Those daily updates don't work so well, do they...
Well, we are progressing. Up to lesson 10 in MUS, moving along in Bible, Catechism, cursive, Little Pilgrim's Progress, etc. Enjoying some good history with Madeleine Takes Command, and some good science with Along Came Galileo (this is a reread). E is crafting up a storm. J has been working in his "complete-a-sketch" and legoing like crazy. Reading the first Hornblower novel - it seems to be slow-going but he says he's enjoying it. Listening to a Henty Civil War cd today.
Lots of outside action on these nice days. We've discovered new places in the woods, and a new climbing tree down the hill. PE continues; E is starting a gymnastics class tomorrow.
Kids have been rereading some of their old favorite picture books. I don't think I have caught them all in our list.
My own reading: Still pretty pitiful, but I did finish a book: Celebrating the Sabbath by Bruce A. Ray. Hey, it's a start.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Jan 18 - snow day #3
Today is the last snow day. I couldn't keep them in. So work was minimal:
Bible, catechism, Christian Almanac as usual
Math - 2 pages, and then I realized - slaps forehead - I hadn't given any tests. There is one test per lesson; we are on lesson 7. So, tomorrow... 2 tests. Saturday... 2 tests. Should be easy; so much is review. Hm, maybe even 2 tests each day; then we'll be done on Monday.
Um, that may be it.
Fair bit of reading: J read Fantastic Mr. Fox the night before, E is moving right through Down in the Bonny Glen.
Tomorrow we'll get right to work. Uh huh. After errands (grocery shopping, library) and cooking and dropping off food for sick friends. Sure, loads of time!
My own reading: Last night C brought me a big fat novel: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Started. Didn't read any tonight. Good so far, though.
Bible, catechism, Christian Almanac as usual
Math - 2 pages, and then I realized - slaps forehead - I hadn't given any tests. There is one test per lesson; we are on lesson 7. So, tomorrow... 2 tests. Saturday... 2 tests. Should be easy; so much is review. Hm, maybe even 2 tests each day; then we'll be done on Monday.
Um, that may be it.
Fair bit of reading: J read Fantastic Mr. Fox the night before, E is moving right through Down in the Bonny Glen.
Tomorrow we'll get right to work. Uh huh. After errands (grocery shopping, library) and cooking and dropping off food for sick friends. Sure, loads of time!
My own reading: Last night C brought me a big fat novel: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Started. Didn't read any tonight. Good so far, though.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
1/17 - snow day #2
Another snow day, even less productive than y'day...
Bible and Catechism , Christian Almanac as usual.
Math - 2 pages instead of usual 3. Come to think of it, E did only 1, was supposed to do another but I cleared the table for lunch and we both forgot.
Read last 4 chapters of Little Pilgrim's Progress - part 1. Discussed at length. Taking a few days' break before moving on to part 2 - Christiana.
J read and logged a couple of books.
Read 3 chapters of The Big Six.
That's it! Lots of sledding and fun, though!
Bible and Catechism , Christian Almanac as usual.
Math - 2 pages instead of usual 3. Come to think of it, E did only 1, was supposed to do another but I cleared the table for lunch and we both forgot.
Read last 4 chapters of Little Pilgrim's Progress - part 1. Discussed at length. Taking a few days' break before moving on to part 2 - Christiana.
J read and logged a couple of books.
Read 3 chapters of The Big Six.
That's it! Lots of sledding and fun, though!
1/16 - snow day
Woke up to a lot of snow. So didn't accomplish much. If we lived in an area with reliable snow all winter, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But we have to take our snow days when we can.
Bible - Psalm 139 and Isaiah 41. The kids read Ps 139, taking turns in chunks of 5 verses. This is the next one to memorize, if we ever get through Psalm 33.
Catechism #34
Copywork - finished the catechism answer. It was a short one. But at least each child held a pen in his/her hand.
Math - yes, we struggled through the first 2 pages of a lesson. Kind of funny in an annoying way - we had been doing some work on place value, doing problems using expanded notation:
26 + 12 written as 20 + 6, plus 10 + 2. (Vertically, of course). J hated it. "What are we doing this for???" I told him it was to get ready for regrouping. Today's lesson started the regrouping. He was trying to blast through it, in his own overconfident way - and got them all wrong. Now he understands why he did all that practice.
Read a little more from Stars, Mosquitos, and Crocodiles over lunch, then some history about King Philip's War.
Read 2 chapters of The Big Six.
Made Maple Syryp candy in the snow. E's idea, from The Maple Syrup Book. Fun.
My own reading: I had excitedly picked up The Language of Threads, sequel to Women of the Silk, at the library. Last night I realized I had read it bfore. Oh, I had been so anticipating reading a good novel! I am truly turning into my mother now...
