Monday, March 28, 2011

School Week 31 2011

This week A9 and I are starting the next series in the My America books, the Civil War diaries.
It takes place in Gettysburg, which is great since we live about a half hour from Gettysburg!

I will be posting more later, right now I need to get back to school.

The boy and I are rowing the book Papa Piccolo.

Monday, March 21, 2011

School Week 30 2011

This week we are reading the last book on the My America Underground Railroad series, Message in the Sky.
The next set of books deal with the Civil War, we were planning to go to Gettysburg after finishing the underground railroad series.

We wanted to visit The Dobbin House Tavern(In the mid-1800's, a secret crawl space, featured in "National Geographic", served as a "station" for hiding runaway slaves on their perilous journey to freedom on the "Underground Railroad." After the battle of Gettysburg ceased, and the armies had departed, it served as a hospital for wounded soldiers of both the North and the South).

However, If we wait till we are finished with the Civil war books then we can make a whole day out of it and visit some of the places mention in that series as well.

Of course that would mean that Daddy would be coming along as well!! and the weather will probably be a bit warmer by then.

X6 is rowing the book Abuela.

Monday, March 14, 2011

School Week 28 & 29 2011

Last week we started the Underground Railroad Diaries part of My America series. Book 1 Freedom's Wings was such a great read... we finished it in four days, only because we didn't get to read on Wednesday. I was a little concerned about how this series was going to deal with slavery, but I have to say the book was excellent.

This week are reading Book 2 Flying Free. I have a feeling we are going to go through this one in less than a week as well.

Spring is almost here and we have had many new visitors come to our feeders in the last week. I will have to post some pics for our Nature Study Club Post!

X6 rowed the book Mr. Gumpy's Outing last week and this week we are rowing the book The Caboose Who Got Loose. We are also doing some fun crafts for St. Patrick's day!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Busy Week

We are still here! We have had a busy week so far, between meetings, piano, play dates... you name it. Coop is starting this Friday so I have been trying to get ready for that. That's what happens when you leave things for the last minute.

We are also working on revamping our future coop, it will be completely new, we may even have to write our own curriculum... how cool is that!!

I went to a classical conversations meeting with other Moms from our coop and we were all inspired by what we saw and heard! It will be a lot of work in the beginning, but once everything is set up, it should run a lot smoother. I want to be a part of the planning since I feel very strongly about the curriculum I use with my kids and don' really want to switch to something inferior.

Every Mom realizes that it will take a lot of effort from everybody involved to make this a success!

I will post our plans for this week soon.