Welcome

This is a new blog for me but not the first one I have had two others one on homeschoolblogger but when we sent the children to school I didn't feel that I should continue blogging there, I also have a blog on xanga but felt that it was time for a new platform and the first joint blog with my husband. So that brings us to blogger, and our new blog named What's One More.

That is how we ended up with our 6 children Pat-19 in college, Sarah -17 in high school, Conner 14, and Nolan 12 in middle school and Kathryn 10, and Aidan -4 in elementary. The youngest would get older and I would ask Don " What's one More ?", his answer wasn't always the one I wanted to hear but most of the time we added just one more.

That has also applied to pets we are the owners of 2 dogs, 2 cats, 3 hermit crabs, 8 fish ( I think they wouldn't stay still to be counted), all who have joined our family by one or more children asking what is one more ( insert dog, cat, fish, other small animal). We have also had many other small animals over the years that are no longer with us, we have sadly gotten quite good at pet burials.

The idea of What's One More also applies to friends, there has been many a time when a extra plate has been added to dinner, another sleeping bag added to a bedroom floor, or another friend picked up for church.

This blog is going to be about our daily life here, how do we manage it all, feed them all, stay on the budget ( as much as I dislike What's One More applies more to bills then income ), and not go crazy. Both my husband and I will be writing entries, so please stop by and visit us here on the web.

If you would like to know a bit more about us, check out our xanga blog as I work on adding more here to blogger over the weekend. www.xanga.com/midge8

Owl Study Outline

Owls - 8 weeks long 1x per week about 30-45 mintues

1. Intro to owls - using libaray books and
http://www.abcteach.com/free/r/rc_owls_upperelem.pdf - for the older kids 4th and up
http://www.abcteach.com/free/b/birdnotebook.pdf - the younger kids

2.Food Webs - what they are and make a poster

3. Pellets -( and start the workbook that goes with it)
http://www.pellet.com/view_product.aspx?categoryID=1&subcategoryID=4

4.skelton's - glue to paper

5. more time for skelton's and learn about what the owl ate.

6. Movie - Owl Cam the hidden world ( Netflix)

7. Owl report ( each child will get a different owl and do a short report with 5 facts about there owl)

8. Spare week for catch up if needed

More then one blog and summer plans

It's funny I actually  have 3 blogs right now but they all are about different things. This one I haven't been blogging much on as we really are now after school and summer school at home family and I feel odd blogging here about other things. So I will be sharing some of the things we are doing for education this summer here, while my xanga blog is more about day to day life, and being a stay at home mom. And then my blogspot one is just for my family to cover summer  activites.

So on that note what are your educational plans for the Summer ?

We are doing a hour of math a day, then we also have a craft once a week , plus we are doing a study on Owls, and Astromony oh and a study on the Greeks. I will list how we are going to be doing those later this week end. I really look forward to learning with the kids during the summer, just right dh feels that our small country school is were the kids belong.

A giveaway

I am doing a giveaway on my other blog at www.xanga.com/midge8

 

A busy life

The kids are all doing well in school, and we have had some afterschool schooling activies. Mainly reading programs and scouts,and piano lessons.

So if you would like to see more of what is happening in our home visit www.xanga.com/midge8

 

New Blog

I have a new blog as our life has changed, and all the kids are in school and I felt a little odd posting here. I will keep this blog as a I don't know how to move everything and I will still write about afterschooling and other topics on here. But the blog about our daily life is now at www.xanga.com/midge8 so come on over and visit us.

Margery

It's quite here right now. Conner's on the couch reading, Aidan is walking the dog around, Nolan and Kathryn are playing  cards and Pat and Sarah are at soccer practice.