Our Week In Review

This is my 2nd time doing Our Week in Review and I had anticipation to get to it.

Around Our House-
Dear Husband had a week off from work. I can't tell you how high in cloud nine I was Monday and Tuesday. He has worked just about straight since after Christmas, and has been gone almost every weekend. The saying (and don't laugh if I get it wrong) "Distance makes the heart grow fonder," is so true. I appreciate that man so much more now than ever. Not just because he is the provider of our home, my husband, and partner in this journey of mine, but because he's my friend. And I missed him alot. So let me tell you what went on around our house...

• Daddy and the boys cleaned the van in and out. He also steam cleaned the living room carpet.
• I'm not sure what I did.....except for the normal cooking, cleaning/laundry, school, etc. This is probably due to the fact that I was on cloud nine. Oh, I did make my five loaves of bread.

School-

5yr. old:

• In Reading/Phonics, we played Happy Phonics games this week. We used games that reviewed ch, wh, sh, th, long sound of e, first sound of ea, ee, and the famous er,ir,ur,wor,ear,our. Her newest sounds are ng, oa, igh, tch. Played several times this week Curious George Reading and Phonics on the computer.
• *Math- We worked on patterns and she made some of her own. I gave her a jump rope this week and she has been using it to practice counting and of course jumping! She also read to me lottery numbers from our Chinese cookie fortunes. (This was a good exercise, because the numbers were random and not in order.) Reviewed decimal street again.

*Music- Practicing her Ode the Joy, but mostly Long Long Ago. She can now play the melody with both hands at the same time.

8yr. old:

• Math- Began continued work in Miquon on subtraction.
• L.A- For his reading, he has been reading orally Beautiful Stories for Children. He bought himself "In His Steps, What Would Jesus Do."(an illustrated adapted classic version) from a swap your used books bookstore. He learned about quotation marks this week and we reviewed the helping verbs list.
• Music- Practiced violin alone this week. He said he really liked his new song "Dixie" and practiced it more than needed because he finally got the right note in the tough part of the song.

10yr. old:

• Math- spent the week taking test and making corrections of past 10 lessons. I could let it go, but I feel that math requires attention and accuracy. Some of the mistakes were because he was too busy cutting up with his brother. :0)
  
• L.A- In English, he worked on Cinquain poetry. This was a good type of poetry to review/teach parts of speech. Also, worked on Limericks. Reviewed difference between linking verbs and helping verbs.
• Music- practiced his piano. He has two pieces he has begun working on for the March recital.

Social Studies/Bible:

• This includes everyone since we're all learning about the same things in our studies, just at different levels. Our S.S stems from the children of Israel walking around the city of Jericho 7 times and blowing their trumpets. We read together about Bach and the children listened to Back Comes to Call by Classical Kids. 10yr. old read to 8yr. old about Beethoven.

• We also covered aspects of music like dynamics, tone, tempo by singing hymns and traditional songs loud,soft,fast,and slow. And by listening to songs that changed the feel from happy to bouncy or smooth to boisterous. We watched The King and I.

I meant to also cover Hymn Writers with an Adventures in Odyssey but we didn't get to that. We will probably get to it tomorrow.

Art: We painted this week. The boys have been learning about painting in their co-op class, so they painted some more at home.

Co-op: Co-op went well for me this week. I taught in our 1st and 2nd grade class about Benjamin Franklin and they made a sort of kite lapbook. And 5yr. old covered the letter "P" in her class by having a Princess Tea Party.

The children are so excited because someone has given us a trampoline! (with net) And I am too. Maybe they can wear some of that boy energy out bouncing to their hearts' delight. This will help my starting to get very achy ligaments and pregnant joints a break. Did I mention how much I love Spring?