We had an atypical Friday, then our field trip was rescheduled for Saturday, since it was supposed to rain Monday (which it did, copiously). So Monday, since we were so tuckered out from the weekend, and we had missed our Saturday by doing a field trip, we did a short day. Kat and Dane did Math and Grammar, and then we all went for doughnuts! :)
Today, Tuesday, we got back into our normal schedule. Kat and Dane had Math tests...Kat did great, Dane will need to rework 5 of his problems. For Grammar, we studied the introduction of helping verbs in diagramming. Both kids successfully diagrammed 3 sentences each, including the new helping verbs. They also worked on the "Helping Verb Jingle," which teaches 23 helping verbs. They also did Vocab, Chapter 8, Lesson 1.
For History, we read more about Wulf the Saxon. He has returned to the city and we have been introduced to his friend, Beorn, who was born frail but has now become much stronger after his own sojourn to the countryside.
The kids watched Latin tutorials today, with help from Bailey. The little ones had room time, and rather than work out, I did some office tasks. We have officially canceled our cable service, as of today. That's a savings of $45 we didn't need to be spending. I also spent time looking for a house cleaning service for our rental. I'm thinking it would be much cheaper to pay a sitter and go clean it myself! Yeesh!
Bailey read from Robin Hood after lunch--we are in part 8 of 8 parts! Amazing how the time flies by...we have a number of shorter books waiting in the wings to follow Robin Hood. They are all from the same time period, which means the kids can enter info into their History notebooks from what they learn in Literature. Nice!
Finally, we looked at the Moon. We have a couple of experiments to do with the lamp tomorrow, but it was fun to read about lunar phases and see cool pictures of the moon.
I'm planning to implement regular spelling work now, and Dane will continue his cursive. Tomorrow is also Geography...we will look at Kuwait.
That's the short and sweet of it! I also have a great video of Geneva doing most of Psalm 23 by herself...I think you can only see it on Facebook, however. The file was too big to put it here.
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ReplyDeleteGood for you on the cable. I have been happy without for many years now. Surprisingly you will find all the shows you need on hulu. ;o)