Weekly Homeschooling Review

In my life this (past) week…(I know... I'm way behind on this weekly report!) another pajama week for us. I knew there was a reason I loved cold, autumn days. Just another reason to stay home in my pjs.

In our homeschool this week…another week's goals accomplished. Four math lessons (mostly about telling time - TJ is learning to tell time to the minute). Language arts - another week of writing with Writing with Ease, two steps in All About Spelling, three grammar lessons, and a few pages of cursive handwriting practice. We worked a bit with our language programs and half a chapter in A Child's Geography.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…we had our history/art co-op this week. We learned about Japan and how it closed it's borders to the outside world during the early middle ages. Our art project focused on Katsushika Hokusai and his painting, Great Wave off Kanagawa (project idea from The Usborne Art Treasury).

A resource to share…The Usborne Art Treasury. This is really a great book with some fun ideas for art projects inspired by various artists throughout history. Highly recommended.

Things I’m working on…my Christmas baking list. I know it's early, but I like to stock up on ingredients over the next month or so before I start baking.

I’m reading…Oliver Twist (for me) and reading aloud Pollyanna to TJ. She's reading more fairy books (I think she's finally reached the last of them). I need to find her a new series.

I’m cooking…chocolate biscotti. A healthy recipe that ended up tasting like hard cardboard. That recipe ended up in the recycle bin.