Thursday/Friday

We took Thursday off this week, I was feeling overwhelmed about what needed to be done at home. So I worked all day here.

Friday the boys and I got to go to see the Yakima Orchestra at a beautiful theatre in Yakima. It was a fabulous field trip!

Wednesday

Bible: Read aloud
Memorizing: Matthew 12:34
Discussion about our giving project and deciding on whom to give our gifts.

Timeline: I read Story of the World

Language Arts:

Eli read through 2 lessons in 100 Easy Lessons
Joey did WWE Book 3 # 18 & FLL Book 3 # 24 (boo
Nate did WWE Book 1 #9 & FLL Book 1#39

Read about

Geo Week #

CC Year One Review Week 14

Math
Joe # 104
Nate #
Eli #

Tuesday

Bible: The story of Eli & Samuel
Memorizing: 1 Chronicles 16:9&10

Outdoor Hour: Planting Sunflower Seeds & Nature Journals

Thank You Cards for Awana Leaders & CC1 We 15 review
Language Arts:

Eli read through 2 lessons in 100 Easy Lessons
Joey & I worked on his practice Standardized test
Nate did WWE Book 1 #9 & FLL Book 1#40&41

Read about

Geo Week # 15

CC Year One Review Week #15

Math
Joe-Prep Test Work
Nate #
Eli #

Monday

Bible: We read the Story of Samson & Delilah while the boys drew sketches of the story.
Memorizing: Matthew 12:34
Discussion about our giving project and deciding on whom to give our gifts.

Timeline: We sang through the timeline while drawing our Sketchy Tuesday...."Something Crafty"

Language Arts:

Eli read through 2 lessons in 100 Easy Lessons
Joey did WWE Book 3 # 18 & FLL Book 3 # 24 (boo
Nate did WWE Book 1 #9 & FLL Book 1#39

Read aloud Pippi Longstocking

Geo Week # 14

CC Year One Review Week 14

Math

Joe # 104
Nate # Singapore
Eli # Singapore

Thursday

Today is 'take your kids to work day' for Ralph, he's taking Joey to work today. Joe was thrilled, there will be all kinds of scientific demonstrations and all. So the younger boys and I will take a quiet day. :) Playdate, a trip to the playground, and an outing for ice cream.

Tuesday, Wednesday

Bible

Math
Joe # 103
Nate & Eli Saxon


Timeline review

LA
Joe & Nate; respecive First Language Lessons, Writing With Ease
Eli reading Bob Books

Geo Reviewing Cycle 13

Cursive

Read Aloud; A story of a cobbler, Bible & Little House on the Prair

Monday

Bible: We read of the Exodus arrival at Jericho, then of Gideon's talk with an angel and how he defeated an army

Geo: C 1 W 11-12

CC: W 12

Read Aloud: Two chapters of Little House & then 1/2 of "...if you travelled on the Underground Railroad"

Math: Joey # 101
Nate # 85
Eli practice math

Thursday

Monday-Friday

Bible:Stories of Jesus' return, baptism of HS and Peter's healing a lame man

Geography: Cycle 1 Week 11&10

CC: Cycle 1 weeks 11

SOTW: none

LA~
Eli Bob Books
Joey FLL & WWE
Nate FLL & WWE

Read aloud "The Drinking Gourd" & Little House book

Cursive for penmanship (need more penmanship!!)

We're biking to the library to get new books& have a day out. :)

Wednesday

Monday-Friday

Bible: Bible Stories from Children's Bible of Crucifixion

Geography: Cycle 1 Week 10

Spelling: none


Math:
Joe: Lesson 101
Nate & Eli: singapore math

CC: Cycle 1 weeks 10

SOTW: none

Read aloud another safety video

Scripture copy work for penmanship (need more penmanship!!)

