Few pictures from an ice skating outing.  The younger two wanted hockey skates for Christmas.  They claim they skate so much better now!  I will say that they are upright most of the time and skating across the rink.

Benjamin plugs along with school. We are participating in a Geography Fair early March. He has chosen Honduras! He is having fun looking at all the pictures online and reading about Dad's home country. We started a new online math and language arts program. You have to reach 100% on a section by answering questions. The first right answer takes you to 10%, then next to 19%, then 28%, etc until you get to 90%. 90% is the challenge zone and each correct answer equals 1%. However, if you miss a question along the way, you can go back 6-8% points. Benjamin was struggling with a few so I sat down with him. UGH. It took him and I talking out every question to finally hit 100% with simple, complex and compound sentences. Check out this question....

We did not have problems identifying simple or compound sentences. We almost always got those right. But complex sentences seemed to throw us about half the time. It seemed we would use the 'rule' and our answer would still be wrong. When we finally finished, we were celebrating with high fives. There is a math section that we are struggling with that has to do with the rotation, reflection and translation of triangles across the x or y axis. We get to about 93% and then get knocked down to 86%. Hopefully this week we can finally conquer it. Here is a picture of another type of problem, that Benjamin cruised through.

Recently Jacob spent some time in the garage with a hammer and nail. It always makes me nervous, but he came out with a frame. Joseph had to 'model' it for the camera.