Week in Reveiw 9/24

 Our MUS blocks and books came in the mail this week. I'm fairly certain air combat missions and train stations were not what Mr. Demme had in mind when he developed the blocks, but  they are just too cool not to inspire a little creative play. :) In fact, I ordered a new set even though we still had most of the old set. I figured that way there would be enough to go around at construction time. And we made great progress using them for math, too. :P

A Viking ship and a long house in Unit 8 of RTR

  This week Cub:

*Completed 3 lessons in CLE Reading, read half of Much Ado About Nothing, and survived 3 lessons of CLE grammar

*Switched to MUS for math and worked through 3 days of lessons on decimals

*Completed 4 days of RTR history, finished Black Horses for the King in the extension pack and added in Sons of Charlemagne

*Did 4 lessons in PAC science and 4 lessons in HOD science

*Worked through 2 Spanish lessons

*Studied Leviticus for 3 days and read 2 lessons in Boyhood and Beyond

*Did 3 days of logic using The Fallacy Detective (I know the book says it's a high school logic course, and while we love it and think it's a hoot, I'm just not seeing it count for high school.)

*Read "The Bee" by Emily Dickinson, viewed paintings at different times of day in art history/appreciation, passed his Trek verses, earned his yellow belt, rocked in Band and piano, and worked on still lifes in Art

Mapwork

Practicing spelling words and cursive at the same time :)

This week Crawdad:

*Read Ready Freddy Going Batty, completed 4 phonics lessons, 4 days of Soaring with Spelling, 4 lessons in Growing with Grammar, 3 lessons in HWT, and read 3 days in his nature reader

*Completed 4 lessons on fractions in Singapore. He seems to have hit a bit of a bump with multiplying fractions, so I think we're going to add in some lessons from MUS and see if that helps.

*Completed 3 days of HOD history and science

*Read 4 days in his Day by Day Children's Bible and listened to me read from the Bible 4 days

*Listened to me read The Tarantula in My Purse. Cub insists on sitting in on this one. He's heard it before, but he loved it then and now.

*Copied and illustrated "For a Child" by Fannie Stearns Davis, earned his orange belt, also rocked in band and piano, passed his AWANA sections, played Jumpstart on the computer, watched a Drive Thru History episode on Columbus (Cub loved this as well), and studied protons, neutrons, and electrons in his Co-op science class

Crawdad's poem illustration and his notebook page for history in Bigger.

This week Taz:

*was introduced to and fell in love with Bambino Luk, caught plastic fish in the sink, played with animal counters and colored blocks, completed lessons 2.5-2.11 in Singapore Earlybird A, completed SL LA K week 3, worked on memorizing Gen. 1:1, talked about her senses, leaned about horses, pigs, and ducks, and watched about a million hours of Thomas the Train (kidding--it just seems that way! :P).

Working on scissor skills.

Making some very good 3's :)

 Taz and Crawdad played a game while I worked with Cub today. Crawdad would spread some letters out and then call out a sound. Taz would then toss the beanbag onto the letter that made that sound. They both had fun, and I was pleased that no one got beaned with a stray beanbag. :P

Timeline work.

I loved this. :) Cub was supposed to draw his favorite animal and then write a paragraph about it using as many Spanish words as he knew. It wasn't supposed to be conjugated correctly--just Spanish words put in for English ones. Aside from being a little distracted and not catching that run-on sentence (and having really scary penmanship), I thought he did a great job. :) I really love the dog.