Weekly Update

Now, it is time for our not-so-weekly update. I am really trying to keep up with this, it is just that my cooking blog is more interesting :)

Language Arts:
We are on book 20 of the Now I'm Reading, purple set.
We began the yellow Bob Books set, but cannot find some of the books because Meenie played with them.
We're on Lesson 120 of OPG, and reviewing some of the consonant blends.
We're doing the Act of Hope for our memory work
We're on Letter G in Seton's Handwriting for Young Catholics 1.
We just finished Lesson 44 of FLL 1 and we are doing any suggested copywork, plus some other random copywork.
We're on Lesson 12 of SWO A.
Our Read Aloud is currently Huckleberry Finn.
Meenie is learning letters C and H, and getting past the humps of reciting the alphabet.

Math:
Saxon 1-Lesson 48
Meenie is learning to count 1-10, somehow she was able to count from 1-19 but forgot. I don't know how but I believe the explaination is that she is two and therefore insane.

History:
We're on Chapter 11 of SOTW 1, and finishing up our spider project plus getting ready to read about Ancient Africa in our library books.

Geography:
We're still memorizing the locations and names of the states. We're about half way done. I think Boo knows at least 27 of them, Meenie knows 6-8.
We're on pages 17-18 of Maps, Charts, and Graphs A

Art/Music/PE:
We kind of just take this as it comes, it is usually integrated with another subject. We listen to plenty of classical music. Walking is our main form of exercise though sometimes the kids like to dance to music. I don't really know what else to do when the weather gets cold.

Religion:
We're on Lesson 4 of the St. Joseph First Communion Baltimore Catechism, this month we'll be focusing on the Holy Souls.

What did we actually get done this week?

OPG- Lesson 49-56


FLL-Lesson 6 -9


Handwriting and Copy work-4 days this week


Memory Work- "O Sacrament Most Holy" I think we've got this down so we'll be moving on next week


Saxon, Lesson 6-8


History: SOTW Ch. part 1 and review questions from What is History and What is Archaeology, Make a family history book
SOTW Ch 1, Part 2, review questions and cross references
Cave Painting
Map activity


Science: Continued Bean Sprout experiment and observations for journal
Began Seed Needs experiment
read How and Acorn becomes a Tree or other library books experiment


Geography: Maps and SOTW work, Maps Charts and Graphs lesson 2


Art: How to Draw Lesson, learned how to draw a dog's face and a house with landscape


PE:Trips to park all week-- plenty of climbing playing and exploring


Music:listened to classical music, Scottish music, and folk music


I've created a monster!

A future doctor....

Boo looooves this book:

We're doing Plants right now. He wasn't supposed to even see the book until we began the Body unit. Now I can barely pry it from his little hands. I bought a stand up skeleton model last night and he is BUGGING me to do it. It is the type that you have to assemble. He has memorized many of the bone names and internal organs and their functions in just two days!!

(I purchased this book at a wholesale club for $10.99)

Weekly Report

We are just winding down the school year here. Handwriting and science are finished, with occaisional review exercises in handwriting at my whims.

So we are pretty much left with trying to finish Math and Phonics.

This week was a slow week but we managed to get up to lesson 94 in 100 Easy Lessons- after today only 5 more lessons to do! YAY.

We're 11 lessons away from finishing Saxon Math K. Some of them are so easy that we can do multiple in one day. There is one lesson where we have to compare sizes of leaves, well there are no leaves around to compare yet, so I am trying to find something else!

Geography, which is Boo's current passion, is just ongoing. I think we're up to naming and locating 15-20 states.

We went out to two restaurants and visited a friend on Thursday, so that was about it for field trips. Good manners practice on all occaisions to go out though.

I am thinking and hoping to have K wrapped up by the end of next week.