The Quick Run Down

I am going to make this weeks report very short and quick. We did quite a bit but also have had rain for days on end which means we have been cooped up and a little crazy. You would think more school would get done then. No.... not really.

Math: I am going to start here because we did something different this week. Last week I had such a hard time with Sophie doing math that I decided this week we would just do Math games from Family Math. The Kids all loved this. They begged for more math games each day. I made sure some of the games were easy enough for the boys to participate with while still reviewing some of the skills Sophie already should be able to do.

Science: The Sun was the topic this week. We read a few books and watched a video about the sun. Nothing spectacular but they kids learned a lot.

History: We reviewed the 100 years war and Joan of Arc as well as moved on to the War of the Roses. I can't say Sophie was that interested in this one. Too many names and not enough interesting story. She did enjoy making the pop up tower of London and tried a few of her own pop up things later in the week.

Music: We read the next chapter of Joseph Haydn the merry little peasant. We really enjoy these Opal Wheeler books and have the CD to go with it so we listen to the songs as they come up in the book.

Language Arts: We read a lesson from our McGuffey's Reader each day. And Sophie did three lessons from the Primary Language Lessons book. This is still a struggle each day yet she does do it. Somehow I need to make this more fun and less like boring work. But then when is copy work or dictation that fun.
Ian did do another batch of pages from his Explode the Code primer and is doing better at reading some of his McGuffey's Reader. He doesn't have the drive to read like Sophie did so is taking his time learning this skill.

We have been listening to the Burgess Animal Book for children in the afternoons and have finally made it all the way through all the chapters on the Rodents. We have repeated a number of them several times.

We painted our Trinket Boxes that the kids made at Home Depot on Saturday when we made it to the Kids Workshop they always do the first Saturday of each month.

Sorry the quick run down wasn't so quick.