Weekly Round-Up~4

I am so excited! We have made it to 4 weeks with NO TEARS & NO FIGHTING!

Last week we were at my dad's house and he was asking Caeden what his favorite subject was in school and he said,

"Science and History are my favorites because I like learning about volcanoes."

Then my dad asked him what his least favorite was and I waited....{Math? I am sure of it...here it comes....}

"None. I like them all."

Did you HEAR that? He didn't say math, he said he liked all his subjects!

YAHOOOOOOO!

So anyway...we had a good week. We are reading Black Ships Before Troy, all about the Trojan War. He is really into homonyms/homophones, he gives me new ones everyday.

{Did I mention on here that Maleiah cut her hair a week ago? She has half a mullet, it's so totally 80's, like totally.}

We got all of our art stuff and I am so excited to start this next week! It's going to be fun. :) I also revamped some things for Maleiah in the quest to keep her hands away from the scissors. More on that later...

Weekly Round-Up~3

This week was fun! We learned about the Minoan Culture of Greece, Theseus and the Minotaur (Caeden's favorite) and we built a volcano!

All subjects are going well and the workboxes are still awesome. We are switching science to focus more on nature study. I love Christian Kids Explore but my heart really wants to do more of a relaxed science approach that involves more outside time and learning about the world around us. I borrowed a book from the library...

Hands-On Nature

It is written for classroom use but I am going to modify it to use with just one. I love the activities and it's pretty much all stuff we can do in our area. I really want to get outdoors with the kids more...Maleiah is our nature lover and I want to capitalize on that as much as possible.

Spelling and Grammar are going great. Reading is great too, I just wish he would do more on his own during the day BUT that's the great thing about those workboxes! I put a chapter book in there and he reads a chapter a day...I love it! Math is going good this year! We are almost done with the first workbook for Horizons 1. He seems to be getting the concepts and the stuff he gets wrong on the tests are more about carelessness than not understanding what they are asking him.

Weekly Round Up~2

Aaaahhh....Week 2.

Well, it wasn't awful. It wasn't fantastic. It was sloppy. That's the best word I can think of. I learned that getting up early has GREAT benefits!

• I get a head start and can prepare myself for what is to come, good or bad.
• I can get some time to read my Bible, pray and revel in quiet.
• I can get a few chores done.

Needless to say I didn't get this until Wednesday and that's the day Caeden has his class so we were buzzing around to get ready for that. School went well for the most part...we were a bit s..l..o..w..but it all got done. The workboxes are going really well! Caeden enjoys them, I enjoy them, it gives us some order to our day.

We had a surge of busyness the first week of school with soccer practices starting and the emails are a'flowing for Boy Scout stuff...we add that in at the beginning of September. We didn't think the scheduling through with all the activities and had not anticipated that Justin would have a job that would limit some of our galivanting around. So we are going to push through it and re-evaluate for next year. :) All of this makes me a bit overwhelmed since I am a homebody.