Week 6 in Review

We have had a great week again this week in school.  We have accomplished a lot this week

Monday we started the day with our Family and Consumer Science time (that is fancy talk for Home Economics.)  We work from 9 to 11 on something in regards to caring for a home, cooking, or sewing.  If we have kept up with all our chores over the weekend we cook something special or sew something.  This week we didn't keep up with our chores, so we spent the time cleaning our rooms and doing laundry. While we worked we listened to an audio book called "The Door in the Dragon's Throat."  It is a good story and we all had a hard time getting our chores done because we wanted to stop and listen!

We then had P.E. and lunch and then headed down to school.  We started with some Arkansas Agri History with something we picked up at the fair.

We then dove into our afternoon subjects and got all of them finished up.  I'm thinking I'm going to have to alternate days on the girls history and science.  That is how it is recommended, I wanted to try it every school day, but there is just too much in each subject to get done each day since their curriculum has so much hands on projects.

Monday afternoon I kept a friend's kids for her while she attended a meeting for her work.  The kids all had a good time. They caught granddaddy long legs, played on the new play set, built with magnet tiles, and played a little soccer!

Monday evening is also music evening for Logan.  He went over to Meme and Papa's house and they had a jam session with some of their friends. Dad was able to go pick him up for me and got this picture, I haven't gotten to see much of his jam sessions for awhile now.  Hopefully I can catch a few in the future!

 Tuesday was a typical day in school.  We worked away through the morning, had P.E and lunch, then worked away the afternoon.  I finally found Logan a little momma goat and we were scheduled to go pick her up this afternoon. Dad came home a little early and we headed to Texas to pick her up.  I have found people in Texas are much more reasonably priced on their farm critters than people in SW Arkansas! She is a real sweet little goat and so pretty.  Logan hasn't settled on a name yet.  She has beautiful blue eyes!

Wednesday morning for our geography we watched a video we picked up when we visited The Ark Encounter. It is by Buddy Davis and Ken Hamm. This video was on Extreme Caving. It was really good and we are looking forward to watching some of his other videos.  Meme and Papa picked up a music CD by Buddy Davis on that trip too, it is also very good.  He has some serious songs, and some really funny children's songs.

Wednesday after lunch we finished up quickly with our afternoon subjects and got ready to go to the youth program the children started this year.  This was the girls' first day, and Logan's second.  In all, they all had a good time and are looking forward to going next week. I'm so impressed by how much hard work this church is doing to hold this program every week for children.  After youth and kid's club was over we headed to our church for the Wednesday night potluck and church.  It was business meeting at church so I had all the children with me, we watched a Bible study video and they all seemed to like it very much! The video series is called "Awesome Bible Adventures," we watched Noah. We will continue with this series for awhile I think.

This is about half of the class Wednesday night, but they were all glued to the lesson!

Thursday we had to spend some extra care time before school on all our animals.  They all needed some cleaning this morning. We then headed down to school. Logan started studying about showing goats.  He is trying to decide if he wants to show goats next year in the fair. We checked out a video from the library and he watched it. He still hasn't decided, but he has decided it is a lot of work to show goats!  The videos were long with tons of information!

Savannah had a math test to take today.  We changed Math curriculum and so she found some problems on her test that she hasn't covered before, but we will make it up. That is the thing about changing math curriculum, they don't all cover the same information at the same time. I reassured her it would be ok, and she did really well on the rest of the test.  Savannah and Lillian also finished up Kaya's story in their American girl history.  Here is one of their finished projects, a dream catcher. They also made Teepees and are working on a lapbook.

Lillian is making good progress with her reading. I'm so proud of how hard she is working.  At the end of last year she started having some trouble.  She previously had been in speech therapy for awhile, but this was much more than pronunciation. She has either dislexia or disgraphia, or maybe a little of each.  Letters and numbers just will not stay still for her.  They appear to move around while she is trying to read them, it happens the most when she is trying to do her copywork, that is why we are leaning more to disgraphia than dislexia, but the therapy for both problems are the same.  So we are just working on it.  She is doing great. In all my years of teaching, she is my first student that has this particular challenge.  So it is a challenge for me too, but we are making progress and that is what counts!

Lillian and I also read The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter today.  We have the free kindle edition, so there were no pictures.  After we read the story we got on youtube and found a video of someone reading the original story with the original artwork, so we listened to it again and got to enjoy the wonderful artwork. I'm very thankful for youtube!

Thrusday afternoon I got to snuggle a new baby. The mommy of the young girl I tutor, she is also a good friend, had a new baby last weekend.  She brought him to visit me, I'm so thankful for babies too!

Friday morning we finished up our Exploring Nature with Children for the week. This week's lesson was on mini beast, so the children got out and searched for anything they would classify as a mini beast.  They found grandaddy's, a cacoon, a lady bug larvae that was in the process of turning into a ladybug, a spider that I can not identify, a praying mantis, and many others I did not get a picture of.

After the mini beast hunt, we gathered up our library books and went to the library. We all love the library. The ladies are all so nice.  The kids browsed and picked out new books to check out while I went and looked through the books for sale. I always usually find something we can use in our homeschool studies, this week I found a bunch that will make a good addition to the books we already have.

 This library trip ended our 6th week of school!  I can't believe we have already completed 6 weeks.  Next week will be our Sabbath week, so we will be resting from typical school work and getting some projects completed we have been working on.

The rest of Friday was spent getting ready for Friday night.  We held what we called a hot dog social at our home. We invited some homeschool friends and some church friends.  We couldn't invite everyone we wanted to, so we will hold another one and invite more friends at a later date. I think we added up 45 people in attendance, it was the largest group we have every hosted! I am hoping everyone had a good time. We sure did!  It was pretty simple and laid back, we had hot dogs, visited, did some archery, threw a frisbee around,  played some music, and just enjoyed being around our friends!

Today is Saturday and we all slept in this morning.  Dad ran the bush hog some more this morning, the children tended animals and picked pears for me while I worked on this post.  We are going to grab a quick lunch and head to a birthday party.  Hope you all had a blessed week!