A little bit of phys ed

It has been a couple of days since my last post and they were pretty eventful.  On Friday we went to Newmarket for a drop in homeschool gym session. Unfortunately there were no other families that showed up. But we still had a blast! We played basketball, dodgeball, "What time is it Mr.Wolf" and had races. It was well worth the drive and $9. This coming Friday there are 6 families that have said they are going.  We are really looking forward to that.  Here are a few really bad pics from my stupid iPhone 3G.  It is dying very quickly and doesn't have a flash.  I've preordered my iPhone 5 and will hopefully get it this week...SOOOO excited!!!!

This is a "trophy picture".  Whoever won whatever game we were playing got their picture taken as a trophy. (Caleb's idea)

Caleb's "trophy pic"

Hahaha...so hard to coordinate a pic with all three

Saturday and Sunday were HOCKEY DAYS!!  The boys had their first ice times of the year.  They were evaluation sessions.  They both did fairly well.  We are still trying to figure out how to motivate them to do their best throughout the whole practice.  They don't skate their hardest and sometimes don't pay attention to what they are supposed to be doing for their drills. It's very frustrating to watch.  They could be doing so much better if they just tried. 

Tim getting Caleb dressed for his 1st ice time

We also spent the weekend doing some rearranging of the house.  The garage used to be the boys playroom but Nate's birthday present this year was a homemade lego table (two ikea coffee tables attached together with lego baseplates on top).  They wanted the table in their room.  So this weekend we also brought the rest of their toys into their room and transformed the garage into our schoolroom!!!  It is not perfect but I'm really proud of it.  We used it this morning for the first time and it went really well....except that Caitlin kept getting into everything.  I still have to figure out how to keep her out of trouble while I'm working with the boys.

Desks and bookshelf

Circle time area

"Working" on Math.  Nate was very distracted by the world map in front of him.  Tim and I had talked about how that would happen.  He's going to memorize it before the week is over with his memory for details.

Our bible craft for today and Caitlin's art work as well.  One of the advantages of being in the garage is being able to paint on the floor and then just wipe it up when we are done!!!!

After one week of committing to homeschooling, I am really starting to love it more and more each day.  It's still a struggle getting them to sit and do work, but it is getting less and less.  I read someone that it takes 6 weeks to get into the swing of things with homeschooling.  Hoping that is true.