A great big welcome to the newest member of Chaos! I think you need a new name! I am campaigning for "Sugar Cookie!"
-The Mama
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A great big welcome to the newest member of Chaos! I think you need a new name! I am campaigning for "Sugar Cookie!"
-The Mama
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bon
Wednesday
Today is the day that the girls go to piano lessons... Henry cannot start lessons till he is a better reader, but rest assured he's all about getting his chance! The piano teacher is the sweetest lady, and she is very free with the treats. Henry can't wait for his chance to score the goodies!
All three girls been assigned Christmas songs to work on. Brings me HUGE amounts of joy, and makes me feel touch wistful for the upcoming holidays to listen to them practice.
Makes me feel like making and looking at Christmas ornaments.
My Birdie is pining for Christmas too. Or rather, she has been drooping and sighing about how far away Christmas is, since August. I ask if she really would wish away all the fun that comes before then, including Halloween, which is a Big Deal in Chaos. She says yes.
I don't believe her. Not really. This year Halloween is an even bigger deal since she is putting together a most epic costume of a suit of armor. Alphonse Elric.
All three girls been assigned Christmas songs to work on. Brings me HUGE amounts of joy, and makes me feel touch wistful for the upcoming holidays to listen to them practice.
Makes me feel like making and looking at Christmas ornaments.
My Birdie is pining for Christmas too. Or rather, she has been drooping and sighing about how far away Christmas is, since August. I ask if she really would wish away all the fun that comes before then, including Halloween, which is a Big Deal in Chaos. She says yes.
I don't believe her. Not really. This year Halloween is an even bigger deal since she is putting together a most epic costume of a suit of armor. Alphonse Elric.
We will, no doubt, post pics of it when she is done.
Yiyah is putting together a Cosplay-type Cat Girl. She has a few bits that we've picked up from the 2nd hand store that we plan to tweak.
Pearl found a darling hoodie at the thrift store that someone had added dragon details to, so we are gonna use that as a base for some tweaks as well.
Henry is a skeleton. Always a skeleton. For a few days this year he was leaning toward maybe a grim reaper... till he was confronted with skeleton costumes. Then it was skelly. I think his first, ever Halloween I dressed him as a pirate using a costume that a friend gave us.... but from the moment he could express a preference it has been Bones, all the way down the line.
Let's just say that Henry is NOT dying for Christmas. He is mightily disgusted with all the Christmas decorations at the store, when all he wants to see are frights, ghouls and especially a rattling full sized skelly that lights up. Lowes had one yesterday and it was love at first sight. Too bad for the $90 price tag, and the fact that, oh yeah! We aren't buying any more Halloween anything this year!
Last night Dadguy and I went and picked up a couch from KSL.com, a lovely nine year old couch for the basement. When he found out how much we had paid for it, Henry was deeply perturbed that we would go and spend a hundred bucks on some stupid couch when we could have had that skeleton.
He was still talking about it today.
Homeschool? Oh. Yeah. We did get math and reading and the Bird Reports all turned in... but we did not manage to do our read aloud. I just started reading them The Hobbit yesterday.... tomorrow, I guess. Tomorrow after we get back from their Aunt T'Amy's house. They have music theory on Thursday mornings.
And chores. And practicing. And getting all the seeds from the sunflower heads removed and boiled in salt water. And harvesting the last of the tomatoes. And more math. And reading. and, and, and...
As crazy-packed as our days are, and as challenging as it sometimes is to do our learning at home... I think the most nerve wracking part is trusting that everyone will end up with what they need to succeed and be happy.
Praying like crazy.
-The Mama
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bon
The Lowes Adventure
It all started when we were going out on a walk,
The Mama heard that Henry accidentally chucked the
top to his scythe but, theres a problem, we had to go
thru the big, BIG, plants(by plants i mean: weeds.)
that were BIG and bushy, and... mostly pokey.
there was roses too, and they had, BIG POKEY,
THORNS!!!!! and there was a problem, Henry
was wearing SHORTS!!!! which totally tic'ed me off!!!
here are some photos of the trail we took. But, there is
a VERY LONG DROP on one side, so we had to be careful.
this is Henry walking the trail.