FLL
Eli Bob Books (2)
Joey WWE & FLL
Nate WWE & FLL

Tuesday

Monday-Friday

Bible: John 17&18

Geography: Cycle 1 Week 9 &8

Spelling: none


Math:
Joe: Test 19
Nate & Eli: Saxon #78

CC: Cycle 1 weeks (

SOTW: book 1 p 216 on Confucius

Read aloud another safety book

FLL:
Eli~ Bob Book Set 1 # 5
Joe Lesson 19 Book 3
Nate Lesson 34 book 1


copywork and cursive for penmanship (

Monday

Monday-Friday

Bible: John 16

Geography: Cycle 1 Week 8

Spelling: none


Math:
Joe: Test 19
Nate & Eli: Saxon #78

CC: Cycle 1 weeks 8

SOTW: none

Read aloud another safety video & On the Shores of Silver Lake

Thank you notes for penmanship (need more penmanship!!)

April 11-15

Monday-Friday

Bible: We will continue to work through the story (a timeline) of the Old Testament. Awana's verses to be memorized.

Geography: Working through Weeks 6-9 Cycle 1

Spelling: Joey Lesson 29

Nate & Eli Lesson 1

Monday: read and spell, copy, write and write

Tuesday: read & spell, copy, write and again

Wednesday: dictation

Thursday: test

Math:

Joe: Lessons 91, Test 18, Lessons 96-98, Lessons 99,100 Test 19

Nate & Eli:

CC: Cycle 1 weeks 6-9 review

SOTW: The fall of Rome,

Hinduism, Buddism,Confucius & Toaism

Watch Know Science Videos

WWE

Nate & Eli: Week 7

Joe: Week 1

Safety Topic:

Monday: Stranger Danger, books " Stranger Danger" & " Ten Steps to Staying Safe"

Tuesday: "Staying Safe by Saying No" & " A Kid's Guide to Staying Safe on the Streets" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dHB3HWzbY&feature=related

Wednesday: "Safety around Strangers" & "Listen to Your Instincts" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q9CpwvkA_k&feature=relmfu

Thursday: "Staying Safe at Home and On-Line" You Tube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuaJcjxBK3U

FLL:

Nate & Eli # 29-32

Joe # 1-4

April Week 1 Spring Break

For Spring break I've worked in the garden, done some home organization and played games with the boys. We also attended a few science sessions at the library, learning about sound waves, fossils and space.

Our challenge for the week was to see how many board & card games we could play. As of now we're up to 19. It's been a fun way to have a focus and challenge over the week.

tues-thursday

A new week, a week without CC classes. This was a delight, change for our family.

We worked through the story of Abraham up to Moses and Aaron. The stories of their lives, the promises God made to them and how He was always, always faithful. We also worked on memory verses.

We're reading through Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling, mapping Paddle's journey.

We reviewed CC weeks for Cycle 1.

We reviewed Geo for Cycle 1.

Math: The boys are pressing forward in their lessons in Math

We read some Story of the World that correlated with our CC History.

For Language Arts we're pushing through FLL & WWE

Monday

Bible

Read about Jacob and Esau, birthrights for dinner and blessing given in disguise

CC

Cycle 1 week 2

Geo Drawing

weeks 1,2 cycle 1

blob the countries

Math

joey investigation 9

eli & nate math, adding 10+

Language Arts

Lego Challenge

Science Project #1

Mixing Yeast, Sugar and Water to create carbon monoxide

Read Aloud: Paddle to the Sea

LA:

Joe: Diagramming

FLL

Nate and Eli:

FLL & Read aloud

We are also reading On the Shores of Silver Lake...still in the Little House series

Monday-Friday, March 21-25

I'm getting my feet back under myself this week. At long last things are kind of back to normal. On Monday night my dad & nephew came so Tuesday was a playday.

Otherwise, we had school as usual on Monday, Wednesday & Thursday.

This is our last week of CC, I'm excited to make some fun spring changes this next quarter!

Monday -another mad week- Friday

We traveled to Oregon again last weekend, came home Monday.

Tuesday was time to prep for school Wed, our family had "family presentation" and we needed to ready for that!

Wed CC

Thursday Homeschool

Friday, rest.

I'm exhausted.

Wednesday-Friday

CC as usual on Wednesday,

Home school as usual (unrecorded on Thursday)

Tuesday

Bible

Prov 8 & discussion

Awanas Memory Work

CC Week 21 review, MM ready!

