Homeschool Wrap Up Week 30

We ended up having no power last Sunday night or all day on Monday.  It finally came back on Tuesday morning and stayed on all day Tuesday and Wednesday.  Thursday morning it went out again and was out until suppertime.  A lot of our schoolwork needs power.  We were unable to watch our Drive Thru History videos, complete our geography less, stream our art history video or drawing lesson, complete our Latin video or assignments, or complete our math lessons.  We ended up with visitors on Wednesday when Chelsea brought the babies over for the children to play with so she could get her online work for her college classes caught up, so we too Wednesday off too ( I had no idea we would have no power again on Thursday.) We did get a few things accomplished and spent a lot of time outside.


Week 30 in our Homeschool

Bible: We read 4 chapters in the book of Romans.

Read Aloud: We are reading Thick as Thieves by Susan K. Marlow.  We finished The Two Towers and started Embers End by S.D. Smith.

History: We watched one episode of Drive Thru History The Gospels.

Science: We finished Lesson 6 in Botany and completed the pages in the Notebooking Journals.

Music Appreciation: We finished the section on Edward McDowell.  This completed the course!


Emmie: Completed 2 lessons in AAR Level 3, one math lesson on measuring, and completed the Lightning Lit assignments for Many Moons by James Thurber.

Lily completed one math lesson, 3 pages in Reading Eggs, and finished her lightning Lit assignments on Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.

Christian and Anthony: completed step 13 in AAS Level 7, read 3 chapters in Adam of the Road, one math lesson, and started working on research papers.



Other Activities this Week

4 H hosted its annual dairy contest.  With everything shut down due to Covid 19 this year it was an online contest.  We made the recipe at home and then submitted the recipe and photos or a video of the recipe being prepared.  It was supposed to close on Monday but the contest was extended a day for those who had no electricity.  The girls had made their dirt cake the Friday before.  Anthony made pizza (then we ate it for lunch), Christian made a Vanilla Cream Pie, and Nick made a cheesecake ( the children ate it for dessert.) Alex did not enter anything.  We are waiting for the results.

Thursday we went and chose livestock projects for Nick and Emmie.  I was not going to let Nick have an animal this year because he is supposed to be leaving for college in August but I changed my mind after all of this mess with Covid 19 has cancelled or postponed everything for who knows how long.  The one thing that has remained unchanged for us has been taking care of animals.  Even if he does get to leave for college in August I will only have to take care of the pig during the week for a couple of weeks before the fair.  We picked out two pigs, one for Nick and one for Emmie.  They will be coming to our house the 3rd week of May.  Christian and Alex will be showing our baby goats.  We are hoping to get two more goats so Lily will have something to show.  We did not get baby chickens this year.

Baby goats

We did more work on the barn this week.

The vegetables made it into the ground and we did some more work on the flower bed.  I would still like to get some pots and a hanging basket for the front porch.

I was very excited when Art and I did our early morning shopping on Saturday and I was able to buy toilet paper, paper towels, and a hand soap refill.  I have not seen those things in the store since early March. 


I have been researching curriculum trying to figure out a plan for next year!

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!