Week in Review 3/3-3/7

It was a pretty good week for us. It was a light school week but most of that was due to the fact that we had some really beautiful weather here in SE Virginia. It was in the 70's many days so we spent lots of time outside. Lukily when Lucas got sick it seemed to just be a 24 hour bug so he's been on the mend since Monday and is feeling fine now.

The kids have wrapped up homeschool PE at the YMCA today and though it was a very nice class and they enjoyed it we're glad it's over. Having to be there 2 days a week during the time we normally do our schoolwork has been difficult. Ev and Anna just aren't morning learners so having PE start at 1pm when we normally start our daily lessons has been making daily lessons a bit rough because we have to start 2 hours earlier than normal. You wouldn't think that would be a big deal but we're just not morning people.

Now as to what the kids did accomplish this week.

Ev's Week

Language arts: He finished about 3 lessons in Growing with Grammar which he still loves. He has started to diagram simple sentences, as well as those with compound subjects and compound predicates. He's also been reading daily in our Read Across Alaska iditarod race. We do this every year and he's looking forward to winning his T-shirt for making his way across the big state. He's also continuing to enjoy Spelling Workout C.

Penmanship: A Reason for Handwriting T is going well, we're not to crazy about copying Bible verses and I'll most likely make my own pages for next year but at least cursive is starting to sink in.

Ev's growing with Grammar, penmanship, and Write a Super Sentence papers from Friday

Math: We ditched Horizons 3 and have moved on to Teaching Textbooks 5. He was getting really bored with horizons and is now loving Teaching Textbooks. Even on days we didn't officially do school work he'll sneak off and pop the disc in the computer because he says math is fun now.

Teaching Textbooks gradebook for Everett this week

Anna's week

Language Arts: Annika keeps plugging away with Click n Kids online phonics and ETC 1. She's almost finished with ETC book 1 and we'll start in on book 2 soon as well as adding in Spelling Workout A. I also picked up some Nora Gaydos readers for her which she's blazing through. She's so happy to finally be reading and we couldn't be more proud.

Penmanship: She's working her way through A Reason for Handwriting A and it's starting to get a bit boring for her. Next year I'll make up my own sheets for her related to things she likes such as horses and large wild cats. Her printing is getting really neat and it's helped with reinforcement of letter names.

Math: Saxon 1 is working like a charm. She enjoys it so much and I like that it's easy for me to teach it. This is how I learned math so I know just how to present the lessons.

This week was a Science week and we've started Evan-Moor's scienceworks Geology. We're not really far into it but will most likely start growing some crystals soon.

I hope you all had a good week. Ours was ok, but Matt's been out to sea all week and we're starting to miss him alot. We can't wait until he comes home is a little over a week.