May

The kids learning about Sir Sandford Fleming.

Mary hard at work in the piano Studio.

April leads into May

Kellen feeding the birds.

A busy creative science day. Messy, but productive.

Aidan's egg experiment from his "Motion" kit. INERTIA

The children's impromtu pop botttle rocket experiment. They used baking soda and vinegar to make the top fly off.

An example of one of the many writing prompts in LLATL. Mary likes to write on her own often.

Mary's Award.

Aidan's award for memorization.

Mary's LLATL Part 3 word Assessment. Here the child is supposed to write the words as they think they are spelled. It is a test in where the child is . No grammar rules have been taught in this particualr Grade 1 book. But Mary has been listening in on some of Brothers CLE English ..so has picke dup on silent e etc.

Mary's Ancestry chart

Aidan's Ancestry chart from FIAR book. "They were Strong and Good"

Going back on Daddies side we see lots of good American and British Isles Stock:) Dutch Tanis and Canadian..Scots Background Wilsons.. On my side we have alot of cultures . Lemons of England, McSweeneys in Ireland, Hornblows in England.

Allfreys of Kirdford going far back... on my Dad's side Karesavich from Russia and my fathers Great Grandfather a Marquis de Cuevas of Spain.

Pretty neat to go back and see.

Mary helping me with Scones.

Mary doing an LLATL assessment test.

Our weekly Elluminate sessions from our perspective. The kids love this sharing time. The reports were awesome that day. This one was a girl's report on a cow that had been purchased fed and then sold for meat. The whole group gasped at the lucrative amount that the 2 children had made for their bank accounts. $500.00 each. Wow! Hold on...let s get a truck and some land and some steers.

Some pictures of planes docked at the Aerospace facility. Dad told the kids about the planes and some of their cool features.

Pictures that Daddy took of Prime Ministers Harpers visit to BC

Very Canadian ..great opportunity to make it personal . The kids are aware of the Prime Ministers victory in a majority Conservative Government.

Alot going on in the May 2 2011 week ..in all of the world.

We also showed the children clips and pictures of the Royal Wedding.

As I am English by birth .. it was nice to take in some of British Pride and culture at its best. The children were able to view the inside of the Westminster Abbey and watch a Royal Prince wed his commoner ..now Duccess.

Part of Mary's Arctic fox report.

Love this pic of the kids at rest . I even got the baby at rest for a split second:)

Force, Motion.

The kids helping Dad prune and then clean up the debris.

Kellen "Stampin up".

Aidan and Mary working on their animal projects.

More physical exercise at Awana

AWANA Award night.

Another picture of the kids at the pool. Following instructions they will roll into the pool.

Kellen gets in on some weight fun

The kids listening to their Red Cross Swim Kids Instructor, Jordan. The guy on his right assists ..he is a graduated Homeschooler.

I managed to snap a picture of the kids with some of their pals .. while waiting at the Leisure Center.

We enjoyed a flock of yellow tropical looking birds that came to visit our little bird sanctuary.

The guys working on Weight in Singapore

Here we are heading into the last leg of the year.

Here are a few of the things that we did in the last few weeks.