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Super Bowl 2015

The newest fan!

Examples of a “forced” photo shoot…

A Steeler, a Cowboy, and a couple of Broncos

Fun to share with Nana and Papaw!

Our bundle of energy!!!

She is growing so fast.

Jackson Sawyer is growing too. I am happy that for another season he continues to push this plastic mower around.

A long way from home…

A hike in our neck of the woods.

A Valentine sweet treat

Flowers and sweets

Isabela loves loving on this growing puppy!

A rip in the rug from Lucy in the shape of a heart

Legos from Ann

Meet Chloe, the newest cousin, Jaydie and Elijah’s new black lab

Abigail’s drawing of her Daddy teaching her how to train LuLu

Fun in the mountains

All my love…

warm and sunny hearts!

February 24, 2015
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Duck Play

Love the expression

This was one of the last photos which displays the yellow feathers we love.

Miss Abigail loves her ducks.
She made this drawing and writing for Mamaw Judy.

These ducks are constantly being picked up.

We looked up one day and the ducks were being carted around the yard in the wagon.

They are so innocent in their play. It is always really cute watching them, however the ducks always have the look of uncertainty of what to expect from these two.

Nana even joined the fun, they talked her into holding one. She calls it the Aflac Duck! I know the duck in the wagon is happy there wasn’t an extra pair of hands to hold her.

This photo was taken a few months ago. All three truly enjoy caring and playing with their ducks. Sad to report that one of the brown ducks must have been bitten by a turtle on the pond. An injured leg but it survived! One of the yellow ducks Abigail claims “flew to heaven to be with God”

June 24, 2014
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Work in Progress

Jackson finished another book in his series.
Moving on now to the final book in Level 3

A letter sent to Amy Jo as part of our thank you letter study.

By Abigail, a drawing of she and Isabela on a spring morning

By Isabela, a flower under rain

I wasn’t too pleased with his first “quick/rushed” attempt at writing a summary. After sitting together and discussing, his next try was much more satisfactory.

Second tooth lost!

Sad that we couldn’t find the tooth but at least I still get my smiley girl.
She was satisfied because the fairy left her a note saying she liked the tooth drawing that was left in place of the real tooth.

Abigail gave these to Papaw

Love Jackson, even though he mispelled “friend”

Jackson chose to describe the steps of planting peppers for a Language assignment.

An example of one of Abigail’s Spelling test.

Photographs by Abigail, enjoying her study/observations of the sky and clouds

Puzzle by Abigail

Proud of his completion to his new Smoky Mountain puzzle. Over 500 pieces, it took him about two weeks to finish. One missing piece…

His idea for playing in Papaw’s building and having cake!

Jackson has memorized all of these prepositions! He can quickly recite them. Now we wait to see if he uses them in his writing.

Happy Earth Day.
We even planted seeds!

Over the past week Abigail had started ABC order as well as trying to put together a sentence with five words.

Spelling test, actually not a 100, Maine is not correct.

Happy Birthday Janice

Papaw gave Jackson the job of finding all of the cities of the March Madness teams.

300-400

By Abigail, she described this as a birthday cake for Jackson. She said she had a hard time getting the seven crayons to all stand as candles.

We took the classroom outdoors working on our Junior Ranger Badges

The ranger signed both of their workbooks at the end of the study.

We learned a great deal of information about the black bear.

April 14, 2014
Categories: Abigail's Art, Abigail's Work, Isabela's Work, Jackson's Art, Jackson's Work, School Related, Uncategorized . . Author: Julie M Hall . Comments: Leave a comment

Writing/Work Samples

I’ve enjoyed tracking their ever changing writing styles. Sometimes I have been so excited to capture their growth in sharpening proper letter formation. Other times I have had to witness their lazy and rushed attitude for just completing the assignment. Either way, I am happy that technology allows me to capture these moments.

After completing our lesson on letter writing, Jackson had to address and send a thank you letter in the mail.

Our topic was to write about “Girls”

Topic, “write about a time when someone helped you”

By Jackson, simple yet priceless with the conversation between “Jackson and Elijah”

This was what Jackson made for Debbie’s birthday.
He used the lesson of Dogs in our “Draw Write Now” Art activities.

Morning writing assignments for Abigail was to make thank you notes for her birthday gifts.

We also sent letters to Aunt Brooke, Uncle Mikey, Jaydie and Elijah, and Nana and Papaw.
Hopefully hand written thank you’s will be a skill they use forever!

Abigail’s angel

By Abigail, this is her with Jackson and Isabela pretending to be angels

Abigail’s three treasures…her puppy, her bunny, and her blankie

For the past month Jackson has started reading “The Magic Tree House” books by Mary Pope Osborne. He has completed books 1-4. These four books are about the mystery of the tree house where the characters travel to the time of dinosaurs, medieval times with a knight, ancient Egypt with a mummy, and with pirates searching for a buried treasure.

At the end of each book he takes a written test.
We look forward to reading all 28 books in “The Magic Tree House” series.

A sample of Social Studies assessment chapter 4

A recent Spelling test of Jackson’s

Abigail is very proud of herself…me too!

Isabela “plays” school with her circles, letter I and X, and a triangle.

School time is a blessed time! The moments are full of sweat, tears, frustrations, and zapped energies…however we are a little more educated, a little more prepared, and a whole lot stronger for it. I love being the teacher of my three!

December 15, 2013
Categories: Abigail's Art, Abigail's Work, Isabela's Work, Jackson's Art, Jackson's Work, Observations, School Related . . Author: Julie M Hall . Comments: Leave a comment

Butterfly! The Conclusion to our Science Experiment 9/29/12

We’ve been busy around here watching, observing, and of course waiting for our science experiment to reveal herself. We have answered LOTS of times, how many days might be left, as well as why it won’t be able to continue living here once it has transformed into a butterfly.

Saturday morning we noticed some color showing in the chrysalis so we knew it wouldn’t be long.

Abigail wanted to examine it closely to see if she could see her caterpillar friend.

Honestly, looking minutes later, this is what we found. A very fragile looking butterfly with small crumpled wings and big eyes.

Each of them couldn’t believe what a beautiful butterfly was in our jar.

Abigail can’t decide if she is happy or sad. Her caterpillar friend is gone and now we have to release the new butterfly!

Isabela couldn’t decide if she was happy or scared. Lots of sounds and emotions from this girl.

The tiny details of this creature were amazing!

After being silly on the back porch, we decided to take the butterfly to Nana and Papaw’s house to release.

Once out of the jar it immediately took hold of Jackson’s finger! He was amazed by this.

Jackson placed the butterfly on Isabela and it never offered to fly away. She wasn’t too sure about it but didn’t cry.

I love this picture! A happy boy proud to have learned and witnessed this amazing life cycle. Finally the butterfly lifted off of his finger and took flight. We watched it disappear into the trees and were thankful our cat or a bird didn’t capture this new fragile life.

By Abigail, she wrote her name, drew her picture, and copied my word BUTTERFLY.

By Jackson, he summarized his thoughts with some help on the spelling and then illustrated his butterfly.

September 30, 2012
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Abigail’s drawings

A scary spider monster Abigail saw on the porch.

Abigail’s pretty flower.

Abigail’s family drawing. All five of us, side by side. Jackson asked her if she wanted to add some color. Her reply, “no thanks.”

October 2012 after seeing her brother add the extended family beside us, she drew one as well with us all happy and in a circle. She likes the hats on her daddy and brother.

August 1, 2012
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