School Week 9 2011-2012

This week X7 will be reading an assortment of "Pumpkin books"  We were supposed to go to the Pumpkin patch last Friday after Co op but it was raining, so we are going this Friday after Co op! This place has the best apple cider so I'm looking forward to going!

X7 is also going to be reading the book Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea for Co op.  

A9 has started reading Ramona Forever for Co op.  This is part of her 30 minutes independent reading time.  We have decided to scrap our American history study.  I though long and hard before coming to this decision but I feel it's the right thing to do.  We are going to finish A Time for Courage and stop there.
I had initially decided to make it last the whole school year rather than try to get it all done the first semester but after a couple of weeks I could see that continuing the study of the 1900s in American history is not what we need to do right now, there will be plenty of time for that later.

There is another family doing the same study and using the notebooking journal I made.  They have a 6th grader and a 4th grader doing it and the 4th grader is struggling just like we are.  The 6th grader is having no problems with it, which showed me that maybe I need to postpone it till A9 is in 6th grade.

Other than that we are moving right along with school and having a great time... our first Co op term  is almost completed, on October 28th we start the 2nd term, which means no more geography.  We will be starting an art basics class till the 2nd week in December.  We will continue to have science.

Enjoy the fall weather!