Week in Review V

I was horrible about taking pictures this week, so you're going to have to take my word for it. This week seemed incredibly long. I'm congested and stayed up way too late several nights and I'm sure both played a part in making for extremely long days. We mustered through though.

Language Arts seems to be going really well for all 3 girls. Chiggie seems to have an intuitive grasp on grammar and even though she's learning some of the formalities they're all things she semi-understood already. Next week is her last week on Mr. Popper's Penguins and then we will be moving on to oral presentations and tall tales. Tea blows me away in this department. She is a great reader and is really loving the Captain Underpants right now. She too, has an intuition about grammar. We will keep her spelling words for one more week though, she needs to practice them more. Midge is doing good as well. She finished another book today and is coming a long way in her handwriting.

In Bible we finished up Lesson 3 and all the girls memorized their verses. This lesson was more story based and I think it will be nice next week to have a couple of activities. Especially the little girls really need the activities.

Typing is same 'ol, same 'ol. Chiggie is working on speed and Tea is still focused on mastering the keyboard.

Math was a big deal this week. All 3 girls' math lessons went from what seemed like pretty major review to much more difficult concepts. They handled it well. Chiggie aced her test and is gaining a confidence she didn't have before. Tea continues doing 2 lessons a day even when her stomach hurts, her big toe hurts, she is seeing double, she has a hangnail etc. Oddly I think it might be the cure as the afore mentioned symptoms alleviate at lunch break. Midge is counting well and has mastered the days of the week and the months of the year.

In History we learned about the colonization of New York and New Hampshire. We started in on the Puritans today and they were surprised to learn that there is a difference between them and the Pilgrims. We will finish them and a couple more colonies next week and then we are all excited to start studying the Native Americans.

Mercury was still our planet in Science. We made salt dough models and the girls covered the surfaces with marks made by their asteroids (rocks). That was fun and easy.

This was also a very busy week. On Monday we went to see the movie Dolphin Tale, on Wednesday Buster had his 18 month well child check,and on Friday we had a get together with some friends and made boats to put in the irrigation ditch. It was fun, but I think we were on overload early on in the week. Futuristically I will try not to have so much so early in the afternoon. We got all of our work done, but it felt rushed at times and I don't like that. We're all excited about the weekend and I can't believe we just finished our 6th week!