Wordless Wednesday

The Mesopotamians

We are still studying ancient history. My kids like to watch this video.

Cuidado! It takes 6 to 8 weeks to get this song outta your head. Listen with caution.

Wordless Wednesday

It's Hammer's Birthday!

We celebrated Saturday.


We started with basketball







Then a movie with DH and two friends.



Pizza



Cake

Presents

Happy Birthday, Hammerhead! You my pwisner!

Wordless Wednesday

Photo by my DH

Dewey! Dewey! Dewey!

It's that time of year again! You know, that time when I go completely nuts and panic because I start to question my teaching skills. That time of year when I wake up in the middle of the night in a pool of sweat asking myself, "Who the heck do you think you are trying to school your own kids?!?" During this time, I freak out calmly reassess (that looks like re-asses to me. hee-hee) my resources and make changes where I feel we could improve. One of those improvements changed this:

...to this:

Partly because of this:

I changed reading programs with Loreta Mae. She loathed the last one with every fiber of her stubborn being. This program has a cute little dude named Dewey(see above) that helps you along through the lessons. He also helps keep your place in the book.

We are also slowing down just a bit in math for these characters:

They were required to do an insane amount of work on a daily basis. Their teacher is a total loon! We're gonna brush up on some basics for a week or two with drill and games and then jump back into our regularly scheduled programming.


Loree's strategy seems to be working well, so she will continue with whatever this process is...

Welp! That's a little update fer ya...Hope all is well with you and yours. I'm gonna go get a CAT scan.

One of my favorite SNL skits...

I have been super busy getting back in the routine here. Until I can post appropriately, here is one of my favorite SNL bits...