I think this tree is pretty.
this is my awesome sister Burdi.
Post written by Pearl
(age eight)
Posted by
bon
poetry parts
so... Yayah here...
um... yah...
so first up I'm going to tell you this, i has a broken wrist so..yah... on with de writing!!!
ima randomly write poetry.
leaves falling from the trees.
its Autumn.
wrappers littering the streets,
mingling with the leaves and fog.
ghosts roaming the roads.
cats yowling in alleys.
i dare you.
bones on the floor...
and... BOO!
happy Halloween!
so at the moment i am playing aj (animal jam) if you don't know what it is play it and find out!!
its super cool!!
um... yah...
so first up I'm going to tell you this, i has a broken wrist so..yah... on with de writing!!!
ima randomly write poetry.
leaves falling from the trees.
its Autumn.
wrappers littering the streets,
mingling with the leaves and fog.
ghosts roaming the roads.
cats yowling in alleys.
i dare you.
bones on the floor...
and... BOO!
happy Halloween!
so at the moment i am playing aj (animal jam) if you don't know what it is play it and find out!!
its super cool!!
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bon
The Bird Speaks
Woohoo! The Bird herself is writing the second post.
I'm here by request to explain to you how our homeschooling thing works, from my point of view.
On the normal day, I drag myself out of bed at 8:30-9:00 in the morning (usually with the aid of my little bro Henry) to show up for family scriptures and prayer. After that we kiss our Dad goodbye until 5:30 tonight, and eat breakfast.
Sometimes we'll go on a walk to the park that's less than a mile away for P.E. Other times, in the summer, we'll walk down to the snow cone shack called Lucky's, which is super close to us. And sometimes we'll just walk around the block or something. We'll water the garden in the spring, summer, and early fall, and pick the fruits of our labors. This was the first year of our new garden and we got almost thirty jars of pickles! It was amazing. We also got a load of huge pumpkins.
After the walk comes Read Aloud! Today we read six chapters of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Sometimes we will take turns reading aloud (I always have the longest!), but a lot of the time Mama does the reading, because it's fun to listen to her act out the characters. She screams and yells and whoops and hollers. It's quite entertaining, but a lot of the time it provokes laughter and the running around of little tiny persons.
Right after Read Aloud is when we'll do our chores and Practicing. We have condensed all the numerous house chores into four major chores -- Public Rooms, Bath/Laundry, Dishes, and Kitchen. I start out with Dishes, Yayah with Kitchen, Pearl with Bath/Laundry, and Henry with Public Rooms. The chores rotate every day. Today I happened to be assigned to Kitchen.
Practicing isn't nearly as complicated. All three of us girls (Me, Yayah and Pearl) take piano lessons from an amazing teacher about a 10 minute's drive from us, so we all have piano practice to do, which we take in turns. We're all getting pretty good! For Henry's practice, he reads to The Mama. He's getting really good!
My sisters are always complaining that I take too long on the piano. I'm here to say, it's not my fault that I have so many songs to practice! What's wrong with writing my own stuff and loving music? Writing music takes time! Ugg!
Math. Grr. Algebra, Pre-Algebra, Negative Numbers, Geometry, grr. Great grinding of teeth. It's not that bad, actually. It's just a pain. We'll have separate times to do it, and we'll usually do it with Mama -- we call it one on one time, or LOL, because that's what it looks like when you write it like this: 1O1. And lately we've taken to an idea that Yayah invented -- the MATH BATH, a way to memorize your multiplication tables. All you have to do is hop in the tub and practice. Hot water works miracles.
