What We Accomplished…Day #27 8/23/11

It’s not good to start with what we didn’t do but I am going to anyway We had intended on washing the car today because it is filthy but it was out in the sun, the windshield was very hot and it’s just recently cool enough to wash. It didn’t get washed. A task for tomorrow

oh and we didn’t get our pictures taken… uh, it just didn’t happen. Tomorrow! Lol when they are all showered and clean

Other than that, I think we did everything we planned on. Even time management (well the kids were forced to limit their electronic [screen time, I call it] activities) was mostly a success.

I was reading and writing up reviews for products and books while  the kids had their computer/wii time. I feel accomplished After they were done with that they played on their own (something that seems to be rare these days…) and I made dinner- pork loin things lol and stuffed baked potatoes. We were going to have chopped broccoli for dinner as well but since I am cheap I purchased cheap frozen veggies and shouldn’t have been surprised when I found cheap frozen broccoli in the bag. But I was surprised! It was simply the stalks of the broccoli (which are often too hard for us to chew) and they just looked nasty. Barely even green. Sigh. So we did not have chopped broccoli. The kids were happy lol. But I did make apple juice with my juicer. Used 8 apples and gave about 12ish ozs. They were tiny apples.

I got some of my counter top cleared off and all the dishes done and the kids put away the previously clean dishes. I still need to get my table decluttered. Amazing how fast it happens! I also want to work on some more additions to my Artfire shop. I love working on those things! Oh, that reminds me (and I have no idea why lol) that I have to get busy on more notebooking pages for The Story Book of Science. Fox is at chapter 11 already, I think. I’ve only got them made to chapter 14. Also we received our A Kids Guide to Drawing America- Ohio book. It’s pretty neat. It has less in it than I thought it would. I don’t know why because I looked at the description (you know, page count and sample pages of what’s in the book) and made my decision after much thought. It will be fine. The information is actually a lot of what we have already discovered in other books…but not the drawing part That will make it all worth it. Fox doesn’t like to draw but I think he will warm up to these drawings.

And something that happened just about 30 minutes ago, Lee thinks she saw a meteor She reported her sighting to the American Meteor Society. She was all sorts of thrilled!

And for the kids’ school:
Lee:
Bible: Reading (John 18), verse (Romans 6:1-12), Mark Commentary
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lesson 50)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Test 12), History of English Literature (Chapter 35)
Foreign Language: First Form Latin (Lesson 17, worksheet 5)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Plutarch’s Lives, Utopia
Science: Biology (pages 46-49, vocabulary)
I should probably add in all the ‘studying’ she did for her most recent drawing. She was really into figure drawing not long ago (she even wrote a post with a book she recommends for that) but today she switched gears. Back to cats. It always comes back to cats for her She checked out all that the library had that pertained to cat breeds. It was a whopping…wait for it… 4 books.

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Mark 11), verse (Ephesians 5:1-2), Saints & Heroes (pages 102-104)
Math: Khan Academy (linear equations)
History/Geography: What Everyone Should Know… (McCarthy- 20th Century Witch Hunt)
Language Arts: Hobbit (1/2 of Chapter 6), 30 minutes of reading (Great Inventors & Their Inventions [Alexander Graham Bell today]), Robert Frost (we are using a book titled Making Poems for America: Robert Frost by Gorham Munson, illustrated by Dan Siculan. It was one of the only books at the library about Frost. It is a Britannica Bookshelf- Great Lives for Young Americans book, and so far it isn’t too bad )
Foreign Language: First Form Latin (Lesson 17, worksheet 5)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic:-
Science: Murche’s Science Reader VI (Lesson 11)
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive [keep forgetting the artist and the painting but this one has a goat in it originally we thought it was a dog!]

And now off to do… something