Weekly Wrap up-- Week 30 and 31

Week 30

I ended up not even posting last weeks wrap up, we literally did one day of work and the rest was a wash! So besides Princess Class and the one day of school we accomplished very, very little! I just went ahead and accepted the fact that we DID have Spring Break!

Week 31

Monday-

Well now that we officially have two cars (YEAH) I dont have to take Dave to work.  TRUTH- I liked taking him, we talked about our day and stuff, plus it was extra time spent with him. 

So I got up, Emily made chocolate chip muffins- yum! 

Kate and I cooked up three lbs of ground beef for various dinners this week, so Monday's casserole was made and in the fridge before 9:30!  WHOOP

Cleaned a lot, did laundry and worked in the school room- which was an organizational nightmare.  I have to do lesson plans for the next 6 weeks and I felt CRAZY!  I needed to put away what had been used, see what stuff I HAVE to go with the next few weeks- or see what I want to use!  DONE and DONE!  So now I just have to put it on paper!  After the math grading catch up last week.. I took note of some spots the kids are really struggling with- so all three are going to participate in some area, perimeter and measuring talks!

They each started new books this week:

Matt- Mary Poppins (he started this but went to somethign else for some reason so he is finishing it)

Kate- Sport (sequal to Harriet the Spy)

Emily- The Courage of Sarah Noble (I read a few paragraphs with her and she was doing fine so I left her alone- I am very excited about this!!!!)

I let the kids work on a David and Goliath color/ sticker book because I need to print more stuff for our BIBLE- hense the PLANNING! 

I also decided to go back through our Bible book and take questions from different stories we have already done to make a review/ game out of it.

We reviewed our history cards

We did SCIENCE!!!!  So behind where I want to be- must push foward!  We are still working on the senses.  and started working on some models.


TUESDAY-

We met up with a FRIEND for some talking!!!!  We got back home and did a little bit of school and then watched some videos for school and we were done!  Oh and the kids also had some reading time!

Wednesday-

Today was Emily's eye doctor appointment and our whole eye patching debacle... good times.

Between the doctor visit, four hours getting glasses and such and patching for 2 hours- that TOOK 3 1/2 hours.  good times.

dinner, bath and the day was DONE... so no school work!

Thursday--

Oh how the kids were gonna work this day!  They got up EXTRA early and got their chores done so that we could start school at a reasonable time.  Then we got off track but came back and started working again around 3:30.

We finished up chap 11 in Science -which feels like it has taken a year to finish!  Especially with taking last week totally off--- so finally DONE!  Only 3 more chapters to go!

It was all about the senses... we read our book, did the mini book, did the both crossword puzzles and did the copy work.  In addition to our science text we read one outside book on each sense and did some models.  I used these books for the reading:

And I used these books for some worksheet reinforcement:

Let's Discover: The Human Body

And I used this book for the models:

The Body Book Easy to Make Hands On Models That Teach

Here are the models of the tongue, eye, ear and skin:

Here is Kaitling tasteingwith her tastebuds!

The kids also worked on art: 

We used Mark Kistler Draw Squad and they did a 3D cake..

Then we used Draw Write Now and they drew an eagle- Kate took some liberty with hers- take note of the eye!

Matt's

Emily's

Kate's

Friday....

We had princess class and it was our banquet day!!! So exciting!  I will post and wrap up Princess class tomorrow. 

We worked on history today--- finished up the Revolutionary war- no new resources.  We start up with the post Revolution and Constitution in two weeks I think! 

And that was all folks!  Oh had dinner at Becky's house- yummo!  Thanks for having us!

Weekly Wrap Up-- Week 27

Monday--

We started out by doing our errands and I had a hair appointment at 9:30, I had the kids work on some school work at the appointment so it wasn't a total loss of time!  We met mom at Panera for a little snack.

I went by house and picked up library books and Book IT coupons. Left and got Dave lunch, dropped that off at his office, picked up the kids BOOK IT pizza, went into Walgreen's to pick up more envelopes to mail rodeo stuff, ran by the library and then HOME.

AND I WAS DRAINED. So I rested while the kids did chores.  We accomplished little but since I have been at home since last Tuesday night... there were things to be done!  :)


TUESDAY...

Bible- the story of Samuel and Eli and Saul becomes king

--- Matt said that (talking about the Ammorite king who was going to gouge out the right eyes of all the Israelites on the East side of the Jordan river) that it would be freaky to walk into a whole town of one eyed guys!  I agree!


We choose our LOVE CHALLENGE...

Math- check

Language-

FLL-- 3 lessons

FLL3---3 lessons

Writing with Ease--- one weeks worth.. It was Caddie Woodlawn, both Kate and Matt want to read it now so I need to go dig it out!  I couldn't find my copy but got two at the library!

IEW- Kate finished lesson 4 and just needs to proof and rewrite

Matt's writing- This week he was kind of boring.. one of his sentences was " I built him."  I asked him if we could jazz that up abit... so I said,  "I built him to fight the evil forces..."  and Matt said, getting excited, "the skeleton army!" 

