Everything Beautiful: Schooling in August~

SO much wonderfulness goes on between the walls of our home and I love sharing it all in this space. If school is not your thing, just skip these posts!

Writing workshop this year has been wonderful! They especially love their notebooks, hole punching, and finding the correct tab to file it in~

We made a visual of things we love!

Geography is a fun Friday activity we are enjoying this year where we try to write in as many states on US map as we can~

SJ beats us all every week!

We may have snatched a few pieces of furniture that belongs to Rosie from the garage for our sunroom~

Love how it feels in here now!

We started music lessons in January of this year with Practice Monkeys with one violin player. It has grown to 4 violinists and 5 pianists~

I can not believe the progress they have made! We have theory and notespeller books we do with our morning work each day and they try to practice a little, then we have lessons Mon-Thurs.

Poetry Teatime is a favorite weekly rhythm around here, and we are enjoying Longfellow for time being~

We read the first poem, The Arrow and the Song, and decided to chalk pastel the tree~

Our new Science is quite wonderful too and lends itself to to our nature journals very well~

Because we don't have to buy new clothes and backpacks for back to school, we do like to add new learning tools. This year we ordered a new globe, and we let SJ open it since it was her birthday~

LOOK at my beautiful class this year!!!!!

EC is so excited to joing the Teaching Textbooks Math class online this year~

We love to take a walk after breakfast and see what we see. This particular morning we kept seeing tons of caterpillars on the road and wondered what they were and where they were coming from~

We have big webs of caterpillars all in the trees so we went to observe. Sure enough... there they were. It was such a hot day, we went in for swimsuits and spent the rest of the morning in the pool... JUST BECAUSE we can!!!

I am also taking an intentional chance to teach these 5 with a specific reading curriculum suited for children who might have reading struggles. We haven't had anything identified but my teacher heart knows to teach for success not defeat. As you can see, they love it~

Our new decor in the sunroom definitely encourages quiet moments to read~

EK found an adorable tree frog all alone and needing attention, so she made him an elaborate habitat so we could sketch him for nature study~

And as always, they are free to sketch whatever their heart desires~

And when EC&CA finished up early, they prepared everything for lunch!

We are officially Swanburne Academy Founder Members and received our certificate in the mail. We look forward to lots of wonderful adventures with Mary Rose Wood, the author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series~

In history we are studying Early American history again so we started with Columbus and painted a chalk painting of his ship~

And poetry teatime led us to paint a stormy day as we were having one right outside our window~

We laminate them and place them in our art notebooks~

I think the most beautiful parts of our day is sitting together, collaborating, laughing, struggling, and helping each other get along with life~

It's never lost on me!!! I see the miracle righ in front of me!!!

EC is following right in EK's footsteps when it comes to nature! One afternoon she came to me saying she found a giant spider under the trampoline. I asked her to describe it and it took me back to my little girl days. I remember seeing them and thinking they were amazing~

Of course it turned into our nature study, chalk pastel painting, and nature walk!

It was such a beautiful morning, we drew right out on the breezeway~

In our history study we read that Pocahantus played with a corncob doll and EC expressed an interest to make one too. We asked Uncle Jason is we could pick corn from his field and came home to shuck the corn, soak the husks, and pick the kernals~