Home Schooling Highlights - April

This photo is all I have from the entire month of April.

My dear son developed an affinity for my camera and deleted all the photos on it. I had not saved them to my computer yet. (sigh and grrr). So this month, the highlights will all by written.

At the end of March, we welcomed Maria to our home for a month. She is from Columbia. We enjoyed the month with her and I'm unhappy to have lost all my pics of her but hopefully someone, somewhere will have a few of her with us.

We celebrated Easter with family and friends. Our homeschooling friends The McEwens came over for an Easter Egg Hunt. It was a riot.

The next week, we went to gym day and I was in charge of the craft room. We made tissue paper flowers and pet rocks. I have the pet rocks so will take some pics of them again soon.

The following week the boys had their Awana year end banquet. They did very well, each completing their books for this year. That's a lot of bible memorizing.

Lucas spent a weekend in Simcoe with his Grandpa Jim and Nana Jo. The younger two are eagerly awaiting their turn for a weekend at grandpa's. Meanwhile, the younger two boys got to visit the Early Years Center with big brother away.

The week after that, we said farewell to Maria. The boys came to the "fancy dinner" with just mom (dad is in busy season). They were REALLY GOOD. Napkins on laps, using manners, not fighting or being too squirmy. I was so proud of them!

We had a profitable month in school work and are almost finished with Grammar and Reading Comprehension. We will have writing and spelling left, as well as Math. I'd like to concentrate on Carter's phonics a bit more in May and June too. This summer we'll do a unit on Canadian geography as we hopefully head to the east coast. We'll do some nature studies on our camping trips and make the most of the seasons outdoors.

We had a lot of rain at the end of the month, so in between showers we've been trying to get the garden ready for planting. It's been slow going. We also didn't sign up for any sports because I knew we'd be getting our passes for Safari Niagara and this year, Marineland in May and begin visiting often through May and June. July is shaping up to be pretty busy for our family and in August it will be grounded in Niagara with houseguests coming from Korea and Soccer starting up again.

I'm glad that we've kept to the basics this year as we've tried to adjust to home schooling. There's lots for us to learn together (especially me) but I'm still so happy we followed this path and am grateful that we've been able to make it work so far :)  Happy May everyone!