homeschool wrap-up: september!

we've had a great first month back to homeschool!

this year, michael is starting his 4th year of CC, jack his 3rd year, and gabriel his 1st year!

plus, mommy is directing the campus for the first time and daddy is directing the challenge kids! (challenge is junior high for cc)

it's already been an exciting year! 

enjoy our pictures!

1st day of cc!

gabe presenting for the 1st time!

the following monday, we started our homeschool year!

mama has homework too ;)

since i'm not tutoring this year, i get to watch all the tutor babies!

and correct 40 maps that were printed incorrectly.

daddy working on challenge stuff!

our bean experiment!

art + poetry

we studied the ancients for our unit this month
ancient phoenicia, assyria, and babylon!

so this was our phoenician stylus!

our prayer tree for cc!

still rocking poetry tea time!

jack is starting cursive!

and mama loves read aloud time :)

our family presentation was this week!
we did a rendition of "we will rock you" with our own words filled in ;)
cred to nanny for the excellent lyrics!!

camo day!!

learning about camoflauge

captain mike's class!

learning about the trojan horse during art

ancient assyrian "silver" reliefs

timeline card game!

hanging gardens of babylon!

i adore gabe's tutor and her ability to wrangle these littles :)

occasionally, we sit in on essentials, which is the equivalent of middle school
next year, we'll be there!

math games outside

and my watch over the littles :)

animal and plant cell cupcakes!!

nature walks every day

a cool family presentation by some of our best friends!
cows! goats! oh my!

i get to rock the sweetest babies.

jack's presentation that week was how octopus camoflauge!

jack's writing lesson for the day ;)

every week, our "community service" is providing snacks to a local kids organization

an awesome month!