My focus has shifted lately to some winter-like projects I do every year, even though it has been in the 60’s this fall around these parts.

When my focus shifts to something like big winter projects, other things usually fall away without much notice -until they are noticed!

I haven’t been good about taking photos of school lately.

It takes thought and purpose to do so in the midst of our busy school days!

And then it takes time to edit them, upload them and post about them!

I LOVE to look back at photos of school since time passes so quickly though.

I better make a note to remind myself to take more photos!

I do have a few to add to my little scrapbook here!

The littles were learning the letter “P” when I took these photos of painting with pom poms!

SO fun!

This is the look I get from Tate when I tell him to smile with his eyes open!!

I am still loving paper plate crafts, and “P” week had us making a pink pig.

Last week we rowed the book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and besides so many fun things we learned about, we water colored a picture of Mrs. Rabbit.

Lane’s favorite school assignment is illustrating in his Science journal.

The week before last we rowed the book Wee Gillis.

Such a cute story!

We spent one day learning about our lungs.

The kids loved seeing how much air capacity each of them had in their lungs by doing this experiment.

We also cut some straws to make them make musical sounds, since we were learning about bag pipes.

They were SO loud! And they mysteriously disappeared during nap time!

During our lunch and play visit to Kayla’s this week, we put together some gift bags to hand out to people in need.

This week and next week we are having a unit study on Thanksgiving!

I ordered as many picture books as I could find about Thanksgiving from the library, and we are making all kinds of crafts too.

Chad even likes to participate! I love that about homeschooling!

The littles have been learning the letter “K” this week.

Painting “K’s” with glue and then sprinkling them with Kool Aid made school smell rather fruity!

In Math Lane is learning equations with an unknown number, and Chad is working on Finance right now. Lane tells his Daddy almost word for word what he learned about flying creatures in Science each night, and Chad is 3/4 of the way through his Human Physiology and Anatomy curriculum. They both have beautiful cursive handwriting, and Chad’s typing skills are gaining speed. Lane never misses a spelling word on his spelling test each week, and Chad is flying through the Spelling Power curriculum. Chad announced to us this week that he wants to attend Seminary and become a Pastor. I better kick into high gear for Chad’s High School years!

These days are BUSY. We are enjoying them to the fullest though! The kiddos are challenged, learning, growing and joyful. That means prayers are being answered and my goals are being accomplished!

Praise be to Him!