Homeschool Wrap Up Week 23

It was quite a week in our house.  Some of it was good, some of it not so good.  But the not so good could have been a lot worse.

Last Sunday when we were leaving for church, there was water on the floor in our laundry room which is also a half bath.  Art checked everything out and didn't find any problems.  We did laundry and everything was normal the rest of Sunday and Monday.  Tuesday morning there was a small amount of water on the floor again.  I shut the water off to the toilet and told the children not to use it.  But I was doing laundry and as soon as the washing machine went on the rinse cycle, water started flooding out like crazy though the laundry room and the playroom.  I turned the washer off, had the children grab all the towels they could find, and called my husband to come home from work.  To make a very long story short there was a problem with our septic that left off with no water in the house until late Wednesday afternoon.  It was a large unexpected cost but it could have been worse.  If we did not have the camper we would have had to go to a hotel.  If we had not been home when it happened to shut everything off I can't imagine what we would have come home to and since the floors are tile, drying up the water was fairly easy.

Week 23 in our Homeschool

Morning "together school" 2nd-7th grade

Bible: We completed 4 lessons in The 10 Minute Bible Journey

Read Aloud: We read 5 chapters in our YWAM biography on Ernest Shackleton.  We also listened to an Heirloom Audio Productions audiobook called For the Temple.

History: We completed the folderbook assignments for week 4 of MOH Vol 1 and read the lessons for week 5 (13-15)

Science: We finished reading chapter 11 in Apologia Anatomy and finished the notebooking pages.

Individual School

Emmie- 2nd grade.  Emmie started Singapore Dimensions 1 A this week.  She completed lessons 1-4.  I chose level 1 because they teach a bit different and I wanted to start at the beginning.  Having it be easy for a bit isn't a bad thing :) She also worked on IXL.com math and language arts 3 days this week.  We are reviewing Homeschool Complete 2nd grade and she read through some sentences and a story and drew a picture about the story.

Lily 4th grade.  Lily worked on IXL.com 3 days this week 30 minutes a day split between language arts and math.  She also did 4 days of Math in Math Lessons for a Living Education and read chapter 6 in Little House in the Big Woods.  In her own reading time she is working her way through Harry Potter.  She also made a quilt to give to Liam for Valentine's Day from some fabric scraps and did a painting of a sunset.

Anthony and Christian 6th and 7th grade- They both did 4 days of work in Rod and Staff math.  They wrote their paragraphs on The Lion and the Mouse for IEW SWI A lesson 9.  They also completed step 9 in All About Spelling Level 6.

Alex 9th grade- I went though all of Alex's work today to see where he is at with all of his subjects since he is not spending as much time per day as I think he should be working on his school work.  The work he has completed is very good but he is behind to finish when we want to finish with this year's work in May.  I dated all of his assignments from now to the end of the year hoping that will keep him on track.  His courses are: Biology 101, Apologia Health and Nutrition, Pre-Algebra, Lightning Literature, and Ancient History.  His electives include: Ag, Speech (if he completes 2 more public speaking activities) and Shop.

Nick 11th grade - Nick is taking Marketing for his class at public school.  At home he is a few weeks away from completing Notgrass Government, and on lesson 20 in Math U See Pre-Calculus.  He is working his way through Jenson Grammar and Chemistry from MasterBooks and will be starting Economics this week.

Other Activities this Week

For awhile I have been trying to figure out an activity for Alex that he would enjoy that would not be just following his older brother around.  A friend suggested Trap Shooting and I thought about it for awhile.  Recently it came up again and the opportunity came up for him to join a trap team.  I had to do some rearranging of activities and will have to rely on Nick to pick up Emmie a few times, but I think it will be really good for him.  After the first practice I found out that Christian could join too on the junior team that practices at the same time so it all worked out.

Monday the girls had gymnastics.  We had to leave a few minutes early to make it to the EH House to work on our SeaPerch.  Then later that evening we were able to test the ROV's in the water.  They all swam!

Tuesday (in the middle of the septic crisis) I took Alex to his first Trap Practice.  It was a beautiful day with temps in the 70's.  He did really well and enjoyed shooting.

Wednesday we had Kid's Club and Children's Choir.

Thursday Emmie had dance.  Christian and Alex had Trap Practice.  Temps were in the 30's and very windy!  We were so cold! The wind was awful.  After an hour I had to go sit in the van to watch the rest.  I do not know how the children were even able to load their guns.

Friday Lily had piano.  Then we headed back to the Eh House to work on the SeaPerch's some more and did more practicing in the therapy pool at the hospital.  We only have 2 weeks until the competition.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!