I have so many photos that I haven’t posted, so I was thinking of a photo dump. Then I thought it would be more fun to have a theme for the photo dump, so here are some views of our tables taken since January up until this past week!
On the coffee table
The best-ever souvenir purchased on Disney property: a $7.95, 750-piece puzzle.
On the hard-rock maple table in our library
The iPad with The Story of Us: The Dust Bowl on it
Beautiful illustrations—hand-drawn and colored by our 8-year-olds in the same style of H.A. Rey—while we read-aloud the book The Journey That Saved Curious George (highly recommend this book!!!)
9th grader working on his English class (Literary Analysis)
9th grader working on Chemistry class work
4-year-old working on shape page. She traced them herself with templates and then colored them in too.
A history project in progress. This board was later finished by Li’l Miss, who is in 2nd grade and studied Jews HA and Margret Rey and their escape from wartime Europe during Hitler’s atrocities against Jews.
A $1 pencil pouch of goodness. One full set of newly-sharpened colored pencils AND a sharpener ready for on-the-go learning!
Math Stations and Games for mastery in addition and subtraction and counting for Li’l Bit
Science Class Experiment/Assignment in Progress {Make a Homemade Flashlight–yes, they worked!}
Magnet Exploration (extension of our 2nd graders’ science class at the tutorial)
Leprechaun Traps in the Making
Bible Study in the Book of John
On the kitchen table
The best-ever pan-fried tilapia, fried dill pickles, fresh pineapple and baked potatoes, all prepared by our 15-year-old son. He is cooking dinner most every Monday night, which includes fresh fish prepared by the chef’s choice.
Dishes being set by 4-year-old Li’l Bit, who is an excellent kitchen helper.
Freshly-made deer jerky
Sauteed Apples with Deer Steak, Frozen (from fresh) Corn, and Oven-Roasted Potatoes (anyone hungry now?)
Deer Chili (almost an entire 5-quart pot GONE!)
St. Patrick’s Day Meal (with a special rainbow with “pots” of gold at the end)
Deer Summer Sausage
On the camper table
A box of 48 (yes, 48!) Pop-Tarts, which happens to be a rare treat around here. Oh, how I miss Disney! I really do!
A foil packet with potatoes, peppers, onion, mushrooms and spices cooked to perfection on the open fire at our campsite on a recent trip!
On the back porch table
Seed packets, gardening gloves and tools, potato bulbs … yes, we’ve planted FOUR gardens of goodness. We can’t wait for our plants to flourish and provide. We hope to live off the land a lot this spring and summer. We shall see.
On the 2nd graders’ table
MadLibs Junior—such fun for introducing parts of speech!
Math Games
Activities for ELA and math that can be found in my TpT store. (If you’d like to learn more about them, you can just click on the photos.)
Phew! That was quite a photo dump. I hope it gives you a long glimpse into our days in recent months. We are still schooling though our tutorial has finished for the school year. I am considering some curriculum purchases and have ruled out others. I continue to think though some changes in our classroom set-up and management of that.
I am leaving on a mission trip in 17 DAYS!!!
To China.
For 10 days.
To love on orphans.
Wow! God is GOOD!
