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

Williamsburg Pictures

Shoemaker

The next 6 pictures are of the plantation.

Discipline...

THE KIDS LOOK LIKE THEY ENJOYED BEING LOCKED UP!

more to come.....

Sick...Again!

The kids just took a short break for lunch and a card game so I thought I'd quickly write something.

This weekend I ended up with a viral infection and major allergies. Right now I'm on 2 medications and can't talk to well. The kids like that. Anyway, I think this was sparked by the walk in the woods down in Virginia. We were walking along one of the paths in Cincoteauge and I started getting big red bumps; hives I suppose. By that evening, Ana looked like she was punched in the eye. What ever it was hit us good. Ana's went away and I guess mine decided to stay awhile. Never have I had such burning in my throat that also went to my ears. I do feel like I'm getting better and I'm sure by Friday there will be a huge difference.

More pictures of Williamsburg are due on here so hopefully that will be in the next day or so.

Tom wrote a short journal page about the things he saw in Williamsburg. Katie wanted me to go back to the library and get the video about the indian homes but in was checked out. That made a big impression on her. I do believe though, that she thinks indians are still in the woods. ~LOL~ I'm sure we'll get past that soon. I tried to explain to her that they are just like us but she walked away. ~smile~

Ana likes to have conversations about horses. She plays, talks, reads all about horses...she thinks she's a horse!

Ben had an incident last night. He went to (college) class early and met a friend their. They decided to go somewhere and he drove off....with his art supplies on top of his roof! After a few minutes he turned around to find them but they were gone. I'm hoping, and praying that someone turned them in. They were around $150.00!!

Becca had her last EMT class last night. She must make up a test she failed. :( She missed passing by 3 questions.

Monday night, sick and all, I went to the disabilities meeting. This is a group that meets for anyone that has disabilities, taking care of anyone with disabilities, autism, etc. There was an older couple there that has custody of their grandchildren. One is special needs. So, as the grandmother was talking to us, (she wants to get the child out of the public school), she tells us that she got an advocate for the child and called the principal to let them know that she wanted to come in and observe the child in the classroom. Well, (I almost hit the roof when she said this), The principal said, "My man upstairs doesn't want her in the house".
!!!!
WHAT!!
I was told yesterday, that is illegal. What in the world is wrong with everyone?! All special needs kids around us need help and it is such a fight. Such nonsense!!

~Margarete~

Jamestown Continued

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Here are some pictures of Jamestown. More will be added later.

We came home to a delicious meal cooked by our neighbor, Mrs. Lisa.