I was elected as a treasurer

I go to 4-H. I was elected as the treasurer. On Monday night at November 19th. I am excited ’cause I like to take care of money. It will be lots of fun for me. The kids voted for me to be the treasurer by raising their hands.

How to make a Moses basket

I got dried cattail leaves and weaved them together to make a little Moses basket. It was very fun, but at the end I couldn't really do it.

We read about Moses in our Egermeier's Bible Story Book. We didn't have handy any bulrushes as his mother used, so we gathered some cattails from a ditch. As you can see, we did this project awhile ago, on a warm October day. I built the base and taught Addy how to weave in the sides. It later crumbled apart before she had a chance to float it down the river in town as she wanted.

Inside, Outside, Upside Down

This is Addy reading the Berenstain Bears book "Inside, Outside, Upside Down." It was the first book Glenn read all by himself. (less than 3 minutes)

Learning math by bowling

I bowled to learn math. I kept my scores in a timeline book.

8-3=5 That’s Mama’s score.

8-1=7 That’s my score.

It was fun. After that my mom took videos of us doing ring-around-the-rosie.

This was back on October 17 when we had an usually warm day. I just couldn't keep the girls cooped up inside for school.

Six-minute video: The apple orchard and making pie

Learning about the states

Mrs. Johnson taught me geography. I had lots of fun learning geography.

I am at co-op. Co-op stands for cooperate. Co-op is fun to learn sometimes, but while the adults are just talking and getting ready for co-op we sometimes like to play outside or just run around inside the church.

I wrote out the names of the states, even though I didn't know them. The rules were Mommy could not help me with it, but we could go up to a table and look at what that state is called and try to remember how to spell it and then when we get back to our seat we can write it on where it is on the map.

Addy is in the bottom right corner of the picture in her Laura Ingalls outfit. Look for the big, blue bonnet. She wore it a few random places that week, for no particular reason. Dori is the little person with her hand on the table in the corner.

At the Klackle Apple Orchard

I went to the Klackle Apple Orchard. My class was cancelled, so I had to go with a preschool class. But I am homeschooled and my class is a breastfeeding class.


I read a Johnny Appleseed book for school before we went to the Klackle Apple Orchard. The Klackle Apple Orchard was fun. Last year in my class I didn't pick pumpkins. I guess this year we got to pick pumpkins because it was fall time.


We picked the brand of apples Golden Delicious.


I picked a pumpkin flower. The guy who was riding the tractor for that year said we could pick a pumpkin flower. He said all it would do is die. But when we put the flower in the flower press, it was surprising to me when it came out. It was surprising to me that it stayed orange. We took it out of the flower press and we put tape over it to put it in my science notebook and I labeled the parts.


A breastfeeding class? What she means is that a group of families who met through La Leche League formed a group last year called Homeschool Preschoolers. We continue to meet to do group activities and take field trips. I guess Addy will always think of them as our breastfeeding friends. The weather was a little gloomy the morning of our field trip to the orchard, so everyone else bailed on us. We still went and joined up with a class for our educational talk and tour. The rain hid behind the clouds and we had a lovely day.