Homeschool Wrap Up Week 17

Some of the cold, cough, sinus headache stuff that has been going around descended on the house this week.  5 out of 8 have had it in some form so far.  Some ran low grade fevers for a day, most have had sore throats, headaches, runny noses, and coughs.  Hopefully everyone will be completely well by Christmas.


Week 17 in our Homeschool

Bible: We finished the book of John and read Luke 2.

Read Aloud: We finished Day and Night in the evening and started reading some Christmas picture books.  For the boys read aloud we read a few chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring.  The chapters are long and usually split into two days.

Geography: We completed lesson 5 in Let's Go Geography on Mexico.

History: We completed lessons 76, 77, and 78 in The Mystery of History Vol 1.

Music: We listened to The Nutcracker from Maestro Classics, Stories in Music.

Art: We worked on some homemade Christmas cards and gifts.

Writing Assignments: We did two this week: Describe Your Favorite Holiday Dessert and Write About Some Things You Would Like to Do Next Year

Emmie: Worked on some lessons based on The Poplar Express in Lightning Lit.  She had finished her section in math last week so did not do any math assignments and did one lesson in AAR Level 3.

Lily: Practiced multiplication tables this week in math and completed lessons for The Family Under the Bridge for Lightning Lit.

Christian and Anthony: Finished up their math sections and completed lesson 4 in AAS Level 7.


Other Activities this Week:

We had the babies Monday who were still recovering from their bout with RSV but both in really good spirits.  Willow is 4 months and becoming more mobile.  She can roll over and wiggle around and happily chews on whatever she can get in her mouth.  Liam is a very sweet big brother and brings her toys to play with and even covered her with a blanket when she fell asleep.

She played in her Uncle Nick's old exersaucer for the first time.

Monday afternoon the girls had gymnastics and the boys went to pack food bags for the soup kitchen to hand out the next day.

Tuesday we stayed at home!

Wednesday we had Kid's Club and the Children's Choir Christmas Party. 

Thursday I baked all day for the STEM Club Bake Sale.  Emmie had dance that afternoon.  Nicholas finished his semester tests so I excused him from school and he stayed home Friday.  Only one semester of high school to go.

Alex went driving for the first time.

Friday was the STEM Club bake sale.  Friday evening Nick, Christian, and Alex went to the Teen Leader Christmas Party.

the lump under the blanket is Emmie.  It was cold that day!

We are off of school for the next two weeks and really do not have any plans to go anywhere except for church.  There is not any kind a chance for a white Christmas for us.  It is supposed to be 70 degrees Wednesday!  The children would love to see some snow this year, maybe we will get some on January.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!