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Stamp Collecting and Phonics

Stamp collecting is almost a tradition in our family.  My dad collected stamps for years, and he started my kids on it.  My 3 older girls all collected stamps during their growing up years.  Somehow, children #4 and #5 got skipped, but now child #6 is picking it back up.  He's been sorting and soaking stamps for the past 4 days now while waiting for hinges to arrive so he can mount them in an album.  Thanks, Mom, for collecting all those stamps from your workplace, and thanks, Dad, for passing this hobby down to my children.  Jacob is loving this!  He didn't like being interrupted for me to take his picture, though.  :/

 

 

Emily, here below, is concentrating on her schoolwork. She's my last child to teach to read, and she's doing very well with it.  It's bittersweet in a way.  It seems like I have home schooled forever and forever and that the days of homeschooling will never end.  Now here is Em, reading, and I will never have to teach phonics to another child of mine.  Yea, hooray!  And yet, it makes me feel a bit sad.  Okay, just a bit.....I still have many years of homeschooling ahead of us.  After all, Emily is only six. 

 

High In the Sky

Our studies on World War I are coming to a close this week or next.  Last week we read about the United States joining the Allies in 1917 for the final year of the war.  Jacob's reading assignments focused on the home front, on the war effort in the States, the changes war brought, and on propaganda and recruiting posters.  I gave him the assignment to come up with a motto and make up his own recruiting poster.  

I wasn't surprised when Jacob chose an airplane theme for his poster.  His motto is "Flying High in the Sky is Better than Down on the Ground."  I was so pleased with the results of his finished poster.

Below:  Jacob's notebooking pages of recruiting/propaganda posters and his own poster.