Surprise Lunch

We studied this week some about the stars, and how God garnished the heavens (Job 26:13).  This naturally led us to a discussion of what a garnish is and how it is normally used, like in decorating food.   Our lesson suggested that when you use a garnish, it can make the person receiving the food…

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Pumpkin Math

 We did a hands-on math day today in honor of Fall.  Pumpkin Math!We took weights, lengths, circumferences, estimates, and graphed all of our results on a bar graph.Each boy got a pumpkin and got to experiment with many different math terms and calculations.To estimate circumference, each boy cut a string corresponding to the length that…

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Bountiful Blessings of Fall

Little Acorn Boy and I jumped at the opportunity for free green beans for the pickin’ by some of our friends here. We picked and picked and got two buckets full.  Not bad. Little Acorn is a great talker and a pretty good picker too. Next day for part of our school, all of the…

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Our New Blog

Welcome to our new blog! I hope to on this blog keep a record of our family’s homeschool projects, field trips, and updates.  I’ve never blogged before, and I’m just learning to navigate the blog pages.  Once the kinks are worked out, I hope that this will be a place for our family and friends…

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