Christmas Outreach

Our co-op group had a Christmas Party to celebrate the end of the semester and the Reason for the Season.  Before the party a group of the kids got together and went over to a local retirement community to sing a few songs and visit with the residents.  Brogan read one of the Bible verses and Christian signed "Silent Night" with a couple of his classmates from his sign language class.  It was a fun time of fellowship and good will for all!

For Sale

I am making canvas art to sell and would love your support!

  All proceeds go toward our mission trip to Rwanda, Africa this next summer.  Please consider purchasing a piece for any birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, showers, graduations, etc.

All pieces can be customized with colors or verses.

This is just a start, there are more to come!

Poppy Camp 2011

Back in October we had our 2nd annual Poppy Camp with family.  We celebrated my dad and looked back on 2 years without him.  The kids had a blast even though it stormed most of the weekend.

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Warm and Cozy

One of the beauties of homeschooling...

we can do our work all warm and cozy and not in a desk :)

Co-op Highlight: Week 13

The community service class made soup in a jar for widows and homebound members of the church that we meet in.

Brogan was having a blast in her multiplication class.

Rylen and Christian learned about food chains in their animal kingdom class.

ABC Book: letter T & O

For the letter T we did tree and the letter O we did ornaments.

We decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments. 

(Actually, Brogan did the decorating but we love watching her!)

Winston Manor 2011

Our family pictures for 2011!!!

ABC's of Christmas

For the month of December Rylen is making an ABC book for Christmas.  We will do one letter, and maybe an activity, for each day up until Christmas day.

For the letter A we did angel.  We sand "Hark the Harold Angels Sing" all day as we went around the house.

For the letter B we did bells.  I had chocolates in the shape of bells and put stickers on the bottom of the bells to play a memory game with.  They had a blast playing the game but I think the most fun they had was eating the pieces they won   :D

Just look at that excitement!!