Math

Joe- lessons *4-86

Nate and Eli~ working through Singapore Grade One. Graphing intro and subtraction today

Story of the World

Cuban Missile Crisis & Kennedy's assassination

Reading & Writing

Joe- add dress ups to the rough draft to take tomorrow to CC

Eli & Nate (Joe listened) FLL Lessons 22-24

WWE copywork

Monday

Bible

Prov 7 (Penmanship while I read)

Awana Work

Math

Joe Assesment 17 and Investigation

Nate and Eli are working through a Singapore grade 1 book together. I have pulled Nate back to one digit subtraction in order for him to master it, not just kind of get through it. This is introductary work for Eli.

CC

Week 21, Practice for Memory Master

Story of The World

Reading about the Cold War (the Space Race & Fidel Castro)

Reading/ Writing

FLL for three boys

WWE for Nate and Elijah: My Shadow Poem

Verb Anatomy Task Sheets for Joe

Rough Draft on Ghengis Kahns' Critique

Presentations are to share a drawing or sketch

Wed-Friday Last Week

We were, of course doing week 21 at CC on Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday I managed to get myself back into school after travelling to my grandpa's funeral over the weekend. It's nice to homeschool, grace all over it.

We participated in math, CC, reading, writing, Bible and of course we're working diligently on Joey's Memory Master work.

Monday - Friday

This week will be life studies.

By this, I mean...

travel, grandparent time, stopping off at museum & sightseeing, travel, haircuts, packing, unpacking, laundry....Oh, and CC of course, memory master practice, travel, family time, patience, and a funeral.

Life studies. God Bless you!

Thursday School

Backwards simple day....

We did Bible (Luke 11)

We reviewed all CC History and week 19 all.

Wednesday

CC Week 19

Tuesday: Sad day

My grandpa passed this morning, and I found out before we started school. The day was school, crying, school, crying, school....angry....stop school. Play time, go to the library

Bible

didn't do it. :(

Presentation Preparation:

"Show us how to make or do something"
Eli's topic`how to make Perler Bead creations
Nate's topic- hot so shoot his sling shot
Joey's topic- still working on that

Math

Joe lesson #80
Nate lesson 5 in Singapore 1A
Eli lesson 4 in Singapore 1A

Lit

Joey read 20, finish Final draft of 'Tyler The Knight'
Nate read a Bob Book and lesson in FLL
Eli read a section of 100 Easy Lessons and a lesson of FLL

CC

review all weeks of English, all of week 18
preview week 19

Monday

Bible

Luke 11 & discussion about what a spirit/soul is. We talked about Great Grandpa Dean, and that when he goes to heaven his body will stay behind and he'll get a new body with Christ! Sad and happy.

Math

Joey completed a test

Nate worksheets on subtraction and addition

Eli was sick

Lit

Joe finished his rough draft and added dress ups.

Nate read to us and we did FLL # 17 (Eli was there too)

Nate worked on penmanship as well.

Nate, Joe and I reviewed weeks 1-18 of Geo together.

We also reviewed week 18 of CC

So far....

Notes from my sweet boys, lots of x's and o's

A dozen beautiful roses hand delivered with a kiss from my sweet husband

A game of tic tac toe written with x's and heart's....complete with a hug or kiss with each play

An Eli reminder that "Boys! You shouldn't fight!! This is Valentime's Day! You should be loving!!

Tuesday

We did school Tuesday and Thurs, unrecorded details.

We did Math, History, CC, Lit, penmanship, Bible and we also mapped out the backyards in measurements. We put it to scale on paper, then dreamed up our dream backyard complete with garden, herbs and forts. :)

Friday Eli was sick. We had planned to go to a museum but missed the day. Bummer. Next time...

Monday

Bible

Luke 9-10

Scripture memory review

CC Week 17 Review

Literature/ Reading

Joey will write up a rough draft of his paper, task sheets

Nate, FLL 13-16

Eli, reading & FLL as well

Math

eli worksheets

nate worksheets

joe lesson #77

Lego Challenge

(Nate says he's not feeling well. On couch quiet and sleeping?)

Wed-Friday

Wednesday was CC

Thursday was a day in preparation for guests. The boys and I did some reading and CC, that's it!

Friday I was gone in school for mamas...Andrew Pudewa!

