Showing posts with label School Year 2011-2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Year 2011-2012. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Weekly Review 9/25-9/30

(knew this was going to be a good week after seeing this sunrise)

 Its been a while since i have posted one of these! We are just getting into our groove now and I am feeling much more confident in my choices for this year to finally have the time be able to share with you a summary of what we've been doing!

Big A has been working really hard on his school work and is really actually enjoying school for the first time in a long time (which is totally foreign to me since I did NOT like school at.all.)


This week Big A has....

...memorized Matthew 5:5 and learned about the meekness of Christ in Bible Truths and how to apply it to his own life.

.....completed 5 lessons of Math and aced his chapter test.


.........read about Columbus and Abraham Lincoln in his Explorations in Literature book.


.....Completed two lessons in grammar and took his first chapter test.

....learned the the modern classification system was proposed by Carolus Linnaeus, A Swedish Botanist and Taxonomist, and that human mistakes can be made in that process (because we are human ;)

....learned about towns and trade in how merchants and craftmen in the Middle Ages formed themselves into guilds to be more organized and regulated.

....completed lesson 3 in his Vocab book and learned that the process of adapting the sound and spelling of the prefix when it joins a word is called assimilation. 

.......is enjoying listening in on Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thorton Burgess and thinks its hilarious (even though its for the little kids :) Gotta love that!

{and the biggest thing he learned is how to duck and weave the camera apparently, because I cant believe I dont have ONE picture of his work this week O.o}

Middle A.......
......Completed Unit 2 in Little Hearts for His Glory and loved the coloring activity we did. Little A has been tagging along in LHFHG with her whenever he feels like it and as you can see here, its usually for the art projects ;)


 Here is Middle A's completed rainbow heart  :) Sorry about the flash :(



 OH! I forgot. We decided to go another route with Phonics and Reading! We are using CLE Learn to Read and just started this week! We had been using ETC, but its just not enough instruction for ME. I love having all of her LA subjects together also. Here's one of the lessons we did this week.




.......She completed a few lessons in BJU Math as well. She just loves the clown Digit in her lessons!

 
 

...........spent alot of time chasing chickens off our porch. Again!


 ......found a ladybug and check it out with their magnifying glass while on their "nature walk"....

On another note....

Baby A is doing so well! She had an appt this week with her Rheumatologist and has very little inflammation left in her joints. As a matter of fact, the only joint inflamed is her right ring finger...stubborn little thing!  So we are hoping that goes away soon, but she has totally mobility in it and it doesnt seem to bother her much :)





Friday, August 26, 2011

First week of School!

Technically, this is our second week (well, just for Big A), but I like to call it our first since I had everyone doing some sort of school. I already knew (based on several things) that we wouldn't get to everything , and I also knew we would need some time to settle into a new routine (as well as new curriculum).

Here's some pics of the kids that I took with my camera phone today (hence the reason they are awful and grainy looking....but I cant find my memory card....grrr.) after we finished our week out:






They have all seriously gotten way too big! Big A turned 12 over the summer, Middle A is 6 1/2, Little A is almost 4, and baby A is going to be 2 in just a few months. Wow!

We are in our 6th year homeschooling and just can't imagine doing anything else. I LOVE being with my kids. I love seeing EVERY milestone. I love being there for those brick walls in math (and the success of breaking those walls down!). I love seeing those first words written down that were sounded out from the phonics that was taught. I love the giggles I get when I am reading a book to the littles. I love seeing my baby girl trying to be a big girl at the table with her brothers and sister :)

People say I am crazy for homeschooling.......

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{I say, they are crazy for not}

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