Week in Review 11/12

 This week, we started Draw to Learn Proverbs from Notgrass. It was neat to read the selection from Proverbs together, discuss it, and then have the boys work on their papers. Looking at this pic, I'm pretty sure Crawdad is in desperate need of a haircut. :P (And Cub wanted everyone to please note that Crawdad is sitting on his feet. He has not actually grown as tall as his brother. Giggle.)

It completely astounds me that he is able to get anything done with her laying over his shoulder like that, but she does it all the time, so it must be working for him. :) He loved the castle assignment, but was really not at all excited about drawing the princess. He tried to convince me that drawing the dragon would provide just as much contextual connection, but since there were no dragons in his readings--and there were princesses---I remained unconvinced. :P

 

This week Cub also:

*Finished Boyhood and Beyond, completed 2 lessons in CLE Bible, and continued his study of Levitucus

*Completed pages 1D-1F of MUS Zeta and made a 90% on the Lesson 1 Test

*Made us all cookies as part of his 3 days of HOD history with extensions

*Read about the history of medicine in HOD science, completed book 2 of 5 in PAC science and made a 103 on the quiz (as they aren't Bible verses, we use PAC's little "life sayings" as extra credit)

*Worked for 2 days on his personal narrative, then spent Wed and part of Thur helping me get ready for a work function Papa Bear was having at our house (the recent storms did a serious number on our yard. Think 900lbs of wet leaves....), so he will finish the narrative up next week. He also reviewed diagramming prepositions, continued reading The Best of Father Brown for Lit, and read half of "As You Like It."

*Learned about Red Herrings, Special Pleadings, and Ad Hominem attacks in logic

*Practiced animal names in Spanish, read a poem by Emily Dickinson that we all decided should be titled "Insomnia," :P passed his Trek verses, worked on "Ode to Joy" on his sax, suffered through naked cherubim in art appreciation, and went to 2 boxing classes and 3 Karate classes

RTR Unit 9 finished notebook pages

 This week Crawdad:

Crawdad trimming his grass guy's "hair."

*Read 4 days in his Day by Day Children's Bible and listened to me read from Egermeier's Story Bible 3 times

*Finished charts and started angles in Sinapore and completed 1C-1E in MUS Epsilon

*Did 3 days of HOD history and science and read about sea otters and giant pandas in his nature reader

*Completed 3 days of GWG, 4 days of SWS, 3 days of HWT, 4 days of phonics, and read 4 days in his Robinson Crusoe reader

*Sat in on his brother's logic, passed his AWANA verses, practiced "Jingle Bells" on the french horn, worked on his next form for Karate, illustrated one of Emily Dickinson's untitled poems, and listened to me finish The Tarantula in My Purse

We talked this week about not making such tiny drawings and filling all that white space more.

Can you say "distraction?"

Taz worked on "what belongs together" (and did extremely well!), practiced scissors skills, did the SL LA K lesson on R's, worked in her Singapore Earlybird math book, listened to me read stories, and was very into her R&S workbooks.

 I don't remember what Cub was studying (right), but he seems terribly excited about it, doesn't he? LOL. Below, Crawdad has fun matching patterns with the Pixy Cubes.

She said she was climbing up on the counter to be closer to the heater vent because she was cold. I suspect she had a different reason entirely....... :P

All tired out from all that schoolin'. :P