Week of Jan 11th

You can read about our first day back on the post below. After that day, we reviewed in Bible things we had studied last semester. I gave them a treasure hunt with difficult directions. It led to an actual Bible (on top of the ice cream!). We had ice cream and discussed that our wisdom comes from God and the Bible. It is where we turn for the directions we need in our life. We also listened to music by Handel. In history, the kids are studying the early 1600s using Kingfisher and Usborne. They both did notebook pages on the topics studied. Both did work in their critical thinking books, too.

Hannah began reviewing subject-verb agreement in grammar, while reviewing diagramming with CLE materials. She is beginning a chapter on geometry in math. She read about light in science and did a lab concerning magnification and focal lengths. She began a new Light Unit in her CLE reading.

In his CLE Language Arts, David covered some consonant digraphs, spelling of long vowels, and use of I. He enjoys the speed drills in his CLE Math and was very pleased when he got all 28 right on a subtraction drill. The subtraction takes him a little longer to recall. He also enjoys the stories in his BJU readers. It is usually one of the first things he wants to do.

We finished our week completing some of the work "on the road". My grandmother had been doing very poorly and had surgery to install a pacemaker. We were able to go and spend some time with her. Her vitals are improving. Hopefully this will help some other problems improve. I love the flexibility of homeschooling. If I was working and the kids were in school, it would be so different.