Week of March 1st

This week has been a little crazy. We did attend co-op on Monday, but the rest of the week was not our norm. My mother, who has been taking care of my grandmother for about 6 months, lost most of her sight in the past two weeks. She is diabetic and has an auto-immune disorder that can attack organs. She needed to have some procedures done on her eyes, so I went to be there and help her and my grandmother.

I dropped the kids off with my sister and went to my grandmother's house. The kids did actually get some schoolwork done while at her house (a little history, language arts, and math), but they mostly had fun with their aunt. Hannah is attending a discipleship retreat at our church. She'll have lots of bible study sessions. I'll do some more work with David this weekend, so they will get some school days out of this week, but not a full one.

My mother has fluid in her eyes that is seeping in from outside her eye. The diabetes has weakened the membranes or muscles around her eye allowing it to happen. While I was there her vision did improve slightly so we hope her body is absorbing the fluid. The doctors can see enough into one to know she has some bleeding going on, but could not see in the other at all.

Being available for family is such a blessing of homeschooling. I'm so glad that I could be there to help, and I know I could not if I were working and the kids in school.

Week of Feb 22nd

Monday means co-op, so we started our week there. Both always enjoy their classes and time with other kids. We studied the virtue "work" in Bible, reading about the rebuilding of the wall and lots of scriptures about work and not being lazy. Both the kids had library books about Beethoven and did notebook pages from their reading. We attended a homeschool gathering at an indoor play business. That day had 4 hours of PE! As far as our other work, both continued on in their LA, math, history, and sciences.

Week of Feb 15th

This week was a week off of school because their Daddy had the week off as well. We were going to have co-op, but had to cancel because of so much sickness. The kids really missed that. Hannah had her last writing class this week. She is really going to miss it. The instructor is considering offering a Vocabulary class next year as SAT prep.

We did get to go visit some family this week, but had some bad news about expensive repairs needing to be done to our heat pump. Ah...that is the joys of home ownership!

Week of Feb 8th

Wow, it's been busy. I haven't had time to update this in quite a while, so here goes. The week started off with co-op as usual. In Bible we continued studying about being generous and giving. In music we are still studying Beethoven. We read "Beethoven Lives Upstairs" and watched the movie of the same title. We are continuing our Poetry reading day.

Hannah had an interesting writing assignment from her outside class. She had to develop a "criminal justice system" for an imaginary country. She was to determine what punishments should be in place for major crimes. She also finished the book, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" for her book club. She continued in her grammar, math, and did labs in science, as well as 2 more lessons. In history she read about the early years of agricultural and industrial revolution in Europe as well as the Seven Years' War.

David began new Light Units in his math and language arts. He LOVES his speed drills in math. He is racing with himself to see how much time he can leave on the clock. He read about the Seven Years' War in history, as well as beginning some social studies topics in government and economics. He is working in his critical thinking books and seems to enjoy those.