I'm almost a weekly reporter drop out, it's gets too intense having to take pictures of all the work.  However, I thought I'd update and just add a few pictures from last week.  Kids were sick and Noah was on nebulizer treatments.  We weren't able to do too much, but what they did do, they did well.

Math:  Horizons...we are on lesson 110.  I am thinking of slowing down big time to solidify the times tables.  He has the  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10's...but he stumbles on the 7,8,...I don't think we spent enough time on them in the beginning of the year, so we'll take a little break from the actual lessons, and just work on the times tables and drills.

Vocabulary:  Wordly Wise 3000 is DONE.  I now use the vocabulary words for spelling words.  I am waiting on a new ETC workbook to come in.

Grammar:  We are making lots of headway here.  We are on lesson 134 out of 192.  This is a 3 day a week curriculum, we do 1 a day, sometimes even more.  It's pretty painless.  I plan on finishing up and then using what we've learned in our everyday writing.

History:  Still absolutely loving Story of the World.  Moving on to Chapter 20:Greece and the story of Homer.  History really comes alive for us with this curriculum.  I'd be lost without it.  We do our Copywork mainly in this subject.

Bible:  working through Gotta Have God.  I'm not overly thrilled with this curriculum.  Looking for something else.  We are memorizing scripture and learning the books of the Bible in order.

Misc.  We use living books for Science.  I bought a book at Sam's Clulb, it's called World of Science.  We are using this as a guide.
We are enjoying our Weekly Readers, N's reading as many Magic Treehouse books as he can get his hands on.  He reads one in no time flat.


Emma (preschool).  We are using Starfall.com and she is reading 3 and 4 letter words.   We aren't on a schedule yet, we don't "do school" every day, but when we do, she loves it.  We are using online resources,  before five in a row, and a Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills.  I'm contemplating Horizons and Abeka preschool, but haven't taken the leap yet.

Here are some pictures.

Kids working together.

Working out of the Complete Book of Animals. 

Emma all proud of her alphabet dot to dot butterfly.

Abeka Number flash cards.

And last but not least, Emma's drawing of something blue...which happened to be the ocean of course.

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