Weekly posts seems more realistic than daily posts, so I will most likely post our accomplishments weekly instead of daily O.K.? O.K
Here is what we did last week...
Oh curd, I can't remember what we did. I could go upstairs and look, but I am too lazy for that. We FINALLY got back to SOTW2 I believe we did chapters 10, 11 and 12. Australia, The Franks, and Islamic empires expansion into Spain. We did some math, writing, and reading. I decided that our schedule needs some tweaking and grammar and spelling got skipped most of the week. I will post our new schedule on my regular blog soon. Kali had violin practice, the girls went to choir and we did storytelling theater at the library.
I am feeling less than motivated to do any school next week. I was thinking of doing school on Monday. Then taking a "teacher in service"day on Tuesday and then Wednesday is Arwen's birthday, but then I remembered that the girl's have a special choir practice on Monday at 1:30 which I will need to leave at 12:30 to get to because it is in Salt Lake City... we may just take all of Thanksgiving week off.
Of course, then the following week my parent's are coming on Wednesday, so I wonder if I will be up for doing any school Monday and Tuesday... By the time my parent's leave it will be the 11th of December... Shall we just call the next month Holiday Break Month? We shall see...
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Last week 11/10 -11/14
Monday - Middle East picture books, spelling, math, copywork, reading, Kali's violin lesson
Tuesday - Visited Art Museum to see Japanese wood block prints, errands
Wednesday - ME books, grammar, math, reading, art class
Thursday - Choir, Sierra goes to Space Program, Kali and Arwen go to Math club
Friday - ME books, grammar, writing, math, reading
Practices instruments at various times, not every day...
Tuesday - Visited Art Museum to see Japanese wood block prints, errands
Wednesday - ME books, grammar, math, reading, art class
Thursday - Choir, Sierra goes to Space Program, Kali and Arwen go to Math club
Friday - ME books, grammar, writing, math, reading
Practices instruments at various times, not every day...
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Catching up - 10/31,11/3,11/4,11/5,11/6,11/7
Yikes, I have forgotten to post in a while. I have probably forgotten exactly what we did.
10/30 - Halloween - we did a short school day today. I am sure we started late because I have been feeling lazy lately. We were getting to the end of our government/presidents books. Both Kali and Sierra had gotten to the review pages in their math books. They both cried because their were SO MANY PAGES... there were 5. They are so spoiled and I told them so. If they went to school they would have 5 pages just for homework and several pages during school. Sierra eventually bucked up and did it without complaining. Kali cried almost the whole time complaining that she didn't know how to to do it. She did fine after I explained some of it to her. Sierra and Kali also practiced their presentations. Practiced instruments
11/3 - Last of the government books, Math, practicing presentations, Government class, did presentations, had friends over that evening - girls did presentations again, daddy gave a mini government lessons. Practiced instruments
11/4 - Election day. Practiced instruments, Sierra is still working on Caddie Woodlawn. Took the kids voting with us. Watch election results and colored a map blue and red.
11/5 - My turn to host our Middle ages group. Spent most of the morning getting ready for that. I had the girls practice their instruments. Do some reading. We may have skipped math. For the middle ages group we focused on Japan and wrote Haikus, play a shell game, made and ate onigiri, and made pretend wood block prints out of foan meat trays.
11/6 - choir, called our friends in Colorado, Kali went to a Space Center and did a simulated space ship thing with aliens and everything - fun, fun.
11/7 - Back to a real school day. I was highly unmotivated since it was Friday, but I pushed on anyway, but we didn't start until 11:30am. Started our new unit. Finishing up our trip around the world via picture books - the Middle East. Grammar - articles. Kali cried the whole time because she said figuring out whether to use a or an was too hard... Luckily I have had a crying 8 year old before and I know that this will pass. Copywork, Math, Reading, Instruments.
Sierra FINALLY did her multiplication test in under 3 minutes, so now we can stop doing it every day. I am now going to focus on simple division with her, not timed, but just have her do a page each day until she becomes more confortable with it, so we can do long division soon.
10/30 - Halloween - we did a short school day today. I am sure we started late because I have been feeling lazy lately. We were getting to the end of our government/presidents books. Both Kali and Sierra had gotten to the review pages in their math books. They both cried because their were SO MANY PAGES... there were 5. They are so spoiled and I told them so. If they went to school they would have 5 pages just for homework and several pages during school. Sierra eventually bucked up and did it without complaining. Kali cried almost the whole time complaining that she didn't know how to to do it. She did fine after I explained some of it to her. Sierra and Kali also practiced their presentations. Practiced instruments
11/3 - Last of the government books, Math, practicing presentations, Government class, did presentations, had friends over that evening - girls did presentations again, daddy gave a mini government lessons. Practiced instruments
11/4 - Election day. Practiced instruments, Sierra is still working on Caddie Woodlawn. Took the kids voting with us. Watch election results and colored a map blue and red.
