Since my sisters and parents are spread across four states, my family alternates houses for Christmas. This year was my oldest sister's turn to host and she lives in Jacksonville, Florida. But as our Christmas gift, my parents got us all condos at Daytona Beach. So we've been sunning it up for the past week... temperatures in the seventies most days so we got to swim and golf and ride go-carts... all those vacationy things.
School started back today with hardly a bump. We started with Bible (still reading 1st Samuel), Science (protozoans), and read aloud (Moccasin Trail). Then the boys took a long break before Math (decimals for Adam, Roman numerals for Rye). Another break until Matthew took his nap and then we finished up with tablework. We're on Lesson 65 in Sequential Spelling and we wrote a paragraph about Andrew Jackson. It was a team effort and then the boys copied it into their Language notebooks. I was thinking of doing a lapbook on The War of 1812 but we need to get going on westward expansion so I think I'll save the lapbook for another topic.