This week's homeschooling project is painting the house. The first room we did was the dining room. The color was way too bright. I can never pick the right orange. Hey, that's almost punny. Pick the right orange. Heehee.
The orange I choose was darker than the previous orange that we used at the old house. But still too bright! So we sponged over it with chocolatey brown, left over from the old house. We also used it to cover up the too bright orange at the old house.
Getting the dining room right took 3 days. We did Annika's bedroom [pink] in a couple of hours, and today we're starting Chloe's room.
Oh boy.
She doesn't just want one color. She wants a meadow scene on a sky blue background. With horses & squirrels & flowers & grass & a big tree. And a sun wearing sunglasses. On the ceiling, she wants deep, dark blue with a moon & stars. Drawing is NOT my talent, but I'm going to try.
We've spent about $150 on paint & supplies. Troy thinks we can do up the whole house on under $1000, I'm not so sure. That's counting curtains [we have 29 windows[, or at least fabric for curtains, bookcases, shelves, and all the other stuff we need for the house...
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Cymraeg
I don't know if I'd mentioned that Welsh is part of our curriculum this year.
Chloe is amazed at how much Welsh she knows, considering she knew not a word 5 weeks ago. She's starting to mix things up, though. In her regular schoolwork, she's putting F's where she should be putting V's. She's been calling Troy "Pysgodyn", and since she likes to make fun of how white he is, she says "The pysgodyn is wyn", and sometimes says it properly "Mae'r pysgodyn yn wyn" [the fish is white]. At night is when she really starts using her Welsh.
Everyday, I remind the girls to use the Welsh words they know instead of the English ones, but they forget. And so do I :p
Annika does well in Welsh, but she's a lesson or 2 behind Chloe, and she gets more wrong answers. She can understand, though, and when I'm listening to Welsh music, she can pick out some words, and then asks what the lyrics are.
I'm soooo tired *yawn*
Chloe is amazed at how much Welsh she knows, considering she knew not a word 5 weeks ago. She's starting to mix things up, though. In her regular schoolwork, she's putting F's where she should be putting V's. She's been calling Troy "Pysgodyn", and since she likes to make fun of how white he is, she says "The pysgodyn is wyn", and sometimes says it properly "Mae'r pysgodyn yn wyn" [the fish is white]. At night is when she really starts using her Welsh.
Everyday, I remind the girls to use the Welsh words they know instead of the English ones, but they forget. And so do I :p
Annika does well in Welsh, but she's a lesson or 2 behind Chloe, and she gets more wrong answers. She can understand, though, and when I'm listening to Welsh music, she can pick out some words, and then asks what the lyrics are.
I'm soooo tired *yawn*
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