11/5 - My turn to host our Middle ages group. Spent most of the morning getting ready for that. I had the girls practice their instruments. Do some reading. We may have skipped math. For the middle ages group we focused on Japan and wrote Haikus, play a shell game, made and ate onigiri, and made pretend wood block prints out of foan meat trays.
11/6 - choir, called our friends in Colorado, Kali went to a Space Center and did a simulated space ship thing with aliens and everything - fun, fun.
11/7 - Back to a real school day. I was highly unmotivated since it was Friday, but I pushed on anyway, but we didn't start until 11:30am. Started our new unit. Finishing up our trip around the world via picture books - the Middle East. Grammar - articles. Kali cried the whole time because she said figuring out whether to use a or an was too hard... Luckily I have had a crying 8 year old before and I know that this will pass. Copywork, Math, Reading, Instruments.
Sierra FINALLY did her multiplication test in under 3 minutes, so now we can stop doing it every day. I am now going to focus on simple division with her, not timed, but just have her do a page each day until she becomes more confortable with it, so we can do long division soon.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
9/27, 9/28, 9/29
I should know better by now than to plan stuff for the week of Halloween. I used to think that Halloween week felt busy because I was always getting back from visiting my parents and trying to get settled back into real life and then suddenly it was a holiday, but it has been just as busy this year and we didn't go to Ohio this year (we went in August instead).
Monday - I didn't go to the grocery store on Saturday, so I needed to go today... So no time for a regular school day. I had the older girls work on their multiplication tables and the presentations that they are doing for our mini government class. Sierra is doing hers on Eleanor Roosevelt and Kali is doing hers on Abraham Lincoln. I also "made" them practice their instruments. Government class in the afternoon. Then Kali's violin lesson. Sierra and Arwen and I stopped at the library to get a few things. Busy, Busy, day
Tuesday - Still working through the government and president books. I thought we would be done by now, but the girls are really enjoying it. We are learning the presidents in order with a song I found on You Tube. I think we did math this day. I think the older 2 just worked on multiplication. I also encouraged them to work on their presentations and practice their instruments. Did weekly chores, Went to a Physics demonstration at the University in the afternoon, came home and went to our church Halloween party. Thank goodness there was a dinner. Another busy day, I was definitely not up for cooking.
Wednesday - Read about women in political positions, math - still working on multiplication. Ran out of time to do anything else before running off to Art Class. My turn to teach the younger class. Stopped to get fabric and patterns for the choir outfit I have to make for Sierra (ugh! I have never sewn clothes before...), Some time before bedtime the older girls practiced their instruments and worked on their presentations.
Whew, only 2 more days until Halloween. There is a party for homeschooled tweens on Thursday and a Healthy Trunk or Treat on Friday - I am skipping them both... what my kids don't know won't hurt them. Between the church Halloween party and Friday night's trick or treating, I think that will be plenty of Halloween for one year. Then I will catch my breath for a few weeks and then it will be Christmas time. Luckily most of our regular activities will be on break in December. Next year I will remind everyone that we should also take Halloween week off, too.
Monday - I didn't go to the grocery store on Saturday, so I needed to go today... So no time for a regular school day. I had the older girls work on their multiplication tables and the presentations that they are doing for our mini government class. Sierra is doing hers on Eleanor Roosevelt and Kali is doing hers on Abraham Lincoln. I also "made" them practice their instruments. Government class in the afternoon. Then Kali's violin lesson. Sierra and Arwen and I stopped at the library to get a few things. Busy, Busy, day
Tuesday - Still working through the government and president books. I thought we would be done by now, but the girls are really enjoying it. We are learning the presidents in order with a song I found on You Tube. I think we did math this day. I think the older 2 just worked on multiplication. I also encouraged them to work on their presentations and practice their instruments. Did weekly chores, Went to a Physics demonstration at the University in the afternoon, came home and went to our church Halloween party. Thank goodness there was a dinner. Another busy day, I was definitely not up for cooking.
Wednesday - Read about women in political positions, math - still working on multiplication. Ran out of time to do anything else before running off to Art Class. My turn to teach the younger class. Stopped to get fabric and patterns for the choir outfit I have to make for Sierra (ugh! I have never sewn clothes before...), Some time before bedtime the older girls practiced their instruments and worked on their presentations.
Whew, only 2 more days until Halloween. There is a party for homeschooled tweens on Thursday and a Healthy Trunk or Treat on Friday - I am skipping them both... what my kids don't know won't hurt them. Between the church Halloween party and Friday night's trick or treating, I think that will be plenty of Halloween for one year. Then I will catch my breath for a few weeks and then it will be Christmas time. Luckily most of our regular activities will be on break in December. Next year I will remind everyone that we should also take Halloween week off, too.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Last Week, etc.
