Homeschool Wrap Up Week 24

We had 2 birthdays this week!  Chelsea had her birthday on Tuesday and she and the baby were able to come and spend the morning and have lunch with us.

Chelsea and I the day she was born

And then Sunday was Emmie's birthday.  She really wanted to eat lunch at a local Mexican Restaurant after church and wear the big hat.

Week 24 in our Homeschool

Bible: We finished 5 lessons in Know Who You Are, Live Like it Matters.

Read Aloud: We finished Off the Edge of the Map and read 2 chapters of Brady by Jean Fritz.

Geography: This week's country of study was Iran.

History: We read chapters 26 and 27 of America's Story Vol 1 leaving only one to finish the book.  Vol 2 arrived and we will be starting that next week.

Music Appreciation: We completed lesson 2 of Memoria Press's Music Appreciation Book One on Absolute Music and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Math: Moving along in our math curriculum.  Lily, Emmie, and Anthony completed 4 lessons of MLFLE and Christian is plugging along in his Math Mammoth multiplication.

Language Arts: The boys finished the On Your Own Animal Fantasy section of Readers in Residence.  Next book of study for them is Because of Winn Dixie.  We have never read this book.  Lily's daily grammar lessons this week were on antonyms.

Spelling/Reading: The boys completed steps 6 and 7 in AAS Level 5.  Lily completed lessons 25 and 26 in AAR Level 4 and Emmie completed lessons 38 and 39 in AAR Level 1.

Other Activities this Week:

Monday was the 4 H Cookie and Bread Contest.

Tuesday was gymnastics.

Wednesday was Kid's Club.

Thursday was piano and ballet.

Friday I babysat Liam with Anthony, Lily, Emmie, and Christian while Nick and Alex helped Chelsea move.

he's standing on his own

 Saturday: We got a new couch!  New to us anyway.  A friend is moving and wanted to see their sectional.  Ours was falling apart and needed to be replaced but I did not want to buy a new one.  This one is bigger than the other one was and leather which I hope will be easier to clean. We were happy to move the old one out and the new one in!

 Nick started soccer this week, sort of.  Since he can't be on the team he and others that aren't on the team this year do a lot of standing around, but it's ok.  He's learning about what he will have to do to be on the team next year.

I got in my new science stuff and was really excited to open the kit and see everything in individual baggies and labeled with the lesson number!  We are going to switch around our schedule some so that we are doing science on days that we do not have the baby.

I have started beginning planning for next year.  Mostly for Nick.  When it comes to high school you have to be a bit more structured in the planning to make sure they get all of the required credits.  As homeschoolers we are not regulated by any special graduation requirements but we try to follow the local public schools as far as number of credits required and specific required courses like art and health.  We have a list of classes that he will be taking next year, now I just have to try and figure out what kind of curriculum we need for him for each class.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!