...and super eventful week is followed up by not particularly eventful at all week! We hung out at home a lot, did school, watched chicks grow...it was lovely.
Monday was the only nice day, weather-wise, so we spent the afternoon geocaching with friends. I fell in the mud (going after Gus, who somehow got himself stuck at the bottom of a steep, mucky hill) and dropped my iphone. The horror! But I and the phone both survived.
Tuesday there was no games class, but we did do co-op. We read "Tuesday" by David Wiesner and planted some bean seeds to start out our Science in a Nutshell unit on flowering plants.
Ari did lessons 20 through 23 in Singapore 4B and a couple of word problems from another book we have. It's not "Challenging Word Problems," but it seems to be along the same lines. We inherited a bunch of math stuff from Dave's cousin, and this was in with all that. He did three sentences in Practice Island, read from Sentence Island, Music of the Hemispheres, and Building Language, did a couple of writing assignments from Sentence Island, and did NOT write another poem about cheese. He was supposed to write a poem using lots of "sub" words for Building Language, but it didn't get done. He's still reading his Lizzie Stanton book for history, and he started Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain this week.
Adding 9s is going to be the death of Milo. That boy is difficult to understand sometimes. Dave was talking about how Milo saw some stuff he's doing with his algebra classes about plotting lines, asked some questions about it, and quickly grasped the concept. But adding 9s to things seems to completely melt his little brain. Except when it doesn't. One day he'll get it, the next day it's gone. Sigh. So we're averaging a lesson every two weeks in Right Start right now, I feel like. But that's okay. We'll get through it somehow!
Maybe it's just because his brain's busy with the reading thing right now, because he continues to do just great with that. I found him a Mercy Watson book at the thrift store, and he read a chapter out of that last night. He read "Kitten's First Full Moon" to himself the other day then read it again to Gus. For school he's reading some Amelia Bedelia.
In history, we're still reading about Theodore Roosevelt, also about the 20's (from a Discovery Kids magazine on "the Roaring '20's"). We read a bit about WWI and started reading The All-of-a-Kind Family.
I'm expecting a lot of books for next year from Amazon this week, which is terribly exciting. Although I'm not sure where I'm going to put them all. And I've been working on next year's book list for Ari. I'm putting around 20 books on it, and I think I'll schedule a couple of sessions a week for us to talk about them...nothing super formal; I just want him to get used to thinking critically about books and doing some close reading and all that sort of thing.
I can't believe the weekend's almost over. Dave was at a math tournament all day yesterday, so my weekend was essentially cut in half. sigh. Spanish starts again tomorrow!
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