Friday, September 18, 2009
Weekly Review 9/14-18
We took a field trip to Van Hoosen Farm Museum on Thursday. The kids were able to experience what life was like for children living on a farm in the olden days. Photos above - I also have friends' photos in the mix. It was easier to do it that way than to clean and sort the photos:) My kids are the ones with the matching haircuts, LOL.
Monday was a school day plus a Writing Workshop for homeschool parents that evening. Tuesday was Georgyana's last eye dr appt for a long time - her premature eyes are now fully developed, and she won't need to see an eye dr for 6 months! Wednesday was our dog's grooming appt (so 2 full trips - back and forth - phew!!), Georgyana's 4mth checkup, and AWANA night. It was a full day in the car. Thursday was the field trip. Friday was the vet appt and a quick trip to the library, and then school. We had 2 days of book work and 1 field trip = 3 days of school this week.
3rd grade:
In Math, the 8yo finished the chapter on telling time, and started measurement (ounces/pounds). In English, she practiced past-tense verbs. She did 2 reading assignments and Familiar Quotation copywork assignments this week. For Writing, she wrote her own narration of the Aesop story, the Fox and the Grapes.
2nd grade:
In Math, she worked on measurements (cups/pints/quarts/gallons), and inches. In Reading, she read about Billy Sunday and practiced comprehension and the aw sound in her workbook. She is continuing cursive handwriting with a review section in the book. In English, she is learning about nouns, and plural nouns.
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Week Ahead
A friend of mine does a weekly preview on her blog and I thought it was a great idea! So here is mine:
On Sunday: I worked from 1pm - 12am and finally finished that 90+ page web site rough draft. Oh, I'm achey and tired!!
Monday: Homeschool Writing Workshop for parents
Tuesday: Georgyana's last - yes, LAST - eye dr appt with the preemie specialist. Now she should graduate to a regular pediatric optomologist. I'm hoping to find one close to home.
Wednesday: Take 3 kids + 1 dog to L.O., drop the dog off at the groomers, take Georgyana to the pediatrician for the 4mth checkup. Go home. Go back to L.O. to pick the dog up and then rush home to get kids to AWANA. Fun day.
Thursday: field trip to an old farm / museum. Kids will learn what it was like living in the olden days.
Friday: dog goes to the vet
Saturday: visit my husband's aunt & grandma, see their new house.
I also need to do: school, make changes & get the final web site done, catch up on laundry (have not done any laundry for 1.5 weeks since I started the web project), and try to catch up on sleep. I'm also getting a cold, yuck. So add - swallow large quantities of vitamin C to my list.
On Sunday: I worked from 1pm - 12am and finally finished that 90+ page web site rough draft. Oh, I'm achey and tired!!
Monday: Homeschool Writing Workshop for parents
Tuesday: Georgyana's last - yes, LAST - eye dr appt with the preemie specialist. Now she should graduate to a regular pediatric optomologist. I'm hoping to find one close to home.
Wednesday: Take 3 kids + 1 dog to L.O., drop the dog off at the groomers, take Georgyana to the pediatrician for the 4mth checkup. Go home. Go back to L.O. to pick the dog up and then rush home to get kids to AWANA. Fun day.
Thursday: field trip to an old farm / museum. Kids will learn what it was like living in the olden days.
Friday: dog goes to the vet
Saturday: visit my husband's aunt & grandma, see their new house.
I also need to do: school, make changes & get the final web site done, catch up on laundry (have not done any laundry for 1.5 weeks since I started the web project), and try to catch up on sleep. I'm also getting a cold, yuck. So add - swallow large quantities of vitamin C to my list.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Weekly Review
Co-op started Friday! Our classes were:
6yo: Peter Rabbit, All About Me (human body), Hero Classics (famous people in history), and Lego Robotics
8yo: Odyssey of the Mind, Lego Robotics, Dance / Drama, and Choir
Here's what we accomplished in our school:
3rd grade/8 yo:
5-min Math Facts: multiplying 0's, 1's, 2's
Math: telling time to the minute, before/after (minute), calendar, quarter to/quarter after.
Reading: some story about Ben Franklin I think?
English: Verbs, Verb Present-tense
Spelling: double consonant words (candy, plenty, thirty, etc.)
Copywork: Familiar Quotations
2nd grade/6yo:
5-min Math Facts: adding 0's, 1's, 2's, 3's
Math: Measurement (temperature, ounces, cups/pints/quarts/gallons)
Reading: Billy Sunday, consonant blends in workbook
English: Nouns
Spelling: words that end in ss, ff, ll, zz
Handwriting: learned cursive f and reviewed previously learned letters
Kids also worked on:
Writing: Wrote for our Time Capsule, wrote a letter to g'pa for G'parents Day, narration/dictation from WWE Year 2 Week 1.
English songs: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective
Began AWANA (Bible memorization program)
Science (reviewing past lessons on chemistry)
Watched Clash of the Gods: Medusa, and Clash of the Titans (movie from 1981) in continuing our Greek myth studies.
