I know it's been a couple weeks since I did a report, but we had some sort of nasty cold come through the house the first week of December, so we all just hunkered down to wait it out. We got back to it on the 10th to wrap up the loose ends of lessons we wanted to finish before our winter break. Everett completed level 3 of his spelling program. Woohoo, on to level 4. Annika has completed penmanship and now we can get into actually learning to write not just copy things. They all did math and Lucas finished some lessons in his phonics program. He's doing great. The rest of the report is going to be a mostly pictures of the things we did in other subjects.
Everett and Annika learned about the first 12 Presidents. They worked on their timeline and lapbook project while watching parts of the History Channel show The Presidents.
I set up our first pH experiment after making our gloriously stinky cabbage indicator
Nice Color Changes! Here's what the indicator looked like after adding things. In order (l-r) they are: plain indicator, vinegar, ammonia, lemon juice, water, baking soda, dish soap, sprite, and salt.
Recording the Results
Then we used some homemade litmus paper to test the pH of various citrus fruits.
Then they glued the litmus to their recording pages.
We did a few other experiments, but nothing all that was worth taking pictures of. We're now officially finished with Chemistry. I think for the rest of the year we'll dabble in Physics. Everett celebrated the end of the term by going to see The Hobbit with his best friend and Annika made her first batch of cupcakes all on her own. Lucas spent the night up in his room playing on his iPad.
They were YUMMY!
I think next week we'll just work on cleaning the house, making cookies and getting ready for Solstice. I hope you all have a fabulous holiday season, no matter what holiday you choose to celebrate.
We're back! We were gone last week, but Annika Clare celebrated her 11th birthday on Monday, so between that and Thanksgiving we took the week off. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving just hanging out as a family.
The electrolysis of water
We started the week with Super Science Sunday and Matt did a lesson on breaking up molecules. He and the kids set up the experiment and then broke apart some hydrogen and oxygen. The kids really enjoyed having Matt teach the lesson.
Drawing their diagrams
Then Monday ended up being a lost cause as I was stuck at the truck dealership service department all day while they redid the brakes. I'm glad that's over. The kids did a few lessons they don't need me for while I was gone. Tuesday Annika went for her 6 month check in with the orthodontist and it looks like were about 6-7 months from her braces being put on. She has 1 baby tooth left to fall out, but it's just hanging on by a thread. The rest of the week was pretty typical. They all did math daily, Everett started a new unit on report writing although we had a little mix up at the beginning of the week and he watched my teacher training DVD instead of his lesson DVD. Oops! We were about to reset and he watch the correct lesson DVD and completed his fused outline for his humpback whale paragraph. Next week he'll finish that up and then we'll move on to writing a 2 paragraph mini-report, followed by a 3 paragraph report. Annika has started coming along nicely in her reading confidence and recently picked a new book to read aloud to Matt and I at night. She picked, The Dragons of Wayward Crescent: Gruffen it was one I read aloud to the kids a few years back, but she wanted to read it herself this time. I'm quite proud as its the book with most difficult reading level she's picked this year. Everett and Annika also did history lessons on the Erie Canal and Mountain Men. Next week we will learn about our early presidents. Lucas is moving right along in phonics and math, he's almost mastered his doubles facts for addition and got a 100% on his first math test this year. Penmanship is still his nemesis, but he's getting better and less whiney about it each day.
The endothermic reaction went a bit awry
We finished out the week with Super Science Friday. I did a demonstration on molecules and then we did 2 experiments, one on exothermic reactions and one on endothermic reactions that were a lot of fun. We even mad a mess with one of them. Lastly we got the first step of making a batch of cabbage indicator done, so that we're all ready for our upcoming experiments on pH.
This is what happens when mom doesn't use a large enough beaker to demonstrate an endothermic reaction between baking soda and lemon juice.
Ok, so I didn't really keep my promise of better, more consistent posts. This year has just been CRAZY. After my last post Lucas decided to scratch his forehead one night, a seemingly uneventful task, unless you're Lucas. Instead of just his forehead, he ended up scratching his eye with his own finger, resulting in pretty much a gouge in his cornea. That resulted in multiple trips to the Dr, as well as to a specialist at the medical college downtown. Despite this little issue, we've been able to get some school done. Between my last post and this November 11th, we'd done the typical schoolwork of math, penmanship, a little history and science as well as reading, writing and phonics.
