What week is this? Who knows. At least History is done for the year!

I have no idea what week we're on anymore.  Things have been so crazy lately, I'm just happy I remember my own name.  I've had a lot of things going on with Little League, the season is almost upon us, and that means lots of work needs to be done.  It was gorgeous this past weekend so we spent some time outside, Matt put up a fence to keep the dogs out of the mud, and the older kids played frisbee.

I have somehow managed to keep up with schooling and the kids had a good week.  They all did math and reading, a little science, and history.  

The older kids finished their Time Travelers Early 19th Century lapbooks this week, which means history is done for the year. They had fun with this project even though interruptions meant it took a lot longer than we though. 

Annika also took a little time this week to learn a new craft.  She opened a Needle Felting kit we bought and made a cute little penguin. 


I've been working away on little projects around here.  I have a needle case to make for a friend who owns fixed circular knitting needles, and I started knitting a cowl for myself.  I still have plans to make a needle case for myself to hold my 3 sets of interchangeable needles, but that is still a design that is just milling about in my mind. 

Lizards, Algebra, and Baseball. Oh My!

So you say I'm a girl,  "Ok, got some bugs?"

This week was just as crazy as most around here.  We started out with a great day on Monday as you could see in our Picasso Monday post.  Tuesday had Annika and I running out to our favorite local Pet Store to pick up more bugs for Spock to eat.  We also took Spock with us so that the reptile experts could finally tell us if he was actually a he.  Well low and behold It's a GIRL!  Yep, Spock is a GIRL Dragon!  Annika was perfectly fine with that and simply replied with, "Well at least I didn't name her Sheldon."  Spock seems to be taking the news well. 

Wednesday brought some crazy snow/rain ugliness, and I creeped my way to a prospective managers meeting for Little League.  The meeting went really well, and we left that night only in need of a handful of coaches for the T-ball division and one for the minors division.  



Thursday was a typical day with school work followed with swim team practice for Annika.  Ev has recently started Hands On Equations for math because I felt it would be best for him to do this before moving forward in his current math program.  The manipulatives in this program are really helping him "see" the math in algebra.  I just wish I would have thought to bring it out sooner, considering I bought it a year ago.

Friday was a quick day to wrap up the lessons and Matt got home early so we headed out for a Valentine's day lunch and some grocery shopping.  Yes, I know, aren't we just the romantic couple.  

Saturday I helped out at another Walk In registration for Little league, which was ok, but I think the weather kept some people at home.  Hopefully the last on this coming Friday will be better. 

So as you have read, another pretty busy week for us here at the collective, but busy is better than bored.

Week 17 - Picasso Monday

Today was our first day back after having what amounted to a week off last week.  Everyone did math, Lucas started Math U See-Beta, and Annika started unit 2 of Math U See Delta.  I presented the first 4 lessons of Hands on Equations to Everett.  He really liked how they use manipulatives to help you think through algebra.  

After math we started art, this week I picked Picasso as our artist unit.  Lucas decided he wasn't interested, but Ev and Annika enjoyed the Meet the Masters presentation.  They thought he was interesting but said he seemed to reinvent himself a lot.  After the presentation we started in on their art packets, and then they began their chalk drawings.  




Another successful Meet the Masters unit!