In addition to our normal ongoing long-term projects (like Timeline Notebook, USA Notebook, American History Stories, and lapbooks), Stephen completed Toymaker’s paper mayflower: while David made The First Thanksgiving Book: We also created a pilgrim “Thank You God” mini-book from Christian Preschool Printables, which tied our history sentence into our Attitude of Gratitude study. David […]
Native American Craft: Tom-Tom Drums
After a couple of months of drinking Nestle Quick, we’ve finally created the project that we originally planned to do this summer as part of our Native American study. But alas! It tied in nicely with our study of Pilgrims, Squanto, and the writing of a Native American poem…. Supplies Needed: Nestle Quick Can Can […]
Not-so-Fairy-Tales and CC Ongoing Projects
On this week’s episode of “Not-so-Fairy-tales from the Ferrell Funny Farm” Gary left for Tanzania Sunday morning, and we thus embarked on our first week without him for this school year. There’s a highly mathematical equation for this: Routine – Routine = No Routine The day he left we dealt with the accidental death of two of our […]
Utopia vs. Reality
Just thought I’d give a glimpse at what life has ACTUALLY been like for Week #1. This is just to prove that we don’t actually do all the stuff we plan because sometimes… life just is not so utopian. On Monday I was wildly racing to prepare for my first day of class (which was […]
When failure becomes success
In the midst of failure, it’s not always easy to see God’s purposes… About four years ago, I was in a set routine. I had already experienced life as an engineer for a Fortune 500, as well as life as a high school math teacher for everything from pre-calculus to lower level math (with students […]
Organized Chaos
With the added incentive of inviting our homeschool group to our home for a back-to-school bash, we finally went from this: AAAACCCKKKK!!!!!!!! to this: Just a few weeks ago I was saying: I’d like to say that we were trying to prove the Law of Increasing Disorder, so I will. You […]
“The Classroom Contest”
Using some of my thoughts surrounding a lack of organization that we happened to fall into at the end of last year, we entered a contest that I did not originally plan to enter. And it just so happens that we are now semi-finalists for a contest I did not originally plan to enter: The Simple Homeschool’s Classroom Contest […]
Summertime Stories: Part 3
In July we officially changed our sign: While we were over on that side of the farm, I opened up the door to the old guest house, which we have left in a state of de-construction because we are currently preparing to build onto our actual house. I subsequenty shut […]
Summertime Stories: Part 2
On Flag Day, the boys made a Flag Cake for MomMom’s birthday: And it just so happened that they were enrolled in the Macon County Arts Council Art in the Park, so they were able to make some homemade gifts for me in addition to the homemade cards they made: Summertime harvests started coming in… INCLUDING […]