OK, so I guess I am not going to be posting daily. Hum... where did I leave off.
Wed the 15th - We've been learning about presidents and the US government, so we must have read more books this day. Kali has been working on thank you notes for her birthday gifts - practical and writing practice.
Thurs the 16th - Choir. I probably made the girls do some stuff in the afternoon - practice instruments, multiplication test for Sierra, etc.
Friday the 17th - more presidents books, park day
Monday the 20th - presidents, cont. math, writing, grammar.
Tuesday - Government Class, Poetry in the Park
Wednesday - presidents, cont. math, writing, art class
Thursday - Choir, came home and organized play room
Friday - meant to do school, but hubby is out of town, so I worked on projects and gave the older girls a list of things to do before we could go to park day - practice instruments, multiplication test, etc.
Wed the 15th - We've been learning about presidents and the US government, so we must have read more books this day. Kali has been working on thank you notes for her birthday gifts - practical and writing practice.
Thurs the 16th - Choir. I probably made the girls do some stuff in the afternoon - practice instruments, multiplication test for Sierra, etc.
Friday the 17th - more presidents books, park day
Monday the 20th - presidents, cont. math, writing, grammar.
Tuesday - Government Class, Poetry in the Park
Wednesday - presidents, cont. math, writing, art class
Thursday - Choir, came home and organized play room
Friday - meant to do school, but hubby is out of town, so I worked on projects and gave the older girls a list of things to do before we could go to park day - practice instruments, multiplication test, etc.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday and Tuesday
Monday - Morning -Read books about US presidents, Math, spelling
Afternoon - Government "class" with another homeschool family. Really we just read the book, Woodrow for President, and discussed a few things before the kids got restless and we let them go off and play while the other mom and I chatted.
Kali's Violin lesson
Girls played around on the keyboard. One of the friends that came over loves to play the piano and taught Kali a few songs. Kali played the songs over and over. Sierra play around with the different tones the keyboard can make. This may have happened on Tuesday. I have lost track of time already...
Tuesday - went to Pumpkin patch, kids painting pumpkins when we got home. Did weekly chores.
Afternoon - Government "class" with another homeschool family. Really we just read the book, Woodrow for President, and discussed a few things before the kids got restless and we let them go off and play while the other mom and I chatted.
Kali's Violin lesson
Girls played around on the keyboard. One of the friends that came over loves to play the piano and taught Kali a few songs. Kali played the songs over and over. Sierra play around with the different tones the keyboard can make. This may have happened on Tuesday. I have lost track of time already...
Tuesday - went to Pumpkin patch, kids painting pumpkins when we got home. Did weekly chores.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
My in laws flew home on Wednesday. The girls had art class in the afternoon.
Thursday - Choir in the morning, Watched Magic School Bus videos when we got home. Math club in the afternoon and more Magic School bus after that.
Math club was mostly a success this month. Last month - the first month - only one other family showed up. This month there were about 8! It was a little crazy and disorganized at first because I wasn't expecting so many families, but I think it turned out well. For next month another mom offered to host and I asked moms to volunteer to facilitate the different age groups. Yea, delegation! Next month I won't be hosting and I will only have to plan games for one age group.
Friday - We hadn't done "school" since the previous Tuesday due to Grandparents visiting, but it was Friday so I wasn't feeling very motivated. so I made the girls a list of thing I wanted them to do before Park Day in the afternoon. For the older girls this included:
Doing their timed multiplication tests - all facts for Sierra - still... and the "2's" for Kali
Picking out and working on memorizing a poem for our Poetry in the Park event next week.
Taking Baths
Reading
and Practicing their parts for our church's children program.
Thursday - Choir in the morning, Watched Magic School Bus videos when we got home. Math club in the afternoon and more Magic School bus after that.
Math club was mostly a success this month. Last month - the first month - only one other family showed up. This month there were about 8! It was a little crazy and disorganized at first because I wasn't expecting so many families, but I think it turned out well. For next month another mom offered to host and I asked moms to volunteer to facilitate the different age groups. Yea, delegation! Next month I won't be hosting and I will only have to plan games for one age group.
Friday - We hadn't done "school" since the previous Tuesday due to Grandparents visiting, but it was Friday so I wasn't feeling very motivated. so I made the girls a list of thing I wanted them to do before Park Day in the afternoon. For the older girls this included:
Doing their timed multiplication tests - all facts for Sierra - still... and the "2's" for Kali
Picking out and working on memorizing a poem for our Poetry in the Park event next week.
Taking Baths
Reading
and Practicing their parts for our church's children program.
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