Played and played in the snow!
Bible - Psalm 139 and Isaiah 41. The kids read Ps 139, taking turns in chunks of 5 verses. This is the next one to memorize, if we ever get through Psalm 33.
Catechism #34
Copywork - finished the catechism answer. It was a short one. But at least each child held a pen in his/her hand.
Math - yes, we struggled through the first 2 pages of a lesson. Kind of funny in an annoying way - we had been doing some work on place value, doing problems using expanded notation:
26 + 12 written as 20 + 6, plus 10 + 2. (Vertically, of course). J hated it. "What are we doing this for???" I told him it was to get ready for regrouping. Today's lesson started the regrouping. He was trying to blast through it, in his own overconfident way - and got them all wrong. Now he understands why he did all that practice.
Read a little more from Stars, Mosquitos, and Crocodiles over lunch, then some history about King Philip's War.
Read 2 chapters of The Big Six.
Made Maple Syryp candy in the snow. E's idea, from The Maple Syrup Book. Fun.
My own reading: I had excitedly picked up The Language of Threads, sequel to Women of the Silk, at the library. Last night I realized I had read it bfore. Oh, I had been so anticipating reading a good novel! I am truly turning into my mother now...
Played and played in the snow!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Jan 15
A holiday, but when Daddy's working, we're working. OK, not really, but we don't go out of our way to take off school or legal holidays just because. We acknowledged MLK today but not in a huge way.
A fairly typical-ish day. Kids were slightly sick, and as usual I was slightly disorganized. We didn't do all I would have liked, but then we never do. Someday I will set my expectations correctly. Will I?
Bible: Psalm 138, Isaiah 40
Catechism: Question 34
Christian Almanac
Daily Grams - 2 "lessons"
Math - lesson 6, complete - just skip counting and review - easy
Cursive - a bit of practice
Copywork - just a bit because of all the math writing - Catechism ("What is adoption?"); J logged another book (The First Marathon, a picture book) into his reading log. OK, it seems silly to "count" this miniscule amount of writing but it's getting to be more all the time.
Little Pilgrim's Progress - 7 chapters - a bit too much - I could tell they were not as sharp on remembering names, events, etc., toward the end. We had been doing no more than 5 chapters so I think I'll keep it at the going forward. Tomorrow we will finish part 1, then take a couple days for me to get ahead on reading, and move on to part 2. Since we had read part 1 before, but not part 2, it will be more exciting.
Science - Chapters 1 -3 of Along Came Galileo, reading about pendulums in The New Way Things Work, marking up a map of Italy with Galileo locations, then some messing around with a pendulum (yoyo). No written experiment work. When Daddy came home we talked about it more and have some new ideas for more experiments tomorrow.
At lunch we started reading in Stars, Mosquitos and Crocodiles again. We had started it quite a while ago but I sensed a loss of interest so set it aside. They asked about it today, indignant that I thought they didn't like it. So we picked up where we left off.
We brought out the History Pockets and E did some coloring on a map of the 13 colonies. J didn't. We meant to do more but never got to it - tomorrow we will, though, since it's all out and we will have more time.
Read only two chapters in The Big Six.
J spent some time on some computer games I found at a UK kids' museum site and did some model airplane work. E rested a bit, looked at recipes and sorted through a pile of papers she had amassed.
I worked on Bible study some and did some meal planning. Cooked a way-too-time-consuming dinner.
Along with history pockets, tomorrow we will do some more pendulum work, but probably no more science reading. We need to do 1/2 lesson of math, more copywork and cursive, spelling and some test prep. I need to finish Bible study and get my shopping list ready for Wednesday.
A fairly typical-ish day. Kids were slightly sick, and as usual I was slightly disorganized. We didn't do all I would have liked, but then we never do. Someday I will set my expectations correctly. Will I?
Bible: Psalm 138, Isaiah 40
Catechism: Question 34
Christian Almanac
Daily Grams - 2 "lessons"
Math - lesson 6, complete - just skip counting and review - easy
Cursive - a bit of practice
Copywork - just a bit because of all the math writing - Catechism ("What is adoption?"); J logged another book (The First Marathon, a picture book) into his reading log. OK, it seems silly to "count" this miniscule amount of writing but it's getting to be more all the time.
Little Pilgrim's Progress - 7 chapters - a bit too much - I could tell they were not as sharp on remembering names, events, etc., toward the end. We had been doing no more than 5 chapters so I think I'll keep it at the going forward. Tomorrow we will finish part 1, then take a couple days for me to get ahead on reading, and move on to part 2. Since we had read part 1 before, but not part 2, it will be more exciting.
