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
...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. 
