Thursday and Friday (November 13-14th)

Thursday

Homeschool Swimming Lessons
Came home and ate lunch while I read SOTW 2 (last chapter) and As Rich as Croesus.

Then we had friends over for the afternoon to play.

Ballet, Bible Study, etc. and bed.....

Friday

Slow morning after yesterdays busy day! But so nice to be inside with the wind howling outside. C. and Aa. ate breakfast and went outside to play in the snow as I prayed which was so nice.

All:
Prayers and today's Gospel reading
Poem recitations for all
Read The Practical Geologist to all re. Plate Tectonics
Read a page of One Drop of Water (what a neat book)

Ar:
Algebra- Lesson 2 Review (going very well)
EGrammer Plus- next page
Read: The Age of Fable
The Story of Art
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
Still need the whistle and Latin!

H:
Algebra- Rest of Set 2 (She is loving the graphing)
Spelling
Read: The Turning
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
A few scales on the piano
Latin: new vocab. review, chants of flumen etc., oral translation lesson

C:
Math- out loud (too busy building Bionacles to stop!)
Writing- Italics
Traced and labeled a bunch of rocks from the rock book
Chores and Violin still to come....(as well as the Hobbit on his own reading time)

Aa:
Designed some really cool Bionacles
Life!


I will read to them over lunch from East of the Sun and West of the Moon. H. and I are going to have a read of the Borrowed House this afternoon- this is an awesome and gripping book. We are almost halfway done in two reads (and I have the perk of owning it so I can flatten the spine (don't tell my husband- it would be sacrilige in his books!) and knit at the same time.)

Knitting group on here tonight and then preparing for Aa.s birthday. Does anyone know how to create Popeye with icing??

So, for the sake of my brain....

chores for little boys
instrument practice
quiet reading for little boys
Latin for Ar. (after lunch when the little boys are cleaning their room) with me
read aloud with H. when the others are in quiet time

That seems to wind up a nice serendipitous day here (although on paper or screen it doesn't look quite as mellow as it has been to live first hand.)
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Thoughts brewing in my head from this post: Too Little, Too Much. My initial thoughts love the idea of lots of good living books and not much of the assigned types of writing- hey, I like that. It's what happens very naturally around here. It's another reason to leave the heaps of educational baggage at the door!

Today- November 8th 2008

After a couple week wonderful break with the grandparents!!

An early start (yeah for the winter time change.)

All:
Prayers and Gospel
SOTW 3- Shakepeare
The Taming of the Shrew (from Lamb's)
The Wheel on the School
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (after lunch)

Ariel
Algebra- Set2
Writing- New exercise with thesaurus
Reading- Age of Fable, Story of Art, various other reading
Music- Whistle

Hannah
Algebra- new lesson and set 1
Writing- ditto what Ar. did
Reading- the Turning
Baked cookies for a dear friend who lost her dad this morning.
Lots of knitting of mittens.

Caleb
Math U See- next page
Math It- double it and times it
Reading- The Hobbit and Mad Libs
Lots of lego, creative play with Aaron and snow play

Aaron
Math with mom!
Reading lesson- my creation
Italics book A
Read- the Foot Book

Lots and lots of great outdoor time, first thing after breakfast and again after quiet time. Quiet time was great today and the early morning and hence early start was heavenly!