School update...

Well it has been quite a while since I last updated! Sadly in that time we havent gotten nearly the amount of school work I would have liked to have done! But here is some of the highlights!

Math- all the kids are doing really well with Rod and Staff. Matt is flying through his book and will likely move up before the year is up! He can do so much in his head we are just trying to concrete a little more "on paper" before we move him! Emily is doing great! She just goes through her book, rarely a comment to me or question! She is so smart! Kaitlin has reached DIVISION! For some reason she breezed through multiplication but has hit a standstill with division! We are working through it and waiting for the "aHA" moment!

Copywork: We just did one particular copywork that Matt really enjoyed. It is part of a Guy Fawkes Day poem or chant. He really liked it!

Science- We are not moving to quickly through science but the kids are enjoying what we are doing. They LOVE AOE and playing with their friends and are really remembering a lot of the elements! We went to Chemistry Week at A&M University a few weekends ago and the kids had a great time!

History: We are way behind but trying to not worry! The kids are learning better this year than last year and seem to be retaining more which is good and I am going slower to make this happen! We read or listen to each chapter at least 3 times! We are currently on chapter 5, we are leaving the New World and headed to Japan. History is so interesting this year! Last week each of the kids made a diorama thing for a colony, they had a lot of fun, but I didnt take pics of Matts and it has already been destroyed. But here is Kaitlin's...

Bible: We are working through the New Testament. We are at John the Baptist. The kids are learning their memory verses pretty well and are doing them for copy work on the first day. We are also working on Psalms 23 and some names of Jesus.

Presidents lap book: We are still only on the 2nd President but that is fine! We learned about John Adams! We still have some books to read but we took a short joint off the Prez to learn about the White House since he was the first President to live there! We did this cool ABC's of the White House that I found on WhiteHouse.gov. It was neat!

We are still working through Robinson Crusoe, the kids added to their journal this week and we are up to chapter 19 I think. The kids also watched the first episode of Crusoe on TV. It is not up to snuff as far as accuracy but it gives the kids a really good glimpse of how things were, the materials he dealt with and the time period in general. They really like it so far.

started our FALL bulletin today although all we got done was the actual bulletin board! We will do our LAPBOARD -which is my version of a lap book on a bulletin board! We are doing a bunch about corn, and of course Thanksgiving stuff! I have a little about crows and scarecrows that are all out of the September Book bag from Curr click. I need to order the November one too, I will do in next week!

Book club- We started the The Tale of Despereaux! Very exciting, we are working through it and will finish on December 19 in time for the movie coming out! Yeah. Kate loves the book! Emily has said she is joining book club!

Well that about sums it up, this is the stuff we have been working on the past few days!