Our Curricula for School Year 2011

I thought that because I am calling a "DO-OVER" that I would do a post about the curricula we will be using once we start over.  All of the stuff will also be listed on the sidebar and most of them will have links.

Everett

Annika

Lucas

We're all really excited about the changes, and about the fresh start.  See you in the New Year!

A crazy season brings some changes to our homeschool

With the craziness that is the holiday season I always begin to worry about our school schedule, how much we've done, and how much we have left to do.  This year like most of the others started out great, then took a sudden nose dive into extended periods of time off.  We then got things righted again and as soon as we start to coast the winter holidays are upon us.  We're done for this part of the year.

We do have a few things that I'd like to have behind us before we are back to a full time schedule, but it will be done at a relaxed pace between now and December 29th.  Matt should be on leave from the 29th of December until the 9th of January, so we'll have fun family time then, and then come back to school refreshed, myself ready to teach and the kids ready to learn.


For now we with you all a wonderful Holiday Season and hope you'll come back and see the weekly reports I'll be posting starting in mid January.

Review -- Dec. 13-17

This week was a hodge-podge week.  We had a few appointments to deal with and the boys both seem to have caught some sort of cold.  We did what we could when we got around to it, because of that, I have not included any slideshows.  There wasn't much to see.   

Everett...

completed lesson 1.7 in Growing with Grammar 6,  which I thought he'd done last week.  He's also played lots of math games with Lucas.  He is very congested and has a pretty ugly cough and runny nose, so I haven't asked much of him school wise.  We did receive our Soaring with Spelling and Vocabulary level 3 book and hope to start that next week.

Annika...

read chapters 3 and 4 in Magic Tree House Book #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark and is doing pretty well with it.  She was very excited to see her CLE Math 2 items arrive and has done pretests 1 and 2 from workbook 201.  She is so excited about this change in curriculum and even enjoyed the flashcard work. 

Science and History for Everett and Annika

was simply watching episodes of Mythbusters this week, through our Wii with their netflix instant streaming channel.  All the episodes the kids picked had a little history as well as science. 

Lucas...

played lots of educational games with his older siblings and drew lots of pictures for me. 

All in all, it was a pretty unproductive week, but at least we got a little bit done.  Hopefully next week will be more productive.