Week in Review: April 21-25

Well this was our testing week, so no pictures this week. Sorry.

The kids each took their acheivement tests and we sent them off today for grading. I'll post about the results when we get them back. The testing went well the kids seemed to have no trouble at all with any part of the tests.

I'm glad we're done with our year but I've already had comments from the kids such as "Why do we have to stop, can't we just keep going" So we will but on a lighter pace.

Our schedule will now look like this.

Language Arts: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Math: Mondays and Wednesdays
Science: Fridays
History: Daily
Geography: Fridays
Reading: 20-30 minutes of free reading daily
Penmanship: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Latin: We'll be starting an Intro to Latin and will do that 2-3 days a week as the kids feel interested.

Once we finish the middle ages which should be in a week or two we'll start an 8 week Native American Unit study which the kids are looking forward to.

We'll also continue to have story time at night. We have quite a pile of books for me to read to the kids, most having to do with the middle ages that we've studied this year in history.

We've also finally gotten our Earthboxes and will be planting the rest of our garden in the next few days. As well as keeping an eye on our Painted Lady caterpillars which we're hoping will start making chrysalides soon so we can see them hatch.

Matt is out at sea right now and won't be back for another month which generally means the kids go into serious school mode. They just seem to want to do lots when he's gone so we can take a long break when he gets back.

I wish you all the best in your summer breaks if your taking them, if not then I wish you continued success in your school year.

Weeks in Review April 7-18

I know I haven't put up a review in a couple of weeks but we were off last week and I've been ill with a bad stomach virus this week. Matt has really pitched in and has been coming home early to help with the kids and to make sure Ev and Anna get to swimming lessons. They now have 4 lessons under their belts and they are doing wonderful. They have started swimming laps, very, very slowly but they are swimming laps. They enjoy it alot and their teacher is great.

We also got a few new pets. We bought a 10 gallon aquarium and are now the proud owners of 2 zebra danios, 4 guppies (2 blue and 2 yellow) and 3 snails (one black, one blue and one yellow. The kids are just fascinated with them and really enjoy watching them. It is nice to have a few simples pets around.

Questions I've been getting about our Grammar Program

I just thought I'd put up a post about this. I've been getting a lot of comments about our grammar program and questions about what it is. We are using Growing with Grammar. My son is really enjoying it. The lessons are well presented in the student text and he's having fun learning grammar which is a definite plus.

Here's a link to their website.

Growing with Grammar

Hope you are all having a great week.

Week in Review March 31-April 4

It was another fun week here. We spent some time doing research on our soon to be planted garden. The kids blazed through their school work and spent lots of time playing together.
Since the slideshow was well received last week I thought I'd got that route again.

Here's some of Ev's work for the week.

Here's some of Anna's work for the week.

Wishing you all a happy weekend.