In my life this week...
Things went pretty well this week. I actually beat the laundry monster that was living on my bathroom/laundry room floor! BAM! Take that laundry! Oh snap that reminds me I have another load to move over. Must get to that next. We... ok I... survived our second week of 2 dance classes. One day of which was me solo with just my boys. Thank goodness for tickle tortures and strollers. I am telling you my 18 month old never sits still!! Ever! Not even for stories. I may have my hands full with him.
In our homeschool this week...
We continued wonderfully in math... minus our time in clocks... moved through our spelling list, and phonics beautifully! History we managed one of the two chapters scheduled and tomorrow we are planning on tackling Lesson 7 in Astronomy. During nap time. I hope! Bible this week my daughter was learning which books of the Bible were the Books of History, Books of Law, and Books of Wisdom. It was really great to get into. We are moving so much slower through Science and History than any of us like still. I still really need to find a way for this to stop happening!
Places we're going and people we're seeing...
Hmmmm... We may go somewhere on Thursday after dance, but that isn't 100% yet. I sure would love to just take off on an adventure though! No where in particular just go. Yes... yes... that would be nice!
My favorite thing this week was...
Oh I think I have a couple this week. One would have to be the moment my daughter surpassed her pledged reading goal by... 200+ pages and is still going strong!! 3 more days left in the month and the book she is reading now could easily put her over 900 pages. So stinking proud! We seriously are planning a cake and balloons celebration for her at the end of the month. It's a big deal and we're proud!
The second would have to be when we were learning Roman Numerals this week and I got a ... THIS IS FUN... comment after one of the sections. She has so much fun learning she seriously makes my job easy!
I pray my boys will be the same. My middle one is {3 yr old} and this week he sat at his desk all nice and prepared... pencil in hand... and looked at me and said "Can I please do some school like Sissy?" He melts my heart!
What's working/not working for us...
A Reason For Spelling for us has really been great this year. We love how they give a story before the weekly lesson and each week the lesson is based on the same Bible verse throughout all the other subjects on the same level. For example we are using book B for Spelling and Handwriting the same lessons coordinate the same Bible verse this week was Matthew 28:20. My daughter loves that! I do too! We are looking forward to continuing with them next year as well. I highly recommend them.
Homeschool questions/thoughts I have...
This year we haven't done much of a reading curriculum. We've been reading don't get me wrong, but just random books here and there. I am wanting to get a reading curriculum. Maybe a language curriculum that has the reading assigned with it. Maybe even correlating work for the reading. Does that make sense? Any recommendations at all?
A photo to share...
Oh please no journal jail I used one of these pictures for the Hop earlier this week. lol But these are close to the only ones I got this week. Isn't that sad!? Here are my two students busy at work this week. I love them. :)
Hope you had a great week too!! I'm excited for next week!! Want to see other Homeschooling Mother's Journal Enteries??? Head on over here to Sue @ The Homeschool Chick where she has the link up.
Happy Homeschooling!
5 comments:
I'm not sure if this is what you are thinking of, but I've had several friends use and highly recommend the literature guides from Total Language Plus. Here's a link to the website if you aren't familiar with them: http://site.totallanguageplus.com/
I had to chuckle when I read about your 3 year old wanting to do school. That's basically how we began. My 6 year old began K and my 4 year old sat on the stairs and listened to us everyday until finally he asked to do school work too. Why? Because it didn't hurt his head like he thought it would! Aren't they precious?! When he started, my 3 year old begged to start too. That was 12 years ago. Time just really passes too quickly sometimes.
Have a great week! :)
Oh my goodness that is too precious!!! What a beautifully wonderful moment though. So great! We started when my daughter was in K too and even my 3 yr says he only wants to be homeschooled too. It's been such a blessing and even on the rough days I wouldn't change it for anything!! Thanks so much for stopping by and saying hi! :) Hope you have a great week too! :)
Sounds like a great week. I've been looking at starfall.com. Not sure if it's what you may be looking for.
Not sure if you've heard about Five in a Row...
http://fiarhq.com/fiveinarow.info/index.html
It's a full curriculum, but we just use it for the book suggestions, access online resources for activities. It's an all-time favorite it our household!!
I enjoyed reading your journal post sounds like you had a great week. Thanks for stopping by my blog, I am now following you.
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