Homeschooling journal:
Sewing lessons of various sorts. Alphabet puzzle. Discussion of St. Jude and the fire on his head in the picture. Why we don’t fight over books – they tear. Cats eat mice.
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Zoo! May 13, 2011
Homeschooling journal:
We had a good trip to the zoo with Katie, Cylis, and Micah this morning. Lucy told Cylis about the Spanish moss, and we saw the tiger and black bears moving around and the white alligators up close. Most of the time we let the kids play in the water at Monkey Hill, then the thunder started and we had to make a run for the shelter in the swamp exhibit. Lucy panicked at the thunder. We finally walked back in the rain after lunch, and got to the gates just as the sun was coming back out.
December 6, 2010
Only two months since the last entry…
Homeschooling Journal
Lucy’s BD party was Sunday (the 5th), so cleaning, baking, pizza making, and socializing all occured.
Lots of dress-up, including one “queen” being chased by one “tiger”.
The manger scenes are out, and were in constant use for a couple of days. Lucy remarked several times that she “can’t wait for baby Jesus to come”, as the whole thing is a little empty without Him.
Trip to the zoo with Dad for Lucy’s actual birthday.
October 3, 2010
Lucy partook of PBS this morning. I’m not sure what she actually learned from Curious George (about recycling) and The Cat in the Hat (about tails), but it was better than watching the same Disney movies she usually watches at Nana and Papa’s house, I guess.
Today we went to mass at SJV and had donuts afterward. Lucy is getting better at being quiet, although she still lets it be known that she is not really enjoying herself. Samantha spent most of the time outside, since she kept throwing very noisy fits.
October 2, 2010
Ah, Saturday. It was family day for a change. We went to Lafrinere Park and walked around. The girls and I toured the bird/nutria walk while Craig did some reading for his comps, and we had a picnic lunch on a park bench.
The rest of the day was spent driving in circles looking at properties between here and Baton Rouge, and with Mimi and B-Bob. Pork roast was enjoyed by all. :)
October 1, 2010
Homeschooling journal:
Trip to the library this morning for fairy-tale books. The castle was closed so the girls actually looked at books and did the coloring sheets instead of running around in it.
Lucy spent close to an hour sitting on the couch looking at (non-library) books before lunch.
September 30, 2010
Homeschooling journal:
Our first trip with the girls to adoration. Theresa’s school has a short one followed by pizza, and most of the prayer time was busy with music, so it went surprisingly well. Samantha still needs to learn an inside voice, but Lucy sat still and looked at her picture Bible most of the time. And they enjoyed the pizza.
I read Lucy a good chunk of the Rhyme Bible and the story of Daniel from one of the others today.
Babies and Sisters…
It’s amazing how kids learn. It’s so totally effortless. There are always the examples of four-year-olds casually using curse words in polite company, much to their parents’ embarrassment, or course. Yesterday, on the other hand, Lucy was walking around the house with her Fish do the Strangest Things book, standing on top of things, holding the book in front of her, and proclaiming, “A reading from Saint Paul. Babies and sisters…” I stopped in my tracks. She is clearly paying much closer attention while she wiggles away through Mass than we have been giving her credit for. (I asked about the “babies”, and she seemed to think that made more sense than “brothers”, which is understandable I guess since she has a severe lack of brothers at the moment.) Anyway, we are redoubling efforts to have such good influences and Saint Paul and his letters around, so that her osmosis can do its thing.
We are one Body
We went to a “young adult” gathering in the Baton Rouge diocese last night, and it got me thinking. So I’m really just thinking out loud (as it were) here, most of this isn’t clearly formed yet, but it has been bothering me for a while. The meeting itself was fine, they had a change of plan since the speaker had to cancel, so we had dinner, discussed what we would like to see from the young adult ministry (they’re really just getting started) and then had a brief prayer service. But it was the assumptions underlying the conversation that interested me most.
Mmmm…bread
Today’s lesson: how the bread machine works. Including discussion of the heating element, the rotary motion of the mixing paddle, basic and more elaborate bread ingredients, etc. The bread machine then got a good scrubbing. What subject does that go under? : )
