Week of Nov. 15-19

We began our week with the last day of our co-op classes. It has been very fun for the kids. They've enjoyed making new friends and seeing them each week. It will be quite a few weeks before we start back.

David had music practice and Hannah spent time at her friend Rebecca's house. The kids had a birthday party that same day, so school work was pushed a little bit into the weekend. Darin pointed out how lucky Hannah was to get to go hang out with a friend in the middle of a school day. I think she does realize how nice the flexibility is.

Hannah is really enjoying the Life of Fred books. She finished up LU 804 in math this week. I will have her finish 805, but she'll be doing the LOF books for the rest of this school year. She is continuing her study of plants in her science. It was really neat to watch her trying to classify trees on a drive home this week. The plants are more interesting to her than the microbiology. Her favorite topic all year has been genetics. In grammar, she has been learning about noun clauses and how to diagram those as well as complex sentences. She did not have a literature selection because I'm trying to get her back on track with the Sonlight Literature matching up with her history. She has been studying the establishment of the country and government. She will be moving to next to the expansion of the country.

David definitely wants to switch to Bob Jones math. He's loved the pages I've given him. I want him to finish all the 2nd grade materials I have here, which is two light units in CLE, about 4 chapters in Bob Jones, and a Singapore book. Once he has finished all that, he can start Bob Jones Math 3. In his language arts, he is learning about possessive nouns. He's also started working on the slants to begin learning cursive. This should be interesting. I think his printing needs more practice, but when he really tries, he can do fairly well. He has a lot of writing to do each day, so I don't emphasize handwriting on everything. In history, he began studying about the early Native Americans.


David really enjoyed science this week. He was learning all about worms. He got to dig for worms at a neighbors house. He doesn't like getting dirty, but my friend's son sure does!
Later in the week, the boys got to observe the worms we found. The worms didn't always do what we expected, but it was very interesting.

Weekly Report and Catch up for Oct 25th - Nov 12th

I've been super busy these last 3 weeks, but I'm going to try and do a quick catch up. We've had family in town, performances, church events, etc. School has been getting done in there, too, though. We've been attending co-op, but that ends tomorrow. It's fun, but I'll be glad to have one last thing to do each week. We don't start back until well after the new year.

Hannah has been using the Bob Jones history textbook for a few weeks now. She is learning quite a bit. It has some rather challenging activities to go along with the text and tests. She did quite a bit with the Constitution and has been moving on to the establishment of the government. I had Life of Fred Fractions here, so I let her do it just for fun. She LOVES it. I was going to order the last half of her CLE math, but I've decided she's going to finish what I have and spend the rest of the year of Life of Fred. I have the Decimals/Percents book. She should get through those quickly, but I'm going to have her do both of the Pre-Algebra books in the series, too.

Her outside vocabulary class ended last week. She had a test over 220 roots and only missed 6. She was very happy to have done that well. The teacher was very pleased with all the students' results. The class will start back in the spring and will focus on grammar, writing, and literature. He volunteers his time to do this, which is amazing to me.

She is doing well in her science and trudging along through the material that doesn't thrill her. She is still reading God's Will, God's Best for Your Life and seems to be enjoying it. She's not had a literature assignment the last couple of weeks because switching spines caused her to back up a little. She's been reading the Artemis Fowl series that she had never read, but that's on her own, not for school.
Our church had a harvest festival. Hannah dressed up as a nerd and her best friend came as an 80's girl. David went as a Clone Trooper but quickly lost the helmet.

David has had a good 3 weeks in school. He read more about Lewis and Clark and the legends of American folklore. He has also been studying the War of 1812. He is continuing to like the added math supplements, especially the BJU materials. I am strongly considering switching him to 3rd grade in it when he has completed all the 2nd grade materials we have here. Grammar has introduced pronouns and using words such as to, too, and two. He has started to show a little frustration when he can't understand or get something right first try. I'm trying to show him that some things take time to learn. In bible, he's been covering Old Testament stories such as Ruth, Gideon, Samson, and Samuel.

He is in a musical performing group, called Arete. The group performed for a retirement home and a senior group at a local church. The group has learned patriotic songs. The leader of the group volunteers her time and donated the costumes. It is such a blessing to have people who want to make a difference in the lives of children.
My parents were able to come visit and see his performances.
In science, it has been a fun time. He studied genetics, classification, and started invertebrates with the Cnidarians. Here is David and his friend working together the day we did classification. I had started with classifying shapes, then the creatures that RSO provided. The boys ended up creating creatures with the shapes, but that somehow turned into building a tower and pretending to be Godzilla attacking it.



I'm very sleepy, so that's all I can remember for now. It's been a great few weeks.