Perfect! Skeleton army it is... fight on!


LLATL-  Emily made long vowel (Y) wheels, she had fun doing it... so I will print some out for the other vowels too.


History- the kids read Phoebe the spy. 

Science- We are almost finished with chapter 10. FINALLY.  I felt like this was a LOT of information!  I will tell you however when I went to the neurologist., I could look at the posters and read some information with knowledge of what they were talking about which is pretty cool!


Wednesday...

I had my neurologist appointment and Dave got so sick at work that a co worker drove him home.  We stopped at the library on the way home and got in just before the weather got really cold.  We basically had the kids sit around reading library books all day!  The did accomplish math, handwriting, ETC- Emily, and played a game together!  But it was a lost day!

The kids did pick their LOVE CHALLENGE- Emily got

Write a secret note to your sister/ brother and leave it for them.

She was SOOOO excited! In fact she wrote one for both of them



Thursday...

Well Hubbie got up and got going~

I was shocked, but glad that he was feeling better!

We got started on Bible- Samuel and Saul

Instead of using the bible curriculum that just glazes over some stories we are reading right from the Bible right now... it is so interesting to my kids, you know with all the slaughtering going on!  :)

Math- check
handwriting- check
ETC- check

Science-- finished chap 10!!!  I feel like I have ran the gamut with those two chapters for some reason!

History- the kids watched three episodes of Liberty Kids- I am not overly happy with some of their "historical facts" but it gives the kids a sense so that's cool.  We shall watch with trepidation! 

Emily read amazingly today!!!!!!!  YEAH.... Really, I feel like I should shout from the top of a mountaintop!  I am so excited and so very glad because I have been so weary in this department, for so long.

Kate and Matt started Caddie Woodlawn and are enjoying it so far.

all three kids did their LOVE CHALLENGE without prompting today! Emily had a kind word to say to her brother and sister and Kaitlin was a peacemaker at lunch by taking a piece that was more over cooked.  I really am loving this so far!


Friday...

The kids did math, handwriting and that was about all.  We had a family funeral, so learning today was put on hold.  We will get back to it next week.  Thanks Vickie for watching the kids....

This was in a lot of ways a hard week, but we have a weekend to be with family and to just relax and gather our strength to face next week...

 

Weekly Wrap Up -- Week 26

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Monday morning we got up, took Daddy to work, got our MONDAY donuts (new big hit with the kids!), took dry cleaning, ran by the post office, and got home!

MONDAYS are my get out in the morning and run THOSE kind of errands day.

BUT I got home and we started school- I didn't wait to do chores, I didn't start laundry, I didn't log into face book check on important stuff.  I just sat down and started school.

BIG, HUGE, WONDERFUL difference!

So Brenda (I am thinking the chores moved to another time besides the morning is a GO!)

So just on Monday- 4 lessons of Writing with Ease done, 3 lessons in FLL (with accompanying worksheets I print out), 3 lessons done in FLL3, Emily did part of a LLATL lesson, handwriting, Math, BIBLE before we stopped for lunch!  WHOO HOO.

Of course the day went down hill from there BUT heck, at least that got done.

I got on the phone and made 5 eye doctor appointments, 3 dentist appointments, 1 ENT appointments, a neurology appointment, and 3 pediatric well visits.  NOW I JUST GOTTA KEEP EM!

My mom and sister, with my niece in tow came over... so we had a pretty good visit, sans my headache!

Tuesday-- well Monday night landed me at Urgent care and over to the hospital for a CT scan and blood work.  The CT scan didn't show anything unusual but my white count was extremely high, so I am on antibiotics for whatever infection there is, pain med for my actual headache (which has only managed to take the edge off) and a decongestant for some sinus issue (which is making the original headache worse and could possibly be the infection!)

So I slept in on Monday while Dave took Matt to the ENT- which was fine (tonsils and adenoids swollen slightly low numbers possibly due to the tonsils an adenoids.  We simply go back in three months to check again)

The kids did math, handwriting and Explode the Code (Emily) and that was that for the day. 

Day OVER

Wednesday...

 We stayed home in our COLD, COLD weather!  BUT no snow day for us.. we used the opportunity to bust out the school books!  We worked from 9:00-5:00, literally--- with a few breaks!  We had fun stuff too!

It is Groundhog Day so we started our morning off seeing what good Ole' Phil had to say, see what else we did here!

All About Spelling--- FINISHED Level 1, Whoo hoo, onto Level 2 (I already have it, what a blessing!)

Bible- we started the story of Samuel and Eli.

LLATL---check

IEW- Kate is continuing on lesson 4

Math- check

Handwriting- check

History----read Johnny Tremain some more, finished the Matchlock Gun with Emily...

Science--- completely and totally caught up and have read and started reading THE NERVOUS SYSTEM... which we have already done some discussing and activity on...

