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So, I came up with a catchier title for our school updates. What do ya' think? Nevermind...I don't want to know. This week, week 3 of our school year, I felt like we kinda got into a groove. The kids knew the schedule of things and had less questions and complaints. Always a good thing. Annaleigh doesn't make much of a secret about her adversion to math. She works it into almost any conversation.
She actually does fairly well though. This week she made a 98% on her first test.
She's working on a lesson in the above picture. It doesn't show up well, but I usually chain her to the chair for this. She completed her first lapbook this week. Homeschool e-store had a freebie a few weeks ago for an Egyptian mummy lapbook kit from Hands of a Child, so I took advantage of that, and we're both pleased with how it turned out.
The cover. The title is "Mummies Un-wrapped." Get it?
The inside
The inside with the flap raised. And because we just can't do anything in a normal way around here, Annaleigh decided to practice her spelling words this week by making and doing cheers to spell them out, pom-poms and all.
Harrison had a very productive week as well. He got a 100% on his math test. He didn't do quite as well on his spelling test. He decided that all words that start with W also need an H, so he spelled wish, w-h-i-s-h and with, w-h-i-t-h, which was really, really cute, but I still had to mark them wrong. He took it like a man though. He's also working on a lapbook. His is on Charlotte's Web, and I'm pulling a variety of resources together for it. Here he's cutting out a series of pink pigs for a little booklet that we'll include.
And then here he's displaying the acrostic that he wrote using the letters in Wilbur's name. He came up with W-wonderful, I-interesting, L-lucky, B-believable, U-unusual, and R-radiant, of course.
Normally, we adhere to the "no-shirt, no-school" policy around here, but this was after his shower, and he was on his way to bed. He also switched to brown pigs after a while because he decided that pink pigs were too girly for him and his bare chest. The kids are working on a project together of building a replica of the Nile River, since Annaleigh is in the throes of her Egypt studies and Harrison will soon embark upon them. Here they are laying down the rocks in the riverbed:
And then Harrison is seen here, flooding the river:
I try to give him the jobs that involve destruction. He likes that sort of thing. The idea is to reenact that actual occurrence of yearly flooding on the Nile by watering your river, and thus your grass seed every week. So far, nothing. But I'll keep you posted.... And "Rut-Roh"...look what we watched, just for fun!
That's right...no National Geographic movies for us, goofballs that we are. I haven't seen Scooby in years. This was a newer one than the 80s fare that I used to watch after school. And let me just say, Velma has lost weight! She is definitely giving Daphne a run for her money. I wonder what she's doing.... Weight Watchers? Jenny Craig? C'mon, girl! Tell us your secret... I made the mistake of watching some of the credits and was highly disturbed to find out that the same guy who does the voice for Fred, also does Scooby. I don't know if this was always the case, but that's just wrong! Ripley started out having a good week. He took Basket-weaving 101 and made this for his afternoon naps:
That turned out nicely don't you think, especially by a creature that doesn't have prehensible thumbs? Anyway, after this it got a little ugly, and I had to write him up.
You see, he was disturbed by my picture-taking and hopped out of the basket, the ornery thing. And then stuck his tongue out at me. Then it turned violent...
Can you believe that?! I should expel him from Hilltop Academy! And that about sums it up. We're having a ball here! I hope your educational endeavors are just as fun! See ya' next time... |
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