Dailey Bred Farm

End of School

{ 03:02, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 } { 3 comments } { Link }

Today was our last full day of school. Tomorrow E has her end-of-5th-grade-necessary-for-the-state Test. C already took hers, because she was the only third grade tester in our town we had to go to the city. The third grade test has different instructions and so requires a different tester. That meant that the teacher who does the testing would've had to hire another teacher and charged us for it. We drove the 45 miles and took it with the bigger group. It was C's first (3rd, 5th, 8th and 10th grade tests are required in our state) and she weathered it well.

After all the testing is done and everyone is all legal, we have our First (hopefully) Annual Homeschool Formal. SisterLori and her DDs and myself and my DCs are putting it on. We all have our lovely things to wear and our flowery decorations (the theme is A Meadow in Springtime) the making of some delicious finger foods. I still have a couple of mending things to do on the clothing to make them modest family friendly, but it should be only an hour or so. I hope it turns out fun for all.

Now that the main part of school is finished, we have clean and organize on Friday. I like to tidy up when we're finished then in the late summer we can be all excited to get our things out to begin again. This year we are going to do a reading program all together as well as the older children doing some math with their much "mathier" dad. I enjoy lower grades math, up through about 6th grade. After that I can stumble my way through, but not explain very well how to do the processes. I think that's why God's best is to have two complementary people raising children....we fill in the gaps for each other.

We have three weeks to prepare for our mission trip to Mexico. We'll be gone for 10 days. After the 4th of July, DH is teaching summer school for the rest of the month, while the two older children each have a camp and we all have VBS. The first week of August is county fair, where we'll camp out while the kids show their animals and the 22nd through 24th we have a camping trip with some friends in southern Oregon and the 25th school begins again! That's the summer on Dailey Bred farm...it looks tiring! Throw in gardening, milking and kidding, cleaning stalls, moving animals, keeping the house up and WOO BOY! Such is life.
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{ 03:18, Thursday, May 29, 2008 } { Posted by Asher }
Good luck this summer, C! The family I've been riding with has a set up that sounds similar to yours. They've got several very short goats, a lama, two cow babies, and... 7 horses. a few rabbits, 3 dogs (down from 5... down from 10) and 9 human (6 adopted) children running around. Their eldest (just turned 18) does a lot of the work and the eldest two show some of the horses, the dogs, and the cows.

Needless to say, I've learned a thing or two about animals. I'm gonna miss it out there. It's a lot of work, but it's a great lifestyle. And I think the kids are better humans for it.

Don't forget to have fun!

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{ 08:28, Sunday, June 1, 2008 } { Posted by Schatzi }
Isn't it great when you come to the end of a school year and can look back at the growth of our children and see the things they have learned...sounds like you are headed for a great summer...I pray a blessing over your summer for health and safety and making memories together.

Connie

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{ 10:45, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 } { Posted by cookfor4 }
The formal sounds fun! What a great idea!

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