Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

We've had a problem at our new house with mice.  I killed one not long after we moved in.  At that point, we hurriedly moved our tomcat Tux to our new house.  We had intended to wait until the fence was up and ready for the dogs, but a mouse in the house changes the mind quickly! We kept Tux in the house for about a week, all that he could stand.  And since then, he has been almost nightly bringing us presents of rats and mice. Tux is also 10 years old - not exactly a young man.  So, when a friend said they were having kittens, we volunteered to get one because 1)Tux is old and 2) we were looking for an indoor/outdoor cat as well.  Tux doesn't do inside real well, although as he ages, he is more willing to stay inside. Almost 2 weeks ago, we picked up our little kitten.  We requested, if possible, to get a little girl thinking it would make the acceptance of Tux easier to acquire.  We finally decided on a name Minnie Molly Mouser.  W...

In the midst of all this house remodeling/painting/organizing - have we gotten back to school?  Yes, we finally started back to school the last week of September.  After our trial 1st day of school in mid-September, we spent the next 2 weeks unpacking and organizing more.  During that time, we found all the school books and math manipulatives and math CD's.  We found the Latin discs and the writing discs and the girls found all their writing notebooks and spelling notebooks so everyone would know where to start.  We also found a home for all the school books/notebooks/etc. So what does this year look like for us?  We have a 7th, a 5th, a 3rd, and a 1st grader. Our group subjects are:     PE : walk/run down the driveway - 2x's a day (also helps keep our new high energy puppy happy)     Devo : Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends, In Our Father's Hand     Bible : for the younger set: Bible Story Book w...