Homeschool Wrap Up Week 28

Having my husband working from home the last two weeks has caused a few changes in our homeschool.  Our internet is not great and he has to be able to access it to complete his work which meant that we did not have an opportunity to complete a few of our usual assignments this week like a drawing lesson or Art history video but we will get back to those things hopefully next week.  We also took a day off this week for Christian's birthday.

Week 28 in our Homeschool

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

Read Aloud: We are still reading The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien and started Thick as Thieves by Susan K. Marlow.

Geography: Our country of study this week was Argentina.

Music Appreciation: We started the very last book in the series on Edward MacDowell.

We have finished our history curriculum for the year and will be starting back on Botany next week.

Emmie completed Vol 1 in Level 3 of All About Reading.  Her story in Lightning Lit this week was The Enormous Crocodile by Road Dahl.  In math she is working on multiplication.

Lily is still working through her Reading Eggs workbook.  Her story in Lightning Lit is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.  In math she is working on perimeter.

Christian and Anthony are reading Adam of the Road in Memoria Press Literature.  In Jump In. their writing curriculum, they are working on writing a How To paper.  In AAS Levl 7 we completed Step 11, and each of them completed their math assignments for this week.

I have not started thinking about curriculum for next year.  I will need to do that soon!  This is the first time in 11 years I have not done regular curriculum reviews and have not been able to see all the new things as they are coming out.  At the same time, it is the first time in 11 years that I have not had to change up what we have been working on every 6 weeks and haven't had to spend weeks working on things that were not a good fit for us.

Other Happenings in our Week

My girls do a pretty good job staying busy.  They will occasionally complain about being bored but for the most part keep busy during their spare time and I do not have to find things for them to do  One day this week they had a tea party, another day they made cookies and had a birthday party for one of their dolls.  One rainy day they really wanted some fresh air so they drug their craft supplies and a blanket to the front porch to work on their crafts.  They did some paintings and Emmie worked on a cute embroidery project.  Trampoline bouncing, bike riding, plenty of fresh air and exercise.  I will say that staying busy while being at home has been harder on my teenage boys.  They do have some work projects outside (still working on that livestock barn and everyday animal chores), but they do not keep as busy as the girls.

Christian had a birthday this week.  It was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine.  And even though his lunch plans didn't work out and his present didn't arrive in time due to a shipping delay, he had a great attitude and it was a great day.

Thursday we left the house for a bit and did some fishing.  We only caught a few little ones but it was nice just to get away for a bit.

Our baby goats are doing great.  One is two weeks old today and the other is 13 days old.  They are very playful and curious.  They are trying to be like their mamas and nibbling at hay and goat feed.  They love jumping and climbing and running.  We are hoping the walls to the barn come in one day this week.

Art's company has decided to get their plant back up and running a week earlier then they had planned so he is back to work at work (instead of home) tomorrow.  The seniors at the schools in Arkansas have been told that as long as they were in good standing at the beginning of the 3rd nine weeks they have met the graduation requirements and do not need to continue with any AMI work unless it is for a college course.  That means that Nick is finished with the exception of his AP American History.  I expect that the Governor will announce soon that the schools will not go back at all this year (but I could be wrong about that.)  I am still not completely sure what to think about all that is going on, but I do know it is not going to be a magical all is well everything can go back to normal.  I do think the decisions that are being made believe that they are being made for "the greater good" but I'm not so sure.  So many decisions based on fear, so many people out of work, so many things unsettled and will be for a long time.  But, rather then dwell on all of that, I leave you with cute baby goats being more then a little spoiled:)

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!

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Catching Up Homeschool Wrap Up Weeks 19-27

I'm not sure how I got so far behind.  I got busy.  Then busier.  Then busier.  I just didn't have the time or the inclination to try and find the time to document what we had done that week.  But I have missed it and circumstances being what they are now has given much more time at home (along with most of the world), so I am going to catch up where we left off (a shortened very condensed version.)

Our homeschool mostly stayed the same through January and February and into early March.  We finished the book of Acts and started Romans.  We completed The Mystery of History Volume I.  We studied Schumann and Tchaikovsky.  We continued on in our study of Post Impressionist Artists and worked on some drawing assignments. We covered Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Brazil, and Venezuela in Geography. The boys finished King Arthur and started Adam of the Road and learned how to write a newspaper article.  Emmie has continued on in AAR Level 3 and Lightning Lit.  Lily finished The One and Only Ivan, Gone Fishing. and started Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.  We started Visual Latin.  We have not started back into Botany since Christmas but now that we finished history and the weather is warmer we are planning on getting back into it.  Everyone has been working diligently on their math assignments.


Other Activities

There were quite a few exciting things going on for us up until the state shut down the weekend of March 15th.


In addition to all of our regular activities each week (dance, gymnastics, music, trap, church, soccer, and 4 H) we....

were able to take a trip to Florida to see my mom and dad over Mid-Winter break in February (I am so glad we went ahead and went when we did!)

