Thursday Storms

Yesterday we had some rough storms pass through our way. I was over at a friends house when the storm came up and decided I would wade it out there and let it pass over. For one I dont like to drive in pouring down rain much less stormy weather. So when I came home there was a couple of trees down and debris in the road. But I was not expecting when I pulled in my driveway to see this tree laying in it. Apparently lightening hit the tree and this part fell down. So we now have a day of cutting the tree up (well the hubby will be cutting) and cleaning up the yard of limbs and debris.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Question and Answer

When I posted my curriculum choices I was asked this question:
Do you have any traditions for the beginning of the school year?

I thought about it and the answer would be no, we really dont have any traditons to start our school year off. Never really thought about doing anything to kind of kick our year off.  We do have school a couple of weeks and then take a week and head out on vacation, and that is a nice little break before we really get into our school work.


But this year we are going to get together with some friends and have some fun with them. So that will be cool before we have to buckle down into the books. I have also found a unit study on chocolate and I thought this could be fun...I mean who doesnt like chocolate..right.  We will be learning but at the same time having fun exploring the world of chocolate.


So do you have any traditons that you do before the beginning of the school year?

Curriculum 2010-2011

Well we are winding down the majority of the summer. It will be back to school in 2 weeks in our house. Looking forward to getting back into it, new things going this year. Bry will be a 6th grader and my little man will be a kindergartner, that time went way to fast for me. He is excited, already wants to start school. I think our curriculum choices are pretty much final just a few more things to pick up.
Our Curriculum for the 2010-2011 school year:
Bryanna:
History: Heart of Dakota--Creation to Christ
Math: Math U See--finish using Epsilon and then move into Zeta (love this program)
Science: Heart of Dakota--various books
Grammar: Shurley English
Spelling: Soaring with Spelling and vocabulary
Reading: Finish Little House on Prarie Primer and start Drawn into the Heart of Reading

BW:
History: Heart of Dakota--Little Hearts for His Glory
Math: Math U See--Primer
Science: Gods Wonderful Works
Phonics: Reading Made Easy The Reading Lesson
Writing: A Reason for Handwriting


We are going to go into it slow, have school for 3 weeks and then we are heading out for our family vacation. When we get back it will be time to really get into our schooling. I am  a little nervous about schooling two this year and being there are so many years apart kind of hard to do a lot with them together right now. I think we are going to do some unit studies together, looking at doing a study on chocolate first...yummy!

Hope all of my fellow homeschoolers are having a great summer and look forward to seeing what your school year brings for your family as well.