Homeschool Wrap Up Week 13

 We finished our biography of George Washington Carver right before Thanksgiving break.  Instead of starting a new one right away, we decided to read some Christmas books instead during the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We started with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  We have never read this before.  And of course we will have to read The Very Best Christmas Pageant Ever, It's a yearly tradition.  I am hoping to get in at least one more chapter book and some favorite picture books as well before Christmas.  For our evening read alouds we finished Little House on the Prairie and started on Farmer Boy, we also finished another Hardy Boys book and began a new one.  

The children have been working on some homemade gifts this week and we started decorating the inside of the house.  We were able to go get a tree on Saturday (all of us!) and visited Garvan Woodland Gardens while we were in the Hot Springs Area.  We were very disappointed that they decided not to do their beautiful Christmas lights display this year (because of Covid.)  It is still a beautiful and fun place to go but the lights make it much more special.  They had very few Christmas decorations up at all but the ones they had were very pretty.  We had a great time exploring the gardens, climbing rocks and bridges and seeing waterfalls.  The children loved the tree house. 

Week 13 in our Homeschool

Bible: We are still working our way through the New Testament and began the book of Hebrews.

History: In MOH Vol 2 our lessons were on Al-Andalus, St. Boniface, and The Iconclast Controversy.

Geography: We finished The cabin Faced West and learned about Delaware and Maryland.  We also wrote 4 postcards to send out for our 50 states postcard swap. 

Latin: We completed Lesson 10 in Visual Latin.  Some of the children are interested in learning Spanish we have dabbled in it here and there but I guess I need to find a curriculum for them to use that will be easy on me.

Language Arts: Emmie is still making her way through Mr. Poppers Penguins, and Lily The Borrowers.  The boys read 5 chapters of Treasure Island.  They had to write papers on a memorable experience they had in their lives in EIW.  Writing is not easy for my boys but I was so, very impressed by their papers!  Anthony wrote about winning SeaPerch and going to DC and Christian wrote about seeing baby goats being born.  They both did so well!

Spelling/Reading: The boys finished Step 24 in AAS 7.  Emmie completed lessons 8,9,and 10 in AAS 2 and read Summer Storm in AAR 4.

Math: 4 more lessons completed.  The upgrade to Teaching Textbooks is working fine for Emmie. I will have to upgrade Anthony before the end of the month.

Other Activities this Week:

The girls had gymnastics on Monday and dance on Tuesday.

We had music lessons on Friday.

Saturday was a great day!  The weather was so beautiful, sunny and almost 60 degrees. We started out at the Christmas Tree Farm to pick out and cut down our tree.  The tree we picked was the smallest we've ever had but it was very easy to get in the house and decorate!

Then we headed to Garvan Gardens.  

We picked up lunch from Chick-fil-A and ate in on the drive back home.

And we decorated the tree.

I was so thankful that all of my children and grad-babies could be there.  It was a wonderful day!

Sunday we got our goat back.  Hoping for some babies in a few months!

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!