Curriculum | The Sweet Life of Reagan, Emmy, & Max

October ’13, life is busy!

June 24, 2014 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

Reagan’s art from TC-

My egg cracked while boiling, and the yolk looked like a little chick! Creepy!

Dixie was worn out from walking.

A Thursday trip to the zoo with our friends!

Disney on Ice with Dylan

The Break Free 5K-

Here’s Rea taking a spelling test on spellingcity.com!

Sharpie tatoos (errrrr!)

Chick-fil-a lunch delivery at TC!

Pretty iphone pic from White Bridge playground-

Max liked falling asleep under the couch for a little while.

Dollywood in the fall = love!

Healthy supper-

We took Dixie to Knoxville one Thursday for Reagan to show and tell in her TC Critters Class. Emmy and I took her to the Victor Ashe Dog Park.

Some T-25 FOCUS time!

Mom and I ran the Pilot 15K race in Knoxville!

Girlies helping make jelly-

Annual allergy testing- still allergic to peanuts and eggs!

Nature Walk at Cove Lake Park-

Another Thursday in Knoxville-

This is a short clip from one of our All About Spelling lessons.

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September ’13

June 24, 2014 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

Reagan’s art from TC-

Giving and receiving love from Dixie…

Celebrating Aunt Mona’s birthday-

Watching the city’s fireworks from Mona’s back porch (an annual tradition)! It is usually around July 4th, but this year it was postponed because of weather until a few weeks later.

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Emmy told me that she colored a “tat”.

Writing sight words-

Papaw Meredith spent some days in the hospital, but kept a good spirit about him. We thank God for his healing.

Do you ever see angels drawing hearts in your driveway? I do!

Another Thursday zoo trip for Emmy and I- The otters are my favorite exhibit at the zoo. I love how they interact with the kids. As anyone can see, we love the photo opps at the zoo!

Peeking in Reagan’s class-

Snuggles-

Walking the dog-

I sampled Shakeology, but wasn’t really a fan. It is supposed to be one of the best shake mixes as far as nutrition goes, though!

Pancakes for lunch!

Dude wore 8 shirts for homeschool!

Learning about posessive nouns- (Dixie loved that lesson.)

“Watch out, Mom! I’m about to get my swagger on!” – Reagan

Rea brought a praying mantis to school-

Here’s Emmy enjoying a Thursday morning nap in the car while we’re in Knoxville. Don’t be deceived, though! We have lots of fun one-on-one time on Thursdays.

Lunch at PF Chang’s

Chuck E Cheese & Puppy Zone

Dinner at Wasabi’s- finding other uses for chopsticks.

Creepy Max-

Hide-and-go-seek fail-

On our way to church-

“The Max Store (story)” by Reagan

Home school at the park-

Writing spelling words on ipad-

Max glued his blocks together. I guess you could say this is good problem-solving skills?

Reagan busting down the hallway after a day of school at Thursday Connection-

Reagan got to help with a commercial for a local walk in clinic.

Grocery shopping with Spiderman-

Rea took a frog to Thursday Connection to show, too!

Max glued his artwork to the wall in his room.

Finally seeing some muscle after working so hard!!!

We found the perfect bike for Mr. Giggles (Uncle Jared)!

Nothing like being squished between two papaws…

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August ’13 happenings…

June 23, 2014 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

I am going to be trying to do some major ‘catch up’. I don’t know how I let myself get so behind. Actually I do know- it’s called three kids, business, homeschool, and life! ha

Reagan’s art pieces from TC! Her teacher Ms. Margarat Migas is seriously the best at bringing amazing talent out of children.

Writing spelling words, letters, and shapes in shaving cream-

Our spelling curriculum “All About Spelling”. It is a very thorough program. I really like it- it just takes some extra time to complete the lessons. We just do AAS every now and then. I hope to maybe incorporate it more over the summer to help keep her on track.

My Healthy food-

TJ’s Cinnamon almonds, kiwi, blueberry yogurt with blueberries and flax seed….

And a banana/kale shake (not as bad as you might think!)…

Stamping out spelling words-

Emmy making a snake. Reagan doing her Sonlight LA copy work. Sonlight’s program believes in hearing, seeing, and modeling good literature in order to teach. Every week has a copy work section where she simply has to copy what she reads.

Dixie hanging out during home school and then helping clean up a mac n cheese fiasco.

Mommy/Emmy Thursday Zoo Trip-

Our first stop to Earthfare “The healthy supermarket” was a surprise when we walked up on the bakery! I wasn’t expecting such yummy treats to be in there! ha

Emmy always peeks in Reagan’s last class while we wait to pick her up. She cannot wait until she can go to TC.

A boy obsessed with plungers (unused, of course! ewww)-

Sunday Dinner goodness-

Journaling my calorie intake and burn-

How about the day I decided I was going to drink a whole gallon of water… Fail.

Hanging out of the sunroof of my car on a warm summer afternoon….

Thursday morning nap in the car-

Emmy/Mommy Thursday Zoo Trip-

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Back To School, Back to School

October 23, 2013 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

So after spending hours and hours and hours and hours and hours (you get the idea) researching home school curriculum, I decided to go with a company called Sonlight. Sonlight Curriculum is a Christian, literature-based program. The selling point for me was that it comes with Instruction Guides that tell you everything to do. You get everything you need (pretty much) for the entire year in one box. Last year, I used a wide variety of curriculum and hands-on activities, but I wanted something with more structure this year. With my busy schedule, I needed something more planned out and “ready-to-go”. It was a more expensive choice, but seemed worth it for everything you get.

Here’s a picture from our “box day” when it arrived in the mail. I admit, opening the box and pulling out/sorting all the stuff was overwhelming. After having used the curriculum for several weeks now, I will give a more in depth review of our experience (this far) sometime soon.

1st day of home school– Pancake breakfast!

I let them choose their outfits for some quick 1st day pictures on the front porch. (It’s fun to not have a dress code to worry about!) They were sure to model their new backpacks!

Even though our routine is pretty flexible, it looks something like this-

(if time) Opening Activity on rug (shape blocks, sight word bingo, etc) with classical music playing

Play the Bible Verse of week on CD (Sing the Word: From A-Z)

Here they are saying the Pledge of Allegiance. They always want to stand on the table while they do it (they did last year, too). Not sure why they do that, but whatever….