Week in Review 2/13

Cub doing some research for RTR.

 We had a good, albeit busy, week. :) This week Cub:

*Continued his personal study of 2 Samuel, finished Created for Work, and focused on Proverbs 3 with the family

*Ate Oreos while doing grammar :P (right), read King Lear, finished the rough draft of his approach paper on Around the World in 80 Days, and read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm

*Made an 85 on his adding/subtracting negative numbers quiz and moved on to multiplying and dividing them, along with some decimal work

*Completed 4 days of HOD with extensions, finishing Robin Hood, Ink on His Fingers, and Herodotus

*Studied sound waves in science, continued to not get Emily Dickinson (none of us here do :P), played his Sax and the drums in band, passed his AWANA sections, was actually interested in Art Appreciation this week, did 2 days of logic, worked on vocabulary, and passed his belt test (I forgot my camera this time around, so only have a few pics on my phone for the belt tests. Grrr.)

This week's RTR page

Taz helping Cub practice his form for his belt test. :)

  Cub used his Herodotus biography to write me a message in Greek requesting a new Lego guy. While I'll give him points for creativity, I'll NOT be giving him $150 for the Lego. That's what yardwork and savings accounts are for, Son. :)

Crawdad doing some timeline work

 This week Crawdad:

*Read his Day by Day Bible 4 days and listened to me read him 3 Bible stories in Egermeier's Bible Story Book

*Compared and added/subtracted fractions, parallel and perpendicular lines, and reviewed long division

*Completed 2 days of HOD history (we sort of slacked history this week--oops)

*Read about army ants in his nature reader (Did you know that certain ants keep "cow" bugs that secrete honey? I sure didn't.), studied energy molecules, and read more in his John Audobon biography

*Completed 5 lessons in LLATL orange book (that's grammar :)), read poems and Tall Tales in his BJU reader and completed a few worksheets about the same

*Studied Proverbs 3 with the family, did a little vocabulary work, listened to me read Adventure According to Humphry, copied and illustrated See It Through by Edgar A. Guest, passed his AWANA verses, played his French Horn and the drums, and earned his Green Belt :)

This is what happens when Cub and Crawdad are working on their sparring One Steps while Cub is wearing socks on the hardwoods. Cub's foot slipped right out from under him and the kick that was supposed to go over his brother's head connected. Fortunately, Cub wasn't using much force and Crawdad is a tough little guy. :)

Taz wanted to do school, so she went and got several books. I was amused that all of her choices were art books. :)

Taz made paper dolls and told me stories using them all week. :) She also did about a gazillion Abeka worksheets, learned about Noah's Ark, discussed her skeleton incessantly, tried to get her head wrapped around ice and water being the same substance, and practiced narrating pages of her storybooks back to me.

 Right, Taz learns the different names of coins by using them to "buy" her toys from me. Below, she had the desire to set up shop in my chair and do some schoolwork there. She perches quite well, I must say (and I love that her peacock, whom she insisted on naming "chicken," is looking on.). :P

She does love making door hangers.

Apparently, Crawdad decided to paper mache himself during his Co-op lit class this week, and not just his mountain for Bears on Hemlock Mountain. :P  And I have to say, one of the things I do love about Sunny Southern California are the afternoons that just beg us to pull up a lawn chair and school outside. :)