When I realized I missed our November Wrap-Up, I decided to just hold off and combine it along with December. These two months have been a balance of school and life in the best possible way. We have been able to reap the benefits of our lifestyle and have school when we wanted to and then be able to enjoy our time at home as well as enjoying Daddy-o’s availability to join in on the fun.
We left South Carolina mid-November and arrived in Wisconsin and to a dusting of snow just in our area. We arrived in time for Wisconsin’s deer season and both girls were able to go out and spend some time in the woods with Daddy-o. Both girls at various times have also heat to gotten to help Daddy-o and their Papa split and gather wood for our wood furnace. Being back home has allowed us to get back into our local library’s story time for Thumper and Mouse was able to sign up for her first Library card. The girls have also gotten to spend lots of time with family while we have been home. Participating in craft sales as both shoppers and workers.
We of course have also been prepping for the holidays with picking out presents for others and helping wrap to put under the tree. We had a visit to Santa and decorated the girls first real Christmas tree. What snow we have gotten the girls have made good use out of. Daddy-o helped them build an igloo/cave on the pond, once it has frozen over. It is also equipped with a bed, should anyone want to come out and spend the night. I have been busy inside while the girls have been enjoying the outdoors and their toys at home. I have been busy getting school ready for next year. Everything is “planned”, printed and packed into containers waiting for us to head out after Christmas and head to North Carolina for Hubby’s next job. Look for a blog article soon on how I planned out our school year for 2019. I’m hoping to be more stream lined and not have to plan as much during the year, as I have had to do in the past.
Oh, we have also gotten some schooling done too! While we have been busy these last two months, and while school still has gotten done, it hasn’t happened on our normally daily schedule, as we have had various appointments and things in life come up that we chose to do instead. I also decided not to stress about school not getting done as I added up our totals for the year and we far exceeded our 875 hours and 180 days and required by the state of Wisconsin. School for November and December has mostly been tying up loose ends and making the goals I had set for the end of our academic year.
In history we have finished up Roman era and the end of Sonlights Core B together. We read aloud and “The Tale of Despereaux” and then we were able to watch the movie together as well. For Bible we continued using Kids of Integrity, from Focus on the Family, and covered “Thankfulness” during the month of November. As part of our Advent Season in December we read aloud “The Gift” and “The Angel Tree” and discussed how we can have a Christmas spirit all year long, by having Jesus in our hearts.
Our beginning adventures with cursive writing is going well, but I think I will be adding in another curriculum choice that adds a little different approach to it. Mouse is taking off with it, and I think once we learn the alphabet through, she will prefer cursive to manuscript which is a lot neater in appearance.
Mouse wrapped up the last of her lessons in Math, Reading and Spelling for the year so basically each day her school time became less and less as subjects started disappearing form her schedule.
Thumper finished her first round through the alphabet and the first 9 weeks of her Sonlight core. We will pick up with it in January. I added to our reading time together and pulled out our collection of Christmas books and she has enjoyed adding in her picks from the library as well. She has enjoyed adding in Christmas songs to her weekly song time as well.