Week of Sept 6th - 10th

We started our week with Darin home for Labor Day. He and Hannah painted her room and put together the new furniture from IKEA (love, love, love that place!). She paid for almost all of it, so I think she can truly enjoy and appreciate it.


On Tuesday, we went to a nature center for a field trip with our homeschool group. We invited our neighbors to go along. David enjoys playing with his best friend, Ian. Ian came with his mom and siblings, Lucas and Elise.



We saw a lot of great animals there. It is a privately owned nature center, so admission is normally free.

In school we continued our reading of Psalms. This week was Psalm 20-23. I love the 23rd. It is one of my favorites. We also worked in our worldview curriculum, Who Is God?. We read a story that used the idea of brownies not being able to make themselves. We decided to test the idea, and no the brownies could not make themselves, but they were good when we made them.

Hannah continued in her Hakim series and read Amos Fortune, Free Man. She wrote an essay about him living a good life. She worked in math and grammar as usual. She also learned quite a bit and seemed to enjoy her science lessons on genetics. She is enjoying Fallacy Detective. She often reads ahead of her assignment.

David worked in math and grammar as well. He is improving in his speed drills. Subtraction from the teens has been a bit more difficult for him. He really had a breakthrough about writing sentences of his own. He has really been stressed by it, but wrote several this week without "freaking out". Quite a bit of his fear has been spelling words he doesn't know. I've always said he could just ask me, but I think he's a bit of a perfectionist and wants to do things independently and only if things are "right".

In history, he finished up studying the settlement at Plymouth and started learning about life in the colonies. In science, he had to make a folder for the human body study he will have over the next few weeks. He really enjoys his critical thinking workbooks. I have one that is logic puzzles and one that is analogies.