Must. Keep. Going… Day # 86-88

Well, hello there, Wednesday. You seem to have snuck up on me! Didn’t see you get around Monday and Tuesday. Wow, it’s so tough to keep going when we are so close to a long break. We’re just dragging. Our school portion of the day seems to go long into the afternoon.

Here are our Monday through Wednesday doings:

Monday we went Christmas shopping in the morning(which I’ve been informed just throws everything off…well!) and had a difficult time getting back into the school routine.

Tuesday, I was more firm (sometimes I can do that) and made the kids do school right after breakfast. I’m trying to work on habits {my own as well} with the kids. Making their beds, changing clothes {is it just my boy who could wear the same things for weeks if left to his own wants??}, washing their dishes after use, etc. With me it is mostly time management. I already get up at 6:30 Monday-Saturday {7:30 on Sundays- oh woe is me *wink* –I never get rest! haha!}, make my bed every day…and well that’s about all I’ve managed to make into habit. I am way too easily distracted.

Well, anyway, here is the school that’s been done:

12/5-7/11

Me: Finished my senior paper. Finally! I am now waiting for the ‘evaluation’. Unfortunately, it is missing some components that originally were to be included but as it turned out were not feasible to include. If I get a passing grade (even if it brings down my awesome GPA) I will be ecstatic. Now…just to get that last single class out of the way. But I have to wait until at least Spring to do that (and a few hundred more dollars to drop in my lap lol).

Both:
Art Study/Hymn: The Wetterhorn by Bierstadt {we each drew it today after really taking it in- wow, kids have a much better memory than their ol’ ma!}; Christmas Carols (Monday- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer; Tuesday- I Saw Three Ships {I’d never heard this song- I like it }; Wednesday- You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch)- ‘video’ follows for I Saw Three Ships [there is only an image, not really a video, but it is at YouTube]

Lee:
Bible: Reading (Deut. 23-24, Acts 20); Verse (Colossians 3:1-12); Mark Commentary
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lesson 96 & 97)
History/Geography: Western Civilization (pages 351-353) Heritage History
Language Arts: History of English Literature
Foreign Language: Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek (Level 4, Lesson 24-26); First Form Latin (Lesson 24, quiz)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Current Events; Whatever Happened to Justice? (chapter 30); Utopia
Science: – what?! hmm, not sure how that happened… 
Life Skills: made blueberry scones almost all by herself following a recipe

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Deut. 12-13, Luke 18 [narrated]); Verse (Proverbs 15:16-19); Saints & Heroes (Thomas More; narrated)
Math: ck-12 Grade 6 (lesson 11.1-11.3)
History/Geography: Heritage History (read, narrated); Ohio Study
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 6 [hmmm he skipped the first test…oops]); The Age of Fable (chapter 35; statues of gods- Apollo and Diana {we looked up images of these on Google Images}; narrated); Hobbit (chapter 18)
Foreign Language: First Form Latin (Lesson 24, quiz)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: -
Science: The Sciences (narrated; sound); Murche’s (Lesson 35; narrated); The Story Book of Science (Chapter 30; narrated [snake and venom]); Albert Einstein (1/2 of chapter 2; narrated); School of the Woods (chapter 3)