them but I feel like we are not getting enough writing done. We don't even get to science every day which was my plan. Yeah I know, we don't have to do it every day, but I would like too. I have everything printed out and ready to go with each chapter which includes lapbooking etc. so, this isn't just looking at a textbook and writing. Katie does enjoy the science when we do it so maybe I just need to let it be.

Tom likes reading so much that he doesn't want to put the books down to write. Hmmm....I like this but writing is important.

I need to find something or someone that can explain Chemistry to Becca, it is over her head. We are using Apologia Chemistry but it's not her cup of tea.

Well, it's Ed's turn to be sick. He now has what I had. But he just keeps on going. Yes, he's working today. I can guarantee it though that tomorrow he's going to be so tired and want to sleep. He is an extrememly stubborn man.

Ben got another car this week. His other one was going to cost to much for inspection. Now he has a car that's so small that I do not want to get into it. I'm too afraid of getting squashed. ~LOL~

Enjoy your day! it is beautiful outside!
~Margarete~

Log Cabin Crafts

Ana's Log Cabin

We did a log cabin pop-up craft from the Time Traveler's cd 'Colonial Times'
and a log cabin look-inside craft from the book 'Scholastic Easy Make & Learn Projects Colonial America'. This was a fun project for the girls. Of course I cut it out for them. ~smile~ They enjoy looking inside.

Soon I will be taking the kids to see some log cabins so then the girls will be able to relate. I wanted to get some of the houses to make for Jamestown but they were $10.00 each.

Katie's Log Cabin