Homeschool Wrap Up Week 37

This is the last week I am counting for our 2018/be 2019 school year.  We will be doing math and reading over the summer along with our homeschool review items (we have quite a few of those right now!)  but our official school year is over and won't start back up again until August when the local public schools go back.

Week 37 in our Homeschool

Bible: We finished reading through the book of Mark.

History: We read three lessons in The Mystery of History Vol 1. 

Science: We finished Exploring Creation With Human Anatomy and watched several Super Charged Science videos on plants.

Economics/Business: We completed lesson 3 in The Kingdom Code.

Individual School

Emmie completed 3 lessons in Singapore Math.  I am working on a review of a learn to read  reading curriculum called Learning Dynamics and with that she read through the first 15 simple readers this week.  She completed lesson 4 in Simply Classical Spelling and in Lightning Lit her lessons were based on The Bee Tree.

Lily completed 4 lessons in Math and worked daily on Typing Tournament.  Little House in the Big Woods is finished.

Christian and Anthony completed 4 lessons in Math and completed steps 22 and 23 in AAS Level 6.  They are working on the Opinions lessons in Jump In for language arts (upcoming review) and Christian started an online math review called Matific Galaxy.

Other Activities this Week

Monday The girls had music lessons in the morning.  At lunchtime Christian and Nick went and spoke at to members of the Howard County Quorum Court during a presentation by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.  Christian did a Stopmotion Presentation and Nick spoke about SeaPerch (they leave in 3 days!!!!)

Later we worked on a special collar for the robot to carry a magnet to complete one of the tasks at the contest.

Tuesday we were getting things ready to go to a goat sale when I headed out to check on our very pregnant goat one more time before we left and saw she was in labor.  I ran back in to change my shoes and tell the children to gather some supplies.  A little while later we noticed that something was different from when our last goat delivered, when she pushed there was no bag of water.  It had been about 30 minutes since I noticed she was in labor and we had not checked on her for about an hour before I found her so I was a bit worried and called our ag agent who then double checked with a goat person and said yes this was a problem and we needed to help the goat.  She also told me to prepare the children for the fact that the baby could have suffocated and might be born dead.  She was heading to our house but its a 20 minute drive so she was talking us through what we needed to do.  Basically we could see two hooves so  when the goat pushed Alex pulled.  Yes we were more then a little panicky about the whole thing.  It was so scary!  I thought we were going to kill the mama and that the baby was going to be dead too.  But when the baby came out it was all limp for a second and Alex started shaking it and it tossed its head and sneezed!  A minute or two later the mama stood up so we put the baby near her so she could start cleaning it off.  It was pouring down rain and thundering and it was cold so we got the heat lamp plugged in.  By then our reinforcements arrived and talked me through checking out the mama goat to make sure there were not any more babies.

Bessie is such a good mama.  She would not even step off the platform to eat or drink the first two days after the baby was born we had to put her food and drink close enough so she could get it.  She takes very good care of her baby.  It is a little girl. I was so thankful that they both were ok!

After cleaning up and making sure everything was still ok with the goats we did go on to the sale to buy two goats for Christian and Alex to show this year.  Our babies will be too little and last years goats are too old.  There were not may goats there and the first goats sold for $1800!  We didn't buy anything but talked to a lady who we have bought goats from before and she had 4 left.

So Wednesday we went to Arkadelphia and picked up their new show goats.  These will be being sold as soon as show season is over.

Wednesday afternoon we went grocery shopping because we were out of everything!!

And my washing machine started leaking.  After Art located the problem (the drum had a crack) and determined it would cost a lot of money to fix a 10 year old machine we decided it would be better to buy a new one even though I really, really did not want to spend the money.

Thursday we had Liam.  Emmie had dance.

Friday Nick,Christian, and Alex went to a 4 H Dutch Oven Cooking workshop.  Emmie was too young (it was for 9 and up) and Anthony wasn't interested in going.

When Art got out of work he and I drove to Texarkana to get the new washer and dryer.  It was an experience but we finally found one that they had in stock.  We were home really late that night.

Saturday we had Liam again.  The washer and dryer got hooked up and after 3 days of not being able to do laundry I was so thankful.  This new washer can wash twice as many clothes at one time as my last one.  I hope they last a long time.

Saturday afternoon was Alex and Christian's trap party.  It was VERY warm.

While we were at the party Nick was at a pig sale.  He decided he would like to show a pig this year so even though I know nothing about pigs, we now have a female pig.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!