Today Dotty our nine month old puppy played with a rootweiler and a staffy in the park ,chased shadows,frolicked through the woods and really tried to remember not to let the delicous new scents she encountered for long enough to try to stay to heal when we put her lead on and took her for a walk on the local pavements after her run in the park!
We had visitors and Dotty really struggle with recieveing anyone she doesn't know very well.At best she barks at worst she gets so stressed she wets herself.
I put her sweet little pink lead on today and let her know that barking at our friends was not the best plan and praised her when she was calmer and quiet.
She did much better after a while and no tiddles either!
We are so proud of her and hope she will grow in confidence with visitors!
Oldest daughter had great reviews from her teachers today .Words like amazing ,superb ,wonderful ,trustworthy just flowed and we are so thankful for her wonderful attitude towrds school,family,church and her community in general she is so special in so many ways!
Home educations loss is schools gain is all I can say!
Youngest daughter completed a Singapore maths lesson by herself today,then used her on line courses to polish up on her mental maths skills.
We played spelling and grammar games too!
We read Story of the World and learnt about the people of Sumer and compared cuneiform to hierogyphics!
We placed a picture of a
Sumer King into our book of time (a kind of time line in a book which we use as a simple scrap book of time)!
We will finish our pretend papyrus hieroglyphics next week.
This afternoon Youngest daughter played dressing up and various games with some home educated friends and was then invited out for a play date until tea time.
DS came on an amazing Dog walk, did some excellent work on his on line maths, made a picture of an ancient king of Sumer,spent time play on wii with our friends,
researched examples of modern military dicatators and helped me cook a pineapple upside down cake !
Today was such a productive and balanced day!
Tommorow is when we attend a home school group where YD will have a frecnch class,DS and DD will have basket ball practice and after eating luch with the home educated friends the group will join in a bible club this is a time where the children play group games,share jokes and talents,do craft, and spend time reflecting on their faith and how to cope with real every day situation its all about bringing thier vision to reality ...it just so happens to be a great deal of multi media socaible fun as a bonus!
This is such a wonderful group of families and we love spending time with them I just hate the journey through a very busy rush hour to get there on time!
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We have the same problem with our 'rescue' dog. When anyone comes to the door he goes beserk and when people visit he wets himself. We have had him a year and the 'wee-ing' is getting better but the barking is bad. He sounds as though he is being strangled. Unfortunately he is small and goes out of the cat flap so when we go out we have to lock him in the kitchen. X
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