Famous homeschoolers

We have been pretty busy here so I have gotten behind again! I have a post about the girls little birthday party coming up, a post about what all the kids have been up to and learning and a couple others I hope to share soon. Maybe today even.
This post I thought would be fun. I saw this quiz posted on facebook and thought you all might be interested in knowing about some famous homeschoolers.

A famous homeschooled artist (also an inventor) who had 17 half brothers and sister... Leonardo da Vinci

A famous homeschooled composer (from Austria) who began composing at the age of five...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A famous homeschooled educator who went on to become the President of Stanford University...
Fred Terman
(Each of these former homeschoolers became president of a prestigious university in the US)
John Witherspoon
Frank Vandiver
William Samuel Johnson

A famous homeschooled General fought in World War I, World War II and in the Korean War, AND was one of only five Americans ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army...
Douglas Mac Arthur

This famous homeschooler is the inventor of the telescope 30x... Galileo

This famous homeschooler was the first American women in space... Sally Ride

This famous homeschooled writer is the author of The Chronicals of Narnia... C.S. Lewis

Famous homeschoolers who recieved a Nobel Prize...
Gabriela Mistral

Albert Schweitzer
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein

Famous homeschoolers that became president of the United States...
Theodore Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson
James Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A famous homeshooler that started the Red Cross... Clara Barton

I know there are a lot more. If you know of any post them in the comments!

Muffin Tin Monday

Here is what we did for Muffin Tin Monday this week. (We missed a couple weeks.) The theme this week was orange. We were able to use the silicon muffin cups I found at Target this week. :)


They had...

Mac 'n cheese, Natural Cheetos, orange slices, cheese chunks, carrot sticks and Kaden had a couple peanut butter crackers too. ( hey it was close in color.. :)

To see what others did for MTM click on the button to the right!

Homeschool Week in review 2/15-2/19

Meghan did great this week. We were out a couple days as I mentioned previously and when we are out it takes a looong time. We live 30 minutes from town and if we go to a bigger town, which we did, it takes even longer. We usually just decide to get a bunch of things done at once. So she was able to either get her work done early or double it up on the days we were home.
She did great on her spelling as usual. Math is going great too. She has been getting a page a day done in her Horizons book. Then she also has a book that reviews math facts and a book to review telling time. She only has to do one page a day but sometimes she just wants to keep going. It's an easy book and it's review so I don't mind. We read through our chapter in Farmer Boy. She learned about how they spent their Sundays back then. She is keeping up with her chapter a day reading as well. She wanted a book about ocean life when we were at the education store last so I got that for her and she has been reading that as well. I plan to do a study with her on that while she is interested. She is doing one to two pages in her Handwriting Without Tears book. She will be done with this book soon. The next book begins Cursive. I am not sure is I will have her go right into that one yet, we'll see. We got a placemat that is a wipeoff board with Cursive writing on it and she wanted to practice with that this week. She actually did really well with it. She came up to me and asked about how to connect the "o" in a word at one point but the rest she did on her own by looking at the mat.
She also had her 2nd riding lesson this week. She was very excited. I didn't go to this one but her teacher said she was doing great. She said that usually they need to be led around a bit longer but Meghan was ready to ride on her own after a few times being led around. So she spent most of the time riding on her own in a circular pen and gaining confidence with the horse. She was very proud and can't wait for next week.
Not many pics this week but here she is working on her computer on Spellingcity.com

It seems that we are probably going to be moving back to AZ in March. I think Meghan will be very excited. She misses her cousins and her grandparents and her friends. She'll be upset about the riding lessons maybe but (shh) I found some in AZ too. I have to contact the lady and make sure she can do it but I have her information and will work on that this week. We're also going to plan a birthday party for Meghan and Ellie. Meghan is 8 years old today! and Ellie will be 1 on March 10th. We are going to go to a little thing here with my sister in law and brother and their girls. Their daughter Matty will be 1 on March 6th so we want to do something with them before we leave. But once we are in AZ we'll have a big thing with all our friends and family. I'm excited although it's going to be a rush to get everything done. Now I have to ask Meghan what kind of party she would like to have. I have some sugestions. ;)

Tot School 2/15-2/19

Kaden is 34 months old

This week we have been pretty busy. Our main focus is potty training right now. We've had a couple days where we went out. He wore pull ups on those trips. Sometimes he will use the potty out but most of the time he won't. He's not comfortable on the big potty even with the little fold up seat we bought to put on them. At home: he has good days and bad days. Today is a good day. I would love to hear any tips and tricks you might have! The main thing seems to be taking him all the time. He still doesn't tell me when he has to go, he tells me after he's started or he just goes to the bathroom and it's too late, He still hasn't done #2 on the potty either. We have revisited him holding it a little as he didn't go for 3 days. SO still working on that and because he is running around in underwear all day I didn't take a lot of pictures. ;)
Other things he did this week...
- played with lego's
- used the wipe off book, tracing lines
- sorting pom poms
- playing with large blocks
- watched the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD
- reading books

Here are the few pictures I did get and this is the hat he wore this week. :)

Kids: Their always sticky! Most noticable in boys. HA

 

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Valentine's and Cousin's

Here the kids are opening their Valentines from Mommy and Daddy. They each got a new book. Meghan and Kaden also got a little notebook (Meghan turned hers into a diary, she loves notebooks), Kaden got stickers and Meghan a mini coloring book with stickers.

The beautiful flowers Nate got for me.

Nate holding the little people.

Kaden and Ellie hugging.

We went to see my brother and sister in law one day. I snapped a couple pictures. (This is where Kaden

was getting in the doggy pen).

Look at all that hair Matty has! She is 4 days older than Ellie but was suppose to be 10 days after. haha

Lily is getting so big!

Unsocialized Homeschoolers??

Many people question how homeschool kids gets learn real life skills. For some reason the general public thinks that you need to have your kids in a school setting so that they can learn how to deal with hard situations. Well WE know this isn't true.
I want to share this site. Please read the blog post here, on Smrt Lernins, about exposing our children to tough situations. It is just an amazing post and I completely agree. I just had to share!

Homeschool Weekly in review 2/8-2-12

Meghan had a good week. We didn't do a whole lot of extra things this week other than some Valentine's activities. She is still doing great in Horizons Math and started working more on the 3's multiplication tables. She finished her valentine's and we got those sent out. She actually made a valentine for me and one for her Daddy too. Very sweet! She also made me this cute picture!
                                  
The chapter book she is reading now is Disney Fairies: The Trouble With Tink. Here she is working on her spelling.

We read chapter 7 in Farmer Boy as well. Kaden likes to listen in to this also. She had vocabulary, math (liquid measurement) and she narrated the story back to me. She learned a little History in how they took baths back then and how much work it was to heat the water, made harder at this time in the story since it was winter in 40 below 0 temps. We talked about expanding and contracting again in water/ice (Science).

We actually got more done than I remembered now that I have it all down. One of the reasons I like documenting our days.