Owlowiscious Girls

 What?  School on Saturday!?!  NOOOO!  Just kidding!  That is just the update title and so I can keep the alliteration going.  I have been so super super blessed to homeschool not just my preschooler and a friend this year but to also have a first grader at home and by Christmas my prayer is to have all my children home.  But I am going to try to tell you what we are learning about and the curriculum choices I have made and how they are working. We will start with Preschool.  I use  Little Hands to Heaven  and  Letter of the Week .  The simple idea of one letter a week with a week of review after every 4 letters is so fun.  We have a friend who joins with us a couple times a week.  We are going at a slower pace because of lack of consistency but life is never consistent so we just roll with it!  This week we have been focused on the review and sounds of A, B, C, D.  And we have started putting all our work together in an Alphabet and Preschool Memory Book.  Here is a picture of Luc

I am still reading Ester Ried .  It is a fun read.  Like I said last time I could totally see this as a modern movie.  Ester would work at a family business probably a diner.  She gets an e-mail or call or text from her cousin that she is getting married.  She gets to see New York city but her cousin is all "religious" and getting married to a youth pastor.  Ester always thought of herself as a Christian but not like her cousin.  Abbie goes to all the prayer meetings and volunteers for everything.  Meanwhile her sister is being influenced by a horrible guy back home in some small town in Ohio (?) maybe.  Okay....in reality Ester works with her mom at a boarding house and there is no e-mail or texting it was all done through a letter, but pretty much the same thing. With the girls, we just finished Little House on the Prairie .  I am excited to introduce them to the show.  Since we just a finished a book we jumped right into the next one... Ariana's Pick: This is

Mom is reading Ester Ried by Isabella MacDonald Alden.  This is the book currently being read on BBN as a Christian Classic.  Thought I would give it a try.  One minute reviews of what I have read so far- Chapters 1-8:   -Ester is looking for something awesome to happen in her life and she gets to go to New York City! -I can totally see this as a modern movie. -I can't figure out what time period exactly this was written for but I really enjoy trying to make it modern in my head.   Girls are reading: We only have 2 more chapters to finish!  They have done a very good job of listening to this.  Hermione enjoyed the Christmas story.  After we finish this we are going to start watching the show and I am going to see if we can read the next one. Hermione can actually read these.  I remember growing up with these stories.  It is so much fun to see her read these and really apply God and Jesus to normal everyday life.  These are old-fashioned though,