Simple Woman

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I am thinking…
about the things we learned on Ancestry. Com last night.  I had heard that you could check out records from Ireland for free on St. Patrick’s day, and since Mr. Pete’s mother’s maiden name was “McGuirk” I thought I’d like to dive in and see what I could discover.  We found out that Mr. Pete is only four generations from his Irish roots, that his grandfather worked as a farmer, and a carpenter and died at age 28.  One his great grandmother’s was actually German!  So Mr. Pete’s claim to be 1/2 French and 1/2 Irish will have to be altered to allow for a little German ancestry as well!  We also found that his great x3 grandfather was a private in the Ohio company B during the civil war!  I swear I could spend all day just researching this stuff!

Spelling program per Dr. Holinga for all three kids. We were pilot families for her program last year and it is finally going to be available to the public as Spelling U See.

AP U.S. History and American History course from For Such a Time as This,

Lectures in American History from the Great Courses and Kahn Academy!

Noah  Excellence in Writing Course. 

Apologia Science –  Physical Science Izzy. Creation science Botany for Rosie  Noah is finished with Physical Science and will be concentrating now on preparing for the AP History test.

Noah and Izzy doing Geometry with Mr. D.  Rosie doing Saxon math with me. 

50% through  The Jungle 

• Latin for Homeschoolers for Noah
• English from the Roots Up for Izzy.



• Pathway readers for Rosie and the Wand for Language arts.

Since Izzy is supposed to be laying with her foot elevated, she has been reading along with books on CD. She finished Tom Sawyer last week and is doing Huck Finn this week.  I also give her a little bit of Algebra.  I don’t know if she will go to choir this week or not.  We’ll see.

A photo to share…

Mr. Pete’s great x3 grandmother Olive!