School Room Snapshot 2014

                           

Charlie made the picture of our theme this year:

“The Savior was the Master Teacher…We would see most of His ministry being teaching. And yet almost none of that teaching was done in a church building. His teaching was out where the people were. It was in highways and byways and hillsides and seashores and in homes.

~Elder Holland

 Jacob writes letters to exciting people and has received a letter back every time thus far!
 We had special visit with the Brenan's. It was such a treat to spend some time with their family! We all fell in love with the little boys- such darlings. Craig is a professional trombone player (currently number one on the national jazz list FYI) so he did a mini trombone session with each of the kids on their own instruments. It was seriously awesome. I love being inspired by talented people.

Jenna and I have known each other for a long time. We don't get to see her very often but when I do see her I always feel so happy. She's one of those sunshiney people. 

 Jacob loves math so we made a math kit for him to play with in his free time. 

It's full of math games and puzzles etc.

 We are starting Hazel young on the geoboard.

Scarlet is progressing so quickly already. She's like a human sponge. I wish my brain was that spongy. 

 

 Our first study unit was about bridges. Bridges are actually really extra amazing 

when you start learning about them.

 All the different types of bridges.

 Jacob's Love of Learning class is Chess this semester. 

Jane is doing Kitchen Class and Charlie is doing Wood Burning.

Jacob and Rocks

Jacob has a fine imagination so I thought the quote below was perfect for this post. He loves to play animals with his siblings, and he really loves making up new games. 

"Are you ready?"  means a lot. It means: "Can you imagine yourself in the part, do you remember the sequence of events can you feel as the character feels, can you remember the kinds of things the character spoke?" If so, then the story is ready to be played out. If the younger hesitates, does or says something "out of character," the older, who has been working on his powers of imagination a little longer, quickly corrects the less experienced member of the family.  

~ Charlotte Mason

I woke up from a nap to find Jacob dancing around in Ezra's pants!

Jacob has been studying rocks this year. 

We found this wood box at the BB- it's perfect for his collection.

We also signed him up for a rock subscription. This means every month a new rock or mineral to learn about shows up in the mail. The first month you get a collectors box and booklet.

This of course is his favorite rock in his collection because, "It looks like a potato."

Jacob legitimately beats Tim at chess sometimes. He is really fast at it and even sets up strategies and stuff. He would play chess ALL DAY if we let him! He's also become quite a Backgammon whiz. He learned at Grammy's and then we found this great little set at the BB ;)

Jacob got to visit his old pal Summer for her birthday. They don't play as much as they used to but he gets just as excited as ever when he does.

The New Obsession

There has been many a chess session around here lately. Jacob and Charlie especially have been fixated on playing, but they all pretty much challenge each other constantly throughout the day. When we were with family over Thanksgiving Uncle Eli beat everybody so when we got home the boys were determined to find a way to beat him.