{"id":1199,"date":"2010-08-23T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2010-08-23T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T03:21:07","slug":"no-apple-for-the-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1199","title":{"rendered":"No apple for the teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nope.  Nothing for me&#8230;but, that&#8217;s okay.  I still was excited to surprise them this morning with a dozen assorted sugary doughnuts to begin our 1st day of the 2010-2011 homeschool year :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4922386574\/\" title=\"DSC_4238 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4115\/4922386574_73dab147fc.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC_4238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone likes powdered sugar ;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4922386488\/\" title=\"DSC_4239 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4137\/4922386488_13b91117f6.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC_4239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marley&#8217;s doughnut choice is ALWAYS a french cruller.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4922386396\/\" title=\"DSC_4240 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4078\/4922386396_8a6c393f78.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"DSC_4240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boys look a little tired, hopefully the sugar high would help.  Payton scarfed his down before I could even take the picture!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4921792127\/\" title=\"DSC_4241 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4081\/4921792127_e6d0dc19c5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_4241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After breakfast and chores, we were off and running.  Bible first&#8230;next was math (a variety of 7th grade up to Algebra 1), grammar, spelling, and writing.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4922386234\/\" title=\"DSC_4242 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4143\/4922386234_94dd65963d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_4242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lainey is getting in on the action this year&#8230;here she is working on a Handwriting Without Tears workbook.  We also started our favorite phonics program, Sing, Spell, Read, and Write.  As soon as the song came on, the boys ran up to sing along.  How cute \/ weird is that?  <\/p>\n<p>After lunch, the kids worked on american history and general science.  Abbey is actually enrolled in a co-op Biology class this year, which begins this Thursday.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4921791973\/\" title=\"DSC_4243 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4102\/4921791973_42bae15403.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC_4243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, our history\/literature program has a LOT more reading than in past years.  Woo hoo!  Not all the kids are thrilled about this, but I am :)  (Insert semi-evil laugh here)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4921791889\/\" title=\"DSC_4244 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4921791889_f3f270fed5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_4244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Ethan would MUCH rather be reading those comics instead of The Red Badge of Courage.  Sorry, dude.  <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4922385904\/\" title=\"DSC_4246 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4143\/4922385904_1400d53776.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_4246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbey, on the other hand, is very happy with her foreign language this year.  She&#8217;s using Rosetta-Stone to learn Mandarin.  Randy began this curriculum a while back, and I plan on starting soon as well.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/4921791621\/\" title=\"DSC_4247 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4119\/4921791621_98dcee514e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_4247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assuming we can EVER travel to get Dylan (more on that frustration later&#8230;), we hope to be able to communicate with him at least on a basic level.  <\/p>\n<p>So, all in all, our first day went great.  A few tweaks here and there, like I expected&#8230;you always realize that something you planned out will work better THIS way once you actually get into it.  We&#8217;re thankful and blessed to be able to homeschool!   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope. Nothing for me&#8230;but, that&#8217;s okay. I still was excited to surprise them this morning with a dozen assorted sugary doughnuts to begin our 1st day of the 2010-2011 homeschool year :) Someone likes powdered sugar ;) Marley&#8217;s doughnut choice is ALWAYS a french cruller. The boys look a little tired, hopefully the sugar high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}