Blessed at Home (Lighting the Fire): Monday-Longest Post EVER!

The BEST part of home-schooling! (Hug Time!)

AHH.. the joys of the computer age!.. I was completely frustrated on Friday as I had worked hard on a long addition to our homeschool blog.. just at the moment I was to upload it.. my computer froze and i lost the lengthy post I worked so hard on. (UGH).. So.. with a few days off from posting I am trying again.

Today was a good day.. although it seems to be filled with stresses. The puppy ate some chocolate last night.. so now of course she has a tummy ache.. She will be ok.. just needed a bit more attention today that I am use to having to give her. Also.. the boys are addicted to the trampoline! (you thought I was going to say video games didnt you?).. I am happy they find the jumping and flipping so fun but this addiction causes them to constantly ask "can we go jump?". Of course it is a blessing in a way.. They get busy to finish their work if they know they can jump when it is over. :)

We took math placement tests today. Everyone did great!

I am now ready to order their next set of math books. The tests took a bit of time. (Cats was longer than the boys) so between that and our Bible reading our morning was full. We are now in the Book of Exodus, and of course the kids LOVE hearing about Moses and Aaron. The kids color on their coloring pages while I read, they really do like it! Heres some of their work:

Cats Page

Josephs Page

Latin is coming along. We have almost all of our second poster of vocabulary down. And today during Memory time Nathan said "You prepare a MENSA (which is latin for table) before me
       in the presence of my enemies."
Then Cat added the Latin for the word Prepare: paro... (oh I just love it when Latin pops up while we are doing other things!)

Memory time today was spent on Latin, Scripture and Poetry. Here's two pages worth of what we are doing in memory time:

Psalm 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
       he leads me beside quiet waters,

3 he restores my soul.
       He guides me in paths of righteousness
       for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk
       through the valley of the shadow of death, [a]
       I will fear no evil,
       for you are with me;
       your rod and your staff,
       they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
       in the presence of my enemies.
       You anoint my head with oil;
       my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and love will follow me
       all the days of my life,
       and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
       forever.
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Psalms 34:13
13 keep your tongue from evil
       and your lips from speaking lies.
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1 Thessalonians 5:11, 15-18

11Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.

16Be joyful always; 17pray continually; 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

AND OUR POETRY: (the kids already know Jabberwocky and Ooey Goey.. but we say these just to keep them in our brain.. our goal is by the end of the week to have "The Ingenious Little Old Man" in our memory too!)

Ooey Gooey

Ooey Gooey was a worm
A mighty worm was he
He crawled upon the railroad track
The train he did not see
Ooey Gooey!!

The Ingenious Little Old Man by John Bennett

A little old man of the sea
Went out in a boat for a sail:
The water came in
Almost up to his chin
And he had nothing with which to bail.

But this little old man of the sea
Just drew out his jack-knife so stout,
And a hole with its blade
In the bottom he made,
So that all of the water ran out

JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Cat worked on her spelling list and Nate colored a picture for a friend while Joseph read to Mom. His eyes were pretty tired so we focused on just one paragraph and I had him read it four times until he read it without mistakes. Then I finished the book.
He is improving so much! I am so proud of him!