Homeschool Wrap Up Week 34

Only one week left in out regular school year!  Then we will take a little time off from school and then we will be working on  reading, math, and some reviews over the summer a few days a week, less then an hour per day, usually during late afternoon when it is the hottest part of the day. We just got a very good Art Appreciation curriculum called The Master and His Apprentice to review and I have Hake/Saxon Grammar and Writing 3 coming this week.  Piano will continue all summer and we have several 4 H activities going on this summer.

Activities this Week:

Monday was my Mother's Day with Chelsea and Liam.  Chelsea is off on Mondays so we skipped school to spend some time with them.  We introduced Liam to the sandbox, he was pretty impressed.

The girls had gymnastics Monday afternoon.  Only one week left until we break for the summer.

Tuesday was our wedding anniversary.

Thursday we helped set up for the piano recital and Lily had a piano lesson.

Friday we went back and helped to decorate for the recital. Then we ran errands.  That night was the recital.  Lily did a great job!  For this recital they had to play a piece of music by memory.  It was a late night. I didn't get the girls to bed until 10.

Saturday morning I had to wake them up for a ballet make-up.  After that Art and I went to Texarkana for the day alone!  We went out to lunch and did some shopping.  We had not been anywhere without the children since December.

Week 34 in our Homeschool

As our year has been coming to a close we have finished up a few things and I have decided we were in a good stopping place for a few more things so our work load has gotten a bit lighter.

Bible: We completed 6 lessons in Answers for Kids Vol 3.

History:

Music Appreciation: We completed lesson 12 on The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Science: We finished reading chapter 5 on nutrition.  We will finish up the activities for the chapter next week.  I was thinking about continuing this curriculum through the summer because we have not done as much science this year as we usually do but I think we will set it aside and pick it back up in August.

Art: We wove different beasts together for our ARTistic Pursuits lesson.

Math: Lily, Christian, and Emmie completed 3 lessons in MLFLE.  Anthony started Pre-Algebra from the Critical Thinking Company and completed Chapter One.  Alex started Math U See Pre-Algebra.  We did not finish Pre-Algebra with UnLock Math before his subscription ran out and honestly he wasn't really getting it anyway.  I started him at the beginning of MUS Pre-Algebra and hope that at least the first few chapters will be easy and he will be able to work through them easily.

Language Arts: The boys finished their book study on Hugo Cabret.  Lily did activities based on the book Meteor by Patricia Polacco.  Emmie's story was The Napping House.

Spelling/Reading: The boys are finished with spelling until the fall.  Emmie has completed All About Spelling Level One!  I bought her Explode the Code Book One and she has been working in that some this week.  She will have to read aloud to me over the summer before we start AAR Level 2 in August.

I saw her reading to Marshmallow one day and took this from a distance so she wouldn't see me.

We have a really mean rooster.  Really mean.  I think he has to go but Christian is very attached to him.  He attacks everyone else except Christian.  As long as he is willing to grab the eggs and take care of them he can stay, but if that thing attacks anyone again....

I hope you had a great week!


Happy Homeschooling!