Weekly Wrap Up

I found this as I was surfing...what a good idea...

This week was a little off, Tuesday we celebrated my granddaughters 8th birthday. Wow, time sure goes quick. The intention was not to do schoolwork that day with the exception of our swimming lessons, but Little Miss was so thrilled with her math she did it anyway:)

I love new curriculum, as do the kids. The two oldest worked their Switched on Schoolhouse math, just yesterday we recieved the Language Arts for the 3rd grade, so Little Miss has not had a chance to use that yet. The oldest has learned to hate the spelling as hecannot do it all on the computer. He has to do some independent study of the words. He finds this challenging (I pray he lives up to the challenge)

The Little man (6 year old) has started his 2nd grade lifepac's for math and language arts, I really did not count on starting this for a month or so (he just turned six in September) but he was so anxious to try it. He now wants to finish the 1st grade AND work the 2nd grade stuff. It is challenging for him, but he can do it. With the other two doing their work on the computer, I am able to devote more one on one with him so he can do it. He does like to challenge himself (besides, he knows that when these are done he can go to the computer lessons like his brother and sister.

Science we have started Zoology 1 and wrapped up the first lesson this week, they all love when I break out Science.

American History, right now we are covering 4 presidents a week, learning about them and "notebooking"them. I am leaving room on the pages so they can add more over time.

Thursday was a bust, the new 8 year old caught a bug, she spent Thursday and Friday on the couch, running a fever, unable to move. She did manage a math lesson (because she wanted to)on Friday.

We have been using "The Narrow Way" for our bible studies,we are currently working on "faith" and we are up to lesson 14.

We have also been working on Italian, using the "Talk Now" programs, I was able to pick up French, Italian and Spanish. I try to have them each do 20 minutes a day, but since we are sharing computers and also use them for keyboarding (15 mins each) and SpellingCity.com time is often a factor.

The oldest is reading Magic Tree House Books, the8 year oldis reading level 2 and 3 books and the little man and I are working through "Teach your child to read in 100 lessons". Each child is reading a lesson a day in Mcguffeys, Little Man is working through the primer, Little Miss is on Level 2 and the eldest working on book 4. Personally I love these as the lessons are not to long, but they areall challenging and honing their reading skills. I also have the Abeka Readers for grades 1 and 2 and the little man will try to read those as well.

Overall a good week when we take into account illness and birthday.

Mondays...

I love Mondays, The Kids get so excited when I pull out the science book! We are doing Exploring Creation Zoology 1 and today we did a glider experiment. It is fun watching the kids learn about the variables.

Because of our tax return, I was able to get just about all of our curriculum for the next year. The only thing I am lacking is American History, but since we are going through the presidents then the states, making a notebook for each. I am grateful to do this this way as I have yet to decide on what to do for American History, I don't want "alterted" history like so many of the textbooks now have.

I ordered sos 3rd and 5th grade SOS math and language arts so once we have finished up where we are at, the kids can just roll up into their next course. For the little one we are using the lifepac for math and language arts.