This week is finished. It seemed pretty crazy, but at the same time feels like we didn't accomplish much. I think we're starting to get restless about our upcoming time off for a visit from my mom and Thanksgiving. Here's a run down of what we did.
Everett...
completed lessons 79-81 and Quiz 13 in Teaching Textbooks 6. There isn't too much left to TT 6 and then we'll be moving on to Saxon 7/6, to make sure it all sticks. He also completed the preposition unit in Junior Analytical Grammar and did well, but still thinks "Pronouns are tough." I'm sure it's the whole "they can be adjectives too" that makes them hard, but he's working through it. He completed steps 9-10 in All About Spelling level 2. I've slacked off a bit with spelling, so I'll have to get back on the wagon next week. We've shelved Institute for Excellence in Writings Student Writing Intensive A until we've completed JAG then we'll bring it out and focus on writing for the rest of the year. He also did a page in Can Do Cursive, and I'll now start making up penmanship practice pages for him using startwrite software.
Annika...
Finished up lessons 57-65 in McRuffy LA 1, and she read The Singing King. I'm happy to say that even though she stumbles on some words, her reading is moving along again. She completed lessons 4-10 in Saxon 3 and is loving it. All About Spelling Level 1 will be pulled out again just to reinforce her McRuffy lessons. AAS will be review for her, but she enjoys it so we'll do it and then once we're done with McRuffy I won't have to worry about where to go for spelling. She also did a few pages in Handwriting without Tears Cursive. She also read me a story about Gump the Turtle, from her new AAS reader The Runt Pig and other stories.
Science and History for Everett and Annika
History has been put on hold for now because we're ahead of where I had hoped to be at this time. For science we read about the five kingdoms of living things and animal classification and the kids did a notebooking page.
Lucas...
did a few penmanship pages from HWOT Letters and Numbers for Me and we jumped ahead in Saxon math after review some concepts. He completed lessons 25 and 26 this week as well as played some math games with me.
No art again this week except for their random crafting projects.
8 comments:
Ooh, I'd love to be ahead in history and taking a week off. LOL.
Great looking diagramming, Everett. My eye is just drawn to the beauty of diagramming. Yeah, you are probably rolling your eyes just like my kids do. :-p
Annika, I love your measurement pages. You'll have to draw your room to scale.
Lucas, wow, so many stars on that chart. I'm very impressed.
Are you going to be taking a long time off when your mother comes? I'd be looking forward to that, too!
I don't know about other readers but I get mesmerized by the slideshows--I have to figure out how to do those LOL
Karen,
My mom will be around for a week, so we'll take that week off and then then next one for Thanksgiving too.
I make the slideshows in photobucket and then just copy and paste the HTML code in html post window.
I'm featuring you on my blog tomorrow. If you have a particular post you'd like me to link to, let me know. :-p
http://daisyhomeschoolblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/focus-on-friends.html
Daisy,
That's so nice of you. I don't have any favorites so anything you'd pick would be great.
Thanks for thinking of me.
I like those slideshows, too!
And I love the fact that you stamp the dates on the papers. Or do the kids do them when completed?
That's a neat idea. =)
Marty,
I actually stamp the date on them when I correct them at the end of the day. That way I know I've checked them over.
That make sense. Good idea.
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