School

It has been a fairly uneventful week and I haven't had an update about school in quite awhile so I thought I would show a couple things that we did last fall. We read about Nebraska history and

Indians. After we read about how the Indians made music with rocks or beads in hollow logs we made our own with recycled tin and plastic bags

The colored clay on the tray was our attempt at sod houses. I rolled out the clay like a field an they cut it into sections. We couldn't really figure out how to do the roof and we will hopefully go to see a real sod house this spring.

They also made a covered wagon with cardboard, plastic and paper. They played with their wagons for days. They filled them with Little People and pulled them with My Little Ponies. It really was cute.

Home schooling is going pretty good. We definately have our days but the good outway the bad. Kylie does really well with math and Karinda still loves to write. They finished learning all their letters in penmanship (Karinda learned cursive) and they are doing better with their writing letters in just a week!

We will start a new system for snacks tomorrow. We put a price on all the snacks we have, healthy snacks being less expensive than junk. Tomorrow they will get $5 for the week and then they will need to add what they have together and then make change with their money. I am just as excited about as they are. Especially since I charge when they don't clean up after themselves. Friday afternoon their friend Shelby came over and they asked for a snack. Shelby looked at the price list and said, "but I'm not paying!"

The girls were tested when we were back in Michigan and they were right where they wanted them to be, I was hoping for leaps and bounds ahead of where we needed to be but was happy with our progress. I would not want to do this forever but I am extremely greatful for the chance to do it and the support we have got from our dear Ms. Marlene.