We spent a day at Hollywood Studios.

Went to the beach.

Visited an aquarium.

And did some shopping and went to the movies.  My dad, Art and Nick also went to a hockey game.

A few weeks after that we competed in the Arkansas SeaPerch Competition.  I took 3 teams: 2 seniors and 1 junior.  I was so proud of all of their hard work!  One team with Nick, Anthony, and Christian won 1st place in their Technical Design Report, 3rd in their Obstacle Course and ended up being 2nd place overall!  Our other senior team with Alex and two others won 1st in the Challenge Course.  The juniors did not place.  This year only the top senior team and top two juniors qualified for Internationals so we did not qualify this year. ( The International contest ended up being cancelled anyway.)  It was a great experience participating in this and I was very proud of everyone!

Alex was selected as a State Record Book finalist in 4 H in Animal Science and he won!!

Nicholas participated in the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony inducting the new members.  He was also offered a paid Internship at the radio station broadcasting the high school softball and baseball games (this has been put on hold until schools go back and sports start back up again if they do this year at ll.)

After the 1st person tested positive for Covid -19 in Arkansas, the state basically shut down as it is in most states right now.  Schools are all closed until April 17th, all activities cancelled, even some parks closed. So Nicholas has been home doing AMI work one week and spring break this week.  But the Arkansas Department of Education issued a statement saying any senior in good standing is considered to have met the graduation requirements for this year.  We are waiting for an official announcement on that from the district.  Art was sent home last Monday to work from home through Easter.  Right when things started shutting down everyone started panic buying at the grocery store.  I was absolutely shocked and wouldn't have believed it if I had not been there to see it.  This week when I went to the store it was much calmer and seemed more normal.  I hope it stays that way.


We had two baby goats last week!

Long story made short but we had been watching one goat closely for over a week and that sneaky goat managed to have her baby when we weren't looking even though we checked her every hour. The other goat we were not watching as closely she was a first time mom and we thought we had a few more days and she managed to show no signs of labor at all.  We did a goat check at 8pm she was fine, eating, not acting like anything was going on and at the next goat check at 10 pm she had a baby in there with her.  We were disappointed that we weren't able to see them being born but thankful deliveries went well. Both babies are little boys and are doing well!

We are in the process of changing our goat pens into a livestock barn so Art and the boys have been working on that in between bouts of rain.  We had some beautiful weather this week and snuck away a couple of times to enjoy the weather and do some fishing.

I hope you are all doing well during this strange time.  We are trying very hard to stay positive and not focus on all of the things that were cancelled while figuring out some kind of new normal.

Happy Homeschooling!

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Homeschool Wrap Up Week 18

After two weeks off for Christmas break, we eased back into some schoolwork this week.  Our break was nice and we enjoyed a little bit relaxation.  Chelsea and her family were able to spend Christmas with us.  We also went to the new Star Wars movie right before New Year's.  The girls were able to attend a Wild About Winter program at Grandview and had a good time.

This week my birthday was Monday so we took off of school that day.  Normally I would not do that but we hadn't seen Chelsea and the babies since Christmas and they wanted to come out and spend the day.  My children didn't mind getting an extra day off :)  By Thursday a very stressful situation I have been dealing with got the better of me and I had a horrible migraine.  The children were able to complete some individual work and I gave an art assignment and a science assignment they could do on their own but the other planned work I had required me to read and that was not possible so the day didn't go as planned but we made it through.


Homeschool Wrap Up Week 18

Bible: We have started reading in the book of Acts.

Read Aloud: We are reading Dangerous Decision by Susan K. Marlow and The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. 

History: We completed lessons 79, 80, and 81 in The Mystery of History Vol 1. 

Art: For Art History we watched a HiGasfy video on Vincent van Gogh.  Christian and Lily did a drawing lesson from Creating a Masterpiece.  Anthony worked on a wood burning project.

Writing Assignments: We worked on a paragraph about one new skill they would like to learn this year.

Science:  We read the first half of chapter 4 in Botany and the children built some models of flowers out of clay and construction paper.


Emmie completed 2 lessons in AAR Level 3.  She has been very interested in a show on TV called Crikey It's the Irwins that is about wildlife and animal rescue so she was excited that her story was about a Wombat Rescue.  She is working on subtraction in math.

Lily started division but was very frustrated and declared in tears one day that her head is just not made for math.  She does struggle with it poor baby bit is so good at so many things.  She did 3 days in her Reading Eggs book and has started The One and Only Ivan in Lightning Literatyre.

Christian and Anthony completed 3 lessons in math.  They started King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table in Memoria Press Literature.  In AAR Level 7 they started lesson 5.

Other Activities this Week:

Monday the girls had gymnastics.

Wednesday we were back to Kid's Club, Children's Choir and youth.

Thursday Emmie had dance.

Friday Music lessons started again.

I hope you had a great start to your New Year!

Homeschooling! 

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