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1.††††††††††† This is what happens when 4 girls sleep over!
2.††††††††††† Keilee got a new Monster High Doll, Clawdeen Wolf.† She has been looking for this one for months and she found it on Ebay.† She used her money, bid on it, followed the bid, set her limit and raised it 2 times, and WON it!† [Clawdeen is the one in the middle]
3.††††††††††† After Keiís party, Chan stayed with us for 4 days!† We all had a blast.† One of the ëMANYí things they did was play Dance Twister.†
4.††††††††††† Love this picture of Nomad.† The girls had spent hours with clay.† See the clay on my floor and on Nomadís nose?† Too cute.† You know the things about messes?? Öthey clean up. 🙂
5.††††††††††† Keileeís clay creation.† A cake made with fondant.† She is a fan of ëCake Bossí.†
6.††††††††††† Of course Monday night we had to watch the Alabama vs. LSU game for the National Title.† Nomad was supporting ëBama with pompoms.† It was a GREAT GAME.† ROLL TIDE!!!
7.††††††††††† The next day I had to teach Chan and Kei the rules of football.† I used candy and put 11 pink and 11 white on the table and explained the rules.† Then I taught them how to play paper football.† Keilee got a little too into it and jumped up on the table!
8.††††††††††† The purse Keilee knitted!† It was beautiful.† It was lime green on one side and turquoise on the other.† She used both colors for the strap.† She took it to her Sci Quest class.
9.††††††††††† This is a picture of the Tennessee River on the way home from Keiís science class.† It was so stormy and rainy all day.† She had a science class this week at Sci-Quest.†† It was the first time she has taken these classes.† She loved it and I loved sitting and talking with all the Moms.† We all exchanged APPS.† They learned about plant, animal and bacteria cells. When I picked her up the teacher told me she was ìa cool kidî.† I found a great Free APP to go along with her learning that she played with on the way home.† It is called iCells.†
Favorite Resources This Week: [Sorry Susan, I couldn’t pick just ONE! :)]
We are in Chapter 16 in SOTW 2 here are some great resources we used:
- Middle Ages † .† We played ëTabla Lurosia Board Gameí from the Teachers Guide and learned about Old English, serfs and noblemen and castles.†
- We watched this video about defending a castle.††
- Keilee also made a short play about serfs and noblemen with iPad app called PuppetPals HD††
- I am going thru a free ebook with Keilee called ìFiske 250 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know† I got this for free but it isnít free now. Not really sure why.
- We are still doing ëEnglish From the Roots Upî† I think knowing Latin and Greek root words are so very important.††
- We watched a movie about Georgia OíKeeffe.† We looked at her art work online.† I love finding a film about someone we are studying.† Keilee told me she would never forget Georgia OíKeeffe after seeing the movie.† [Warning: Probably not suitable for younger kids. It is Unrated but I think it is probably PG13]††
†The temperature fell about 20∞ yesterday in a couple of hours and it is COLD.† It was even spitting snow a bit outside, but it is warm in the house.† Keilee is planning on playing with a cardboard Dollhouse that she made yesterday from huge boxes and painted.† I plan to snuggle under the blanket and read on my iPad and Nomad will be snoring on the couch.† Life is good.
Linking up with Susan’s ìFavorite Resource This Weekî†
and Mary’s ìCollage Fridayî†
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Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
ìAlways walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.î †~Vernon Howard
confession: i clearly have issues with smiley faces. 😉
chapter 16? wow. we are a little behind, i think. it will all work out in the end, right? 😉 nomad’s nose… crack me up. ha! love how creative kei is. always looks like she’s having fun… compliments to her wonderful mama. 🙂
but oh my heart… seems a lot of my bloggy friends are rooting for football teams opposing ours. 🙁 no worries… i won’t hold it against you. 😉
You said it…life is good!
What a beautiful week of learning fun:)
Kei is so creative, and I love that you foster that in her.
Also, glad that other kiddos use clay to create cake designs. Abby and Molly have been busy making videos of “cooking” shows where they show the audience how to embellish cakes with “fondant”…I’ll never get all the clay scraped off of my table:)
I have been knitting for 2 years and I have yet to make something like her purse. Stunning. When is she opening an easy site??? Is there anything she can’t do??? She is one super amazing young lady.
Wow, I love that purse! I love those colors! That is fantastic!
Looks like a great week!! I am impressed that you are on Chapter 16 of SOTW 2…I am not sure where we are in that…we have not been doing it as much as we should 🙁 We are sidetracked by writing our Tikatok books and learning human anatomy…all n time I guess. You always have such fantastic links!!
I love that last photo of the Tennessee River too…black and white is always so emotional.
Have a great weekend!
The extended visits with friends that Kei has sound like a lot of fun, but I know that Davan would not get enough sleep and be exhausted most of the time. Even one sleepover night usually leaves her depleted the next day. How do you handle that? Or do the girls actually sleep? 🙂
I’d never seen the film about Georgia O’Keefe. I love art history and learning about artists, so I might have to check that out for myself. Your daughter is a really creative girl! And her science class sounds really, really interesting 🙂
OK, I love the purse Kei knitted…so cool! 🙂
We learned about cells this week, too! I will write up a post on our projects when I can get to it. I am going to check out that iCells app.
You totally don’t have to pick one Favorite Resource! I love that you shared so many…what a good week! Thanks for linking, Karen.
Thanks for linking up, Karen.
I enjoyed reading about all you are doing — especially the SOTW supplementary stuff. We are about 5 chapters behind you I think, so I’m taking notes!!
We studied Georgia O’Keefe in the fall, but if the movie is PG-13 worthy, I don’t think it would be appropriate for my seven year old — but maybe Anna and I will watch it. 🙂
The knitting is beautiful! Tell Keilee she is doing a great job!
awww those cute monster brat dolls are so cute. 🙂
I absolutely love that clay creation! 🙂 She must be very imaginative.
Oh, wow! What a week!! Lovely learning. Great fun. Wonderful people. What more could one want? Thanks again for giving us a peek. BTW- Can you teach ME the rules of football?