Lately, we've been studying birds, so after Math we'll sometimes watch what we call the Bird Show. It's actually a bird documentary called "The Life Of Birds" by David Attenborough. And we're also working on Bird Reports to earn another trip to Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake. I did mine on ravens. They're so cool! I think Yayah did hers on mockingbirds, and I don't know what Pearl did. If we have all of the reports turned in by Tuesday next week, we can feed the Conures at Tracy Aviary! I'm so excited!
The school day normally comes to a close after this. This was the normal Homeschool day! Hooray. Things are different when we earn a party or go on a field trip. Last week we finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so we stuffed ourselves silly with marshmallows and chocolate and watched both the new and the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movies. That's awesome.
After the school day is over, we're allowed nearly free reign on the electronics. Me, personally, I'll check FanFiction.net, my gmail, look up songs on Youtube, watch some of my current obsession (FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!!!), and work on my novel and the numerous other side stories I'm writing. Sometimes I'll play Minecraft, too. But that's just me.
It's dinnertime when Dadguy comes home. We'll eat, Dadguy will catch up with us, and then he'll run off to his PS4 to play Destiny on our NEW 60-INCH FLATSCREEN TV! Love it. If I'm lucky, then I'll have a chance to review my favorite fan fictions on FanFiction.net and write a little bit after dinner. And then if I'm really lucky, mama will watch FullMetal Alchemist with me!
Up until a little bit ago, we used to have Art class with a bunch of other kids, but we stopped.
That is what my day normally consists of. Throw in a few visits from my cousin, who lives only 4 miles away, toss some codfish into the mix, and sprinkle it with sarcasm, and that's my life. I do other things at bedtime, too, like read my scriptures, write in my "inspiration spot" smack dab in the middle of the floor, look at some of my art, and play with my parakeets.
I'm here by request to explain to you how our homeschooling thing works, from my point of view.
On the normal day, I drag myself out of bed at 8:30-9:00 in the morning (usually with the aid of my little bro Henry) to show up for family scriptures and prayer. After that we kiss our Dad goodbye until 5:30 tonight, and eat breakfast.
Sometimes we'll go on a walk to the park that's less than a mile away for P.E. Other times, in the summer, we'll walk down to the snow cone shack called Lucky's, which is super close to us. And sometimes we'll just walk around the block or something. We'll water the garden in the spring, summer, and early fall, and pick the fruits of our labors. This was the first year of our new garden and we got almost thirty jars of pickles! It was amazing. We also got a load of huge pumpkins.
Some of the many results of our garden this year. That's barely half the pickles we got.
Also, our Grandma getting her snow cone at Lucky's.
After the walk comes Read Aloud! Today we read six chapters of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Sometimes we will take turns reading aloud (I always have the longest!), but a lot of the time Mama does the reading, because it's fun to listen to her act out the characters. She screams and yells and whoops and hollers. It's quite entertaining, but a lot of the time it provokes laughter and the running around of little tiny persons.
Right after Read Aloud is when we'll do our chores and Practicing. We have condensed all the numerous house chores into four major chores -- Public Rooms, Bath/Laundry, Dishes, and Kitchen. I start out with Dishes, Yayah with Kitchen, Pearl with Bath/Laundry, and Henry with Public Rooms. The chores rotate every day. Today I happened to be assigned to Kitchen.
Practicing isn't nearly as complicated. All three of us girls (Me, Yayah and Pearl) take piano lessons from an amazing teacher about a 10 minute's drive from us, so we all have piano practice to do, which we take in turns. We're all getting pretty good! For Henry's practice, he reads to The Mama. He's getting really good!
My sisters are always complaining that I take too long on the piano. I'm here to say, it's not my fault that I have so many songs to practice! What's wrong with writing my own stuff and loving music? Writing music takes time! Ugg!
