Summer is Finally Coming

The luscious green grass is gleaming

The wonderful sun is beaming

The Makers of Honey

Are working while humming

Oh, Summer is finally coming

Wilson Vave

Hi everyone. This is my poem, I wrote about some things I remember about summer. I did more school this week then last week, I am almost done with my Science book. I am almost done reading about Seargent York and what he did in World War 1.

You Took Me In

I was a beggar on the side of the street,

with ragged old clothes and nothing to eat.

Longing for love,

Suffering from wrath,

'til you took me in

and showed the path.

I stunk and I was filthy,

But you washed my feet.

Though I had nothing.

You gave me food to eat.

You are the Shepherd

and I was the lamb,

that stayed away from your hand.

You came and you found a trap stuck onto me

and cut the wires off. You set me free.

Kajsa Vave

Hi. We just got back from a Blue Grass concert. It was fun. I also saw some friends. I wrote this poem to show how we are like when we don't have Jesus.

My friend showed me a little skit on YouTube were his son has a Jesus button and whenever he needs help he just pushes the button andJesus comes and helps him. I write a poem for each month for our church.

Hello, Wilson here. I didn't do much school this week on account of our bathroom; it broke. I did do a little bit on most of my subjects like Latin, Greek, Math, Science, Reading and music. In music I learned three new songs: Singing in the Rain, Minuet in F and The March of the Gladiators (that is a clowny song). Those songs are abridged, it will be a while until I can play Minuet in F.

Hi, Rachel here. I did a lesson in piano. And a two lessons in Greek. I didn't do much in Latin. I'm almost done in my Doctor Dolittle Book. I'm learning a new position in Piano, the G major. Well that's all for now. Bye

Kajsa: I coudn't make it to piano practice because I was sick, so I practiced at home. I'm learning to play Star-Wars, and I learnerd how to play The Entertainer. My favorite song to play is the Polovitian Dance. I'm also practicing guitar. I'm learning a new song called Day by Day by DC Talk. Judy and Robert are back from Arizona. When they were gone we took care of their cat named Otis. He is like a dog. He like to be petted back and forth so that his hair is all messed up. He also loves company.

Rosie: At piano lessons I learned how to play Once in Royal David's City, Take Me Out To The Ball Game and some other songs. Mommy ordered my fiddle books, and I am practicing Amazing Grace.

Hello all. Sorry this is so late this week. We are still working on that bathroom! Some of us have been a little under the weather. Tomorrow we will be starting the Fallacy Detective together (yeah).

Teresa: Well, we missed it last week because I was writing about tortoises and Longleaf pine. This week we're on the ball! I would love to see you all.

Levi: I had a banjo lesson in Tallahasse on Monday and I'm learning "Sally Gooden." I like playing the banjo. My favorite song to play is "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". I'm still playing trumpet in the band and I'm adjusting to my braces. I should get my rattrap out this coming Monday, so that might help me play better. We were able to get the tractor going so that I could plow my big garden plot.

We thought y'all in Minnesota might enjoy seeing this picture. Josiah is in MOM's chair, talking with Wilson on the cell phone. The kids sure enjoy hearing from all of you, and they were really excited to listen in on the conversation.

Hi there! We had to go offline when the kids were writing and then I was having trouble saving what they wrote when we got online again so I tried publishing instead and that worked. Rosie and I will write now...and hope we can finish a bit quicker this time! Well, we have been having an interesting week. The week before last our toilet got plugged and it was not an easy fix and took several days. We were sure it would be good for a long time, but last Sunday it inexplicably clogged again so Dad decided he'd have to go get a new toilet as this one has never worked very well in its 15 years. When he pulled out the old toilet bowl he found that some of the floor boards were rotting. So we pulled up all the vinyl flooring and found it had been glued over a really nice hardwood floor...which is no longer very nice because the glue is not coming off. We tore out the rotting boards and rotten subfloor...and one discovery led to another until now we have pretty much gutted the whole room including tearing down the plaster and walls on the South and East sides to put in insulation. We had been thinking of what we should do to that bathroom and were not planning on doing anything until summer at least. As Wilson said as we were demolishing the 80 year old plaster, "All because of a plugged toilet." One last comment, if you can bear the topic any longer, when Dad came with the new toilet Wilson carried it in from the car and read the description and comments on it. It said "The choice of professionals." Of course Wilson immediately wondered, "Professional at what!?" That's my boy. Oh boy.

