We had a full week. I really thought about taking the whole week off, but there was no way. If I let the boys take a week off it is really hard to get them going again. So we just keep chugging along. We'll take some days off in December. With our weekly schedule, the kids are not being overworked at all...lol. I even let them have two days off this week instead of just one.
We went to Homeschool Hangout and saw our friends. They played games and shared a sun catcher painting kit with their friends.
This week we started our Little Passports study of Brazil. I am supplementing a lot for this. We will be working on Brazil for a couple weeks.
This week we learned about the chocolate industry.
Lydia looked up a recipe for homemade hot cocoa mix. (Since that is how it was used before, as a drink. So the girls decided they wanted hot chocolate.) She made a batch and then made cups of it for each of her siblings.They approved.
The interactive notebook we are doing is using the LEGO movie. So we started building our uppercase letters out of Duplos.
We are reading the Bob Alphabet books also.
This week the girls finished up their human body projects. We used the templates from this book to make our organ drawings.
And Caty....
I bought these xrays from Amazon. The girls put them together like a puzzle.
I found this fun Gingerbread kit on clearance after Halloween. The kids had fun making gingerbread skeletons.
Brayden is working on his Study of the Presidents. I am doing something different for him. I email him questions to answer from his assigned reading. He has to reply to me with his answers. I also include video links for him to watch about each president.
We made a turkey on Monday since Daddy was home was last week. We ate on it all week. One night I made gluten-free, all allergen friendly mini turkey pot pies. They were yummy!
I have been so busy with life that I have been falling further and further behind on projects in the house. I am attempting to tackle a few the next couple months. Since we had some plans change this week, we chose Thursday to tackle a room switch around. Our dining room area in the kitchen has grown too small, so we moved our living room around to create a dining room space in it. We can all use the table easier now. Of course the girls and daddy started right away by playing National Park War.
I wish I would've taken before pictures, but here is the finished product of our dining/schoolroom.
The couch and stuff are behind me. Our TV stand swivels, so we can turn the TV toward the table when we need it to watch youtube, netflix or Amazon.
It has worked out really well since we got it done on Thursday. The kids are asking to play board games, we are eating at the table again since we can fit at it. We had family over Saturday for fun and it worked out well for arts/crafts and eating also. Joe and I both like this new change. We took 10 bags of Goodwill out of there. I am working on the kitchen/work area now. Where the table was in the kitchen now has a smaller school table, so a child can work on their own if they want to. It also is a great place for the kids to play on their laptops and skype where I can hear them.
On the agenda this week is washing the cabinets in the kitchen, organizing my office work area and painting the doorways in the kitchen. I am also working on fixing Caty's "hand-me-down" dresser.
Other projects this week were fun things we had planned to go along with our reading of American Girl Julie. We made pet rocks and did Sharpie t-shirts:
We had a full week. And next week starts back all the sports activities that we got a short break from. So I am juggling to see how to make the winter schedule work. I am grateful that Joe will be home another week to help out. All the extra lifting and cleaning caused my body to shut down into a pain attack late Saturday night and today. I am still limping some from my right leg causing issues. Unfortunately I just got to keep pressing on. Nothing else I can do.
We are back to reality and some more fun activities this next week. Watch for more posts on our homeschool travels next week!
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