BUSY WEEK SO FAR

The Hughey family has had a busy week so far. MON.- barn awesome!! TUE.-fractions with BROWNIES!!!!!!!! WED.-GA's(girls in action)at Grandma and Papa's church!!! TODAY THUR.-HIKING IN THE RAIN at Jones Gap!! tomorrow FRI- MAYBE BARN and my brothers sleep over!!!! day after tomorrow SAT-mother daughter banquet at Grandma and Papa's church yay yay yay !!!! Busy huh? Bekah

STUPID MATH

uuuuuuuuuuuuuhg I HATE MATH IT IS SOOOOOO STUPID!!!! And I'm starting division!! Math and I just don't get along!! We've been enemies since the start!! From simple addition in 5k to division in 4 grade. It's SOOO frustrating. I just want to stop and quit, but I can't because I want to be a vet. (And because I'm not a quitter.) I am going to ride my bike and work out my frustration. And, tonight I will go to the barn and chill with my horse. Beka

Some things that have gone on since my last post on OUT OF THE BOX !!=) Well one thing is the SEA MONKEYS. My brother was sick and so he Ginny gave him Sea Monkeys. Well they had BABIES !!! There are six little baby Sea Monkeys, a mommy and a daddy. The difference between the male and the female is the female is more peachy looking and the male is more white pale looking. That is so very exciting!!!
We also have plants growing.We bought this box at WAL-MART and now have eggplant,tomato,cucumber and sweet pepper growing. The eggplant and sweet pepper have just sprouted but, the cucumber is already THREE INCHES and the tomato is already TWO POINT FIVE INCHES !!! That is all for now.

Boy Child Frustrations

I am a little frustrated with progress or lack of progress with the boy child. He misspelled two words in his journal today and had a breakdown. He literally laid his head in my lap and cried. He said "why didn't you tell me they were wrong?" I had to go get his old journals from last year and show him how many mistakes he made and how funny it is. He laughed and hopefully got over his need for instant perfection. How do you explain to an unreasonable child that he making mistakes is a part of learning? HELP!!!!

High expectations!

This is Beka's first attempt with blogging. I have high expectations.

This is my first blog. We are in this homeschool group called "The Explorers" and we take field trips to different places. The most recent one was to this man's house and he collects bugs He's got OVER 1,000 BUGS in cases! His name is Mr. Jones. There are bugs from different countries such as, Brazil, Africa and South America!

Homeschooling has let us do things such as, going to Atlanta for my uncle's Quad Rugby Regional Tournament. Quad Rugby is a game for quadriplegics (complete or partial paralysis of both arms and both legs.) It's cool how with different injuries they push down the court differently. They have to have special titanium or iron chairs because they SLAM REALLY HARD into each other !!! (My brother and I get into the rugby chairs when the players transfer back into their everyday chairs and we crash into each other! )

Busy At The Barn

I ride horses at Dogwood Terrace Stables, if you have ever been to Jones Gap you have seen it, it's the two big red barns and the pasture filled with horse on both sides of the road. We have 21 regular size horses, 1 miniature horse (Angus), and his bff ram (Dodge), 2 dogs, and lots of barn cats.

I had every intention of blogging everything about our first year of homeschooling. But, like most things these days the blog was put on the back burner. I will attempt to catch you up on our year so far, we have: not killed each other yet, tried three different math curriculum's, learned to read, learned multiplication, explored graves, an apple orchard, museums, water quality, movies, lots of books, dead things, horses, music, cooking, art, and holidays. We have survived the flu, stomach viruses, and sinus infections. We made peanut butter fudge for friends and neighbors, and of course ourselves. Pretty busy huh?

So in order to have an excuse for blogging, I am going to turn part of this over to Beka. She will be partly responsible for keeping you up to date on our adventures in homeschooling. So, check back soon and you will have a post inspired by the girl child.