September and a New School Year 2010.

Aidan's leaf rubbing and practice at drawing trees like in Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. Mary's leaf rubbings and practice at drawing trees like in Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovell.
Some of the childen's observations were:


Aidan - "The steam was a little not strong enough . It is powerful..steam can power things."


Mary - "Steam can move things. it can also heat things up...Like Oatmeal!"


We cam e to the conclusion :Our pinwheel was too big and the paper kept melting and drooping. We think that it would be better if made out of a harder material .. such as plastic.

The children are helping put together a pinwheel for our pinwheel steam power experiment.

This weeks FIAR book was "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel"

An example of our additional simple machines book pages. The children were to cut out and match the words and pictures .. and paste them fairly straight on their pages.

Mary's finished watercolor and "I wonder?" cover for her book.

Mary's question: "WHy do skunks make stinky Smells?"

As well as things to wonderful to own on the left.

She exactly wanted to emulate the pages of the Illustrator with the trees , fences and colored skies.

Aidan's finished watercolor and "I Wonder? cover for his book.

HIs question: Do berries make Paint?

As well as Things to WOnderful to Own on the left.

FIAR "Who Owns The SUn" which poses alot of questions. This deeply moved the children especially Aidan . He had extra questions about slavery and specifically added the dark shadows and light in his piece. This is the home of the family that had enslaved Big Jim and his family . We discussed forgiveness and not doing unto others as they have done to You. .

One of Mary's Illustrated books from LLATL.

Making Roti's from Instruction.

Mary helped me make spheres and then rolled the dough with me. Aidan watched for bubbles and burnage:)

Also very sick with cold ,Baby Kellen is getting into the stash of LLTLA cards that we use for Mary's ENglish Curriculum.

When you Let Mary Loose with supplies.

Mary roaming while brother practices in the pouring rain.

Kids at work on their watercolor paintings. Capturing the mood, style, colors, lights and shadows of the art in "Who Owns the SUn?"

Mary helping the baby with some wood letters.

The playground

M writing a thank-you note to my Auntie in ENgland. Who remembers to send her a card every birthday.

Educational animal area. Information on the farm, sheep, pigs, egs and milk. Origins of wool.

Trying for a family pic.while at the Pumpkin patch. A bit awkward but natural.



Daddy reading the Christian Supplement that goes with our FIAR stories at the dinner table like devotions.

Excuse the varying bare chests..The kids are examining their clothes for "100% cotton labels" and also other natural fibres like linen in the house.

Capturing the kids in English action.

Excited about Aidan receiving his CLE curriculum for English.

Thanksgiving Canada style and part of the large Karesa clan. Altogether we make 24 with Nanny Grandad 5 kids with 5 spouses and 12 grandkids. We are spread abroad in local and far off US cities and one Uncle who has commited to serving and protecting us at home and away. As well one Sister and cro-in law who live in AB currently.

Both children listened while Daddy and Auntie Jamie who is in the vert business showed them how to respect and greet this extraordinarily large dog.

Fooling around with his all American Uncle PE!
Daddy's Immediate family is his parents ,brother and wife..their son and us 5..which makes 10 of us.

Getting to meet some Aunts and Uncles that came from the US and the Interior for their mothers funeral.. June, the kids Grandma is the youngest in the middle she is always handin gth ekids books to read and homeschooled her children for 16 years.. To the right is a very supportive Aunty Aunt Marion who was a Missionary in Zambia for many years.

She comes and vists the children, takes an interest in their school work and asks them to read to her on her visits.

Aidan reconnecting with a adult cousin from the US who is the same height as him. Just Aidan attended his Great-grandmothers Burial with Daddy. Later Mary and the rest of us joined the family for a time of fond memories and remembrance of Beulah Wilson a godly lady.

I asked the children to go outside with egg shells and recycle them. I asked them to wack them into the garden. We are preplanning this year .. by having a compost that will hopefully yield some nice soil. I handed the egg carton with egg shells and a camera.

We have succesfully grown beans from seeds. Tasting the product is extremely rewarding.

Learning about a miners families life in the Appalachians

Teaching the kids how to hang clothes on the line.




A morning FIAR session. Finishing off our Kimono lapbooks and discussing the rest of the related subjects.

Writing equation sums from blackboard demos.(Singapore)

Scootering and playing.
A table that I have set up under the porch for refuge .. for when I send the kids outside for "Outside play and recreation"

Coloring our English Comprehension for boys and girls mini books.

Using cubes to add.

Mary usign number flash cards to create number bond combos under 10.
FIAR - A Pair of Red CLogs - JAPAN. We made Kimono fold out lapbooks.

Mary has the responsibility of coloring the story discs for FIAR.

OCTOBER

Getting to meet the local animals and to meet and watch Farmer Sam milk the cows

We were invited to A Sumas Farm and got to visit a Dairy and see the cows milked. The kids ran around for an evening, trampolined and got to go on a hay ride. It was a wonderful day.

Sewing with a plastic needle and wool. Aidan practicing tying a bow.

Making and coloring our Madeline books. A copy of our idea of the Eiffel Tower and our impressions of the books in drawing. Getting Multiplication right.

Finding France. FIAR book Madeline.

Household chores.

Lentil is our next FIAR book. We did an experiment with sweet and sour and orange halves and quarters.







Grandad teaching about the Northern Lights at the Family Dinner table.
















Aidan helping with the pulley.

Nanny teaching about the Northern Lights.


Listening to Nanny give us a presentation on High Level where Auntie lives. She had just visited and toured the local sites.

One of Aidan's character traits is helping and protecting. He is helping Mary with math here.

Doing crafts with Daddy. Aidan built a plane/ship from Instructions and Mary crumpled tissue paper onto color coded princesses.

Visiting Chilliwack on one of Aidan's game days. Aidan played the game and Mary and I shared soenm gril time walking around.

Playing with Math Manipulatives. They were being used for Aidan's Instruction part of his Lesson.

Checking our plum jam experiment. We liquified sugar and reduced fruit . We especially like the taste and color.

Caring for brother is an important job for the kids. The kids take turns distracting and carrying him around.

Finding China on the Map. PING the duck our first book from our FIAR curriculum.

Setting up our shelves.

We have begun our school year with the help of Five in a Row to cement all of our other subjects together.