Moonflowers

We're shifting gears a little here at the Hobbit homeschool. Baseball is finished for the year and soccer has begun.(Soccer is much more low key!! No travelling to games!!)School paperwork is in the future. So is canning tomatoes. I guess I could be weeding but I'm going to pour myself a glass of iced tea, sit on the deck, and read Planet Narnia by Michael Ward It has been a lovely summer so far. And the moonflowers are blooming!

My Family and Other Animals

This is the best read aloud for boys who think they are too old for read alouds! It's great for summer too. This is my second time reading this one aloud...I only hope I retain my composure during the part about Widdle and Puke better than I did last time!

Fallen off the face of the Earth?

No, but we sure have been busy. May hit with a bang and we have been juggling two baseball league schedules, wrapping up the school year (with testing for little hobbit) planting the garden, celebrating four birthdays, mowing lawns (ours and three others) and Papa Hobbit had rotator cuff surgery. Whew! And today the peeps arrived!!Aren't they adorable?

Mr. Beethoven at the zoo

Yesterday we were good and finished school but we skipped out on the Lenten Spring cleaning and went to the zoo. (This fellow was very miffed with us when we moved Mr. Beethoven out of reach!)

Poetry Monday

Pippa's Song
by Robert Browning

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!

Mr. Beethoven goes to Buffalo

He was in town to visit the bishop ... (Altar Servers Awards Banquet)

Ocular Athletics

Swords by Ken

Swords are big metal sticks that have been sharpened. This is an example (drawing of sword complete with blood channel) I happen to have a big book of swords by Ben Boos. It has fourteen chapters and I can list them.
1. Warriors
2. Raiders
3. War Maidens
4. Villagers
5. Soldiers
6. Landsknechts
7. Knights
8. Kings
9. Samurai
10. Ninja (my personal favorite)
11. Silla Knights
12. Eastern Masters
13. War Chiefs
14. Sultans


Books by Joe

Books are strange things. They can make you laugh or cry, they can bug you or thrill you, but they can also be Algebra books which definitely make you cry. Books can have as few as 5 pages or as many as several thousand pages. I like fiction best but I don't mind other books. Books can take you to other times, worlds, places, and planets, but some are rather boring. My favorite author is probably Rick Riordan who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympian series.



Swords by Adam

Swords are amazing creations. Forged from the best steel that is within man's power to create they can be long and heavy or short and light, good for close combat. Some are simple and cruel, others are elegant and dignified with intricately shaped hilts and patterned blades. In medieval times a sword was used not only in combat but it justified someone's rank or status. You could be a king and have a sword made by the best swords smith on the planet or a freeman or soldier with a simple but deadly steel weapon designed for great battles or any combat, whether against man or beast was best decided under the circumstances. The sword is the most wondrous weapon and I suggest you learn as much as possible about this weapon.