FINALLY!

Just got the phone call we have been waiting nearly two years for! We were picked to adopt two foster siblings! I cannot describe the feeling I have right now! Shock and Awe!

The boys can't seem to focus on their work! My mind is going a million different directions!

I cant wait to share pictures, but that will have to wait till they are ours!

Two cool things I want to remember. One is that their foster mom homeschools, so that may be a factor in our finally being chosen. Two is the biggest reason she did not adopt them herself is because every night the boy would pray for a dad, he has never had one and his foster mom is single. She gave up keeping them to give him his dream. I hope Farmer is up for the challenge! This boy has some expectations of what a dad does and we aim to please!

So now we will have Farmer boys 1,2, and 3 and a Farmer's Daughter!

Prayers are always answered, either yes, no, or wait! So all the times we prayed for certain kids God was telling us to wait. He had our kids in mind all along!


I am excited to begin this journey! Our eyes are open, we know it wont be an easy road, but we are ready!

Blessings,
Farmer's Wife

Sunday Morning

So we needed a new family pic to go along with our homestudy. Hopefully it will help the staff like us and actually pick us for a child or children!!!

I had to take the opportunity while we were all fresh and clean before getting dressed for church! We ran outside, plopped on a blanket, and I set the camera on a stepladder and set the timer. I should have kept some of the funny shots when I was trying to sit down, fix my hair, and shoo the cat!!!

My knees are wet because I kneeled down before I thought about the ground being wet!

I think it is cute, considering we don't have any recent pictures of our family. I really need to take more pics of my kids. They are growing so fast!

Pageant Pics

Just some cute shots I took of a friends daughter for a pageant. She is a cutie!

2012-13 Curriculum

A Little Schoolhouse 2012-2013 Curriculum

I have decided to finally use this blog I have been saving for a couple of years. I guess I just needed to start somewhere! This post is so I can begin recording what we study each year.This will be our 4th year homeschooling! Wow! I am becoming more confident as we go even though we are entering the more challenging years. I have seen my focus for our family shift to more spiritual growth allowing academics to come alongside after. It has made a world of difference in all our attitudes!

We are using Ambleside Online year 6 as our base with other books added or removed as needed. Studying Modern day, then beginning again with ancients. Both boys are in the same AO year, with the 8^th grader doing higher math and science, and additional grammar work.

BIBLEContinue reading through the Bible in a year Continue sermon work
Book of Acts
Life of Paul

Memory
Historical speeches and long passages of scripture, TBD

Citizenship
T1
Shakespeare play, King Lear
T2,3
Plutarch lives: Pericles, Fabius, Nicias

History/History Tales/ Biographies
T1
What Everyone should know about the 20^th Century, Axlerod (selections)
Tales from Ancient Egypt,, Green
T2
Augustus Caesar’s World, Foster
The Story of the Greeks, Guerber
Genesis, Finding our Roots, Beechick
T3
Augustus Caesar’s World, Foster
The Story of the Romans, Guerber
Never Give In, Churchill, Mansfield

 Watch The Sound of Music(T1), Swiss Family Robinson(T1) The Ten Commandments(T1), The Hobbit(T2), Ben Hur(T3)

Book of Centuries
Begin new book with study of ancients.

Geography
Book of Marvels, the Orient, Halliburton
Missionary Travels, Livingston
Bible maps, Wall Maps, journaling

Natural History/Science
Handbook of Nature Study, Comstock
Nature journaling
T1,2
School of the Woods, Long
T2,3
The Sea Around Us, Carson (skipping over evolution in chapter 1)
C 6^th grade Apologia General Science with labs and journaling
E 8^th grade Apologia Physical Science with labs and journaling

Science Biography
T1
Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity, Cwiklik
T2
Archimedes and the Door of Science, Bendick
T3
Galileo and the Magic Numbers, Rosen

Math
C 6^th grade: continue MOTL, using Khan Academy
E 8^th grade: Algebra 1, Foerester, with home study companion cd from Math without borders

P.E.
Basketball

Penmanship/Copywork/Spelling Dictation
Spelling Wisdom, vol 1-5

Handiwork
Gardening, Farming, Cooking, Automobile maintenance
 Foreign Language

Finish Getting Started with Latin, Linney
Begin First year of Latin, Gunnison and Harley, with Linney lectures online
Boys may study chosen languages of Mandarin and German in their free time.

Poetry
T1 Robert Frost
T2 Carl Sandburg
T3 Alfred Noyes

We will read selected poems and discuss, some memorization, and adding to journals.

　
Art/ Composer

T1
Renoir/ Debussy
T2
Ruisdael & Hooch / Bach
T3
Seurat/ Opera Overtures

We will look at/ listen to selections during lunch and tea time, then add journal entries and drawings.

Literature
Age of Fable, Bulfinch, finish book this year
T1,2
The Hobbit, Tolkien
Call of the Wild
T2
Animal Farm, Orwell
Swiss Family Robinson
T3
(Iliad)Tales of Troy and Greece, Lang
Ben Hur

Additional Reading

T1
The Cat of Bubastes, Henty
T3
Joel, A boy from Galilee

Fairyland of Science
Tom Sawyer, Twain
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Miracle on Maple Hill
Von Trapp Family Singers
Snow Treasure
Rob Roy
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Little Men, Alcott
Jack and Jill, Alcott
Cricket on the Hearth, Dickens
20 thousand Leagues under the Sea
Penrod
God’s Smuggler
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Number the Stars