This week’s assigned Bible Read­ing was Gen­e­sis chap­ters 17–20. After read­ing chap­ter 17, we started talk­ing about how Jeho­vah changed Abram and Sarai’s names.  The girls didn’t quite under­stand the rea­son for the name change, so that lead to a con­ver­sa­tion about the mean­ing of names. I then looked up our names online to find the […]

Par­don the title.  Today, we read a book of that title.  It tells about the role of women dur­ing the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion.  It was quite inter­est­ing, and we all learned some­thing (The teen, too!) We are cook­ing our Revolutionary/Colonial style meal today.  I did change things up a bit — instead of bak­ing a loaf of […]

Since the begin­ning of the month, we’ve been learn­ing about The Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion. I started look­ing at the Char­lotte Mason method of teach­ing for ideas, mainly because I was not find­ing any enjoy­able les­son plans for teach­ing Amer­i­can His­tory with­out being doused in patri­o­tism.  I real­ized that most of CM is about learn­ing through reading. […]

Since we’ve began read­ing Gen­e­sis at the TMS, we’ve learned a lot more about Noah. So, today, we watched the DVD about Noah, and then took the quiz at the end. All did very well at pay­ing atten­tion dur­ing the movie, because they answered all the ques­tions cor­rectly! I think next week, we’ll watch the […]

Joe took the girls shop­ping yes­ter­day for a new dress. Joe found one that he actu­ally loved, but it had no price. They ask a Sales lady to help them get a price. The Sales lady said, “Oh, this is such a pretty dress. You can wear it for Easter.“ My youngest, in a very […]