Week of Oct. 4th - 8th

We had a really good week. We took last week off to do some fall cleaning, although we still had co-op and classes on Wednesday, so I didn't get as much cleaning as I would have liked. We started off with co-op on Monday. David made a pirate treasure box in his history class and a board showing the life cycle of the frog in his animal class. They both enjoy co-op a lot, which makes my work as director all worthwhile.


One night David enjoyed the corn so much that he grabbed the pan and finished off the leftovers.

On Tuesday, we started doing school work, then my sister called me wanting us to join her at a fun site near us. It's a farm with lots to do, including a "tiny town" of buildings for kids to play in. Don't you love the flexibility of homeschooling?!!!


My nephew loved this big stuffed dog at the little fire house.

David took up preaching in the little church.

The kids had fun being with my sister's friends' kids.

It was small, but Hannah made it into the balcony of the little theater.

We did do school work the rest of the week, but we aren't quite finished. We aren't doing school next week because it's Darin's fall break. We can finish up then. Hannah has been reading some of the Anti-Federalist papers, as well as the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In science she has been learning about evolution and some creation ideas, such as the gap theory. She's doing a lot of work in math with radicals. Grammar has been covering active/passive voice, intransitive and transitive verbs, and such. She seems to be enjoying the devotional book she is doing with Bible, too.

David has been finishing up studying about the American Revolution. He is learning more about working with 4 digit numbers, multiplication, and measurement. Grammar is introducing adjectives as well as having him write a lot more sentences of his own creation. He is doing a really good job with it. He studied the respiratory and digestive systems this past week in science. I forgot to take pictures, but he got together with our neighbor and made a giant model of the respiratory system at work. It was drawings on the nose, lungs, heart, and legs. They used a vacuum tube to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide and learn the path it all takes in our bodies. For digestion, they ate muffins, and then we measured out (with yarn) the full length of the digestive system. It stretched about 21 feet when it was completed. They made predictions of the length, then we compared with the actual. We discussed how long it would take the muffin to leave each part of the system.

They both have a little more school work to do in all their subjects, but we've got a week to get it done.