Tuesday

Unrecorded, but school as usual. :)

Monday

Bible

Luke 9 & Prov 31

Scripture Memory

CC

Week 16 & Timeline

Math

Joe test

Nate # 79

Elijah Singapore p 29-21

Spelling on Spelling City (this is a good thing for one to do while I work with another) The kids love "hang mouse"

Eli #1,2,3

Nate #4

Joe # 29

Presentations

What is your favorite book?

Literature

Joe task sheets #

work on rough draft for p.

Read FLL to boys, chapter #9

Bob Books for Nate

100 EZ for Eli

Sketchy Tuesday: Science Time

Story of the World

We're reading about Lewis & Clark

Monday-Thursday

This is about Grace....

Monday was regular school, Bible, Math, Reading

Tuesday was an appointment day. We practiced CC as we went quizzing week #15 and all the year.

Wed was CC. :)

Thursday ....today

Bible

Luke 9:

Awana Practice

Math

Nate and Eli Lesson & worksheets

Joe Lesson 75

Story of the World

We read about Lewis & Clark

Cc practice

....& dentist appointments

Friday

Since we came up lacking yesterday we'll do extra today.

Bible Proverbs 21

Memory work as well

Math Joe worked on lesson # 7 . Again today he didn't want to do school. It wasn't very pleasant. He didn't finish his lesson today

Nate and Eli worked on Lesson 46 and did addional math worksheets. Eli is working on addition, Nate on subtraction.

LA

Nate and Eli both read from 100 EZ reading lessons. Nate is tromping right along, his cadence is slow and steady but he's getting it. He read a big Bob book today, and he's starting to read a little on his own.

I skipped reading with Joe. Math was painful so I just had him read silently rather than working on grammar

Thursday

Today is recovery from Wednesday (our busy day) and I have a dentist appt.

Bible
Luke 9:37-45
Prov 20: 1, 2 & 3
We had a long discussion about what it means to feel safe and peaceful in our home. We've had a lot of quarreling. I told the boys that because they can't be trusted not to quarrel they have to be close to me more often.

scripture memory work

History

I read about Napoleon to the boys today. Good stuff, the stuff made for little boys.
And that is where we stopped today. More tomorrow!

Wednesday

Today was CC....the boys and I love CC!

I'll take pics of their neat art paintings and post them soon

Tuesday*Mom is getting a cold. :(

It's amazing. I've been homeschooling for about 4 years now and all along I've been waiting for days to resemble one another. Just one. predictable.day, I've been waiting for it. Well, it's finally, at long last happening. The days are predictable and we are starting to fall into a routine. Amazing. The boys are old enough, I guess. I know life will change, but this is a nice pace.

Bible

Luke 9:1-17 & Discussion

Scripture memory work

Math

Nate & Eli trudge through a few math worksheets, and I teach them Lesson #45 from the Saxon book. I don't have a workbook, but since my teachers guide shows the problems and answers I teach them on the board and we count money, look at the calendar and the clock. Easy Peasy.

Joe, on the other hand is not wanting to school today. He gets to head off to his room until he's ready to "work diligently." He knows it's expected and necessary, if unpleasant today. Math.

Presentations

Joe and Nate tell the Aesop's Fable they'll tell in class tomorrow. Eli struggles with it, doesn't want to tell the story. I wonder if it's too big a concept. I pull out googly eyes and look for popsicle sticks to make puppets, visual aids to help to tell the story. I can't find popsicle sticks so we'll find some in the backyard to hold our puppets. Nate & Eli choose the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, we create our puppets and when all are finished I'll put on a puppet show to help give the boys ideas how to tell the story with their puppets tomorrow.

Joey comes back downstairs, gets a snack (maybe he didn't eat enough breakfast?) and declines puppet making but instead begins on Math, reading aloud to me his work while I fold laundry. I'm not listening too much unless he asks for help but reading aloud seems to do the trick today. He finished with little trouble.

Now the boys are on the trampoline, I feel crummy like I'm coming down with a cold. I have to prepare for tomorrow anyhow, so maybe we'll do easy reading, Joe can finish his final draft and I'll get a little nap in there before gymnastics at 4:00.

Lunch time.

*We've still been reading On the Banks of Plum Creek and I've been neglecting my copy of Story of the World. I'll pull that out today, maybe even read a little if I feel up to it.

