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At Friday School (I'll explain that in a moment) the boys were given one caterpillar each. James' is starting to form it's chrysallis right now!! It's attaching the "Web" part to the jar as we speak. So cool!! I'm going to take pictures and hopefully capture some neat pictures. Levi's hasn't started to do anything yet. I did notice that on the way home from Friday School James' caterpillar was eating like crazy. The Very Hungry Caterpillar indeed!! We'll keep you posted on how it goes. During our second week of school we read the book "Lentil" and learned about small town, America. In our third week covered "Madeline" and we learned about Paris, France. We've covered classic stories and illustrations. I am feeling like there isn't enough Science in FIAR , so I'm looking for something to supplement Science for the boys. FIAR seems great for lit, vocab, art & social studies, but it's missing science & math. I noticed the math before school started, so I ordered A Beka grade 1 math. Levi finished page 44 this week! He seems to love math. Now I need to resear science curriculum. I have "A Pocket Full of Pinecones", but I'm not sure if that's what I want to do. We'll see... one nice thing about homeschoolin' is that you can choose new curriculum as you go if what you have isn't working! Friday School... It's a homeschool co-op of about 50 students. The parents teach different classes and the students can take classes of their choice. My children are in Animal Round Box, Lego Club, Arts/Crafts/Painting, & Science Experiments. We had our first day yesterday and the children enjoyed it. DH even came... he had to take the day off of work to fly to KY for his grandfather's funeral. He came to Friday school with us since he flight didn't leave til the evening. The last class of the day was bowling, so we went as a family. It was fun! DH & I took a lane and played against each other, while helping the kids & their cousins on 2 other lanes. I won the first game & DH won the second game. The kids were so funny to watch. It took a LONG time for their ball to get down the lane. My studies are going well. Still no contact from my trainer about my communications paper. It is supposed to take 2 weeks and it has taken 6. Hmmmm... I am going to write to the people in charge and see what's up. All that is left now is that paper, 2 births and a class evaluation. My first client is due any day!!! I'm so excited!! Nervous about the kids though. I need to find a "grandmotherly" type of sitter who can be on call 24/7 when I have a client due. Someone who can come into my home instead of having to disrupt the kids by dragging them out of the house at all hours of the night. I'm praying to find someone. So that completes week 3 of this years school. Next week "A Pair of Red Clogs" and stuff about Japan! |
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