We worked on our next service project...



We started Making Brothers and Sisters  Best Friends...

We started our MONTH OF LOVE...(I already posted on this here)


We used our Challenge Jars for the second day!

Thursday---

This is Dave's weird morning off once a month, so I was determined to not let it deter us from our awesome schooling... so we got up and got started at 9:00.  HA.  It was really 10:30, but we got started okay!  :0)

I prodded Hubbie out of bed and he sat with us while we did Bible with the kids and then memory work.

and helped them with their LOVE CHALLENGE pick of the day. 

We did FLL (conjunctions, quotation marks and review of adverbs)

writing (Kate did IEW and Matt wrote another Lego episode)

We also continued working  on our science- by starting the crossword puzzle. 

We read more of Johnny Tremain.

Emily and I started reading Felicity and doing a lapbook on her.  I ordered the movie to watch, because no one had it....oh well.


We of course did math, handwriting and Explode the Code.  CHECK!

Emily also did a unit on homophones because on Tuesday she asked me if her soul was on her foot-- she got confused when her gymnastics teacher said something about landing on the sole of your feet.  SO we learned about homophones!  :)

soul- sole
aunt- ant
beat- beet
hare- hair
meat- meet



She also got another book on her chart for LLATL!  WE also started the next lessons.

Whewwww... then my decongestant kicked in and I was DONE!  :)

FRIDAY

The decongestant I am taking is kicking my bootie!  I slept until 10:00 because I took a dose at 8:00.  But Dave had the kids get chores done before he left for work at 10:30.  I got up, made breakfast, took a picture of our ICE STORM- no snow, just a little ice....


and then I went back to bed, where I stayed and the kids got LOADS of physical activity by playing the Wii.

But we had three awesome days!  :)

Weekly Wrap Up...Week 25

SOOO this week has been better, minus us all having yucky, yucky colds!  I have thought about of the reasons that I had such a hard time the last few weeks.  I feel like even though I don't have a resolution for some of those issues, at least KNOWING what they are makes me feel better!

I was DETERMINED to be purposeful.  REALLY.

I got up every day to accomplish something.  (less with being sick, but still something)
I purposefully got the kids up and encouraged them to accomplish things.

I purposefully got started with school or the activity of the day, meaning I DID something!
So just right there is a HUGE improvement!  Especially with being sick I mean!

SMILE!


Bible----We started with Bible- finished up the story of Ruth.  I had Emily be Ruth and go pick up wheat in the field.  I am going to have her DO a lot.  I figure she will be up and about,  PLUS how much more will she remember the story if she is picking up wheat than coloring a sheet! 

We watched The Story of Ruth, 1960  (Netflix)

Language---

FLL2  5 lessons-- we had a lesson on adjectives and wrote a lot of describing words, then I had the kids draw a picture of a cake and write words describing the cake.  After they were done they were able to write a sentence about the cake.

FLL3

All About Spelling- 4 steps.  I had Emily take the list I printed out for her and spell all the letters with magnetic letters on the refrigerator.  Then we read them all out loud.  Each day we went over the list from the day before.  Then made flash cards of the words- broken into sounded out sections.  I had her put the cards together to make a word, when she made the right word she went and wrote it on the board.  I MEAN I am having her DO!

Writing With Ease- 5 lessons

IEW- Kaitlin continued working on Lesson 4, which she finished earlier than scheduled this week!.
She also took her first vocabulary quiz and aced it!  :)

Matt writing- I again had him pick 20 Lego pieces and write 7 sentences about them.  Here are two of his assignments.

Math----

I worked with Emily on her carrying.  Half the problems were right and half the problems were wrong in her last two lessons, so we worked on that.

Whoo hoo only two wrong out of 25!!! We made some definite progress this week!

I put her on the computer to play a computer game also.
She moved onto the next lesson. 
WE also worked on money some more.  I had her be the cashier and make change for me when I checked out!

I have a new favorite math worksheet generator website....Mathfact.com


Matt moved on to the next lesson.
I had Matt do some drills online
He also played on a math website

Kate breezed through to the next lesson
She also worked on drills online
We did some flash cards and did a times drill, just for review.

Science---

I had Kate and Matt start reading chapter 9.

We made a model of a neuron

We played two health related games this week.

We also made a model of the parts of the brain. (pre-talking about chap 10 with our science buddies)

I had Emily work on the body puzzle, we also read a few books.

We also watched The Fantastic Voyage.

History---
we started our Read Aloud

JOHNNY TREMAIN

I am also reading the Matchlock Gun with Emily.

We also wrote a letter to England-- telling how unfair we feel their taxes are. 

ART---

We participated in Sketch Art Tuesday

Something you sketch in science.  THIS worked perfectly for us as we were doing it anyway!



We also started a Valentines count down chain which I got the idea from MOMMY OF TWO.... we are counting down to Valentines week because on Feb. 16 we go on a vacation!