The Happy Homeschool Mom: Homeschool Wrap Up Week 17

P.E.: We did 3 days of Family Time Fitness. I need to find the time to look for a workout DVD that we can rotate with FTF. The children are pretty tired of our yoga DVDS.

Bible: We read about Turkey in Windows on the World. In Hero Tales we read about John Wesley. The memory verse this week was Matthew 6:19 and our Bible reading was Matthew 12:46-12:30.

Read Aloud: We finished our morning read aloud on William Booth. For our afternoon read loud we read 3 chapters of 21 Balloons. We finished our evening read aloud, The Ruby Moon. The children were not happy that once again it ended on a cliff hanger and the next book does not come out until April.

Poetry: We are memorizing the Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

E.C.C: We continued our study of Germany. We reviewed the location of all of the countries in Europe. We read some facts about Germany in Children's Atlas of God's World, and I had Alex read us some phrases and colors in German. He has been studying German and his pronunciation is much better then mine. I added in a notebooking page on Johann Sebastian Bach and we took a look at some famous castles in Germany. In the science portion we read about rivers and streams and living by rivers and lakes.

On Saturday I cooked some German dishes for supper: potato pancakes, pork schnitzel, and green beans. Emmie and I made a German apple cake for dessert.

Art: For art this week we did castle drawings.

Apologia Astronomy: In Exploring Creation with Astronomy we completed the chapter on Saturn. We did some experiments with a bottle rocket. That was fun!

Language Arts: Lily has been working on verbs in her language arts book, Jolly Grammar. In Language Lessons for Today, the boys wrote a short composition on ostriches. I also read The Fox and the Stork and they narrated it back to me. They each wrote the fable in their own words. We talked about homophones and they wrote 6 sentences using see, sea ,here, hear, by, and buy.

Spelling/Reading: In AAS Level 3 the boys completed Step 18. In AAR Level 4 they completed lessons 44 and 45 . In AAR Level 3 Lily finished lessons 10 and 11.

Math: Nick completed lesson 16 in MUS Geometry. Alex completed four lessons in Teaching Textbooks. Lily, Christian, and Anthony completed 4 lessons in Math Lessons for a Living Education.

MFW Creation from A to Z: Emmie finished up "g" for "goat" by doing her goat badge and we read A Year at Maple Farm. She started "C" for "cow" and did her picture card page, handwriting page and sound discrimination page.

Nature Study: Our nature study this week was on the moon.

All American History and God's Design in Nature: Nick will be starting on the second volume of AAH by the end of the month. In God's Design in Nature he has finished through Chapter 7 worksheet 2.

Other Activities this Week

Tuesday the girls had gymnastics.