September Happenings

After vacation we started our new "Drama Club", which consists of my family, the N Family and the M Family (totalling15 kids between the three families).  Our project for the fall is "Mid-Summer Night Dream", I wanted to give everyone some exposure to Shakespeare.  Since all my children have time on their hands this fall, all my children will be participating.  Surprisingly, they are all doing well and having fun.

This month we also started attending "Homeschool Chapel", this month.  Families get together on Friday for a small liturgical service (singing, reading of the word and Heidelberg Catechism) and the Pastor teaches for about an hour.  This years topic is "Church History", this is a topic I am not well versed on.  The kids and I are thoroughly enjoying the interactive learning.  They also enjoy the time afterward playing and getting to know people, as do I.

On September 13th, we re-homed a bunch of our older chickens to make room in the main coop for the new chicks.  We could have tried to sell them but putting out an ad in the homeschool community and giving them away was much quicker.  They went to four different homes but they were all gone in one day, before Chris and Lance even got back from Virginia.  I think from now on I'll re-home the chickens as soon as their production slows down (about two years), if we alternate breeds it will be easy to know which ones to get rid of which years.

On September 24th, we finished our 14 week Chemistry Intensive with the S Family.  Two of their children needed a high school chemistry credit and since Jared did too, I agreed to teach the class over the summer.  It is so nice to enter the fall semester knowing that Lance and Jared are done with Science for the year.  I used to knock out a subject over the summer each year in Florida.  I hadn't done it in years but I will definitely start again.  It just makes the school days so much smoother with one less subject, plus doing an intensive over the summer gives a break from the other subjects too, which is nice.

On September 27th, from Chris.....Jared read “Pets to the rescue brave Norman” to Amber before bed tonight. After finishing the book he declared out load “Where are all the pronouns in this book”??? Lol. That’s my homeschooled boy!!! 

I’ve seen the cats sleep in some strange places and what appears to be uncomfortable spots but this is the new number one.