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Weekly Wrap-Up

The second week of school of 2011 went pretty well. Praise God. The boys have been pretty diligent in following the schedule they put together with my help. I guess when kids come up with thing themselves they are more likely to stick to it. When I try to switch things around, I encounter some resistance. As a matter of fact it's good for me, because I am not a natural schedule follower lol. It is a blessing in disguise. What all this schedule following has done for me is that school gets done but I have very little time for myself, therefore less blogging and less blog reading.

So, what did we do this week?

  • Math: For Zach, we continued on with multiplications and divisions and done some reviews of additions and subtractions. For Joho, he has been enjoyed the Jump at Home Math book.

  • English: Zach covered studies of library, phone book and worked on a book report of one of his Thomas' story. Joho continued on with his reading of I wonder and worked on his phonics Book.

  • Latin: We finally started back Latin and reviewed what we had done so far.

  • French: continued to listen to French CDs; this is a great way for my auditory learner.

  • TOG: We covered Ancient China this week and enjoyed learning about all the stuff they invented. I am planning to take a full week after we cover Ancien Mesoamerica next week, to work on making cookie map and salt dough map of India, China and ancien America. I also finally worked on a timeline for myself which I will use to help Zach get a better understanding of time.

  • Science: We covered chapter 8 of our Real Science 4 Kids on Unmixing. Of course they had lots of fun and the rest of week they enjoyed making their own mixtures. We also did some Aha Science; love this site!

    • Sorting:
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    Chromatography:
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    Observing and having fun mixing stuff like baking soda, lemon juice, sugar and water:
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  • We also did Handwriting and Bible.


Other happenings:

Finally enjoyed the snow last Saturday:

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Building

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New haircut:

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Phyllis said…
Very busy, very boy week you have had!
January 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Emily said…
What a great week!
January 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM
See Jamie blog said…
Love the playing-in-the-snow photos. And "unmixing" sounds fun!
January 23, 2011 at 1:04 PM
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