My poor babies :(

We did end up doing a little bit of school work today....in the ER! Maizie woke up with a fever, then Lyssi followed with chills and a fever. Add that to the fact Casten was up all night itching from his rash, we decided it was a good idea to take the kids to the doctor. Our doctor was out of the office today so we made the trip to the ER.
Of course we get there and the kids felt fine (except Maizie who screamed bloody murder at just having to stand on the scale!) with no fevers. The triage nurse made me feel like I had no business being there, and it really upset me! I know when my kids are sick and when they aren't! UGH! The doctor came in in rounds to look at each kid, and he diagnosed them with Scarlet Fever!!!! Being a parent is never boring! Now the girls are napping and I have to get ready for Jaime's wedding!

No School today

I have to be ready to leave for Jaime and Dawn's wedding by 3, I have so much to do I have no idea if I will get it all done!
The kids are all splitting up for the weekend. Alyssa will be going with Aunt Beverly, Uncle Kenny, Lilly and Coraline. She's VERY excited! Casten is hanging out with Grandpa and Kathy and Maizie is going to Jay's cousin Billy and his fiance Julia's house!

CASTEN WAS READING!

YAY! Casten knows the sounds of each letter (he struggles sometimes with all the names) but today he did a great job learning the -at family words! He even read his first story!

I wrote at on an index card. Then we put different letters in front of it. He was able to read all of them! I was so proud! 

Alyssa wrote her first story today :) It was nice.  She also did a great job journaling and practicing her ordinal numbers. Casten began working on his ordinal numbers today too. He needs more work on them though!

Here are some more pictures of Lyssi with her missing tooth! The second picture really shows the adult tooth almost all the way in!

Guess what?

We opted not to take Casten to the doctor yesterday. We don't have one established here and would have had to go to the ER. We've decided to watch him and take him tomorrow if we still feel there is an issue.
So our delay in getting things done yesterday, in addition to my migrane, had Jay teaching the kids! The kids were so excited to have Daddy helping out! They love when he sits down with them!
On a fun note :)

Lyssi FINALLY lost that front tooth! You can see the adult tooth almost all the way in already if you look closely! It's set further back, but it should come forward like the bottom teeth did!
Now I'm off to go downstairs to work with the kids! I love how excited they are!

Change of plans today :(

Looks like Casten is heading to the doctor today. He had a high fever over the weekend, which is still lingering around 100. Yesterday he broke out in a rash, and doing some research it actually looks like scarlet fever. He Has all the symptoms, so we are going to have to take him in to get checked out...FUN FUN!

Delay in our start time!

We are getting a late start today. Jay ended up staying down by his mom yesterday so he can take her to the doctor today. She's not feeling well. For those that don't know, Kathi has stage 4 recently labled uterine cancer (they are not sure of the source). Casten had a fever on Saturday of 102. He had no fever on Sunday and then last night it came back only around 100 and he has a rash all over his body! Alyssa has also been coughing a lot, so we are making sure we keep up on her inhaler. She's not sleeping very well at night though. I figure they need as much sleep as they can get!
So here we are 10 AM (school is supposed to start at 9) and the kids are just finishing up breakfast! That's the beauty of homeschooling though! So we will be working on lessons a bit later than normal! We probably won't start work until this afternoon. When everyone is feeling a bit better!
I'm off to get my coffee :)

First Day of School :)

Starting off on half days this week while I get our unit plans together (science, history, geography, etc) It went pretty well! Casten had a hard time focusing, but he does in new surroundings and so much has changed downstairs!

We started off doing journals. The kids wrote answers to the question on the board. Alyssa wants to learn about weather and Casten wants to learn about numbers. Maizie said she wanted to learn about Scooby Doo :)

Next we did our weather chart. Casten guessed the number closest to the one I picked so he gets to be weather man this week :)

I think I need a new weather wheel or replace the brad in this one. The arrows won't stay in place!

Next we went on to Casten's computer time and Lyssi's Math time.

Then we switched. Casten did workbooks and Lys went to the computer. I need to remember to hook up the headphones tomorrow. It was a little distracting!

We did some reading with Lyssi. I'm so impressed with how well she reads! I'm pretty confident I'm going to have to get her some 2nd grade readers soon! I'm also sure Casten is going to moving on to 1st grade readers too and probably 1st grade math. He LOVES math! It'll be nice if I can teach math at the same time!

Maizie didn't cooperate too well today. I know it will be hit or miss with her. No need to do anything formal. Just some one on one mommy time :) She had a rough morning though. She's still in her jammies now!

Casten actually smiling nicely for a picture!!!!

Notice her funny smile? Her front tooth is SO loose and she won't let anyone take it out! It's super crooked and sticking out! Her adult tooth is almost half way in behind it!!!! I don't think we'll ever have a toothless smile with her, so far she's had her adult teeth in before she's lost her baby teeth!

Our Princess :)

Here is a picture of our bulletin board wall. Both Alyssa and Casten will get their Words to Remember put on there. Along with any special projects they want to show or certificates they earn! 

 

We'll be teaching Lyssi cursive this year. I think it will help with her problem of not making her letters correctly. She makes a lot of her letters backwards. They look right but she makes the the opposite way. Like an A She goes \ then / and then - It's already helping her printing!

Science we will be doing unit studies on non-living items, life cycles, and space. Some things we'll cover is the different forms of water (gas, liquid, solid), experimenting with light, we'll do some studying of plant life, animal habitats, life cycle of frogs and/or butterflies (Lyssi did Butterflies last year, but they would be fun to do in the spring!). We'll also be studying the planets, and stars, learning some constellations, and about the moon. 

Social Studies we'll be learning how everyone needs food, clothing and shelter. We'll discuss different cultures and how they meet these needs. This will coincide with our geography lessons. We'll be learning to find where we live on the map, to recognize the 7 continents, how to read a map and follow directions using a compass. 

For history Jay and I decided to begin with Early America. We'll learn about Native Americans, on to Columbus and on to Colonial America. Alyssa has a lot of interest in Colonial America because we have the Felicity dolll from American Girl. 

So that's it in a nutshell! They'll be getting music lessons, art, science and PE at our homeschool co-op. It meets every Friday from 12:30-4. 

The rest of this week we'll continue reviewing what we already know and next week start with new lessons :)