I'm feeling good starting off this week!!

The public schools are on Spring Break but we are going strong.  After almost 3 weeks of off-and-on because of Emma's illness, we needed to get back in a groove.  I spent some time this weekend getting my assignment sheets ready for the week (that I haven't done in 3 weeks) and planning some History and Science.  We will be finishing up our American Revolution studies this week.  The kids will watch the last 10 episodes of Liberty's Kids and finish about 3/4 of their Dover Coloring Book pages.  We will also complete our timeline (we have 1780 - 1783 left).  I have really enjoyed the studies but I'm ready to move on.  From this point forward, I'm going to shift to a little more of a focus on the Sonlight curriculum (Core 3) and a little less on the Abeka.  That is mainly because I have decided that we will use Core 4 as our main history next year and I want to get the kids into the "Sonlight mode".  It will require a trip to the library this week to get the books for the next 3 weeks of Sonlight!

We will also be finishing up our Science unit on Astronomy this week (except for tracking the phases of the moon for 1 month).  We were in a good groove and then hit the "February doldrums" followed by the "March illness" and haven't done science in quite a while.   We already did our science lesson for today and we only have 2 lessons to finish up the Astronomy Unit.  Perhaps next week I will plan a trip to DC - I'd like to go see what is left of the Cherry Blossoms (without the crowds that will be there THIS week) - and we can go to the planetarium at the Air and Space Museum.  I haven't done as much as I had wanted to do for Astronomy, but I'm sure the kids learned a little.  Then, we will jump into our unit on Oceans.

I think the new Sonlight catalog and the prospects for next year have really motivated me.  I get it when people say they want to hurry up and finish their current materials so that they can get new ones!!  I feel the same way.

Mike is in San Francisco for the week.  I can already tell I'm going to be tired from having to get up twice a night with Emma.  I have posted an update on her condition on my family blog at http://stopperfamily.blogspot.com