Science - Chapters 1 -3 of Along Came Galileo, reading about pendulums in The New Way Things Work, marking up a map of Italy with Galileo locations, then some messing around with a pendulum (yoyo). No written experiment work. When Daddy came home we talked about it more and have some new ideas for more experiments tomorrow.
At lunch we started reading in Stars, Mosquitos and Crocodiles again. We had started it quite a while ago but I sensed a loss of interest so set it aside. They asked about it today, indignant that I thought they didn't like it. So we picked up where we left off.
We brought out the History Pockets and E did some coloring on a map of the 13 colonies. J didn't. We meant to do more but never got to it - tomorrow we will, though, since it's all out and we will have more time.
Read only two chapters in The Big Six.
J spent some time on some computer games I found at a UK kids' museum site and did some model airplane work. E rested a bit, looked at recipes and sorted through a pile of papers she had amassed.
I worked on Bible study some and did some meal planning. Cooked a way-too-time-consuming dinner.
Along with history pockets, tomorrow we will do some more pendulum work, but probably no more science reading. We need to do 1/2 lesson of math, more copywork and cursive, spelling and some test prep. I need to finish Bible study and get my shopping list ready for Wednesday.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Jan 10-12
Another week with too many things to do: PE on Wednesday, a playdate on Thursday, game day on Friday. Socialization! Yeah!
Not much in the way of other work: progressed in math, Bible, catechism, cursive and copywork. Continued with Little Pilgrim's Progress. I must make the time to sit down and get about 10 chapters ahead of them. I'm feeling rushed to get their study questions done and my own reading is not as good or careful as it should be.
E wrote a bunch of thankyou notes for her birthday gifts. J was immersed in airplanes - building and flying.
And that's about it.
My own reading: Hahahahaha.
Not much in the way of other work: progressed in math, Bible, catechism, cursive and copywork. Continued with Little Pilgrim's Progress. I must make the time to sit down and get about 10 chapters ahead of them. I'm feeling rushed to get their study questions done and my own reading is not as good or careful as it should be.
E wrote a bunch of thankyou notes for her birthday gifts. J was immersed in airplanes - building and flying.
And that's about it.
My own reading: Hahahahaha.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Jan 8 and 9
We are getting into a new groove and it's going fairly well. I think I am right that I have been allowing the kids to get by on too little math. J is thriving on doing more each day. Right now - rounding, estimating, and doing little addition "puzzles" is fun for him.
So for these 2 days:
Bible - Psalm 129-131, Is 33-35
Catechism q 33
Daily Grams #47, 48
Math - Lesson 3, pages D-F, lesson 4, pages A-C
Reading - Little Pilgrim's Progress, ch. 24-33
Cursive and copywork every day
Spelling - test for E, copywork for J
History - SOTW Ch 14 - Prussia
Science - History of Science Lesson 14: Reading about Mercator, Huygens, and Galileo in Picture History of the Great Inventors, also the section on Galileo in The World of Captain John Smith. We did not read the intro to Along Came Galileo as outlined in the BF study guide, nor did we do the mapping exercise, yet.
Other reading:
Christian Almanac
Introduction to Fabre's Book of Insects
2 chapters (only!) of Secret Water
Today instead of doing test prep work J worked on some Perplexors logic puzzles (Mindware) and did a lesson in Maps Charts and Graphs which has been neglected for some time. Glad I just left that stuff in his bin... He also has started working in his Complete a Sketch book, and working - a lot - on some new paper airplane book he picked up at B&N with his Christmas gift card. Also watched one of the fighter jet movies he rec'd for Christmas.
E has been working on thank you notes and drawing a lot, and reading!
So for these 2 days:
Bible - Psalm 129-131, Is 33-35
Catechism q 33
Daily Grams #47, 48
Math - Lesson 3, pages D-F, lesson 4, pages A-C
Reading - Little Pilgrim's Progress, ch. 24-33
Cursive and copywork every day
Spelling - test for E, copywork for J
History - SOTW Ch 14 - Prussia
Science - History of Science Lesson 14: Reading about Mercator, Huygens, and Galileo in Picture History of the Great Inventors, also the section on Galileo in The World of Captain John Smith. We did not read the intro to Along Came Galileo as outlined in the BF study guide, nor did we do the mapping exercise, yet.
Other reading:
Christian Almanac
Introduction to Fabre's Book of Insects
2 chapters (only!) of Secret Water
Today instead of doing test prep work J worked on some Perplexors logic puzzles (Mindware) and did a lesson in Maps Charts and Graphs which has been neglected for some time. Glad I just left that stuff in his bin... He also has started working in his Complete a Sketch book, and working - a lot - on some new paper airplane book he picked up at B&N with his Christmas gift card. Also watched one of the fighter jet movies he rec'd for Christmas.
E has been working on thank you notes and drawing a lot, and reading!
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