Another reason I love home schooling is the opportunity our boys have to spend time with each other during the day. Son G and Little Man are no longer room-mates, but had shared a room for 10 years and have a really strong bond. Here college man is explaining fine points of the Star Wars movie franchise to Little Man. All our boys are anxiously awaiting the release of the next Star Wars movie in December!
Last weekend daughter G came home. Yay! Here is the artist in her studio space at college.
Some of her recent work.
This is what a "printing" station looks like....
....and it produces work like this. Basically you paint the glass with black paint, and then wipe OFF the "picture" that you want, then lay paper on top of this and transfer the remaining black paint to the paper. It is an interesting study in looking for the "white" instead of the "dark."
Daughter G came to both her brother's soccer games to cheer them on. Her cheering must have helped, because they came away with a win and a tie!
Also while she was home we took the opportunity to do our annual tradition of painting pumpkins.
I love this time amongst the siblings!
Their finished work!
For son C's Spanish class, they were to draw and label (in Spanish) all the parts of a house, and the teacher said she would give extra credit for a 3D house rather than a sketched one. Son C rose to the challenge and spent hours building a lego replica of OUR house! It was two stories, and the top story lifted off to show the kitchen and all the other rooms on the ground floor. It was amazing!
Here is the sliding glass door from our family room to the patio. The door actually slides!
In his brother's bedroom he even put a guitar in the corner. :)
I absolutely loved this little detail....on a shelf in his own bedroom he put a tiny replica of a Pinewood Derby car and a soccer trophy.
In history last week we learned more about the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Boy, he was a super popular "man of the people" president! After his inaugural speech he invited regular people into the White House to celebrate with him, and they got so rowdy (climbing on furniture to get a better look at President Jackson, and breaking glasses, etc) that White House staff had to carry huge tubs of ice cream out on the lawn to lure all the people out again! Can you imagine if that kind of thing happened today?!
He had some really big issues to try and resolve during his presidency. Two big ones that did not get resolved completely were the United States' relationship with Native Americans, and the slavery issue. As we know, the slavery issue would grow more and more tense until a civil war broke out over this issue about 30 years later.
Little Man read all about the history of the state of Texas, from American settlers first going there, to Mexico's independence from Spain, to Texas's War of Independence from Mexico. Very interesting, with lots of interesting characters.
In other news, our beloved youth pastor got married. He is 38 and had given up on the hope of marriage, when the Lord completely surprised him by bringing a lovely, beautiful, caring woman into his life. We are all so happy for them!! Here are our boys at the wedding....they clean up pretty well, don't they?
God is good! Looking forward to what this next week holds.
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