Weekly Review February 6-12, 2012

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.

Weekly reviews January 23-Feb 3

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.

Weekly Report -- January 16-20, 2012

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.