This has been one of those roller coaster weeks. There have been some great things happening, and some not so hot things, and a wide spectrum of emotions to go along with it.
On the Homefront:
We got our own internet satellite!
Snow Crystal is settled into her own room now, and is doing quite well in keeping it clean. Of course I did warn the girls that if I find things lying around, then it tells me that they give me permission to take those things and put them away for however long I deem necessary...
Snow Crystal turned 10 on May 7th.
In the School Room:
We began reading a new read-aloud called "A Pioneer Sampler" that shares about Pioneer life with a story weaved through it. It is written great and we all love it. We have also been reading a few more chapters of "Burgess Bird Book" which we started some time last year.
We started our four weeks of "Writing a State Report". This week mostly we talked about the library and where to find resources. This will be Mountain Princess's first real report, and I'm a little nervous about how it is going to go over! For Snow Crystal, she will mostly do the notebook on a smaller scale, but won't be taking notes on note cards and so forth. If it doesn't work out with Mountain Princess, we will skip it with her too.
We started doing our nature journals again. This is going well with Mountain Princess, but it doesn't really excite Snow Crystal yet.
Bible: Mountain Princess (dd11) memorized to James 5:13, and practiced James 1-2. Snow Crystal (dd9) is kind of at a stand still. Like last week, I am really searching as to what we can do next year to make Bible a much more important, centric, and interesting part of our school and lives next year. One plan I have is to do the Biblical Holidays as unit studies through the year. The other ideas is to look again at Heart of Wisdom's Biblical unit studies. Still searching.
Because of the state report, we aren't really doing language arts as were were any longer. We are doing spelling (lessons 157-161 (out of 180).
Math: Snow Crystal continued in her Singapore 3A. She worked on her multiplication tables of eights. and she did a couple of review pages today. Mountain Princess did her Singapore 5A, doing more with angles. Now she is doing her book reviews and will soon be finished with the entire book.
Reading: Snow Crystal finished Naya Nuki by Thomasma. She is now reading Meet Thomas Jefferson. Mountain Princess read 20 chapters in Black Beauty.
Spanish: Snow Crystal and Mountain Princess both took the easier road this week and worked on the Instant Immersion Spanish.
Preschool: This went much better this week.
On the Mission Field:
We got several letters this week from both teams. God seems to be working in them and through them in mighty ways. Pray for one group who have been making great headways until some violence between religious groups nearby caused them to have to leave the area. Pray that they will get the opportunity to return there and finish the work they started before they have to return home in June. Due to the nature of the work they are doing and where they are, I can't speak about any more in detail.
In the Clinic:
Another great day. I still feel that this is part of "my" mission field, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to have this job, and work with these people (patients and staff). They are all so precious.
In the Literary Scene:
I've been doing a lot of hit and miss reading in the same books as the last several weeks. Nothing new. I did go to the library today, so I may have some new books to share next week!
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
If you would like to join me in this theme, just write up your own weekly summary, using mine or your own categories. Then click onto the Mr. Linky below and leave your name and the link to your summary. I'd love to read your weekly summaries too! I hope to post mine on each Friday or Saturday. At the latest it will be on Sunday. If you get yours done before I do, just leave your link in my cbox and I will put it up for you when I get mine done. Carol
Hi Carol,
It looks like a pretty good week all-in-all for you all.
I have the Pioneer Sampler book, a neat book, but just to forewarn you, that some of the story's caracters don't always emulate good character, so I ended up not reading it after all and may just use it as reference for some of the pioneer projects.
FYI, this coming week (maybe Monday), I will be posting about a missions-minded curriculum that seems REALLY good that you might want to look into (and it's free right now). If I had to do over again, I'd use this - you can see it at... http://harvestministry.org/twghw
You always have so many intresting things going on at your place. Thank you for doing this meme. It will be real good for me to think about what I DID get done with the boys and record it. Not what we will get done and th3n feel bad if we didn't get to it all. This is also good in the sense b/c you can record all the surprised learning that you didn't plan but is sooooooo very valuble to record. [0= Thank you once again for this meme.
Your job at the clinic is absoutly a mission field! Its your heart and where God has placed you. What we do in our everyday lives is just as much the mission field as when we go out. You impact others for Christ 24/7.
Expain what you mean about English and the state?
You could try making Bible more interactive for your kids. They are younger. Perhaps more stories and lapbooking. Still doing the memory stuff but giving them something to do as well. When mine were young we did a timeline of Moses and the exodus....It was very interactive. The kids remember it the most of all the studies we did. Also the read alouds that you do ( on the missionaries) make a huge impact in their lives.
Glad to see you doing so well. To answer your question about our picture atop our blog, this is not the new SUV. One of the kids took this picture before we left for Big Bend National Park in a rental---HA HA! It's one of the few pictures of me that I actually like, so oh well,...
I laughed when I saw your comment about the nature journals. Our older two didn't necessarily bite on these, either, but I think it had more to do with the oldest not being outdoorsy. Our son would probably be more flexible, but she has influence; I think with the youngest being very outdoorsy, he might come around.
Sounds like a good week. I'd love to hear more about how you come up with your curriculum or what your yearly plan is in more detail, since you seem to follow a very similar educational philosophy to that which I want to follow. I'll be praying for your missions team and for your own "missions" outreach (your job). It seems like a challenging time in the world right now and our missionaries need our prayer support (always, but during more strifeful times it brings it more to the forefront).
Oh, I'm not that coordinated with curriculum. I was hoping you had a secret. :)
I really like Ambelside Online, but I feel like I need to do more hands-on - you know like lapbooks or history in the woods type projects with it. Those things are just not my forte, however.
Otherwise...I started with Abeka and with "Classical" then I went on over to Ambelside - but I'm still using Abeka for K and 1st phonics and K math. Saxon for math after that. Toyed with Math U See but didn't like it much. I use Answers In Genesis for science. I find it living-book friendly. It's a textbook - but not a dry one and is written by one person. For Bible I want to read the Bible every year - I figure the girls could do the New Testament reading with me every day and I could do the whole thing. We also liked reading through the Victor Journey Through The Bible. I don't even do spelling at least right now as Natalie is a terrific natural speller - and we were using Spelling Workout and it was just repititious for her. We'll see with Rachel as she gets older. And I don't do language arts - except for copywork, narration, and reading. I do have a book - Any Child Can Write that I really like however - and I feel like I want to make some occasional assignments even though I figure what Charlotte Mason says is true - if they learn to read good books and they narrate they will be good writers, naturally. Still there is the practice and the creative side of it too. As they get older, I think, I will need to figure that out more.
I like this. Weekly wrap-up seems to be similar to the Simple Woman's Day Book only a little different. I get kind of bored filling out the same thing every week.
I really like the names that you chose to call the kids. I still haven't came up with anything for my kids yet. I have a couple of names that I'm considering.
Next school year my son will be creating a nature journal. We are very excited about that. I'm glad to see that you all are also wanting to do one.
I hope this week is a great week for you. God Bless :0)
One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. To behold the beauty, the beauty of the Lord. To inquire in His temple, the temple of the Lord.
This is my everyday thoughts about being a mother to three little ladies (12, 10 and 5) and a three year old son. We serve God full-time, and I am a physician assistant. I have the most awesome husband in the world. I am trying to seek and serve God with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind and all my strength.
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