School Week 18 2011-2012

This week the kids will be working on math and reading... that's it!  A9 is still reading The BFG and X7 will be reading an assortment of Christmas books.  I will be posting pics of our Christmas weekend later today.   It's going to be a busy week since we are going to be getting ready for our trip to Nina and Grandpa's house!

More later!

Bunny Update

Too many things have happened since I last posted about our bunnies!  Momma bunny was pregnant again, she weaned Piggy at 4 weeks and started to get a nest ready for the next litter. Piggy and Fuzzball were able to bond since Momma did not want Piggy anywhere near her of the new nest.  I was a bit worried about Piggy having been weaned so early so I took her to the vet and Fuzzball as well.  No worries, Momma gave Piggy all she needed!  BTW, Cocoa has been fixed, so no more babies!  It's been 4 weeks today, so I guess it's safe for them to be together again.

Remember them??

Look at them now! btw, we are keeping them! Fuzzball is my miracle bunny and I just can't let him go and Dh is absolutely in love with Piggy!!!  

Mom and Dad will be going back outside once it gets warm again, they always enjoyed being in their rabbit hutch, Piggy and Fuzzball are staying inside!  I do not want to have them all over my basement however because of our dogs so we started to do some research about how to take care of inside bunnies.

I purchased the book The House Rabbit handbook and in it, it mentions bunny condos.  I went to the website to find out more about it. It has a video showing you step by step how to build them.

So we did it! We bought the materials and went to it! here is a our new Rabbit Condo!

What we had after day 2, waiting for the two shelves to stick.

Condo complete! All we need now is a rabbit!

There he is, Cocoa in his new home.. for now. This condo is going to be for Piggy and Fuzzball, but for now it will be shared by Cocoa and Coconut.  Once the babies are all grown and gone she will be in there with him!  We had to put towels underneath so the babies will not go under it. 

Speaking of babies, here are some pics of the new litter of babies, she had 8 but the runt died early on, now there are 7 left and they are all deliciously cute!!  It is almost impossible to take pics of them since they are ALWAYS moving around, and beleive me, these pics do NOT do them justice, they are way cuter in person!

Momma and one of her clones!! ha ha!! there's 3 tan ones just like Mom.

The nest is on the left, ever since they opened their eyes they are everywhere BUT in there. They take their naps under the desk instead of inside the nest... I guess when it is chow time they all come out and she feeds them.

There they all are! Three tan ones, (the other tan one is with Momma) three black ones, and a white one!

Early Christmas

We always celebrate X-Mas early at our house since we normally travel to Nina and Grandpa's for the Holidays, so here are some pics of this past weekend!  The kids exchanged gifts they got for each other and they got to open their stocking gifts!

School Week 17 2011-2012

I'm a little late with this post but I was busy yesterday and today we got done with school early, so here I am!
This week we are working on the essentials... science, reading, math, phonics, and finishing spelling for the year. We are working on our last science lesson of Zoology 3, dinosaurs! A9 is done with The Witches and has started the book The BFG also by Roald Dahl... it seems like we are having a Roald Dahl book party over here,but the truth is I have been buying these books over the last few years from scholastic book club. Most of them I got for a dollar!

Now that I know A9 is enjoying them so much I want to get the rest of them! Thankfully I know families who have the rest of the books so I won't have to buy them all...

X7 is rowing the book The Clown of God, a Christmas favorite! We are almost done with The Stray.  This is our last week of Co op for the year. During lunch we will be having a great feast! Next week we'll do school for three days, math and reading only. 

I have so many pics to share but the camera is upstairs... so be on the lookout for another post very soon!

School Week 16 2011-2012

I made a mistake last week, I posted that we were rowing the book Amber on the Mountain, when in fact the book we ended up reading was In November. I don't know what I was thinking, got a week ahead of myself I guess.  Anyways, this is the week X7 is rowing Amber on the Mountain.  We are also still reading the coop book The Stray, we are reading one chapter a day, it will take us the next two weeks to finish it, which is not a problem!

A9 is reading The Witches by Roald Dahl, she is really enjoying books by Dalh, I also have The BFG(big friendly giant) I wonder if she'll choose that one next?! For our read aloud time we are doing the final book of the Meg's Prairie Diary series.  After this week we will be done with read a louds till next semester.

We have two more weeks of co op, and three more of school... I am going to be doing school on the 19th, 20th and 21st of Dec... mainly math and reading time, just like we did for Thanksgiving week

I am done with Christmas! All of the gifts have been bought and wrapped, stocking gifts and Dh's gifts! I am DONE! We have our tree, a real tree for the first time in Dampf Homeschool history! We love it!  it is 6' tall and it is perfect, I found it at Lowe's while I was looking for something completely different, it was just there waiting for me!

I will be posting a bunny update soon, Momma had another litter of bunnies, 8 of them!  One died on Wednesday, the runt but the other 7 are looking very healthy, all with full bellies! I will be posting pics very soon.  Amazing what a difference a week makes, they will be opening their eyes in a few days.. I can't wait!