This week started out great because Matt was home on Monday for Veteran's Day. YAY, another teacher on site. Matt helped out with any math questions and then stepped in to teach spelling as well as science. I'm not sure that he'll want to help out with spelling ever again. Teaching All About Spelling isn't hard, but since I've been doing it for a while now, I know the flow of it which makes it a little easier.
The kids and I had a pretty basic week for the rest of it. After talking to some cool homeschool friends on facebook I've decided to shelve grammar for Everett and focus on writing and literature for the rest of this year. Literature won't start until Jan, 2013, but he's looking forward to it. We may do a little grammar here and there using a program written by the company that publishes his writing program, but it won't be anything on a regular schedule.
Here's some pictures from our week, I hope you enjoy them.
Yes I've been a bit of a slacker this year when it comes to weekly updates. Part of that has been because we've been busy. Another part is because a lot of what we do is book work and lets be honest, nobody wants to see week after week of scanned pictures of worksheets my kids have done. So this year I'm only going to put up pictures of projects and other similar things we do.
Everett's Owl
Like my title states we've been back at it for 4 weeks now. The year is going ok, we've had to make a few minor adjustments to some subjects and put others on the back burner. Phonics/Reading for Annika is an area that needed an adjustment. Latin is one that got put on the back burner, but now that we're up and running we'll try to fold that back into the schedule.
Annika's Van Gogh
Lucas's Van Gogh
In These 4 weeks all of the kids have done lessons in math, phonics/grammar/reading, spelling, and penmanship. Everett has done a couple writing assignments, one on Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot and one on Carthage. In another couple of weeks we'll get back into his writing program and he'll start working on reports from multiple sources. We've done a little bit of history, but our projects in that are on going, so I'll post pictures of that when we're done with the unit study. We've continued on with the Chemistry program we started last year and have done a few experiments on states of matter. We're now getting into density. We've also done a few art things this year. The first week we did a lesson from our Meet the Masters art program on VanGogh and then the next art lesson was just painting some cute ceramic owls. Lucas opted not to do the owl project.
Everett's Van Gogh
I hope you enjoyed the little bit I've written about and I'll try to do more consistent better reports for the future.
Yes, I know it's been almost a month since I posted anything about our school work. Honestly we've really just been doing math and some phonics/grammar so it's not really all that exciting. This week we still kept it to math and la stuff we're wrapping up but we also did a few fun things too.
Annika and Lucas doing lessons
Annika
... is now almost 30 weeks into vision therapy and is doing great. Her reading ability has grown in leaps and bounds and she actually enjoys reading now.
... has now completed Teaching Textbooks 4 through quiz 12 and is doing well with it.
...we pulled the Explode the Code books back out and she's been doing great with them. I think being able to read them easier, has helped her a lot. They aren't as frustrating as they used to be.
Everett doing his math on the new iMac
Everett
... completed unit 6 in Junior Analytical Grammar on Adverbs. Another bang up job on this unit with a "Mastery" score on the unit test.
...has now completed through Quiz 12 in Teaching Textbooks 7. He loves this program and is doing excellent work.
Lucas
...has now completed All About Reading level 1 through lesson 13 and McRuffy math 1 through lesson 15. He's doing really well with both. He also started t-ball the end of March. He loves it!
Kiya likes to hang out while we do lessons
The Fun Stuff
...we couldn't go bowling on Wednesday like usual because they were getting new carpet at the alley, so we went to a local park to fly kites. It was super windy which made flying them a bit hard. We ended up destroying two of the three kites, but had a blast while we were able to keep them up. ... Friday, Annika and I took our new fur-baby, Kiya, to a nearby state park to see if she liked long walks. She did great, but we need to work on walking nicely on the leash and not trying to chase every single butterfly or dragonfly we encounter. We must have worn her out because she snored like a moose on the way home.
Yes, my kids can and will write on notebook or loose leaf paper, but only if they have no other option. Why? In all honesty, because their mother is a Paper Snob. There I admitted it. I'm a Paper Snob. What's a Paper Snob? It's someone that refuses to use anything less than 28lb, 98 brightness paper in her color laser printer. I hate the way plain old 20lb paper is see through. I like to print front and back when at all possible and don't want to see the backside of the paper showing through.
Now that I got my confession out there, on to the important part of the post, the All About Spelling Student pages I created.
