Week in Review 10/7

Taz and I took Papa Bear to the airport this morning, and I was very pleased to return and find that Cub and Crawdad had been working diligently. Crawdad had all of his independent work completed, and Cub was close to done. Such good boys. :)

This week, Cub:

Goofball :P

*read 4 sections of his Day by Day Bible and 2 sections of Boyhood and Beyond

*did 4 lessons in pre-Algebra

*completed 4 days of HOD science and history with extensions

*did 3 lessons in CLE reading 8 and read and notebooked Winter's Tale

*did 3 grammar lessons

*completed 4 Spanish lessons and made a 100% on his first quiz

*read 4 lessons in natural science and worked the accompanying activity sheets

*suffered through one day of art appreciation and the reading of Robert Frost's "The Road Less Traveled"

*had a blast in Band and moved from 3D circles to 3D triangles in Co-op Art (think traffic cones)

*practiced sax and piano daily, kicked behind in Karate and boxing, attended Youth on Wed and Youth bowling tonight, was his little brother's best friend, and his little sister's hero :)

We got a kick out of watching this little guy try to figure out how to hide nuts in our yard while avoiding the dogs. Does that count as nature study? :P

This week Taz played Cailou on the laptop, made a gazillion paper crafts out of her Abeka K4 book, colored number and letter worksheets and tried to get her mind wrapped around the blend ladders, played Monkey Magnetic Dominoes, played letter match games, built with Rainbow Blox, built towers out of giant cardboard blocks, painted a million pictures, went to Cubbies on Wed, , got sent to her room worked on having a pleasant attitude, kept Mama company while the boys were in band, and generally kept us all entertained and on our toes. :)

 Crawdad studied viruses in Bigger science. He did a demonstration to show how T-cells, B-cells, and killer cells work to fight off viruses and create antibodies.

Crawdad's notebook page of his virus demonstration.

Watch me make red flowers, Cub!

 This week, Crawdad: 

*copied and illustrated "Each in His Own Tongue" by William Herbert Carruth (above-sorry for the lousy pic)

*did 4 phonics lessons, 4 grammar lessons on adjectives, 4 days of HWT, 4 spelling lessons and made a 100% on his spelling test, and 2 days of dictation

* completed 5 math lessons on adding, subtracting, and simplifying fractions

*completed 4 days of HOD history, science, and Bible, plus listened to me read 4 Bible stories

*read 4 sections of his Day by Day Children's Bible, Jigsaw Jones and the Case of the Missing Hamster, and finished The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

*listened to me finish reading The World According to Humphry

*did 4 Spanish lessons

*had fun in Band, ate cake in his book club class, and studied measurements in Co-op science

* practiced French horn and piano daily, did an excellent job in Karate, passed his AWANA sections, was great company to his brother, and played endless hours with his sister stacking blocks and riding the scooter :)




In art, Crawdad read about Benjamin West, who used berries for paint and hair from his cat's tail for paint brush bristles while he was a child in the Colonies. Crawdad painted some flowers of his own in similar style, using orange and grape juices for paint. We subbed in Q-tips for the paint brushes though, as opposed to accosting the neighborhood cat. :-P

Note to self:  next time use berries instead of juice to try for more vibrant color.

Cub's HOD project this week was to bake verses from Matthew 16 in to five loaves of bread. The idea was to then unwrap the verses and put them in order as we ate the bread. We cheated a bit, and used already prepared dough from Whole Foods.

Forming loaves.

His dough isn't cooperating. :P

It was a tad on the sticky side. Giggle.

Eventually, he won the battle of the bread dough and got it in the oven. It wound up rather tasty in the end. :)