Monday

Bible

Luke 8:40-56

Waiting on Him;

Nate said God reminded him that God gives us what we need

God said to me: "Be Still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the Nations!"

Scripture memory practice

Joey said his favorite verse is Jeremiah 1:9

Math

Joe Test #14- 100%

Nate Lesson 78 and adding 7's

Eli Lesson 1&2 & adding 5's

CC

Week 14 :)

Presentation Prep

This weeks' presentations are from Aesop's Fables. We must listen, then retell a story. We're listening at Story Nory and the boys will draw pictures to go along with their presentations.

Thinking I'm going to order 2 Saxon one workbooks and start nate and eli at the same place. I struggle with putting them at the same place, but it's where they can meet in the middle and I think I'll teach a full lesson (this season in Saxon is a mostly teaching) if I can teach them the same stuff. Then hopefully as they become stronger readers I can tailor their lessons moreso.

Langauge Arts

We took language arts to the library.

Eli~ a lesson from the 100 Easy ones

Nate~ He read 1/2 of Green Eggs and Ham

Joe~ Joe added his dress ups to his rough draft....tomorrow for the Final!!

Math Next Week

Math Schedule:

Joe (Saxon Math)

Monday- test # 14, division practice

Tuesday- Lesson 73

Thursday- Lesson 74

Friday-Lesson 75

Monday- test #15, division practice

Nate (Saxon Math)

Monday Lesson 78

Tuesday Lesson 79

Thursday Assessment 15

Friday 81

Elijah (Singapore Math & Addition Worksheets)

Monday Lesson 1-3 Addition Sheet 5's

Tuesday Lesson 1-4 Addition Sheet 6's

Thursday Lesson 5-7 p 19-24 Addition sheet 7's

Friday Lesson 1-3 p 25-30 add 8's

Monday Lesson 4-6 p 31-38 & add. 9's

Funschool Fridays

I took the boys to a cool-weather abandoned park to run this morning. We had it to ourselves and they ran, ran & ran. It was wonderful.

While we were waiting in the DMV, I quizzed them on CC work from this year. At home Joey wrote up his rough draft, Nate and Eli both did a reading lesson. After that they cleaned their rooms, played outside and worked on sketches with water colors...."just add water"

Thursday

Bible

Luke 8:22-40 Discussion & prayer

Scripture Memory Work

Math

We played a four way game of Math War, or several games.

Joey did # 72- he was burned out toward the end of the assignment so I wrote the problems on the blackboard and he finished there.

Nate and Eli were drilled in addition and I taught the concept of carrying.

Reading

Three Chapters in On the Banks of Plum Creek

Nate read a Bob Book,

Eli did a lesson in 100 easy

Joe Worked on his keyword outline for a new story about a dragon in modern day times

We also reviewed our entries in the Lego Challenge & Sketchy Tuesday.

Wednesday

Classical Conversations & Awana today!

Rootin' Tootin Tuesday

Today was a good school day. They usually are, but we've taken our time getting back in the groove with school after the Holidays.

Bible

Luke 8:16-21 The boys and I discussed what a lamp covered vs a lamp on a stand will do. Then, what does it mean to be a light to the world? To be a light? To be a reflection of Christ. Then they drew pictures of lights in the darkness.

Getting into Bible reading has been a long time in coming, but I've bumbled around at how to do it. I'm just doing a little reading and discussion of what we read. It's fast becoming the foundation of our little school and day. I hope it bleeds into the boys' little lives....

Then they prepared for scripture memory work. I'm amazed at what they learn. Joey wants to do Bible quizzing this year. See how that goes!

Math

Joey # 71

Nate works on +7's (challenging for him, think it's working alone that is hard)

Eli works on +3 (easy to the whole worksheet)

Family Presentations

the boys and I made photo collages of photos we took of family camping trips, rehearsed funny stories to tell

LA

Eli read from 100 EZ, penmanship

Nate read from 100 EZ & penmanship

Joe finish up rough draft and get Final done.

After school:

beading

video game time

gymnastics class

Monday

Bible

We read Exodus 17:1-7, a story the kids learned in Sunday School. We talked about needs vs. wants. We prayed, then review memory work for Awanas.

Math

Joe Saxon lesson 70 & multiplication game with mama.

