Our Christmas Tree

The Smell of Tree in the house.... isn't that just a part of Christmas?   ah.....

This year we have a lovely spruce I think....some type of needle bearing tree (short needles).

Mom brought it up for us on Saturday, we let it thaw out over night, and the boys and I put it up on Sunday afternoon while hubby dear was napping.

We had a good time.
A TV show playing in the background.
Talking about the different ornaments, when we got them, who's they are, and different little things.
It's part of what we do.  :)

Every year my son gets an ornament.  Sometimes I wrap them and put them under the tree, but as my lad is getting older I've started asking him, do you want it now or shall I wrap it?   Last year he wanted it wrapped, this year he wanted it now.

Some of our ornaments.  It's a widely varied bunch and perhaps I'll talk about them more sometime, but right now I have rabbits to feed and a lad to take off to visit a friend.  :)

Reading, Writing and Drawing.

Today we did chapter four in "the Lamb".  I love the pictures in the book and the lad likes answering the questions at the end of each chapter.  They are simple.  It's a good book thus far.

Also finished off our section on Knights And castles in our world history book.    Today we learned about how the knights divided up into orders and how other countries had knights as well.   Next up will be pirates.

Then we learned about the masked shew in The ultimate guide to North American Wildlife.

This was followed by going out for a walk in the field behind the church and picking up golf balls.  The lad will keep some and others he will sell at my annual yardsale.

We did some guided drawing using pastels.   Homeschool freebie of the day had a link to Pastels today.    Here is the lad's first ever  drawing done using pastel's.   It was a bit of challenge for him, he likes to draw using heavy lines but with pastels sometimes you need to use a lighter hand.  :)   Did not half bad with the sun I thought, and a good effort with Darwin the dolphin.  :)

In the mid-afternoon we decided to organize all this junk stuff.   That's what hubby calls it.  You know all the toilet paper rolls, empty containers, styrofoam trays that people keep in order to have craft supplies for ones children?   Well we got it organized and out of the basement and main floor of the house.  This of course inspired the lad to do some more boat building.

Sites I would like to look at again

Story Sites

The Story Home.

Here you will find original and classic children's audio stories. Every other week, The Story Home will offer a brand new story read to you by a very special storyteller named Alan, for FREE!

Kids Audio

We have over 200 audio stories in MP3 format for you to download and enjoy with your family and friends

Why not try our Reading Books? Or if you enjoy Colouring, choose from the Colouring Books section

teaching sites

Illuminations

I got the above site through Teach-nology.

Family Life

Families with purpose.

From the joyful celebrations of family nights to the wild and wacky fun of science experiments, our family fun section offers a host of great ideas for every family.