Week of Feb 11

Good Sunday night evening to you, my intention this evening was to lay in bed, start my blog early so that I could actually get to sleep at a decent time tonight..b/ I am trying to make up for the sleep I have lost with working late hours and children waking up at 3am convinced it's time to be awake.
But little did I know 5 mins after my Dh left for hockey tonight my youngest would start screaming and crying..complaining about his cheek..(I'm thinking it's his ear???? cause I can't even imagine what he's done to the inside of his cheek to make him wail like he has tonight).
Nonetheless, he is sitting here keeping me company as I write and figure out my plan for school this week...which starts tomorrow:)
I like to be prepared for things, for my days, I like to have an idea of what's for supper in the am so I am not scrabbling to get something together at 4:30pm. I like to know what we are doing for school in the morning (my personality :) and I have picked our curriculum this year so really I can do whatever I feel like..somedays I love having that freedom..somedays I feel completely lost.
I have been looking into what next year may look like and some other programs as I am not completely sold on the ones I had for this year. I feel like we have gotten to a point where we are doing a lot of book work fortunately my DS likes book work but I want there to be more hands on and more creative play, more exploring.. these are somethings I want to bring back this spring.

As for our week, we had a short week due to a long weekend and we took the time to enjoy our family and do some fun family activities within the community.

I found this really simple character study on a blog that I read, Confessions of a homeschooler. Which is what we have been doing for some character studying. This website has fantastic homeschool ideas, recipes, honest blog entries and another homeschool resources.

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2011/11/10-days-of-character-studies-day-9.html

Day 2: this character study was fun, we used water and red food colouring. We talked about us being the clear "pure" water b/c of Jesus cleansing us by his actions on the cross. The red food dye was representing the sin in our lives and how one little (drop) sin can affect our whole body and life.

We used kidshealth.org to learn about the nervous system..it has lots of simple ways to explain parts of our nervous system.

My DS has been reading some of our level 1 readers from the library with help, he has enjoyed reading books with themes he's interested in.
He made his leader at Awanas a book to show his appreciating on leader appreciation night and gave it to him along with some min eggs!!

My DS has had some really sweet/kind moments this past week, helping his brother clean up a mess that was really big, offering to help is brother turn on the lights before he even asked, holding the door for ladies at the local bakery. Moments like these I need to cherish, to remember to thank God for all his goodness in their lives. You get to see what you have been working so hard towards, strong, independent, kind hearted, empathic, obedient to the holy spirit, strong spirited, happy little boys of God!!!
Thank you Lord, for everything you are doing and have done in our little boys lives, in our lives, and our family.

Coffee filter tie-dye and shape painting.