Week in Review X

Only one more week left until Thanksgiving break! School is going great, but it will be nice to have some time off and the King will be home to enjoy it with us!

In Language Arts this week Midge and I read the book Caps For Sale and she loved it. Afterwards she made this neat puppet of herself wearing the caps. She had me draw the face, but she colored all the caps and glued them to "her" head. Tea started her new reader and enjoyed the first story. Chiggie finished up her unit on tall tales and I'm pretty sure we're equally relieved.

In Bible we started discussing the concept of an imperfect word created by a perfect God. I am surprised at how much they are grasping. I'm glad I decided to do a formal Bible study as I am realizing that they really are capable of understanding some of the more complex stories and ideas.

Math continued to be challenging but we made it through. Tea finished book 1 and will start book 2 on Monday. I am pretty sure I have decided to go ahead and start the 2nd grade book after Christmas. She doesn't even seem to find what she's doing challenging, but we can't skip the foundational steps. Midge is adding using the number line and it takes awhile, but she has the concept down. Chiggie is multiplying multiple digit numbers and dividing with remainders. Again, this takes time, but she gets it.

In History we finally finished up our unit on Indians. We made fry bread today to celebrate and it was a success. They loved it with honey. When I asked where they thought the Indians might have gotten honey Midge answered, "Whinnie the Pooh?" It was very cute. We cut our bread out with our gingerbread boy cutters which made it even more fun.


I would say that Science was the favorite this week. We have moved on to planet Earth and are learning all kinds of things. We read The Magic School Bus Inside the Solar System this week and even I learned a lot.

In their spare time the older girls have been working on their drawing with a site they found that gives step by step insructions. They both have a knack for it and came up with some pretty good ones. Here is Tea with her squirrel she drew entirely on her own.

We have several projects next week including finishing our Pilgrim hat place settings and making an edible Earth. Until then we plan to enjoy the relaxation the weekend promises....