This was a pretty routine week. I did have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday, but the rest of the week was our regular schedule. I like it that way. Next week I have an optometry appointment on Monday and a clinic appointment on Thursday, so our schedule will be a bit off.
In our homeschool this week...
We got quite a bit accomplished this week. I have decided to skip the "exploration days" and "book days" in Sierra and Landon's curriculum so we can hopefully finish a little sooner. We can go back and pick them up this summer if we have time. The big girls have moved on to the continent of Asia in their independent work. In our work together, we are still reviewing Europe. We'll be moving on to Africa by the end of this week though.
Places we're going and people we're seeing...
We didn't go much of anywhere this week. We are getting ready for the karate tournament this weekend and will be out of town for that one all day Saturday. Next weekend is Dakota's birthday and she has requested a trip to the aquarium so we'll be going there too. Other than that, we're saving for our Disney trip so field trips are pretty much on hold until after that.
My favorite thing this week was...
Realizing how well Sierra's doing with her reading! It's not as fluent as I'd like it to be, but she's getting so much better. She has to sound out a lot of the words still, but she can get a lot of them from the context without sounding them out. I love that what she's reading is meaningful and not just "the fat cat..." She's going to be a great reader!
What's working/not working for us...
Things are going pretty well for us right now. I still need to tweak the schedules a little bit so I have more time for other things-like cleaning-but our school is going well.
Homeschool questions/thoughts I have...
I'm really starting to think about what I want to do next year. I'd really like to do more things together. I'm really leaning toward more unit studies with science and history that can be done together or at least where they can learn about the same topic at different levels. We'd still do math, reading, handwriting separately but the "fun stuff" we'd do together. Know what I mean?
A photo, video, link, or quote to share...
I found this quote in someone's signature line last week and it is my new favorite:
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
1 comment:
Awesome! The more strong readers in the world the better!
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