I thought if I made some pages the kids would stop sniping at me about the unbearably thin 16lb loose leaf or notebook paper they've been forced to use so far this year.
I made a page for level 1 or 2 work (in the beginning or level 1 you won't need the phrases or sentences part, but you can just print the front), one for levels 3 and up (I've only used up to 3, so I hope the set up for 4-7 will still work), as well as one for when we do mastered review.
I'll explain what's on them...
1. 5 random words or 10 random words (this is where we would write words from our review section of the word cards) we do 5 a day at levels 1 & 2 and 10 a day for level 3. I always shuffle our cards before taking out the first 5 or 10. We do this 3 days out of the week, which is usually how long it takes us to get through all but the sentences of the steps.
2. Spell on Paper, this is pretty self explanatory. It's where they would write the 10 words from that step from the spell on paper section.
3. More Words, for those that like to use them. I put a place with lines to write 10 of those words.
4. Phrases and Sentences,again pretty self explanatory. It's where they would write the phrases and/or sentences for that step.
5. Writing Station, this section starts half way through level 3.
Mastered Review page is for when we have a mastered review come up in the levels. It has check boxes for the phonogram and key cards and then a place to write 15 phonograms from sound cards and 25 words from the word card sections. When I do a mastered review we don't do all the cards or they'd take us forever.
I know not everyone will do AAS the way we do, but I thought I'd put them out there for anyone that may be interested.
This was a hard week to get school done. The weather outside was beyond perfect. Temperatures were in the High 70s to Low 80s most days, so we spent lots of time outside, but still managed to get a bit of school work done.
Annika
... had another great week at vision therapy, then we stopped at the library for another batch of picture books. She loves reading them because the stories are short and don't overwhelm her. They also tend to have harder vocabulary than the typical leveled readers or chapter books that most at her reading level choose.
... completed lessons 74-77 and Quiz 11 of Teaching Textbooks 4, which wrapped up the chapter on angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, perpendicular and parallel lines, squares, rectangles, perimeter and area. PHEW, that chapter covered a lot!
... wasn't sure about sticking with All About Spelling, but after talking it through with me decided that with a few changes to our approach that it would be the thing to stick with. ...told me she's finally ready to move on in her phonics study. We had to take a break due to her getting overwhelmed, so we focused on just reading. We now plan to use All About Spelling as a phonics program with her, but we'll move at a faster pace than with spelling. We'll go back to the beginning and go through it quite quickly, but this way we'll review all she knows before jumping into the thick of it. ... had another great week bowling, every game of hers was over 100, and she set a new high score for herself with a 129.
Everett
... completed unit 5 in Junior Analytical Grammar on Subjects and Verbs. He did great and scored another "Mastery" level or and A on his test.
...completed lessons 69-72 and Quiz 10 in Teaching Textbooks . This wrapped up the Decimals in the Real World Chapter. He was excited about this chapter which included topics like balancing a checkbook, stock prices, and using a calculator. The last two lessons started the Percents chapter, which he's loving and says it's really pretty easy.
...completed step 14 in All About Spelling 3
...had a lot of fun at bowling this week and had a few games in the 80s.
Lucas
...wouldn't let me take any pictures of him this week ...finished lesson11 in All About Reading level 1, which had him reading 2 new stories in his reader. ...started McRuffy Math 1 and completed lessons 1-7. He loves that it has him doing simple timed tests and the problems are starting to be written out with just numbers instead of always having pictures. He said, "Cool, no more baby math"
Science We did some science this week and completed week 21 in Real Science Odyssey Chemistry. It was an introduction to matter. Instead of using Lego pieces to build molecule models I busted out an actual molecule model kit I'd bought. The kids had a blast with it. I'm going to be really sad when this program is over in a couple months. The kids have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope the company is able to release something new before we start the new school year in the fall.
After my reflection time about the curriculum we're using, I've decided that everything we're finishing up is what we'll continue to use. It works and our days run fairly smooth with the programs we're using. I'm still figuring out what I'm going to do with history next year, but I have a pretty good idea. I have nailed down geography which is one less thing to stress over.
We definitely shook our colds and had a great week. We had to push some things to the weekend because it was just so gorgeous outside on Thursday and we knew that Friday and Saturday were going to be much colder and some rain was expected. It worked out perfectly. The kids got lots of fresh air and sunshine on Thursday and then buckled down Friday and Saturday to wrap up the week.
