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TIIIMMBEERR!!
For the last several days Russell and the boys were lumberjacks. The Forestry Service gave them permission to cut down certain trees that had dead tops. I can just imagine their big evil grin excitement as they fired the chain saws up. They cut down 20 Ponderosa pines that were about 70-100′ tall, yelling "TIMBER" as the trees fell. Wesley got to chop the limbs off with his axe. They then cut the trees up into 12′ sections, loaded them onto a trailer and hauled them over to a saw mill to make lumber. They worked LONG days (one 15 hour day). They were "the crew" from cutting down the trees, to hauling them,…
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Visual Spatial Learners Part II
Some Illustrated by Buck Jones All rights reserved. Copyright 2002 Continuing from our last post about Visual Spatiel Learners, here are some characteristics of VSL’s taken from Visual Spatial Resource. Does your child remember what is seen but forget what is heard? Does your child have a vivid imagination? Can your child visualize objects from multiple perspectives? Does your child enjoy solving puzzles and mazes? These are children who would rather spend the day with a new box of LEGOs than do nearly anything else in the world. Kids who can get so absorbed in creative play, they lose all sense of time. Often labeled unorganized, unfocused, poor spellers or…
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Visual Spatial Learners Part I
I’ve always known my son is very smart – just not book smart. He has a hard time applying himself because he would rather be outside. He knows a lot about many different things, can express himself well and is creative. I have him in Ambleside Online Year 8 and he enjoys the reading he’s given and comprehends it well. You give him simple computation of math facts and he’ll have calculation errors. Because of this, I started him in a low level of Math-U-See. About a month and a half ago, I wrote into a Charlotte Mason Yahoo group I belong to expressing my discouragement with my 15yo son. The responses I received were so…
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Remembering Our Fallen Soldiers
Today is Memorial Day, the day we honor those soldiers who have died in war. I have had 5 uncles serve in the armed forces and 1 in the reserves. My grandma’s 3 sons and one step-son served during the Vietnam war. One son didn’t return. My mother relayed the story to me and, like most of us, time has dulled her memory of some of the exact details. My Uncle Eugene was a tall man with curly auburn hair, a great sense of humor, lighthearted and carefree. As a lad of about 7 or 8 he sold newspapers to the neighbors, about 6 a day. One day, Uncle Eugene went down to…
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All Night, All Day, Angels Watching Over Me, My Lord
The last few days have proven quite eventful. First, Zachary and Wesley went down to saddle up the horses for a ride when they heard noises in the bushes. Upon investigating they found our dog Rosie with 10 puppies. 10 puppies!! What are we going to do with 10 puppies??!! Our nearest neighbor is 2 miles away so we thought we would be safe from straying males. No deal. One of the neighbors bird dogs came visiting, apparently. The kids are really enjoying having them but there is the slight problem of what are we going to do with 10 puppies?? After the excitement of the puppies the boys finally got…
