Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Dog/Leanna walk (with brothers)
*Girl Scouts-built their own first aid kits
*G. Washington Copywork-looked up definitions for some unfamiliar words for it. 
*One page of cursive writing practice
*phases of the Moon packet-read info and drew pictures
*The rainforest-read info, added her own, colored pictures, answered questions.  Then we talked about it and Leanna started making a list of people whose names she could add to a petition. 
*Weaving loom again.
*We read the first chapter in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott


*Justin-10 pages in his new Kumon My Book of Rhyming Words, I read him The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter, outdoor play (with hammers!)
*Timothy-he's now up to page 51 in his Kumon My Book of Rhyming Words, outdoor play (with hammers!)
One page in his math workbook.

Leanna owes me $3.00 worth of extra chores in exchange for the yarn we got her.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Geography Lesson 7  & almost all of Lesson 8.  (Robinson and Mercator Projection maps)
*We did a Bible/Character Lesson on Attentiveness from A Child's Book of Character Building by Ron & Rebekah Coriell
*Leanna made a list of reasons she likes homeschooling (creative writing and handwriting practice)
*She did a bit of cursive writing practice
*She finished Ramona and her Mother by Beverly Cleary.
*I had Leanna copy words/definitions from her Preamble to the Constitution book.
*We read& discussed more about the American Revolution.
*She did more weaving on her loom.  She finished a project. 
*We discussed the cost of buying things and she did some money math in her head.  She also played with a simple foam measurement puzzle. 

*We did a Bible/Character Lesson on Attentiveness from A Child's Book of Character Building by Ron & Rebekah Coriell with the boys too.
*I read Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth by Lucy Bate (Jacob actually paid attention for this one).
*Timothy worked in his Book of Rhyming Words and I quizzed Justin on some of the words from the book.  Neither one was getting the concept yet.  :(
*I also worked on Upper/Lower Case letters with the boys, though more with Justin (Timothy remembered the concept better).  We wrote letters and Justin also did circle the upper case letters and circle the lower case letters
*I also did "which does not belong" or grouping, with Justin.  With Timothy we tried "which comes before/after." 
*We had just started a lesson on bats with me reading the kids Stellaluna, when Tom came home.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:
Half Day
*Crafts-weaving on her loom again
*Silent Reading-Finished Ramona and her Father & began Ramona and her Mother both by Beverly Cleary
*Journal entry
*Leanna took turns taking her brothers with her to take the dog on a walk, now that we got him a leash and collar.


*Justin and Timothy went sledding and played outside for a while. 

Today was Trick or Treat Night, so we spent a large part of our day getting ready for trick or treating, actually Trick or Treating, and then enjoying the fruits of our labors and clean up (though that part was mostly me). 

Friday, October 28, 2011

Schoolwork Accomplished:

 Leanna:
*Comprehensive Curriculum Workbook: Spelling 2 pages
*Comprehensive Curriculum Workbook: Math-4 pages
*We looked at a website for subtraction lessons, to try to help her understand what she'd been doing wrong on the reviews.
*Silent reading:finished Search in the Great City -Bobbsy Twins
*TV: Little house on the prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder
*We read chapter 12 in Story of the World




I read Little House in the Big Woods to all the kids.
Timothy-Kumon workbook-and we also went over some words, he's not completely getting the concept yet though.
*Shuffle Stories.
*Computer play