My plan to keep updating at least once a week has been pushed to the side it seems. Work, School, household things and children keep me more than busy these day! We are currently working on a new septic install which has proven to be a challenge. Ours is failing and the new one is a insane amount of work and money. We started clearing for it back in May, a job that should have taken less than a week is now in it's third month. The site clearing guy we contracted left the job unfinished as well as all of his equipment. All of his equipment ended up being either repossessed or reclaimed by their original owners. Before we started this process we tried may other people but due to the difficulty moving things in and out of this space this guy was our last resort. Then we had mother nature to deal with and the rain that made it a swampy/bog for months. It is now finally dry enough, DH has worked many weekends and nights clearing the field and this week we started trucking in dirt. After a struggle the first day, we were able to get things going and start working. This weekend DH is getting the pad ready for inspection and burning the debris. We are also working on the plans for our addition. Our home is 1400 sq. feet, and with soon to be 4 children in this house we are needing some more space. Homeschooling has taken over our living room, kitchen and dining room. I am hoping our plans to add a schoolroom and extra bedroom help with some of the extra clutter. Ideally we would at least like to have the house addition enclosed prior to the baby's arrival in December, say a little prayer for my sanity during this crazy time!
We completed our first six weeks and I feel great about what we have accomplished. Owen is enjoying all the books we are reading. Last six weeks we read 4 living books about the early settlers. We were both sad to be finished with them. He is doing well with math, and spelling. I also added in Writeshop Level D working on one unit in a 3 week cycle. It is a gently more broken down approach and it seems to be working. We finished our first unit and we had no tears. He brainstormed, made outlines, rough copies and a final one. I was pleased with his work and I am eager to see how he improves as we go on. We also added back in our Marine Biology by Apologia. Both the boys enjoy this and are interested in sea animals. As time goes on I want to try the Latin program or Spanish with Owen as well.
This six weeks we are learning about the American Revolution, George Washington and continuing on with our states. I look forward to each day reading about things I never learned in school. Wyatt is working on his letters, numbers and phonics. We do a lot of reading, activities and crafts right now. His attention span is pretty short so we just work in everything when he is eager. He loves working on crafts and the best thing I did for him last year was order Kiwi Crate for him. Every month he gets a new box with all the supplies, and directions for two crafts. I will definitely renew that again this year it has been a big hit.
Pixie enjoys doing school with us as well, at least when she is not driving us crazy. Usually I have print outs for Wyatt and if she sees them she will start working on his stuff. She loves tracing, drawing and learning right along with him. I try to include her as much as I can. She loves sorting and scooping things so I have been making quite a few sensory boxes for her to play with. I bag of beads, a scoop and a bunch of containers will entertain her for hours.
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