School Week 19 & 20

It's been 2 weeks since I posted anything on the blog, we got busy, we got sick... very sick and then we needed a few days to recover and the house needed my attention, laundry as well!

Last Friday X5 came down with a stomach virus, by Saturday morning A7 had it and by Saturday evening both Dh and I had it. It was bad, really bad. Thank God for our Church body and family, they took very good care of us and the kids.
By Monday I had enough energy to disinfect the areas hardest hit like the bedrooms, living room and bathroom. Washed ALL the sheets and blankets, clothes etc. I was determined to get rid of all germs...

Dh had a harder time, he was hit worse than the rest of us and he took the longest in getting better. I am happy to report we are all back to normal, no pain, appetite is back, energy is back.

We missed two days of school this past week... I am going to go ahead and post what the plan was for the past two weeks, we actually got it all done, it took three long school days to do it but we got it done! The kids did great, we had lots of breaks in between and were usually done by the time Dh got home from work.

School Week 19

This week we finished our winter study guide and lapbook. It was good that it snowed, it really helped with a lot of the lapbook activities. We read this wonderful book; Snow by Cynthia Rylant.A7 started her spelling book Learning to Spell through Copywork Book A by Sandi Queen. There are three books A, B & C. Each book has 30 weeks worth of spelling list. The book incorporates the words into sentences, one for every day of the week, then on Friday I dictate the words on the list and she writes them down, one way to make sure she now knows how to spell them.This semester we'll be doing 15 weeks, then next year she'll do the remainder 15 and start Book B and so on till she's completed all three books. We've done two weeks and so far we both love it!
A7 also started a new math book Math U See Beta.

X5 continued working on his Code Primer Book B and handwriting book plus various workbox activities.

School Week 20


This week we rowed the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen.
We rowed this book two yrs ago but never did a lapbook, this time around we did!

Soc. Stu: Maturity, self control, bravery, realistic expectation
Language arts: metaphor, simile
Science: owls, moon phases, bird calls

We only had three days to do this book due to sickness but we got it done, the fact we already knew the story helped!