Began working her way through
abcmouse.com. Much of it is review for her, but she's enjoying it. She does lessons on learning pathways to earn tickets, which are used to purchase things such as hamsters and supplies!
Various video links in sidebar
Books- too many to list
Adventure In Odessey- listens to stories most nights
Art and Crafts
Microsoft paint
Made Barbi sock dresses
Playing Guess Who
Painting
Danica taking a rest from skating
Danny
Drawing - links to tutorials are on the sidebar. Danny spends hours drawing
Reading - The Boxcar Children: # 9 Mountain Top Mystery, # 10 Schoolhouse Mystery, # 11 Caboose Mystery, # 16 Mystery In the Sand, # 35 The Mystery At the Dog Show, #112 The Ghost in the First Row, #13 Snowbound Mystery, #30 The Disappearing Friend Mystery, Childhood of Famous Americans Series (again): Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Barton, Sacagawea, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Alva edison
Writing- working on a story, dreams of publishing one day
Science- video links on sidebar, especially likes How It's Made
Band In a Box, Music Composing software- Danny and Mom both enjoy this.
Guitar - working on some callouses! Watching Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class
Lego
Drawing With Tutorial
Danny's Artwork
Jerry
Horseback Riding, and working with neighbour dragging in trees with the horses
Wiring plugins in the basement
Helping with drywall
Reading- The Royal Diaries- Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Hockey Night In Canada 60 Seasons
History and science - video links are on sidebar Jerry is especially interested in anything related to the military
Riding with Cameron
Justin
More volunteer camera work for WCG (Westman Communications Group)- AAA hockey, basketball,
He continues to maintain his Youtube Channel, Facebook pages- Videography, Music, and his blog. Some income is generated through advertising on his videos. (minimal at present, but a start)
Had Business cards designed
Writing, directing and filming videos
Much time is spent watching tutorials, learning different special effects editing techniques.
Piano
Guitar
Planning Recording Studio
Building Minecraft suit for upcoming video
Helping with drywall
NetFlix
Dora, Diego - Danica
Zaboomafo - Danny and Danica
Sherlock - Mom & Dad, Jerry and Danny all enjoy this one. We also watched Young Sherlock. We talked about how the tv shows and movies have taken bits and pieces of the original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and woven them into new stories. They had already watched many of the old black and white ones on dvd.
Murder, She wrote
Surviving Disasters Series
Seven Wonders Of the Industrial World- The Great Ship, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Bell Lighthouse, The Sewer King,
Danny's Christmas Holiday Book List
The Boxcar Children Series:
#2 Surprise Island
#3 The Yellow House Mystery
#5 Mike's Mystery
#6 Blue Bay Mystery
#43 The Mystery On Stage
#44 The Dinosaur Mystery
# 109 The Rock n roll Mystery
Spring Break Special- The Mystery Cruise, The Black Pearl Mystery, The Mystery In The Mall
Summer Special- The Mystery at the Ballpark, The Mystery of the Hidden Beach, The Summer Camp Mystery
Winter Special- The Mystery of the Snow, The Mystery On Blizzard Mountain, The Mystery at Snowflake Inn,
The main focus of 2012 was building our new home. All three boys helped out and learned many construction skills. Eventually, we'll post a video of the construction process!
We continued to use Switched on Schoolhouse until spring. The boys initially found SOS to be a nice change from textbooks and workbooks, but after two years they became bored with it. Of the three boys, Jerry did the best with SOS.
Justin's interests are many: sports- especially hockey, music- guitar and piano, filmmaking- his Youtube Channel, and events videograpy.
He videotaped two weddings in the spring, editing the footage and creating a nice dvd for the two couples. (paying jobs)
The video below highlights some of his projects from the past year.
During the summer Justin started volunteering for Westman Communications Group, taping football games. This led to him filming and producing two 'highlight videos' for highschool football players to send out to universities....more paying jobs!
He still has a full length feature film to finish. Getting songs recorded for the movie has slowed the progress on this project. Apollos Watered
Jeremy loves history- we have a large collection of dvds listed in our resources at the top of this page.
His reading ability has really taken off...he finally realized that books are as interesting as movies!
He also loves sports, especially hockey and baseball.
This summer, while Justin was taping, Jerry also helped out in the WCG trailer, typing in scores for the game. He's hoping to do more of this in the future.
Jerry began horseback riding with our neighbour (Cameron) across the road. He's been learning lots and having a great time. He's also been helping out- finding dead trees, delimbing and cutting them, then using the horses to drag them in. They're to be used for rail fences. He also brought home a stack of magazines to learn more about horses.
In the fall Jerry helped helped Cameron skin a coyote, and saved the skull! He also helped hang a deer, skin it and take off the head....fun stuff! haha
Daniel received a guitar for Christmas. He's been wanting to learn for quite a while, so we'll be looking for lessons in the new year. We also hope to start attending the Westman Jams each month.
Danny reads constantly. I'm always looking for new reading material, but if there's nothing new, he'll just reread a book he likes!
His other main interest is drawing. We have many art books, and he has stacks of drawing pads.
Like his brothers, he loves hockey!
Danica has all the usual interests of a typical little girl. She especially loves books! She has a vivid imagination, creating imaginary friends and making up stories. She loves watching videos, listening to music, and doing art and crafts. Most nights she falls asleep listening to Adventures In Odyssey.
I thought I'd share just a glimpse of how we spent our summer and fall last year. It makes me tired just looking at these pictures. I'm so thankful to be where we are now...and ready for spring to come so we can get back at it!
