Week in Review

This week has been full of lots of weird little things and new stuff happening.  If you saw my mid-week musings you know some of it, but the good stuff happened yesterday and today.


This week I struggled with keeping my focus on things.  We managed to get schoolwork done EVERY day this week except today, so I'm calling it a successful week here.  Of course, it helped that the first half of the week looked like this:

 

 There was lots of time stuck inside while the snow kept us from going out with Missa on crutches, we didn't want her to slip and fall again like she did over the weekend at church.  We spent that time reading and learning together, doing chores, and being goofy.

 

 There was a lot of excitement and learning happening as we began our first science unit this week.   We'll be spending time learning about animals for a while, so I decided to start with teaching them about animal classification.  The picture above was taken yesterday, when we talked about the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates.  I did a fast search right before the lesson and found a couple coloring pages to print off for them to do, then snapped this picture while they colored.

And as usual, there was a lot of horseplay, such as yesterday when PJ decided that he was going to wrestle with Kimmy.  We also played charades and a few other games, which somehow always ended up with at least one child streaking through the house naked and laughing hysterically while I tried to chase her down to get clothes on her.

It has been a fun week, and we got a lot of things done.  The girls are finishing up their math lesson pages now and doing their daily journal writing, which is the last thing they have to do today.  Missa is finishing up lesson 7 in MUS Gamma today, after we decided that she needed to spend a couple days on it so that she could get more practice on area of rectangles before moving on.  Liddy and Kimmy and plugging away at a nice pace in their books (Beta for Liddy and Alpha for Kimmy), and Jojo has mastered skip counting by 5 and 10 to 100 so we are moving on to counting by 2 now.