Math. Grr. Algebra, Pre-Algebra, Negative Numbers, Geometry, grr. Great grinding of teeth. It's not that bad, actually. It's just a pain. We'll have separate times to do it, and we'll usually do it with Mama -- we call it one on one time, or LOL, because that's what it looks like when you write it like this: 1O1. And lately we've taken to an idea that Yayah invented -- the MATH BATH, a way to memorize your multiplication tables. All you have to do is hop in the tub and practice. Hot water works miracles.
Lately, we've been studying birds, so after Math we'll sometimes watch what we call the Bird Show. It's actually a bird documentary called "The Life Of Birds" by David Attenborough. And we're also working on Bird Reports to earn another trip to Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake. I did mine on ravens. They're so cool! I think Yayah did hers on mockingbirds, and I don't know what Pearl did. If we have all of the reports turned in by Tuesday next week, we can feed the Conures at Tracy Aviary! I'm so excited!
The school day normally comes to a close after this. This was the normal Homeschool day! Hooray. Things are different when we earn a party or go on a field trip. Last week we finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so we stuffed ourselves silly with marshmallows and chocolate and watched both the new and the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movies. That's awesome.
After the school day is over, we're allowed nearly free reign on the electronics. Me, personally, I'll check FanFiction.net, my gmail, look up songs on Youtube, watch some of my current obsession (FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!!!), and work on my novel and the numerous other side stories I'm writing. Sometimes I'll play Minecraft, too. But that's just me.
An example of Henry using his electronic time to play Animal Jam.
It's dinnertime when Dadguy comes home. We'll eat, Dadguy will catch up with us, and then he'll run off to his PS4 to play Destiny on our NEW 60-INCH FLATSCREEN TV! Love it. If I'm lucky, then I'll have a chance to review my favorite fan fictions on FanFiction.net and write a little bit after dinner. And then if I'm really lucky, mama will watch FullMetal Alchemist with me!
Up until a little bit ago, we used to have Art class with a bunch of other kids, but we stopped.
That is what my day normally consists of. Throw in a few visits from my cousin, who lives only 4 miles away, toss some codfish into the mix, and sprinkle it with sarcasm, and that's my life. I do other things at bedtime, too, like read my scriptures, write in my "inspiration spot" smack dab in the middle of the floor, look at some of my art, and play with my parakeets.
The unnaturally tidy "inspiration spot" in my room.
But that's basically it! Each day is a little different, of course, but this is the typical day in the School Of Chaos. From my point of view.
Because this picture has to be shown. Silly Henry.
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bon
El Post-o Numero Uno
Allo.
Testing one two three.
Meet the Stone Army and our marvelous School of Chaos. We homeschool. Shall we introduce you to the main players?
The Mama- age none-a-ya beeswax
Dadguy- ditto
Birdie- age 12.... seventh grade-ish
Yayah- age 10... fifth grade-ish
Pearl- age 8 (for the next few weeks)...third grade-ish
Henry- age 5 (for the time beans) ... Kindergartenish
The purpose of our homeschool blog? A glimpse into the workings of a homeschooling/unschooling/ish/type family... thingie.
This is what we do and how we do it. It is a little nerdy, a touch non-sequitor, artsy, crunchy....
Boy! Is it chaotic!
This year's back-to-school photos:
Testing one two three.
Meet the Stone Army and our marvelous School of Chaos. We homeschool. Shall we introduce you to the main players?
The Mama- age none-a-ya beeswax
Dadguy- ditto
Birdie- age 12.... seventh grade-ish
Yayah- age 10... fifth grade-ish
Pearl- age 8 (for the next few weeks)...third grade-ish
Henry- age 5 (for the time beans) ... Kindergartenish
The purpose of our homeschool blog? A glimpse into the workings of a homeschooling/unschooling/ish/type family... thingie.
This is what we do and how we do it. It is a little nerdy, a touch non-sequitor, artsy, crunchy....
Boy! Is it chaotic!
This year's back-to-school photos:
Henry
Pearl
Birdie
Yayah
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bon
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