There's a reason I've started our curriculum early...distractability. This week, for example, we only have time for 3 full school days on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The other two days we have activities with our hs group. Not all weeks are this full, but we enjoy the company of those in our group, so we make room for the activities we can participate.
We have started MUS Beta. C has already done the first two lessons. It's funny how you know your child is ready to be introduced to a concept by the things they do when it's NOT schooltime. For example, he was adding three numbers together in the line at the Commissary. Yes, I think it's time for Beta.
We finished week two of MFW ECC. I was a little late in getting the books for weeks 3-8, so I ended up having to do interlibrary loan with a bunch of them. :P I love our library. Unfortunately, that meant I had to delay the schedule a bit, but I was able to get a lot of gravy that went well with ECC, including:
Rookie Read-About Geography "Mexico" By David Marx (early reader)
"Death Valley: A day in the desert" By Nancy Smiler Levinson (early reader)
"Tulip Sees America" by Cynthia Rylant & Lisa Desimini
"Look What Came From Mexico" by Miles Harvey
"We Are All Americans: Understanding Diversity" by Joy Masoff
This unit goes well with our Noeo as we are doing desert habitats there too.
Just wanted to close by saying Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband. He is such an amazing, hardworking, loving man. I am so very honored and blessed to be spending my life on earth with him. :)
Showing posts with label Noeo. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
MFW & More Review
We're getting through our week 2 of MFW ECC. We reviewed the longitude and latitude on Monday. Yesterday we talked about the oceans of the world. Today political and physical maps. I've really been helped out by a find in the dollar section at Target- I love that spot :). There is a laminated map of the world. On one side it has all the continents and 4 of the oceans labled. On the flip side, there are lines at the bottm and you are supposed to label the continents and oceans. I love it. The only thing is it is missing the Southern Ocean, but apparently the Ocean was not even recognized until 2000, so that's understandable :)
We've been doing drill work for MathUSee. So, tomorrow we'll start on the lessons. C's been doing really well with his drill work, although it was a bit rocky at first.
We're continuing to love and use Bible Study Guide for all ages. Today, Bella participated, too. Yesterday, I read a character book from the library titled "Honesty" that went well with the lesson.
We finished up our creepy crawly section of Noeo, so we'll be moving on Desert Habitats tomorrow. Since we actually lived in a desert habitat for awhile, C should have something to relate to it.
C's handwriting is continuing to get better and better with the HWOT review. I love that program! I just can't say enough about it.
We've been playing a game similar to chess that came with C's Viking's Treasure Box by Fiona McDonald called hnefatfl. I was surprised he was so taken by it. I think we played it four times today! He's also VERY good at it. I wa sreally challenged the last couple of times. I shouldn't have given him those pointers, LOL. :) Anyhow, I think we'll pick back up with our review of Early American History with ourlosbanos.com
After many attempts to keep all four of C's chair legs on the floor with our old schoolroom set, I have replaced it. It wasn't so much that I was afraid he would crack his head (the floor is well padded) as much as the chairs (which are nearly 40 years old) kept coming apart & I just couldn't deal with the repetitive gluing. :P So, I moved one of our Craigslist chairs to the schoolroom and got a TV dinner type table at WalMart for $8 after seeing a friend use it in her home. It appears it will be a success and it opens up the room quite a bit. Better still, it can be folded away so the room can be a play room. Pictures to follow.
Another delightful thing to have entered our home in the past week is a DVR. I have recorded the shows that are acceptable for the kids to watch and they are limited to those shows. The TV is on a 24 hr. parental lock, so the kids must get us to watch TV. It's allowed for a lot more outside/creative play as well as less brain eating from the TV.
We've been doing drill work for MathUSee. So, tomorrow we'll start on the lessons. C's been doing really well with his drill work, although it was a bit rocky at first.
We're continuing to love and use Bible Study Guide for all ages. Today, Bella participated, too. Yesterday, I read a character book from the library titled "Honesty" that went well with the lesson.
We finished up our creepy crawly section of Noeo, so we'll be moving on Desert Habitats tomorrow. Since we actually lived in a desert habitat for awhile, C should have something to relate to it.
C's handwriting is continuing to get better and better with the HWOT review. I love that program! I just can't say enough about it.
We've been playing a game similar to chess that came with C's Viking's Treasure Box by Fiona McDonald called hnefatfl. I was surprised he was so taken by it. I think we played it four times today! He's also VERY good at it. I wa sreally challenged the last couple of times. I shouldn't have given him those pointers, LOL. :) Anyhow, I think we'll pick back up with our review of Early American History with ourlosbanos.com
After many attempts to keep all four of C's chair legs on the floor with our old schoolroom set, I have replaced it. It wasn't so much that I was afraid he would crack his head (the floor is well padded) as much as the chairs (which are nearly 40 years old) kept coming apart & I just couldn't deal with the repetitive gluing. :P So, I moved one of our Craigslist chairs to the schoolroom and got a TV dinner type table at WalMart for $8 after seeing a friend use it in her home. It appears it will be a success and it opens up the room quite a bit. Better still, it can be folded away so the room can be a play room. Pictures to follow.
Another delightful thing to have entered our home in the past week is a DVR. I have recorded the shows that are acceptable for the kids to watch and they are limited to those shows. The TV is on a 24 hr. parental lock, so the kids must get us to watch TV. It's allowed for a lot more outside/creative play as well as less brain eating from the TV.
