That was a nice 2 month break from blogging. I think I made it a whole month before I took 2 months off. That must be a journaling record for me ;) LOL. In all seriousness, the reason I wasn't blogging during this time was because my insanity time hit and every spare second was spent focused at the priorities in my life...unfortunately blogging wasn't one of them. BUT...I'm back :)
For those of you that don't know me, you may not know that besides being a wife and now homeschooling mother, I also own a semi-annual consignment event for children's items (www.LittleFeetRepeats.com). Our fall event was in October and I'm finally getting things back in order around here from that. We took a couple weeks off of formal schooling (started 3 weeks early in the summer to prepare for this time off) during my event, but the rest of the time of my blogging absence, we have been schooling up a storm :). Aly has finished her grammar book (Michael Clay Thompson Grammar Island Level - more details on this program later) and can now very successfully do a 4 level sentence analysis on most any sentence I give her. She has moved onto the study of poetry and loves it - she keeps begging to do more poetry! Crazy kid ;)
We have been learning about Mercury, Venus and the stars, plus we took a wonderful field trip to the Bakersfield College Planetarium. We've studied in depth the European explorers, Jamestown, the Pilgrims and more.
Aly attended History Camp for a week at the Kern County Museum where she was transported back in time to the days of the Pioneers. She learned how to cook in a dutch oven, dig for gold, make candles, line dance and so much more.
Sav has memorized several adorable poems for her English program and has read her first 2 chapter books. She also wrote a very cute story all about birds in a nest a few days ago :)
Mir is being the spunky little 3 yr old that she always has been, and loves to do her preschool lessons while her sisters are doing their big kid lessons.
I'll have more posts on details about everything we've done soon, but in the mean time, I just wanted to say that I'm back and hadn't vanished forever ;)
See you soon!
