Third Trimester

Our school year can be broken up into trimesters, I've just realized. Two twelve-week sessions of Classical Conversations followed by a 12 week session of simply home school.

My boys have wondered why, oh why do we finish CC so early? They love it so!*. I love CC, and I also love shifts in schedule. So with 12 weeks to go I'm feeling inspired to switch up our school at home.

My plan:
•Continue on in Bible Study with The •Long Story Short
•More Scripture memorization
*•CC review in game & quizzing form (working on my CC review box)
•Saxon Math
•nature studies
•beginning Latin's Not So Tough
•Wrap up Johnny Tremain
•Continued studies in Language Arts using
•Creating out personal Lego books (fun idea, Pinterest)
•Working through my new Idea Box*

A new season brings with it inspiration & a renewed resolve to finish our school year well. I'm thankful for it!

I'm also looking at creative ideas for promoting writing & more of a love of learning.

What are you inspired by?

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