2/2 -2/6

This week was a stay at home week. This doesn't happen very often, so it was kind of nice. The car was broken down the first half of the week and all of our activities were having the week off, so it worked out well. By Friday we were ready to get out, so we did go to park day at the mall, which was really fun.

We did all of our regular school things - math, practicing instruments, writing (print and cursive copywork and freewriting), typing, reading. Our topic this week was the Middle Ages. we are finally to the part in SOTW2 that covers what you typically think of when you think of the Middle Ages - knights and such...

I finally came up with a plan for spelling. On Wednesday I went through the older girl's freewriting with them and found 10 words that they had misspelled and those were ther words for the week. Then I added "study your spelling words" to their list of morning school work. Sierra ended up making up a game and of course, Kali wanted to play it with her words, too. I haven't figured out what the game is , but they seem to enjoy it. I tested them the following Wednesday and Sierra got all of her words correct and Kali only missed 2 or 3. Then we added new words until they had ten more to study the next week. So far so good.

I am wanting to add Foreign Language back into our routine. We used to do Rosetta Stone when we got it free through our one day a week homeschool program through the public school. I was hoping to be able to continue this year using the online library version of Rosetta Stone, but they pulled it from the library a few months ago - ugh! I found a new program called Tell Me More that you can get through the Arlington Library, but I need to get motivated to set it up...

I did pick up a bunch of Cd's from the library the other day. We are trying French this year. I wanted to do Spanish because I think it would be more useful, but the girls prefer French, so... They are enjoying the Cd's so far.

And so we keep plugging along.

1/26 - 1/30

New schedule is still work in great. It was a short week because the girls had choir on Thursday and Sierra was sick on Friday. Of course, when Sierra is sick she likes to lay on the couch and watch Magic School Bus for hours, so I guess we did science:) We learned about Vikings on M, T and W. I haven't figured out what we are going to do for spelling. We did fit grammar back in for Sierra and Kali during our one on one time. It was very nice to have individual time with each of the girls without interruptions.

We had our Medieval Dinner on Saturday. It turned out really well.