Three things.
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 09:48AM Lest I fall behind again... ;)
1. I actually managed to start back with our more structured homeschooling this week! Amid the spelling, US geography, US history, world geography, world history, manners, Latin, grammar and other stuff (and I even also baked a bundt cake, lol!)...I'm integrating a new writing curriculum into our homeschooling. (It's called Brave Writer. Thanks, Sue!)
One of the initial exercises focuses on the importance of good communication. One person draws something and then tries to talk another person through it so that he/she draws the same picture. We started out with simple arrangements of basic shapes...a circle, a triangle and a square. Within minutes, this is what Micah was saying to Asher..."draw a big Death Star in the middle...then draw a tie-fighter off at about 2:00...below that, in the lower right of the board, draw an x-wing..." And at Noah's turn to draw, we ended up with iPods with specific apps on the screen. ;) Of course, these more specific drawings turned out to match more closely than the basic shapes. They crack me up.
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(Yes, Asher and Micah rarely wear shirts indoors, lol.)
2. Micah proudly earned his orange belt on Thursday! Because he's still in the "peewee" classes (classes are divided by age), he doesn't do the whole promotion night thing like Asher does, so I had to try to snap some pictures at the end of class:
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He's pretty darn pleased with himself. True to form, though, he already taught himself the orange belt form and combinations months ago while Asher was still an orange belt. We'll see how long it takes for him to start trying to jump ahead to green belt stuff, lol.
3. It snowed again. :) We didn't get slammed like the areas south of us (that got more than a foot of snow)...just enough to cover everything and make for some fun snow play:
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Feeling so thankful that they're all old enough that I don't have to be outside with them any more. ;)
And that's what's been going on here since my last post. :) Now I'm off for a rather full weekend...stay warm!
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