This is our second week of school, alot of outside activities and freezing corn this week. But still, we did get some a little schooling in. Again, we are doing MFW: ECC, were actually doing the first edition. We're barely into week 2.

Bible: We finished some color sheets on Jn. 3:16, worked some on personal Bible study

Language Arts: practice handwriting f-j; finished the Explode the Code from last year; finished spelling book from last year.

Math: finished Singapore Math 1B from last year. We will begin a new workbook next week.

Geography: read some more of "Maps and Globes", worked on latitude-longitude; tried to find places on the map using lat/long coordinates; equator/ prime meridan. Played "Geography Songs" during down times; "Wee Sing" Hello to the Children of the world.

Science: In our "Living World Encylopedia" we looked at Long-term Changes. After she is done reading a section outload, she writes a sentence of what she read. Right now I am helping her with these sentences, but she is coming up with some of her own.

Book Basket: Some books she liked reading this week were:

• Mapping Penny's World, Lorren Leedy
• Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney
• Celebrations, Kindersley
• What a Wonderful World, Weiss and Thiele (she thought this was fun because there was a song that went with this)

Outside Activities:

• Houdini Museum- we were at an appointment an hour away from home, so I figured we might as well make a day of it and go somewhere educational. She learned that magic was all about tricking others into believing something was true.
• Mongolian Grill for lunch on same day as museum.
• Homeschool support meeting- the kids are divided into different grades for activities.
• K-5th Social: just time for this age group to develope friendships. I realize that for some families, this is not important, but Violet is basically an only child. Yes, she has sibblings, but they are already out of the house and she really needs this time once in a while.

I'm planning on a full week of uninterupted school next week. So we should get lots done. However the week after will be more half days, then we should be back to a normal schedule again.

It feels so good to be back to homeschooling again. How was your week?

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