Annika
... did great at vision therapy and then returned to the office on Tuesday for her 24 week progress evaluation. The Dr. is very happy with the progress she's made. There are some areas where she's increased her ability by 2 grade levels, putting her much closer to where she should be. She was so proud of herself, as are we.
... completed lessons 71-73 of Teaching Textbooks 4, which continued to teach her about angles, the different kinds of triangles and Quadrilaterals. She's really having fun with this chapter.
... completed step 10 of All About Spelling level 2 ... had another great week bowling. We go every Wednesday just as family fun, no league, but they love it. She only broke 100 one game, but was in the high 90s all the other games.
Everett
... completed unit 4 in Junior Analytical Grammar on prepositions and aced the unit test. I was so proud of how he really focused and took his time with this unit instead of trying to rush through it.
...completed Quiz 9 and received a 100% on it. He also completed lessons 67-68, which covered checking accounts and hours & minutes to start the Decimals in the Real World chapter.
...completed step 13 in All About Spelling 3
... said the book he's reading on Egyptian Myths is excellent.
... had a rough first game at bowling, but then asked to pay to use his own lane and did much better.
Lucas
...finished lessons 9 and 10 in All About Reading level 1, and is doing really well sounding out words. He absolutely loves when the lesson includes reading a story from the Run Bug, Run! reader. ... completed lessons 100-106 in McRuffy math.
I'm at the point of this year where I'm starting to evaluate what we've used in order to determine if I'll continue with that program or find something else. Right now there are a few things I'm on the fence about. I love All About Spelling, but it seems to be a real slog for Annika to get through it. I have another option on the shelf so we're going to take a break from AAS and give Spelling Power a try for her over the next few weeks to see how that works for her. All of Everett's things will most likely stay the same. Lucas may be getting something else for math, but I'm not sure what. I like McRuffy, but think I may have put him in a level too low. I may just have to bump him up now and work at an accelerated pace until we hit a more challenging part of the program.
It seems we are finally on the mend. We all seem to have gotten over our colds and had a good schooling week. The weather was also simply gorgeous on Thursday and Friday so we spent a lot of time outside enjoying it.
Annika
... had another great week at vision therapy
... finished her swim lessons at the YMCA, graduating at "Fish" level
... completed lessons 68-70 and Quiz 10 of Teaching Textbooks 4, which had her beginning to learn about angles and how to measure them. She loved it.
... completed step 9 of All About Spelling level 2
Everett
... completed unit 3 in Junior Analytical Grammar on pronouns
...completed lessons 62-66, which means he is almost finished with his Decimals chapter, next week he'll take the quiz. Then he'll start on the Decimals in the Real World chapter which he believes will be fun. He always like the chapters that focus on Real World questions.
...completed step 12 in All About Spelling 3
... has started reading a new book
... is working on writing a fictional story of his own making
Lucas
...was really quite a bit ahead so we spent time re-reading some of his All About Reading stories and fluency practice sheets to work on building his reading confidence and pace.
... played lots of fun math games since he only had enough lessons in his math book to last to the end of April and I'm trying to stretch it out.
... he also spent lots of time on geopuzzles which is a fun way to learn about our world.
When I started going over my lesson plans for this past week on Sunday, I thought it would be a nice easy week, with a few fun things in there. I should know better than to think things like that.
Monday
The day started out great, I took Annika to vision therapy, where she did excellent as usual. Then she requested Cheesecake Factory for lunch, how could I resist. It was yummy. After she and I got home we started in our lessons for the day. Annika a math lesson and started step 8 In All About Spelling 2. Everett started step 12 in All About Spelling 3, completed Exercise 1 of Unit 3 in Junior Analytical Grammar which started the pronoun unit. He later completed a math lesson while I was at gymnastics with Lucas. Before gymnastics Lucas read a few stories from his All About Reading book to Everett.
Tuesday
I woke up and had no voice what so ever and called off school. Everett took it upon himself to do 3 loads of towels (washed, dried, folded and put away) and then took care of the dishwasher and dusted my room.
Wednesday
Was bowling day, and although I still couldn't talk very well, we had a blast. I finished the day bowling a 201, the best I've ever done.
Thursday
We started to get back on track. Annika did a math lesson, finished step 8 in spelling and did a lesson on the Reading Eggs website. Everett did a math lesson, exercise 2 of unit 3 in grammar and completed step 12 in spelling. Lucas did 2 math lessons with me. My voice was still a little off so Everett said he would teach Lucas his All About Reading lesson, which Lucas loved. Everett did an amazing job teaching it.
