MONDAY: We're still happily moving through one chapter a week in Song School Latin
(I forgot to update our work plans with this week's chapters--oops!), and the kids are retaining the vocabulary well, and although *I'm* ready for them to get some grammar and conjugations/declensions in, as long as they're engaged and absorbing the material and progressing, we'll go at the textbook's pace.The kids didn't practice their instruments as much as they should have last week, so we may have to repeat those lessons this week, but most of our time and energy today is going into rehearsal for tonight's Science Fair. Completing the re-articulation of the chicken skeleton took so much time that I'm letting the kids do much of their presentations without a written report to refer to, but this might have been a mistake, too, in that it takes, of course, much more practice to get that sort of presentation down pat.
This week, the kids are going to math class just once (I think they found the two days last week a little much), so we've got space in the schedule for a hands-on unit. Although we did pattern blocks in this space for several weeks, the kids are actively (if slowly, ahem) memorizing the multiplication tables currently, so I'll be keeping a hands-on multiplication activity there until the tables are mastered.
We already did our volunteer gig for the day, and tonight is the Science Fair!
TUESDAY: Math Mammoth and First Language Lessons Level 3
are always easy to schedule, and since I spend hours on Sundays creating these lesson plans, it's a relief to be able to have a few things that I can simply pop into place. The survival kit, however, is likely to take up quite a bit more time--the kids have to prioritize their list based on the budget I'm giving them, and then we'll actually have to go shopping for these supplies. Since I try not to run errands with the kids during the day, a mid-morning shopping trip may seem like quite the adventure!Will still has a little work to do on her World Thinking Day badge, but Syd is finished and can choose another badge to start earning. We're also going to participate, I *think*, in the Great Backyard Bird Count, and so our science unit for a few weeks will concern birds.
WEDNESDAY: This is one of those rare weeks in which Will has to skip aerial silks entirely (although thank goodness their scheduling system is set up so that we don't have to pay for a class we're not going to attend), but both kids are going to be thrilled to learn that their LEGO club is back after its long winter hiatus.
The subject of this month's Magic Tree House Club meeting--Earthquake in the Early Morning
--is well-timed with our California study, especially since I'd been considering drawing out that study a little longer to include some earthquake activities.THURSDAY: What with ice skating with friends and having another friend over for the afternoon, this will be a short school day. We're ditching art for a couple of weeks in favor of Valentine's Day crafting, but the kids' individual studies are still continuing--I hope that Syd will start actually constructing her dress this week, and Will is going to create a manual version of one of the first computer games.
FRIDAY: The kids claim that their teacher is going to bring cookies to math class on this day, so they're pretty excited about it already. WE are not going to be having cookies here at home, but we will be scrapbooking, completing our mapwork activity for our The Story of the World
chapter, and finishing that survival kit.I'm most excited about the Olympics unit that we'll be working on throughout the Winter Olympics. I'm hoping to set up a somewhat elaborate Olympic nations pin flag work for the kids to do on this day, but that involves plenty of prep work for me this week, so it's a good thing that I always plan to be busy!
SATURDAY/SUNDAY: The kids have their all-day nature class this weekend, and we've also got a party at our local YMCA, chess club, and swimming with friends. But with no looming Science Fair presentations to rehearse and no chicken skeletons to re-articulate, we'll also have loads of happy downtime...
...which I need. I am going to be happy to see the backside of that chicken skeleton, I tell you what!
Yeah for the Science Fair almost being done! Can't wait to see how that came out.
ReplyDeleteWe have done the backyard bird count and we love it. We submitted numbers once, but I was just telling Emma that we need to do another. Especially considering we just bought 50lbs of sunflower seeds for the birds.
We signed up to do the Magic Tree House club, but have yet to actually do it. Bad me.
Do Magic Tree House Club today!!! Syd is right now reading Earthquake in the Early Morning as her very first independent chapter book, and she's going to join in, too.
ReplyDeleteDo you typically do the MTH on the same Wednesday each month? I teach self-defense on Wednesdays and we end at 2pm (which is when the class starts for us). We might have to see if we can change the day or time for our class so we can do the MTH club.
ReplyDeleteIt typically changes for us, because we have to reschedule an aerial silks class to do it, so it then depends on what we have on Mondays of whatever week... Scheduling is so hard!
ReplyDeleteIf you knew which Wednesday you might want to do the club in March or April, say, maybe we could schedule it together.
That would be totally cool! You let me know what it's looking like for you for March. The ladies in my self-defense class are cool with starting earlier so we can get home to do MTH club. It's so nice when 2 of the 5 ladies are homeschooling Mamas!
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