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Olympics Update

We finished our Olympic Unit Study except for our field day and field trip to a Chinese Restaurant.

It has rained for most of the week, and when it's not raining, the field is too wet to do anything one. So that is postponed until Friday or Monday. Our favorite Chinese Buffet changed owners and we don't want to go to that one as we haven't heard very many good things about it. But a couple of towns over our favorite buffet has another restaurant. So we will go there as soon as we can fit it into our schedule. It's almost an hours trip one way.

We have practiced using chop sticks, and will request them at the restaurant to use. The kids aren't too happy about that part, as they say they can eat faster with forks. lol I told them they have to use them for a few minutes, anyway.

Today we were supposed to do Day Two of our 100 Push Up Challenge but Hannah and Abby were gone all day, and church ran late, so we will to it tomorrow

100 Pushup Challenge

I started the 100 Pushup Challenge back in June. I was doing fine with it, except for my left wrist. Extending my wrist to be in correct form KILLS! And hurts for hours after I'm done. So, I'm learning to do pushups on my knuckles. Surprisely, it's not that difficult. Yeah, I use a pillow under my knuckles!

Since I had to stop for a few weeks because of my wrist, I'm starting over at week one.

Now, for the fun part!

I'm having the kids do it with me!!

Well, Ok, some of them don't think it's fun. But hey, They can't argue too much when it's assigned schoolwork. lol

We did Week One, Day One today, and everyone lived to tell about it! lol

Paper Models

These look soooooo cool!

Disney Experience has quite a few paper models to download and print. All from Disney movies!

I had never been to disneyexperience.com, but now I'm glad I found it!

I know the kids are going to be excited to make these.

But we'll have to wait until after the Olympics. I don't think I'll tell them about these until after the Olympics are over. :)

Olympics Lesson Plans & Printables

This site has lesson plans for the summer Olympics

They are keyed to the 2004 Greece Olympics, but a lot of the lessons are still usable. And very easy to update.

Homschooling at About.com hasSummer Olympics printables.

Also check your their lesson plans and other pages for the Olympics.

Homeschool Share has an Olympics lapbook. Yeah! We're defintely going to be doing that!

Teacher Planet has lots of lesson plans and printables.

Jury Duty!

Yep, that's right, I had jury duty today. It was my first time, ever!

Well, I had got called once for Massachusetts, but that was right after we moved to Ohio! So I didn't have to go.

We didn't have to do any cases today, they were all resolved without us :)

I don't have to go back until September. Good thing, as the kids trashed the place while I was gone today. And yes, they did have a babysitter!

But because they were playing, and not doing their schoolwork, some of them didn't finish todays work until suppertime!

To say they didn't like that, is an understatement! Their used to getting done earlier in the day and havings lots of free time. I hope they learned a lesson today. :)

Homeschool Tracker

Since we got a new computer, I had to download Homschool Tracker again.

I really like this program. I use the free basic edition. I like Homeschool Tracker better than another homeschool software that I had used in the past. And that one I had to pay for.

I liek that I can create assignments and update the attendance record for more than one student at a time. It's a real time saver for me!

The Return to Piano

Hannah and Abby started back to piano lessons today. Where has the last 6 weeks gone?? It feels like we just went on break, and now it's time to start again!

The girls like going to piano and Hannah would prefer not having any time off from lessons. This is Hannah's 5th year in piano (to the best of my recollection) and Abigal has been taking lessons for 2-2 1/2 years. Maybe I should write this stuff down. Naaaa, they know. I should just ask them1 lol

It's That Time Again!

Yes, that's right, we started school again today!

We took June and July off this year. It has been quite a few years since we took that much time off for the summer.

Wow! Has it ever been a busy summer!

I know I'm ready to stay home for a while. The kids are certainly ready to get back onto a regular schedule and routine.

Again...

Yes, I've moved our homeschool blog, again!
This will most likely be our last move, as Blogger is just so much easier to use.
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