The Highlights (1/27/12)

In my life this week…
…just illness, mostly…such fun.

In our homeschool this week…
Monday {day 103} was by far the absolute best day of this week- in terms of schooling. In other things, well, perhaps yesterday was. It’s difficult to say this week. I was sick (just feeling mostly normal today- one week later), Lee and Fox both felt sick one day and dh is as bad as I was, now that I feel better.

Tuesday {day 104} I believe was the day that I could barely get off the couch. It was a rough day.

Wednesday {day 105} is the day that both Lee and Fox were feeling under the weather and so not much was done. They read a lot that day.

Places and people we’re seeing…
Thursday {day 106} we ventured out to the Wal-Mart that is about 15-20 miles from us. Do you know how long it took us to get there? Almost an hour. We don’t go out much. Almost every trip- even just to the store that is 4 or 5 miles down the road- seems to take half an hour. It’s just crazy.

Friday {day 107} was another hang-around-the-house-and-not-get-much-done-day. The kids did get some school work done and also there were chores done but more reading was done than anything. We did receive a package in the mail from my mother-in-law with many goodies: a prism, origami papers, drawing curriculum {that she’d used with her youngest son in the late 90s- still is in good shape!-and not too shabby as far as instructions go }, and some other books. That consumed the three of us for hours.

Oh! She also included two sweaters that were hers when she was in her 20s. They are over 30 years old. They look brand new. Lee can probably wear them but they look so tiny My m-i-l is only a tad over 5 feet tall.

The best thing this week…
School was done every single day. I didn’t say that all school was done every day- you did catch that right? But I was surprised looking back that some school was done every day. That’s good. Very good.

We also received a book in the mail {that I ordered} for Lee to help her with editing as well as a review Bible from Crossway. It’s always fun to get items that are {and aren’t} expected

I cannot believe there are only 73 days of school to go. If we did school every day, we could be done in April! We aren’t going to do it that way though lol. As it is, we will finish the second week of May {or so} and take off until July.

I have to put here the school doings for Wednesday through Friday since I cannot recall doing so earlier.

Day #105-107 (1/25/12-1/27/12)

Lee:
Bible: Reading (Deut. 33 & 34); verse (Colossians 3:1-16); Mark Commentary (FINISHED)
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (FINISHED)- she got to take the rest of the week off from math {she finished on Thursday LOL}
Science: Biology (read chapter 7 summary; electromagnetic spectrum labeling exercise)
History/Geography: Western Civilization (read pages 365-371)
English {because I’ve been informed that for high school ‘language arts’ is the incorrect term}: Westward Ho!, Excellence in Literature (still reading Around the World in 80 Days but I think she is very close to being done)
Citizenship {used to be ‘Civics’}: Current Events (see her blog post)

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Deut. 24 & John 2); verse (Romans 12: 1-2); Saints & Heroes (Calvin, pgs 71-75- was supposed to read 66-70)
Math: Saxon Algebra 1 (read pages 19-27; page 28 problems #1-15, 29, 30)
Science: The Story Book of Science (chapter 36); Murche’s (Lesson 42); School of the Woods (chapter 10)
History/Geography: Story of the Greeks (chapters 76-78); Alexander the Great; Around the World in 180 Days (still working on Asia)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 15); Animal Farm (chapter 3)

Photo I’m sharing…

Our backyard guests. This photo was taken shortly after Christmas but it’s looked like this a couple times since. I really love living here.

I’m linking up with Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and The Mother’s Homeschool Journal.