I cannot, just cannot believe we just finished our fifth week of school!!

AND – it’s September!

We are still having a blast around these parts!

I just love being with my crew and doing school with them!

The littles learned the letter “O” this week.

There were lots of fun things to go along with O!

We read many go along books, one of them about an owl….

….and then we made an owl! Using a celery stick to paint feathers with!

We painted some “O’s” with a cap. I thought this would be hard for Eliza, as there was potential for her hands to get paint on them. Which they did. She didn’t even blink an eye! Thank you therapy!!

We estimated with some O cereal! Gluten-free, of course! They loved this and giggled as they ate them all at the end!

We spent a morning learning about an octopus.

Did you know female octopus mate when they are about two years old, go into a den and lay about 200,000 eggs, protect them for six weeks without leaving to eat, and then once the babies hatch the female dies?

I didn’t either!

Everything we read about octopus just shows what an amazing Creator we have!

We also played a quick, little game of ABC recognition. Tate was seeming to not know what the names of the letters are. But this is not my first day being a teacher – if you know what I mean! So I tested them with cards. If they got the letter name right, they got to keep the card. If they got it wrong, I got to keep the card. Then at the end we would all trade in our cards for chocolate chips! Suddenly, mysteriously, Tate knew his letters. Ahem. Good thing he is so stinkin’ cute!

We started rowing a new book this week too.

It is called Albert.

It is completely adorable. And kept the kiddos mesmerized!

We have so much more to learn from this book – so we will continue to row it next week!

Well, there was just a peek into our fifth week of school!!

Minus a whole lot of other normal stuff that happens here everyday!

The weather here has been PERFECT. We have spent a lot of time outside too! I know it won’t be long before it is freezing cold!

Up next – unloading grocery! Addie Mae is working part-time now, and so I have a new grocery crew!!! YAY! She and the middles are on their way back to the farm now. I call her my mini me, but she likes to shop and I do not!

After that – date night! And tonight there is a certain young clone of Blake that gets to join Blake and I on our date because he earned it by memorizing and reciting 30 Bible verses!

Way to go Chad!

Hope you all had a great week too!

Happy LONG weekend, everyone!!