Atkins Homeschool, Term 3

We are two-thirds finished with our school year as of this week!  It is amazing how quickly it seems to go and also how much we accomplish by the end of the the term.

We have a week off and then we will begin our last term of 12 weeks.  We are going to visit family and play lots of Mexican Train this week!  We also have a Valentines party at church planned.  The kids are going to enjoy sweets and a movie.  This is one we bought for the girls for Christmas and it is really cute and a powerful message at the same time!

We are also going to hit the gym each day!  It has been more miss than hit lately since it has actually been cold and still trying to get my energy back.  Feeling so much better each day so I am thankful!

So when we start back this is what is coming up in school!  (Don't worry, if looking at school plans is not your thing, just scroll down for the last picture of the cutie pies! ;)

Y6
Bible - Finish Hinds Feet on High Places
            Daniel  1-6; Esther 1-9; Nehemiah 1-13
Geography - Canada and Mexico  (Rod and Staff)
History - Story of the Romans by H.A. Gruerber
                Julius Caesar by John Abbot (librivox)
Biography - Along Came Galileo
Literature - Cleopatra VII
                   Black Ships Before Troy
                   The Bronze Bow
                   Poetry and Shakespear
Science - Light, Electricity, and Plants
Spelling/Vocabulary - Wordly Wise Book 5
Grammar - Rod and Staff English
Math - Saxon 76
Spanish - Salsa; workbooks, Poco y poco
Greek - Basic Greek Workbook by Jim Found ( baby steps)
Art Study - Leonardo DaVinci
Composer Study - Felix Mendelsshon
Piano Lessons

Y3
Bible - Finish The Hard Boiled Egg and other devotional stories
            Daniel 1-6; Esther 1-9; Nehemiah 1-13
Geography - Canada and Mexico (Rod and Staff)
History - This Country of Ours by H.E.Marshall
                Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall
Biography - DaVinci and Michelangelo
Literature - Little House in the Big Woods by L.I. Wilder
                   Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
                   The Heroes (Theseus)
                   American Tall Tale (Pecos Bill, John Henry, Paul Bunyan)
Science - Light, Electricity, and Plants
Spelling/Vocabulary - Wordly Wise Book 4
Math - Rod & Staff 4
Spanish - Salsa; workbooks, Poco y poco
Greek - Basic Greek Workbook by Jim Found ( baby steps)
Art Study - Leonardo DaVinci
Composer Study - Felix Mendelsshon
Piano Lessons

Mary and Lydia "sleeping" in their beds.  We have a new arrangement.  They sleep on the far bed as you see here.  That way one doesn't have to crawl over the other to get out.  And they enjoy just sitting on the open bed.  This is only temporary though because for Lydia's 5th birthday she gets to move to the top bunk.  Well, as soon as Daddy can build a better safety rail for this rambunctious girl!  I think that Hannah and Sarah will be doing something similar when this becomes their room in a couple of weeks.

Playing frisbee with Daddy.  Look at the windup on that throw! :)

I think they were having fun!

We take our throws seriously around here!

Once they let Minnie out to play, the girls were left in the dust.  Minnie is much better at catching a frisbee!  Look at that little doggy go! :) 

Well, here is one place Minnie couldn't retrieve the frisbee.  I don't know who tossed it up there, but all the girls had fun climbing the ladder to sit on top of the shed for a minute! :)

Lydia loved it.  She was crying thinking she wouldn't get a chance.  She really has no fear.  Yikes!

All these girls definitely got their climbing gene from Daddy!

Now this one definitely shares the same gene as me.  She was nervous about going up the ladder, but she overcame and went up anyway.  Then she came down and felt bad because she didn't actually get up on the roof. 

Here she is sitting at the very top!  She was so proud of herself.  Then came time to come down.  That was hard.  That first step back around the ladder is a doozy! LOL

Here are the girls celebrating Valentines a little early on their Daddy Date night.  They love their Daddy and the fun they have with him.  The other day Lydia thought Memaw and I were going to the gym and leaving the girls here.  She said, "Hurry up and leave."  When Memaw asked her why, she said that she wanted to have some fun with Daddy.  :)

With All My Heart~