Pumpkin Patch

We went on a beautiful nature hike up Logan Canyon to 2nd Dam on Friday and enjoyed plant identification, geo cashing, snacks and friends. We so enjoyed the colors of fall and the clean fresh air. We loved feeding a few ducks, with zoo approved pellet's, and explored a pond.

Saturday we went on another mini field trip as we explored a local pumpkin patch in search of the perfect pumpkins for the girls. Stetson stayed at home during this outing helping Dad in the basement paint doors. We didn't just buy pumpkins as you can see we found all sorts of delicious squash to cook up all winter long. I love the shelf life of this beautiful produce. 

We missed Co-op this week due to the three youngest having very runny noses. We are on the mend though and look forward to going this week. 

CTC Math is going well for all of the kids. Some math concepts are a little hard for Hailey to learn on her own so I usually sit near by during her time. Evelyn is doing great. She and I both really enjoy the feature that allows her to listen to the questions simply by pressing a button. I think that makes her feel more independent. Stetson at time gets frustrated with the program but it is more that he gets wrong answers and needs to keep learning the concepts. I hope that his patience will improve as the year goes on. 

 

Grammar is going really well. I love the cursive that Stetson is doing and how hard he works to make it look just like the examples in his book. Hailey has so much fun with her exercises and drawing and is eager to do her assignments. Evelyn is reading much better and we are excited for her improvement. She did a reading assessment and struggled through a lot of the words but I know her time and understanding will improve this year. 

 

 

Field trip to see the Salmon

We went to Porcupine Reservoir and saw the fish swim up stream and explored the area. 

We were joined by our friends the Hayes and enjoyed walking over logs for bridges, climbing up mountains,  making new friends, eating snacks, catching fish with our bare hands and also gutting a fish. We walked for a long while and saw where the stream meets the reservoir. We also saw duck, deer and raccoon tracks. 

 

Soccer is going well for our three oldest and the rest of us enjoy watching and sometimes practicing with our little athletes. This picture shows Evelyn at a practice. We had practices and games last week. Hailey was a champ playing her whole game in the rain on Saturday. We all went to cheer her on!

CTC math is going well. We are starting to get into a rue-teen. All of the kids are liking it so far. I am loving it! I set the percentage that they need to get right, on each assignment, to 90%. Some are not happy about how well they need to do on each assessment. 

We received our science and language arts curriculum this week. We started our first writing assignment today. Stetson is working on cursive and Hailey did preparation for writing, basically drawing, one of her favorite things. 

We also received our new computer set up today. Stetson is super excited about setting that up. I hope he will let his father help him. 

We are still working out the details of music lessons and hope to have teachers all lined up soon. 

 

Visit's from Grandparent's

 We are getting along in our home school adventure. 

We have purchased all of our "Good and Beautiful" curriculum and are all signed up for our CTC math. Each of the kids completed assignments and time in math today. 

We have been reading more stories and Evelyn and Hailey have been making sure to read to me each day. Stetson's love for reading has not decreased over the summer. He is working on "Uncle Toms Cabin" for a school assignment and "Wings of Fire Legends Dragonslayer" for entertainment. 

The soccer season has begun and Stetson has had two games and Hailey one, while we are still trying to work out details regarding Evelyn's team. Hopefully we will have that all together by the end of this week. Hailey was a rock star at her games and won 8 of the goals. Stetson also played hard and had fun but was unfortunately not on the winning team either games. 

We were so blessed to have both grandparents visit over the weekend. We always love seeing them!

We worked very hard in our yard due to our natural disaster wind storm on Monday night. We lost nearly a third of our tree limbs. We are so grateful for our trailer we hauled 3 loads to the green waist. Grandpa Weyerman helped some with this. I received blisters from all of my hard work. 

Grandma Weyerman helped the girls fold most of our 10 loads of laundry while others were outside working. She also helped to prep many, many, many peaches for freezing as all of our peaches fell from our tree during our terrific wind storm. 

The kids are really enjoying the chickens again as they have begun to lay eggs. Spencer made nesting boxes for the coop this weekend. Those chickens are so smart and have started to lay in there no problem. We knew we needed to make them as the chickens were starting to lay their eggs in the grass. 

We also have two kittens that the kids love to play with and care for, Tiger and Skittles. They are playful and fun. We acquired them because mom found some mice in our house. We hope that they will be good mice catchers! 

The Weyerman grand parents are preparing to move to the Cache Valley. We are so excited to have them close and be more involved in their lives. 

Bryce Canyon Trip

With hiking boots on and water bottles in hand our family explored Bryce Canyon National Park this Labor day weekend. We stayed in a forest service cabin and enjoyed plenty of outdoor fun and wildlife.

We started a cook fire for tin foil dinners, roasted hotdogs, went fishing-caught a fish, went on some great hikes, watched wildlife, climbed to over 9100 feet and loved the views, watched the stars-saw shooting stars, eat lots of yummy food and read great stories together. 

This was a great end of summer family trip to focus are family on unity and prepare us for the fall school time ahead.  Spencer loves geography and gave us all good instruction about North, South, East and West. The Big and Little Dipper and how to find the North Star. Family time is my favorite!