mid-week progress

Well, we are halfway through the week.  Literally, it is lunchtime on Wednesday here.  It has been one BUSY week here so far.

Missa is plugging away in MUS Gamma as she has been.  She's about halfway through the book now, so we are finishing up the basic multiplication facts with her.

Lydia took a Saxon math placement test on Monday and then on Tuesday started 5/4.  She only needs part of the book before she can go into 6/5, but we decided to start at the beginning to make sure that she gets used to the different program with good review of things she knows already.  Saxon is definitely a different animal from the Everyday Mathematics garbage they teach in the local public school, she's going to need a little time.

Kimberly is just working on her multiplication and division facts, then she too will start Saxon 5/4.  I figure she'll start it about the same time her sister moves up to 6/5, so we're taking our time and working on things.  I'm also having to re-teach her how to do some things that are basic concepts that the public school totally screwed up teaching her.  No big deal really, although I do find it mildly annoying that I have to undo the damage from a poorly written math curriculum.

Jordan this week is working on greater than and less than in Math Mammoth.  She is doing really well with this curriculum, and will stay with it until further notice.

Yes, I'm doing 4 completely different things with 4 kids in math.  Mildly annoying that I've got so many different curricula going, but it is what works best so I juggle it.

We also started Apologia elementary Astronomy this week.  I'm reading 1 or 2 sections out loud daily to the kids, as the youngest girl doesn't seem to have the attention span at this point for more.  No biggie, we'll work up to longer time reading out loud as we go.

History is on hold until after Nathaniel is born at this point.  I'm trying to be realistic in what our workload is with this pregnancy.  Things are 100% textbook perfect for me with it, but I know how fast things can change in this area.  I don't want to go from full speed to a dead halt suddenly because of hypertension issues again like we had to do last time, so we're going a slower pace.

The girls are also reading daily for a little bit.  They pick the book, but they MUST read daily.  It is working really well for us at this point.