Week in Review

In my life this week…I've spent a TON of time on the Heart of Dakota website. I'm trying to decide if I want to use Bigger Hearts for His Glory with TJ over the next year and a half (doing three days a week instead of five). Decisions.... decisions ....

In our homeschool this week…another week successfully accomplished! We focused on subtracting 15s, 10s, and 5s in math. TJ had no problem with the concept. It feels like we're just coasting right along through math this year! In language arts we finished another week's lessons in writing, a step in spelling, two pages of handwriting, and two grammar lessons. TJ also did another French lesson with Nick and we also worked on her French lapbook. I just read through chapter 4 of A Child's Geography today, while TJ did some notebooking and coloring. We skipped Greek this week. It was a very productive workweek for us (except for skipping Greek - I really need to get my butt in gear with that!)

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…we met our friends for our history and art co-op again this week. We skipped art this time since we had two projects for history. We learned about Charlemagne - for some reason it struck everyone very funny that his defeated enemies had the choice to become Christians or die. One mom remarked, "Nice way to win them to the kingdom." ;-)

The kids had fun - they made elaborate crowns that took awhile. First we had to get the crowns made, then they painted them gold and then they added lots of jewels (well, beads and stuff!). They also made some popsicle stick puppets.

My favorite thing this week was…seeing the end of it! It was a good week but I'm so very happy for the weekend!

I’m reading…Pippi Goes on Board. We finished Pippi Longstocking and TJ wants to hear the next book. I just found the movie on Netflix - think we'll watch it this weekend. Has anyone seen it?

TJ read a Mercy Watson book, a pile of Geronimo Stilton comics, and Tornado. She's currently reading through Five True Horse Stories. I'm reading Jane Eyre and The History of the Medieval World by Susan W. Bauer.

I’m cooking…cookies! Hopefully I'll be getting some Christmas baking done this weekend.

I'm linking to Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers Weekly Wrap-Up and The Homeschool Chick's Homeschool Mother's Journal