Well another school year is now upon us. I am so surprised at the beautiful summer that we were blessed with and how fast it went. It really seems like we did not have a summer of rest, we were always busy with some activity. Fairs, to plays, to fireworks, church activities and friends over. Now, we have to get down to the grind and get school going. Luke is a junior this year and Melanie is now a sixth grader. Wow, they have grown fast. We are going to do American History and look at geography more closely. I also hope to get Luke moving on to more challenging math and work on Life skills. Melanie is showing more interest in everything from buds on flowers to how things work. She has always been a curious kind of girl. We will also start up with Nursing home visits and possible scrapebooking with the residents at the Nursing home. Melanie and I love to scrapebook. It is one activity that we do together. I hope that all of you were able to get to the site okay and make sure you check out the daily freebie site. They offer many curriculums for free. I hope to add more sites on this blog and possibly more homeschool blogs. Enjoy your visit and I hope you have an awesome school year.
This is Luke and Melanie.
Last night, about midnight, I was turning off some lights and getting ready for bed. I kept hearing this hooting sound and I thought it was the kids. I opened the front door and stood there for a while and sure enough, I heard an owl. I called the kids down and we stood on the front porch for a while and listened to the owl. It was cloudy outside, so the sky was light. All of a sudden there was a scuffle in the trees and two owls came gliding out over our roof. Then they turned around and one owl landed in our tree and the other across the street in another tree. They both started in with the hooting and then the other from across the street flew back into our tree. They started scuffling again and both of them flew away. They headed for trees up the hill from our house. I got a good look at one and it was huge and the wing span was wide. I came in and looked at our animal books and found the eagle owl. It is the largest owl I could find. So at twelve thirty in the morning Luke, Melanie and I were having a lesson on owls. It was so awesome. I love learning. 
