The month of February had many days of below zero temperatures and dangerous wind chills.
It made for a great month to focus on school, since we literally were hardly ever outside!
I shared a lot about our school rhythm here.
I enjoy taking photos of our school days!
It is the ordinary photos like these that we love to look back on the most!
We had a friend staying with us for a couple of weeks at the end of January and beginning of February, and the school room became a guest room.
That meant that the master bedroom became the school room!
One of the many homeschooling perks is that you can really do school any where and any time!
Ruby likes to be with us where ever we are!
She loved when we did school on the bed so she could be with us and watch out the window too.
We studied Europe for awhile.
One day when we read about this Turkish drink we decided to give it a try!
It was gross!!
But fun to try!
We learned about impressionism while studying Europe, which is a specific type of painting that was done by artists in the 19th century.
We watched several videos about it, and then decided to give it a try!
The kiddos love art day – which is usually Thursdays.
I even do art with them!
We do a lot of drawing in school as well, as the children do illustrations almost daily.
After our Europe study was done, we headed to Kenya and are now studying it and Africa.
It is fascinating!!
I still get cute notes on their cursive practice pages.
They make me smile.
This is Tate’s concentrating face, and I love it!
Lane has always been my student that I find in ALL kinds of places and positions!
Another perk of homeschooling!
Whatever works!!
I read aloud to the children almost every day.
Sometimes they are keeping their hands busy with other things, and sometimes they are just listening.
I LOVE to read to them!
While all of this is going on, Chad is working on his school at the kitchen table.
The pups will hang with Chad some days too, especially if there is sun streaming through the door!
Chad is at work all day on Mondays, so we use the main area more when he is not there.
We are very distracting when he is home trying to work on school!
Of course we are still starting our mornings with Bible time and chores – a rhythm that I have been using for over twenty years now!
On this particular day Eliza was struggling to get moving, so Tate did all of her chores!
He found her to tell her so, and then added “I haven’t done ice for you yet, but come on, Eliza, I will help you!”
I hope they always look out for each other.
It is just so sweet!!
All of that school work comes with a lot of grading for me to do!
I usually set aside an afternoon to work on it, but sometimes it has to wait to the weekend because it is just so busy!
The weather is warming up, although there is no guarantee that it will stick around!
We are enjoying it though!
Except for the fact that my children’s brains are outside the minute they wake up!
They have been having an outside time by 11:30 most days lately – and usually playing soccer on the deck because it is so muddy from all the melting snow.
Whatever gets their wiggles out and gets them out in the fresh air and sunshine works for me!
Well, next up on my agenda is to order some library books – so I better get after it!
Running this little school of ours and being these kiddos teacher is so much fun for me!!
Looking forward to many more days in our school room before we break for summer.
