Our kids had no official Summer break. We were glad to come across a sale of old school desks. We got these two and two others that we will be saving and moving to their schoolhouse in a year or so. They love schooling. Quadson concentrates well, occasionally getting off track. Leslie schools for a hot minute then is ready to move on. She is not ready for solo study yet like big brother.
Our daily lesson begins with devotion... a story or lesson from the Bible, then an activity that relates. Here, the kids do an antique-ing of the Ten Commandents that they had just learned...got to give them that old scroll look.
They like hands-on activities.
The boy can swim!!!!!!!!!!
Miss Mandy was the most wonderful swimming instructor, even though she was a huge McCain Palin supporter, and we weren't. We had fun with it though.
He was definitely the star student, but the other two students excelled tremendously. The water was like fire lava to these little girls the way they screamed. They ended the class feeling very comfortable in and under the water. That Mandy is good.
Leslie ended the Summer months attending her cousin, Nadia's birthday party.
They had a ball. Our child loves cake!!
Monique, the lone carnivore in the family got a birthday treat when I took her to a Brazilian restaurant. There is a buffet of great salads, seafood and yummy sides, but for the course of your meal, these guys visit your table with a different slab of some kind of meat on this stick. She was in heaven.
Our kids are true blessings. We had the best summer. They both are into salads now as long as it has some good toppings like mango or mandarin oranges or shaved almonds or sesame sticks. The thing on the side is an onion ring volcano stack. Gotta have fun with food when you can.
