Reptiles and Amphibians Unit Study

We are on week two of our unit study, week 3 of school. This week we are reading The Salamander Room.
"Brian's determination to keep a salamander in his room is met with quizzical concern on the part of his mother--"Where will he sleep?. . . where will he play?" Inquiries are answered with imaginative solutions that will be familiar to all those who have tried to convince a parent to let them have a pet."

Today they both got to draw a room for their salamanders.
X5 did such a great job with his drawing, at first he was upset because he had no idea how to draw. I told him to close his eyes and to imagine what he wanted his salamander to have in his room. As he kept mentioning things for the room I kept giving him ideas oh how to draw it. He did a great job, A7's drawing was awesome, she also did some copy work from the book.

We have been doing some math reviews to get her ready for next week when we start MUS. At first there were a lots of tears over this, but today we had a real breakthrough!
I think she now understands what she needs to do to find the answers, she knows how to use the blocks now, a couple more days of reviews should get us over the hump.

X5 is adapting very good to the workbox system. He now knows to get the boxes in order, he knows when to take a break. He is actually looking at the schedule strips to know when he can have computer time. He piles them up as he is done with them.
Some days I have all nine boxes for him, other days only six. I will keep doing it like that for the next few months.

A7 hasn't really used her workboxes yet since were are only working on the unit study. Next week I'll start "training" her on them. I tried over the summer but didn't get very far.