September 22, 2010

• We’ve been having so much fun!  We’ve ben VERY busy, but not in a bad way AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  We’ve had so much fun watching and learning about our fish.  We’ve added more fishies and now have 19 (we started with 20).

                     

  One of the smaller neon tetra fish has disappeared.  I might have even accidentally thrown a rock or shell over it while I rearranged the gravel colors and shells at the bottom of the aquarium.

                      
  

  I’m still not liking the yellow green background paper taped to the glass.  If we had a light blue, the neon tetras would show up with bright, neon blue stripes.  When I bought them, I didn’t realize they mirror they backdrop through their bodies. 

  Live and learn!  

  And, we are.

       
                                      Do you see the brandy sniffer glass on top of the tank?

  
  Guess why it’s there??????

      
  We have itty, bitty, babies!   Two neon tetras and one black molly.  SO PERFECTLY FORMED BY GOD!!!!!!

  They have everything the big fishies have except size!!!!!!!!

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  We are on our second week of full day school.

                          

  In history, we learned about Christopher Columbus. 

  This year, there is a test & quiz booklet, as well as a geography booklet.  Filling in the blanks is uncharted territory for them and only one child is doing well.  Oh well, that’s my job . . . to persevere

  and TEACH!!!!

  There is a larger amount of work with these higher grade levels, and it’s taking us longer to complete stuff each day. 

  We may have to revamp by starting school earlier, at intervals of 30 minutes.  We start around 10 and finish around 2:30.  That includes a lunch break.  Looks like that’s not going to be enough time, this year.

      

  AND, since I’ve made a promise to myself to include music and art, this year, that makes more subjects to accomplish than before!

  After learning that Christopher Columbus’s family were weavers and they had wanted him to become the same, we did an art project  “weaving” paper. 

  I wanted to show them how thread is woven to make cloth.  Also (the lost art) darning socks.

              

  The response was a good one.

      
                            

  Today we are going to tear the white paper off the paper “fabric” so they can see the end result of weaving!

         

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  I continue to eBay shop and have started looking for fall/winter tops in thrift stores.  We’ve been blessed with near to new clothing and some pieces still holding their store tag.  Hard to believe we only have a few weeks of really warm weather left. 

  It’s become easier to cook things in the oven because the low 90′s are easier on the air conditioning system!  October is normally a beautiful month of nice weather with leaves beginning to turn at the end of October.

  Yayyyyy for fall!

  Be Blessed  ~

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