Hi all, Rosie here.
Sorry I didn't post on Friday. Last week I did nine pages in the Latin Henle book, however it was mostly review. In Reading I finished Call it Courage. I did one page in Greek, and two lessons in Geography and one very long lesson in Harvey's Grammar. Outside the snow is very sticky. That's all,bye.

Well, we're a day late and a dollar short again, but we're here now! MOM has been busy trying to find the ever-changing, vanishing "groove". Hopefully each week will be a better balance of College/life/home/school/kids/gardens/animals/cooking/goals/etc. MOM's new quote: If at first you don't succeed, keep pretending 'cause you've got everyone else fooled. LOL...

The Girl: I did not do Latin yet because MOM doesn't quite know what we're going to do next. I'm starting back in Latin tomorrow. I worked on Spanish Bible this week and math and Greek.

Anders: I did a bit of Latin, but MOM has a lot on my checklist for this week. I did about 48 pages of my Spanish stuff, some math, and about 3 pages of Greek. I sold all of my chickens.

ChubChub: I go every day for 1 hour to Georgia school with Teresa and Levi. I built a sand castle in the sand pile.

Josiah: A bit of Latin. Mucho Spanish pages. Bit of math. Nice amount of Spanish Bible. We're eating 2 of my roosters for lunch today.

Stennes: I did a bit of Latin. Still no Greek. I worked on an engine this week. I did a good bit of Spanish grammar, some English grammar, and the normal stuff.

Branch: I did some Greek, no Latin yet, and Spanish work. I bought a digital camera from Daddy and I have been taking lots of pictures. I haven't gone fishing hardly at all, but we all have new tennis equipment and we have been playing tennis every chance we get. Mommy or Daddy takes us to the tennis court.

That's our week in a nutshell. I guess that makes us the nuts! We'll see you all here next week.

Hi, this is Wilson. This week I made a goal in Latin to make it to reveiw 1 in the Henle book, so now I understand it much better. I also completed a module in science this week, I just need to complete 3 more modules until I can take Biology. I finally have my Algebra book, it came in the mail this week, along with my science equipment I will soon be using. I still have to finish with my Keys Geometry book 7, but I am almost done with that. I am also almost half done in my reader's book.

Hey All Rachel here, I did a lesson in Latin (it was long). I just got my Greek book level 3 its going swell. I did a lesson in Math and finished The Best Chistmas Pageant Ever and am now reading Doctor Dolittle's Tale.Docter Dolittle is a great book. Well thats all for now.Bye.

Kasja: Latin was harder to do than Greek. I did memorising, translating, and copied some declentions. My reading book this week was called Gianna. It talks about abortion. It was warm today we had sticky snow! Unfortunaly we didn't go outside to play in it. Hopfuly we can tomorrow. We are re-doing our downstairs bathroom. I'm not sure what it will look like.

Sorry about forgetting to post. I wrote it on the list so that we wouldn't forget, but......

Levi: I completed about five pages in my review Greek book this past week. I need to do more. It's been cold this week and I've had to break ice off of the chicken, cow and pig water 4-5 times a day. I have planted rye in my potato patch to add nitrogen to the soil and help stop erosion. I just pulled up all of my turnips. I made about $90 selling turnips the past few months. Caleb's goat, Trixie, keeps jumping the fence, so if he isn't home I have to go catch her and try to get her back in the fence that Anders and Diggy helped build. I'm looking at seed catalogs trying to plan my gardens for this year!

Teresa: Things are busy here. You would think that schooling just one would be a breeze, but I can't seem to get anything together. Between Monday class in Tallahassee, Tuesday singing 3 times, Wednesday picking up Ms. Mae in Tallahassee, Thursday band in Tallahassee... Well, I've figured it out! I haven't been home to get anything done. This week is looking better. Except for the fact that I'm leaving Thursday and won't be back until Saturday. I have to go to north GA to write a curriculum about the Gopher Tortoise. We've been birding some this past week. Bird journals need to be started for the upcoming bird competition. We're also going to try our hand at Poultry Judging this year in 4-H. Pray for us all!

Anders here: This week I did about 5 pages of Greek Review. I had my first mandolin class in Tallahassee. I finished my Eng. science book and 5 reader books.