We schooled for 3 days, but it was a full 3 days:)
6yo: Peter Rabbit, All About Me (human body), Hero Classics (famous people in history), and Lego Robotics
8yo: Odyssey of the Mind, Lego Robotics, Dance / Drama, and Choir
Here's what we accomplished in our school:
3rd grade/8 yo:
5-min Math Facts: multiplying 0's, 1's, 2's
Math: telling time to the minute, before/after (minute), calendar, quarter to/quarter after.
Reading: some story about Ben Franklin I think?
English: Verbs, Verb Present-tense
Spelling: double consonant words (candy, plenty, thirty, etc.)
Copywork: Familiar Quotations
2nd grade/6yo:
5-min Math Facts: adding 0's, 1's, 2's, 3's
Math: Measurement (temperature, ounces, cups/pints/quarts/gallons)
Reading: Billy Sunday, consonant blends in workbook
English: Nouns
Spelling: words that end in ss, ff, ll, zz
Handwriting: learned cursive f and reviewed previously learned letters
Kids also worked on:
Writing: Wrote for our Time Capsule, wrote a letter to g'pa for G'parents Day, narration/dictation from WWE Year 2 Week 1.
English songs: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective
Began AWANA (Bible memorization program)
Science (reviewing past lessons on chemistry)
Watched Clash of the Gods: Medusa, and Clash of the Titans (movie from 1981) in continuing our Greek myth studies.
We schooled for 3 days, but it was a full 3 days:)
"I'm having the kind of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies."
-Douglas Adams (I believe this was from one of the Dirk Gently books...)
A day in the life of...
7:45am Baby wakes me with smiles. We go downstairs, nurse, & I begin the 92-pg web site.
9:30am I rock! Got half of my work goal done for the day. Hollar for kids to make their breakfast, send dh out the door for work.
10am made important phone call (dental insurance), sent kids to mailbox
10:15am kids snuck off upstairs, drag them down for school.
11am 8yo finishes up 2 subjects and convinced me to give them a snack break
11:15am Snack break. 6yo is tossing chips into the air for 8yo to catch, but lands on the floor. 8yo is angry because she keeps trying to catch her snack, but isn't getting any. Chips are all over the floor. I yell & insist they pick them up. They can't, there's spiders!
11:45am The floor is still a mess, but got most of it cleaned up. Heading back to school. But wait! The 6yo has to use the bathroom. I nurse the baby for the 10th time today & assist the 8yo.
6yo yells - "The poop rag stuck to the wall! I need help!" I'm thinking, "What on earth? This can't be happening..."
I enter the bathroom, and there it is - high on the wall is a toilet paper wad, poop side stuck to the wall. You see, the 6yo is afraid of clogging toilets. If she puts the tp in the toilet, it might clog and she's not quite done with it yet. So...sitting on the toilet, she aims her tp wad for the garbage sitting on the sink, but misses. The tp wad sails up through the air and sticks to the side of the wall. I start to yell, but...seeing that wad on the wall sends me into hysterics. I die laughing. The 6yo is instructed to climb on the sink, remove said wad to the toilet, and clean the wall.
I continued to work with the 8yo, while the 6yo cleaned. The 6yo comes back down and so I bounce between them, baby now a permanent fixture on my chest. In fact, I keep trying to put the baby down in the crib, but within a very short time, she's up and screaming and only calmed by one thing...and it's NOT the pacifier.
1:30pm We're reading our science book, but the 6yo had snuck off and started reading her Reading Textbook, which she refuses to put down. Sigh. Well, it's still school, so instead of arguing, I allow her to read her textbook, while the 8yo and I read Science. The science book mentions that atoms are neither created nor destroyed. So I say, "I think this relates to nuclear power, let's find out!" and the 8yo says, "nooooo...." and heads off to the bathroom (sheesh).
2pm we are finished with school. We start to gather supplies for co-op tomorrow, but someone destroyed the package of colored pencils (and that is my #1 pet peeve...even more than poopy tp on my wall! The senseless destruction of office products).
2:30pm Supplies are mostly gathered. Baby nurses (of course), kids run off to play. The house is totally trashed. But at least it's quiet in here! I still need to run to the store for diapers (almost out!), make kids lunch, finish getting co-op stuff together, and complete my work goal for the day. My house is begging to be cleaned, so maybe we'll try to do a quick pick up in each room.
-Douglas Adams (I believe this was from one of the Dirk Gently books...)
A day in the life of...
7:45am Baby wakes me with smiles. We go downstairs, nurse, & I begin the 92-pg web site.
9:30am I rock! Got half of my work goal done for the day. Hollar for kids to make their breakfast, send dh out the door for work.
10am made important phone call (dental insurance), sent kids to mailbox
10:15am kids snuck off upstairs, drag them down for school.
11am 8yo finishes up 2 subjects and convinced me to give them a snack break
11:15am Snack break. 6yo is tossing chips into the air for 8yo to catch, but lands on the floor. 8yo is angry because she keeps trying to catch her snack, but isn't getting any. Chips are all over the floor. I yell & insist they pick them up. They can't, there's spiders!
11:45am The floor is still a mess, but got most of it cleaned up. Heading back to school. But wait! The 6yo has to use the bathroom. I nurse the baby for the 10th time today & assist the 8yo.
