Week in Review VIII

We officially completed our first quarter this week. It ended up being a week later than I had planned, but at least we finished.

In Language Arts Chiggie is doing a unit on Tall Tales. She read the story of Paul Bunyan this week and learned all about exaggeration and the such. Over the next two weeks she will be writing a tall tale of her own. Tea finished another story in her series and is continuing to breeze right through. Midge has turned a corner. She is reading phonetically very well. She knows all of the letters both upper and lower case and their sounds. She knows many sight words as well. We just need to work on fluency. All three are doing very well with their handwriting books and seem to like them.

In Bible we started a unit on the Holy Trinity. This concept is difficult to grasp but they are doing well with it.

Math continues to surprise me as an all around wonderful subject for all. Tea is still doing two lessons per day and should finish up book 1 this month. Chiggie is mastering all of her math facts and that is making the entire subject easier and more enjoyable for her. Midge is moving on to basic addition on the number line. She likes math a lot.

In history we are still studying the Indians. We are mostly reading right now, but we did try our hands at making clay pots.

We have almost completed our study of Venus in science. I am definitely ready to move on to Earth. We will do an experiment with radar to wrap it up and move on by Tuesday.

Not having any power for a day and a half was definitely an obstacle this week. We also had a Halloween party to go to on Friday. I was surprised at how focused the girls stayed that day. I am proud to say we stayed on track and even made up for lost time. We are still taking Monday off for Halloween. The King will be home 1/2 day and it will be nice not to feel rushed. We'll extend the other four days a bit to make up for hours lost. We are still on track, I just don't know what illnesses make come this winter and want to have some time stockpiled!