This week ......

We started our study of North America today. We will be covering the U.S., Mexico and Canada in depth over the next 6 weeks.

Today we started on The United States. We checked out 32 library books last Friday on the subject. Fancy and Bubby enjoyed having this mini-library to browse through throughout the day. They are now happy (weren't through the summer) that we worked on learning the states and capitals all summer as now they can name them off really well. That makes for less studying this week as that is one of the major components. We enjoyed finishing up quickly and having more time for our new read aloud book (see below).

With each continent we will be reading a book about a Missionary that is associated with that continent. Today we started this book about Cameron Townsend:

He founded Wycliffe which is an orginization dedicated to making God's word available to every person in the language they speak. What good is a bible delivered to people if it is in english and they can't speak/read english?

If you want to know more about it, check out http://www.wycliffe.org/.

We are only two chapters in, but we are REALLY enjoying this book.

Here is a pic of the kids doing Math today. Fancy had finished hers and it turns out she is a great "teacher's aide". She really likes to help Bubby with his work. In fact, she almost likes it too much. If I do not keep an eye on it, she will do it FOR him so he can get done. She likes to move quickly through school. You know, so she can do important studious things like watch QUALITY television like "What Not to Wear" and such. (ugh) haha (she is a fashion freak after all).

Our friend "Peeping Tom" was back today (we think it is him anyway) ..... he wasn't looking in the window this time, just relaxing on the porch, but Bubby saw it as a photo opportunity.

While outside photographing "Tom" we saw several interesting spiders. The first picture ended up to be a blurry shot of the spider itself, but we thought the web was impressive.

Here is one last one Bubby had to capture. He seems to be very interested in Nature Photography. He must be taking after my sister who takes GREAT pics and has ALWAYS loved nature as her subject.

This spider, by the way, kind of gives me the "willies". I would be OK with him finding a new home. He is about the size of a haf dollar. I wish the web had turned out better. It is really neat. It has a zig-zag pattern to it.

Ok, and speaking of my sister .... here is her precious Izobella again. My kids got to spend a little time with her the other night at my parents' house. Fancy tends to like to photograph people .... especially babies.

That's all for now ... thanks for checking in.