Smrt Lernins

This week started off so well, but ended on a down note. Nothing like building up momentum only to have your kid take a tumble out of the tree.

Monday was an exciting day, full of pouring rain and flooding yards. Captain Science reviewed his two Egypt chapters for History, choosing three important facts from each period to write down as a study exercise, wrote his final draft of his ten Egyptian god paragraphs, did chapter 4.4-4.6 in Growing With Grammar, and did his final section of exercise 1 in Writing Strands: rewrite something you’ve already written and add more detail. He chose to rewrite one of his Egyptian god paragraphs.

Tuesday, the homeschool co-op was canceled due to heavy rain, so we did a chapter of Life of Fred and did music appreciation, learning about Georges Bizet.

Wednesday was a spectacular day for homeschooling, despite it’s unfortunate end. Captain Science got right up and was highly motivated. He did his Ancient Egypt Venn Diagram and correctly placed all but one of the facts (he couldn’t decide where “pharoahs were living gods” should go). He did 4.7-4.9 in Growing With Grammar and started on Exercise 2 of Writing Strands, completing days 1 & 2 (prewriting) and day 3 (writing sentences with greater detail). I was quite impressed by his detailed sentences. He’s developing a real knack for descriptive language! After he was done with all his work, he went outside to play, and promptly fell out of a tree.

With a freshly broken arm that we are hoping will not require pins are our one-week check up, I decide that the rest of the week should be taken as sick days. He’s doing some reading, but mostly relaxing. We accomplished a lot on the 3/5ths of the week we had for work, however, and I’m currently developing a writing-free curriculum for next week, so his arm can heal. We’ll start reintegrating some writing after we’ve gotten the all-clear from the orthopedist.

The Tank only had a day and a half of school this week, too, as flooding closed our county schools and his preschool goes on the county calendar. He was sent home early on Monday and had class on Thursday. He seems to still be working on the letters A and B. We got some fun color and number workbooks for him to use on days when he doesn’t have school, but Captain Science does, so he can do some “Table Learning” while the Captain works.

Babypie continues in her quest to learn to crawl, but not there yet. She’ll be six months old on Sunday. The horror!