Friday
I had planned for this day to be an art day, so we packed into the car and drove to the local pottery studio where the kids painted some projects they were unable to finish during their camp last summer. The studio owner is an amazing lady who just adores the kids, she was really excited to see them all and is looking forward to them in camp this summer. After art was over we went to Skinny Dip and had some frozen yogurt.
Saturday
Annika and Everett each did a math lesson, Lucas did two math lessons and then it was time for science. Lucas just kind of watches when we do science as I require no formal science from him. Everett and Annika completed week 20 of Real Science Odyssey Chemistry level 1. They learned how to draw Electron Dot Structures and then we did another experiment on capillary action. Next week we start Unit Six.
This week was supposed to be a great on, and then the sickness started to rear it's ugly head. We got quite a bit completed all things considered.
Annika
... did wonderful again at Vision Therapy and diligently did her therapy homework every day.
...completed lessons 62-64 and Quiz 9 in Teaching Textbooks 4, which covered long multiplication, multiplication of more than 2 numbers, multiplication word problems, regrouping and started simple division.
... completed step 7 in All About Spelling 2. We've discovered that teaching with the tiles is fine, but she prefers not to use them herself, so she'll just use a small whiteboard for her parts.
...is doing really well in swimming lessons, although she doesn't really need the. Her teacher is helping her perfect her strokes.
...went bowling with me alone, since Everett woke up ill on Wednesday and Lucas wanted to stay with his older brother to keep him company. It was a fun girls day out, even though she got a huge blister on her ball hand.
Everett
...completed lessons 55-57 and Quiz 8 in Teaching Textbooks 7, which wrapped up his Fractions in the Real World chapter and started his Decimals chapter.
... completed Unit 2 in Junior Analytical Grammar. He's really doing well with it this go around. I think before he just wasn't ready for it. He was very proud to have gotten Superiority level on his unit test this week.
...completed step 11 in All About Spelling level 3. He loves this program and unlike his sister loves the tiles.
...he took advantage of his sister and brother having swim lessons in order to get some lap swim time in at the YMCA.
Lucas
...completed lessons 84-93 in McRuffy math. He's blazing through the end of this level, and surprised him mom when I went to teach him to count by 5s. I asked if he had any idea how to count by 5s, and he quickly and confidently counted from 5-100 by 5s for me. Ok... moving on then!
...completed lesson 6 and 7 in All About Reading 1, which means he read another two stories in Run Bug, Run! He's so proud of himself, and he's doing a great job.
...had gymnastics, and like usual did amazing. He's improved so much this year, I'm sure Matt will be surprised to see how far he's come once he returns from deployment.
...woke up on Friday with a sore throat, which I'm sure he caught from his brother.
Science
Everett and Annika completed week 19 of REAL Science Odyssey Chemistry. They learned about molecular formulas and how it make things easier and that using subscript helps cut down on errors. I mean really if you had to write out caffeine's molecular formula would you rather type out...
CCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHNNNNOO
or
C8H10N4O2
...they also completed the Celery Blues experiment which showed capillary action. It's an experiment they've done in the past but love to see how the celery will pull the colored water up through the xylem.
Sorry there is no pictures this week, but Friday it took everything I had to get through those science and math lessons considering I have now caught Everett's cold. My throat isn't as sore today, but it seems a Hag fish has taken up residence in my nasal sinuses.
If you aren't sure what a hag fish is or why having a cold would feel like one is living in your nasal sinuses, here's a video
This week went fairly well. I opened the week by watching my favorite football team the NY Giants win the superbowl. What a game!!
Monday, Annika had vision therapy which is continuing to go well and is really helping her more than we ever though possible. Lucas had gymnastics and we did a little math in between those classes
Tuesday, Annika and Lucas had swimming lessons. We also played some math games and then watched a movie as a family.
Lucas with his reading pals, Ziggy and Pork Rinds
Wednesday, was bowling day. The kids did a deep cleaning of their rooms before we left. We all enjoy bowling day and although Everett had a pretty crummy day score wise he still had fun. We topped it off with dinner at our favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse.
Thursday, Annika and Lucas had swimming lessons again, and Everett and I swam laps while they were in class.
