Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Colton did a rope course with the Boy Scouts ! Cody got moved up to Varsity for the playoff !! And made straight A's his first quarter of High School. So proud of him ! I see great things for him in his future :)

We had a fun Halloween !   Thanks Beth for the great pictures  

I have been wanting to make a snowman Christmas tree for a while and I finally did it. She turned out prefect. I love her ! I started with an old 6 foot tree, garland, a wreath, table covers (I found at Wal-mart $2.50 a pack), hat, ribbon, scarf, 3 old pillows, tape, grocery plastic bags, buttons boots, lights and ornaments. I made the head with pillows and bags and wrapped them with the table covering.  I had pulled the limbs up to form a circle but it was not very full. So I added a wreath around the neck area. The middle and bottom section is shaped with pillows and bags and the tables cover is formed around it. Garland is added to the middle and bottom to make more greenery.  The eyes are made with black yarn glued in a spiral, with false eye lashes. The nose is a construction paper cone with orange yarn glued to it. The mouth are buttons and the cheeks are blush.

 Practicing scary clown makeup on Chey.  Love her hair as a bow.  Caity's Halloween make up for a Halloween party. Carving Pumpkins  Chey's Pumpkin  Caity's pumpkin  Of course Colton's Vomiting Cyclopes Pumpkin Chey's scary clown make up for her Girl Scout's Halloween Party.

Colton and Cheyanne are using the Classical Conversations for their curriculum, but I thought I would list the supporting materials we are using: Math:             Saxon Grammar:      Easy Grammar                       Our Mother's Tongue Spelling:        Spelling Plus                        Diction Resource Writing:         Excellence in Writing History:         The Story of the World Volume 3 and 4 Geography:   Note booking our states Latin:            Rosetta Stone    ...

Since Classical Conversations is all about memorizing information, Caity made the kids check off pages for their memory work. They are not the greatest pics, but I think you get the idea.  

 We have started Classical Conversations this year. Caity is in the Challenge B program and Colton and Cheyanne will be doing Foundations with me. I do not know exactly what I am doing, but I have researched a ton and I'm going to give it a try. Here is our Week 1 Memory Board for Cycle 3: Here is Caity's Latin Declension board: Chey relaxing with Curley. We are also are starting state notebooks since the kids have to learn the states and their capitals. If you need information on individual states you can go here and there are links to all 50 states to get the information guides.

 Here is our homeschool classroom. I have a few more things to add, but this will be a great start for Monday. We are starting Classical Conversations this year and this is the start of our Memory Board.