Nate Addition review & practice. Math War with mama & Eli.

Eli Addition & Math War.

Presentation preparation. The kids will bring a treasure in a bag and describe to the class what is inside. The kids will need to remember what clues to give to help make it a fun mystery.

L.A.

Nate Bob Book & 100 EZ Lesson work. He's quickly picking up the pace on his reading. I wonder how I can help him to feel more confident in his reading? He also worked on penmanship while I worked with his brothers

Eli 100 EZ Lessons and penmanship

Joe wrote a rough draft from his story from pictures assignment. Next is adding vocab words, and all our favorite quality tricks to make his writing glow.

CC Review

We did this over lunch, which means we still need to do the Timeline and Geography.

Notes:

We finished Little House on the Prairie this weekend. Started On the Banks of Plum Creek this a.m. The boys were excited to get on to the next adventure. Eli and I began My Father's Dragon too. I'm anxious to do more Outdoor Hour, going to try and get that in this week!

Friday

Happy Birthday Nathan!

For his seventh birthday;

breakfast at Spudnuts, party at Chuck E. Cheese. Good fun!

Thursday

Bible

Luke 8: 1-5

Scripture Memory Work

Math

Joe Lesson # 69

Nate Double Digit Subtraction

Eli Subtraction, Addition

Language Arts

Joe Task Sheets, Write Keyword Outline & assigned sentence

Nate Writing With Ease, 2 Bob Books (Nate is really taking off with reading!!)

Eli Writing With Ease, 100 EZ Lessons

CC

Week 13 Review, Timeline

Wednesday

Wednesday is our day for Classical Conversations.

Today held our usual memory work. In Art, we discusses Rembrandt and drew self portraits. The kids loved this assignment. I may just set them up to do it again this week sometime. In Science we did two experiments that showed the amplititude & frequency of sound vibrations. Very fun stuff!

On a side note, Eli took his hamster for presentations. He began to tell the tale of losing his other hamster (the dog got her) and all the kids were watching the hamster run on her wheel and laughing. He was a little sad the kids weren't listening but the sweet teacher picked up on it and helped him tell the story, tragedy.

In my class we played a geography game, race to find named locations on the map or globe. Nathan LOVED it, which was very unusual for Geo. He usually struggles with Geo and dislikes it as a result. He yelled out "we should do it like this every time!!"

I also have noticed that Joe seems to be a very visual learner. This was something I hadn't before observed, I guess that's the downside to being so close. Anyhow, this sheds light on how I'll be teaching in the future.

Tuesday

Bible Word Study on Work/Lazyness Prov 14:23, Prov 18:9, Prov 10:4

Scripture Memory Work (Awana)

Math Eli Addition Worksheet

Nate Subtraction Worksheet

Joe Completion of #68

LA Joe Mastery Sheets

Nate Bob Book, penmanship

Eli 100 EZ, penmanship

How do I get more penmanship and spelling in? Hmmmm

Monday

A new week, a new Year! This is our first day in the new school room! We are back to school and I'm remembering to ease into it. Just as important as getting back into academics is quick obedience and staying on task when your brother is getting instruction. This takes a little remembering for the boys.

For now our schedule goes like this:

7:00-9:00 Get Dressed, do chores (Mama sneaking back to bed with my coffee & Bible)

9:00 Bible & Scripture Memory Verse

9:30 Math

10:15 Snack & breathe time

10:30 Language Arts

11:30 Memory Work Review; Geography, History, Science, English, Latin, Math & World Time Line

Noon Lunch

12:30 Story of the World Reading

1:00 Finish up any unfinished work

For the rest of the day we'll play, go for a walk, run errands or clean house. This schedule varies each day, and there is Grace All Over It.

For Today:

Bible Luke 6: 24-36

Scripture Memory

Math Joey Lesson #68

Nate Warm up Addition (3 #) and Subtraction

Eli Warm up Addition

* I have ordered & am waiting on new Math curriculum!

L.A. Joey Task Sheets

Eli Lesson in 100 EZ & Penmanship

Nate Bob Book & 100 EZ

We didn't take up our usual hour for LA. Joe will have a lot more work to do beginning Thursday after we go back to CC, and the younger boys will have more as well. We do a slow start today.

CC Week 12 review