6yo yells - "The poop rag stuck to the wall! I need help!" I'm thinking, "What on earth? This can't be happening..."
I enter the bathroom, and there it is - high on the wall is a toilet paper wad, poop side stuck to the wall. You see, the 6yo is afraid of clogging toilets. If she puts the tp in the toilet, it might clog and she's not quite done with it yet. So...sitting on the toilet, she aims her tp wad for the garbage sitting on the sink, but misses. The tp wad sails up through the air and sticks to the side of the wall. I start to yell, but...seeing that wad on the wall sends me into hysterics. I die laughing. The 6yo is instructed to climb on the sink, remove said wad to the toilet, and clean the wall.
I continued to work with the 8yo, while the 6yo cleaned. The 6yo comes back down and so I bounce between them, baby now a permanent fixture on my chest. In fact, I keep trying to put the baby down in the crib, but within a very short time, she's up and screaming and only calmed by one thing...and it's NOT the pacifier.
1:30pm We're reading our science book, but the 6yo had snuck off and started reading her Reading Textbook, which she refuses to put down. Sigh. Well, it's still school, so instead of arguing, I allow her to read her textbook, while the 8yo and I read Science. The science book mentions that atoms are neither created nor destroyed. So I say, "I think this relates to nuclear power, let's find out!" and the 8yo says, "nooooo...." and heads off to the bathroom (sheesh).
2pm we are finished with school. We start to gather supplies for co-op tomorrow, but someone destroyed the package of colored pencils (and that is my #1 pet peeve...even more than poopy tp on my wall! The senseless destruction of office products).
2:30pm Supplies are mostly gathered. Baby nurses (of course), kids run off to play. The house is totally trashed. But at least it's quiet in here! I still need to run to the store for diapers (almost out!), make kids lunch, finish getting co-op stuff together, and complete my work goal for the day. My house is begging to be cleaned, so maybe we'll try to do a quick pick up in each room.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Goals...
One of the things that came out of the time capsule activity with the kids was a few defined goals. The 2nd grader wrote that she'd like to learn Cursive Handwriting this year. Yay, because we are already off to a great start on that goal! She also decided that she wants to be an artist (oops, I hadn't planned on teaching art this year!) The 3rd grader wrote that she enjoys singing (yay, co-op choir will fufill that), she wants to learn computer programming this year (hmmm....any suggestions on teaching that to a 9 yo?), and wants to be an explorer when she grows up. I think the explorer thing should be easy to do. Hey, there's the door - go explore something! lol.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
First Day of School Review
First Day of School
We've technically already started school, but have been slowly adding in subjects. We did some things different today, because it is the First Day of Public School in Michigan.
3rd grade
Math: telling time to the minute, time elapsed
Spelling: Week 22 words with double consonants in the middle (sixty, candy). Pretest on Spelling City.com and games.
2nd grade
Reading: consonant blends, write how you can help people, story comprehension (Samuel and God calling his name)
Spelling: words that end in ss, ff, ll, zz. Spelling City.com pretest and games
Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears Cursive learned letter "f"
We watched President Obama's speech to school children, and reviewed what he spoke about. I took narrations of what they remembered from his speech. We talked about setting educational goals. Then, we wrote about this for our first day of school time capsule. I asked the kids to write one thing they like, one thing they hope to learn this year, one thing they would like to do in life, and then pick one favorite thing to write down (color, animal, whatever you want!). They wrote it themselves (I helped with spelling), and then we shared eachother's writing. Then I sealed it up in an envelope with the directions to Not Open Until June 2010.
We ended our school day with a quick 5 minute timed Math Fact Practice. Alaithia's (3rd gr) practice was multiplying 1s and 0s. Zoiya's (2nd gr) practice was adding 0s, 1s, & 2s. They completed 50 problems in less than 5 minutes.
We've technically already started school, but have been slowly adding in subjects. We did some things different today, because it is the First Day of Public School in Michigan.
3rd grade
Math: telling time to the minute, time elapsed
Spelling: Week 22 words with double consonants in the middle (sixty, candy). Pretest on Spelling City.com and games.
2nd grade
Reading: consonant blends, write how you can help people, story comprehension (Samuel and God calling his name)
Spelling: words that end in ss, ff, ll, zz. Spelling City.com pretest and games
Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears Cursive learned letter "f"
We watched President Obama's speech to school children, and reviewed what he spoke about. I took narrations of what they remembered from his speech. We talked about setting educational goals. Then, we wrote about this for our first day of school time capsule. I asked the kids to write one thing they like, one thing they hope to learn this year, one thing they would like to do in life, and then pick one favorite thing to write down (color, animal, whatever you want!). They wrote it themselves (I helped with spelling), and then we shared eachother's writing. Then I sealed it up in an envelope with the directions to Not Open Until June 2010.
We ended our school day with a quick 5 minute timed Math Fact Practice. Alaithia's (3rd gr) practice was multiplying 1s and 0s. Zoiya's (2nd gr) practice was adding 0s, 1s, & 2s. They completed 50 problems in less than 5 minutes.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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