Branch: I finished the first 9 lessons in Hey Andrew 4. I have to remember a lot now. I finished about 6 reader books and a few lessons of math. I'm going to release my pigeons to fly in the spring and hope they come back to me. We have had ice on the water outside the past few days. Teresa said it might snow a bit down here, but Daddy says that it would probably melt quickly if it did.

Josiah: I did 12 pages of Greek this week. There's been an owl coming to my chicken pen and it has killed 3 chickens. I can't wait till the weather warms up so we can plant potatoes.

Stennes: I'm doing badly in my Greek. I didn't do any at all this week. Some animal ate my cabbage and kale, so I'm going to put a rabbit fence around my garden. I'm making a big compost pile for when I plant potatoes.

The Girl: I am in lesson 9 of Hey Andrew 4. I need to work more on Latin. I have 2 new rabbits. They eat a lot. I have a whole big box now of craft stuff for me to stay out of trouble when I'm not doing school. I can't wait until we have another tea party.

Mean Ol' Mama: This has been an extremely challenging week for me. I have had so much paperwork, etc. to finish for the College. My first 2 classes were Thursday, and the first class is packed with 28 students who need TONS of help, so I'm going to be earning every penny this time.
I'm disappointed with how little we did in school this week, but it was hard to go from 8:00 - 8:00 on the computer and expect the kids to accomplish much on their own. They finished up a bit of reading, but instruction time from me was almost non-existent. Hope to do better next week.
The cool weather has been quite a change for us down here, and I have enjoyed wearing long sleeves for a change. I did a good bit of grocery shopping yesterday (from a very long list) in hopes to make teaching 2 nights a week more "logistically friendly". Supper has to be ready before I leave, so I'm trying to avert disaster any way I can. There's still a bit on my list to purchase, so perhaps today I'll finish it up.
I'm thinking we'll go back to the kids' checklists for schoolwork, so they can know what needs to be accomplished each day before they're "done". Any bit of structure at all is very beneficial for our crazy family, you know.
I have to give some thought about Latin for Branch and The Girl. I think I'll do what we talked about, Becky, and do a combo of Latina Chritiana with slow, easy Henle. We'll see.
Thanks for your good posts, kids. You're an encouragement to us down here.

Kajsa: I'm almost done with my Greek book. I don't remember how many pages I've done. I set goals for myself. Some days are better than others, the more I do the the better my attitude is (sometimes). This week I read a book called Follow My Black Plume. It's about a Boy named Mark and it is based on Garibaldi and the making of the Italian nation. In Math my goal is to do at least two lessons a day. I'm practicing guitar every day. One time I practiced so hard that I got a blister on my middle finger. It's gone now and I have a huge callous. We have three feet of snow and it is rarely above zero degrees. Today we went winter clothes shopping. After school I do research on the sun.

Hi Everybody! Wilson here. I have been working harder at school this past week. In Greek I will be taking the second review, I have completed chapter exercises 8 and 9. Greek is hard, but it isn't as hard once you understand your lesson! I also completed the book The Prince and the Pauper and the play Our Town this past week. I have started on an interesting book called York and the Great War. A few subjects I want to work even harder in are Logic, Latin and Geography. Before I go I want to tell you some stuff I recieved for Christmas: RISK the board game, a How To book on comic strips and a dart game. Bye

Hi, Rachel here. I did thirteen pages in Greek. Mom ordered my 3rd Greek book and I can't wait until it comes. I will learn and study but go through it fast. I read in my reading box Dear Mr. Henshaw and I'm reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I did a lesson in math and History and English. I also did alot of dishes this week. Well, that's all for now.

Hi all, Rosie here.
This week I did seven pages in my Hey Andrew! book, and one page in my Greek Bible copybook. I did one page in Geography and two pages in English. For reading I read Sebastian Bach and The Pushcart Wars and now I'm reading Call It Courage. In Latin I did four pages, and in Math I did four pages. That's all for now, Bye.

Rebecca: Hi there. Thanks for the call and also for this wonderful plan...we need the accountability. I'm so glad to say I have been able to order some of the books we've been needing and they should be arriving soon. We had fallen off of our Memory Box time and I'm planning on getting going with it again. We missed piano this week due to the weather, but yesterday we got the piano tuner out and so that is sounding much better. The kids enjoy practicing on it even more. I've started back with helping Robert a few hours a week while Judy is at work. We are keeping busy...and trying to keep warm!