Friday, we had a regular day. Everett did math, spelling and grammar. Annika did math, phonics (online), and spelling. Lucas did math and phonics.
Working on our science lab with gum drop molecules
Everett's lab sheet
Annika's lab sheet
Saturday, yep we needed to work Saturday because of the days we only did outside activities. Everett did math, spelling and grammar, Annika did math, phonics and spelling, Lucas did math and phonics. Lucas also read his first two stories from the reader Run Bug, Run! that goes with his All About Reading Program. He was super excited to be reading a "real book" and he did really well. Annika and Everett also did a science lesson. It was the first time in months we done science and it was really fun. We're still working through Real Science Odyssey chemistry and this week we worked on molecules, compounds and mixtures.
I'm reporting for the last two weeks because they've just been a blur. Things are starting to get back into a rhythm now that we're over the initial shock of the news about my dad. Things are going ok for him, he had surgery to help with his nausea issues and starts Chemo on Tuesday. Unfortunately it's his birthday that day, but he just wants to get things going.
Sammy loves laying on Annika's desk while she works
Everett is really focused on his paragraph about the panda's habitat
Annika did 5 lessons and a quiz in Teaching Textbooks 4, completed step 5 and most of step 6 in All About Spelling 2. She also did some reading work as well as her usual vision therapy homework.
Everett started up Institute for Excellence in writing's Student Writing Intensive B, but I'm letting him pick his own topics for the first 2 units since they are a review for him.
He also started up Junior Analytical Grammar again, and is doing well and finding it not as frustrating as last time we tried it. He also completed 5 lessons and a Quiz in Teaching Textbooks 7, as well as completing step 10 and starting step 11 in All About Spelling 3.
Lucas is cruising right along in math and LOVES his All About Reading Level 1 program. He finished lesson 3 and is most of the way through lesson 4.
He's starting to sound out simple consonant-vowel-consonant words and learned the sight word "the" this week. He's doing really well and is very proud of himself. We also had a few fun days at the YMCA, using the pool. Annika and Lucas start swim lessons next Tuesday, and I also signed Lucas up for Little League which starts next month.
Hope you all have a great weekend. We plan to really jump back into things more next week now that we seemed to find our groove again.
This week there isn't much to report. We were hoping it would be a great new week and we'd add in a few subjects, well then I got a phone call from my mom and brother.
My dad got pretty sick after he returned home from his trip out here to see us and after they admitted him to the hospital and tried to get his nausea under control, they found out that his cancer has returned and spread. Most people that have what he has are given 9-12 months, so we're going to hope that he is one of those strange medical cases, but will also do as much as we can to enjoy every day he's with us.
We tried really hard to do some school work, but only got a math lesson and a spelling lesson done for Everett and Annika. Lucas managed a math and half of a phonics lesson.
I think the shock is finally fading and we'll be able to get back to a more normal schedule next week.
We're finally back in session. It was great to take a nice long holiday break, but now it's time to get back on the horse. We took it easy this week and just did the basics.
Monday
Annika had vision therapy and her 16 week progress eval for it. The Doctor was very happy with the progress she's made. She has made a lot of progress in her reading abilities since starting therapy. It has definitely been worth it.
Everett did a math lesson, and Lucas had gymnastics and played a math game with me.
Tuesday
Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson, read a little and her vision therapy homework.
Everett did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and a grammar review page. Lucas did 2 math lessons and a phonics lesson.
Wednesday
Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and her vision therapy homework.
Everett did a math lesson and a spelling lesson
Lucas did 2 math lessons and a phonics lesson
We then took off for the bowling alley on at the Navy base. Lucas bowled 3 games and Ev, Annika and I each bowled 5 games. As always we had a great time. I retained the weekly high game trophy with a score of 152.
Thursday
Annika did a math lesson, a spelling lesson and her vision therapy homework.
Everett took a math quiz and did a spelling lesson. He also reviewed some writing pages.
Lucas did a math lesson and played a game with me.
Then we took a trip to the library where they all picked out a backpack full of books.
Friday
We took the day off and went to see Beauty and the Beast 3D.
Then the kids did had some free art time in which they made Key Blades (something from the Kingdom Hearts video game) of duct tape and cardboard. After this they spent a couple hours playing outside with these crazy creations.
We'll be starting up more subjects next week, we have a little revamping to do with the schedule and curriculum, but nothing major.
