Week 6

Both kids made a "100" on their first math quiz!  Yay!  So far, the new math program is doing the job.  The computer gives them instant feedback on whether or not their answer is correct.  Both are motivated to get the correct answer.  I love the fact that they can do it independently and only call me for help when they get stuck.  On Friday, we watched a movie on Netflix about a few of the Greek Myths.  It was made by Jim Henson the creator of the Muppets.  On one of our walks this week, we saw 2 dead snakes squished in the road.  It was quite the conversation piece!  Oh, I ordered a new science curriculum.  I should have ordered this one in the first place.  Had my eye on it all summer, but I let someone talk me into something else.  Lesson learned.  It should be in one day next week.    Hopefully, this will be the last major change for the year, but I'm not promising anything! =)

Week 5

Things are moving along.  The kids have done a great job with the new math program.  We are still reading The Trojan War.  I think it will finally end this week.  Yay!  This year we have been doing a little exercise each morning.  Since the weather has been nice, we have been going for a walk.  I bought each of us a pedometer to track our steps or miles.  Each morning we have walked a little over a mile.  Friday was our first skate day of the year with our homeschool group.  Justin managed to get hurt in the first 5 minutes.  I thought he broke his arm, but thankfully it wasn't that bad.  He recovered quickly and was back out on the rink.  Here are a few pictures I took this week.

 



Justin jamming to piano wizard!

 

Megan working hard or is she hardly working or is she just giving me a dirty look for taking her picture. LOL 



 



Week 4

Yay, for short weeks!  It was business as usual this week.  We continued reading Story of the World Volume 1 and The Trojan War.  We finished our week with another science experiment.  The new math curriculum arrived today (Saturday), so we'll start that on Monday. 

Week 3

Wow!  It's hard to believe we have already been in school for 3 weeks.  The year is flying by!  Sorry, no pictures this week.  Nothing really exciting to report.  We continued our study of Ancient Egypt.  We are still working through fractions in math.  I have ordered a new math curriculum that should be in sometime next week.  I'm really excited to try it out.  It is a computer program that the kids will be able to do by themselves.  They will listen to a lesson and do the problems on the computer.  The program even has a gradebook!  Our science experiment this week was on adhesion.  We learned that soap makes water less adhesive.  We went to the library on Friday and checked out a few books.  We are looking forward to a short week next week since we have Monday off!  : )