Weekly Wrap-Up...01/14/2011

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Good week, I think :) I'll give a quick-ish recap. I didn't post any What We've Accomplished Today because I felt I wouldn't have time. And I was right.

Monday I went to Scottsbluff to meet with some other parents for the WNHEN Co-op, to plan for Spring classes. Somehow I signed up to teach a creative writing class for grades 3-5 (ish). I think that aliens abducted me and made me do it ;) I'm very unconfident that I can do it. I think it really will be fine... really... heehee (nervous laugh there...). For the kids' school, they did quite well. Even though I was gone for a few hours (from about 9am until 12:30, I think), they managed to do work on their own :) It's always nice when they do that. The only things they did not do were math and subjects that required me to be there.

Tuesday went fairly smooth as well. This entire week really has gone smoothly. Interestingly, math didn't get done on this day either. Hmmm, don't ask me- the aliens abducted me again.... This was the day of my first Spanish class for the next year (of course, not really- ends May 2) and it went well. We have 'recitation'- or conversation- at the start of class and we are not to speak in English. Um, yea, right! I fumbled it big time. My instructor made sure to point out that we only speak in Spanish for this little exercise. No entiendo. That's my favorite phrase, but it gets me a frustrated look in return! On this day the kids went to the library's used book sale with an allocated amount of $2.50 each. They came home with $1 in change. And to my disappointment, Fox used $4 and Lee used none. Perhaps I didn't stress the allocation well enough... but I'm guessing Fox is just a good negotiator.

Wednesday the sink in the kitchen decided to spring a leak. Fox noticed the garbage bags for the kitchen garbage can were wet. We store them under the kitchen sink. When I investigated further, the drain coming from the sink is leaking around the seal. The dishwasher in our house is a reject and the batch of dishwasher soap I bought last was also so we've not been able to use either. Perhaps I could take a photo to show the mess it's causing...but no, I'm sure you get the idea ;) Counters are full of dirty dishes (that can't be rinsed either). I dried the sink out and made sure that the drain pipes were dry and clean and putting caulking around it on Thursday. I tested it today (Friday) and no, my wonderful seal job was a failure. Sigh. Another job for dh. That's about all the excitement for that day lol.

Thursday. Just another day. The kids and I did do some math though on this day ;) Wait, now that I am reflecting back on it, Lee hasn't done any math this week. Oh, I'm a bad mother/teacher. Sigh. There's next week, eh? Lol.

Friday- thank goodness! I actually let the kids have the day off from school. For no reason other than I'm stressed I think. Too many irons in the fire so to speak. My Spanish class is going well. The kids' are doing just fine in their subjects (lol when we cover them...). I had an appointment with the local community college's community education director about a class/course for my senior project. He thinks it is a great idea- the only problem he can see is that the timing may be bad and the interest can never be accurately gauged. Understandable. So, I have dinner planned (crispy tuna tortillas [simply tuna, mayo, mustard (maybe), dill relish, Mrs. Dash, cheese mixed, in a tortilla and 'toasted'] with spinach salad) and need to find an alternative for washing dishes. The snow outside is melting and it was a beautiful day the last two days. The weekend isn't supposed to be very nice. But it's Friday. Yay. Ah.

Recap of kids' school, by subject:

Bible: both verses (Lee: Isaiah 40:28-31; Fox: Psalms 119:1-4); reading (Lee: Exodus 40-Leviticus 1 & Mark 15; Fox: Leviticus 6, 7 & Luke 7)

Math: Lee: none; Fox: LoF chapter 5 (having a difficult time with cross canceling and word problems...)

Writing: Lee: Grammar Lesson 5-7 & Test 1, revised her research paper (still needs more revising- due 01/18/11); Fox: worked some on his research paper.

History/Geography: Lee: The Brendan Voyage to page 199 and written narration (which are good, just not very descriptive and shorter than I would like- can tell that she doesn't enjoy the subject/book), World Studies pages 222-240, In Freedom's Cause chapter 3 & 4; Fox: Story of the World chapter 16, Complete Book of Marvels chapters 9 & 10, Of Courage Undaunted to page 126.

Science/Health: Lee: none; Fox: Christian Kids Explore Physics Unit 2 Test

Foreign Language: both Latin Lesson 10 quiz and Lesson 11, worksheets 1 & 2; both Greek lessons 9 & 10

Economics/Logic: Lee: The Fallacy Detective lesson 29 and Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? chapter 10; Fox: none (he doesn't have this subject- yet)

PE/Band: Lee: Wii Sports 30 minutes + (one day); Fox: 13 minutes on the machine (one day). Both no band.

Other Subjects: Fox: devotional/bible study- The Greatest Story Ever Told chapters 53-63

To see others' week in review, head to Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.