Pharaoh Amenhotep III's Head Unearthed in Egypt

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Weekly Report # 26-27

We have been very busy at work and with cheer and not having Internet at home made it difficult to keep up on our progress reports. We have not been anywhere near as productive as I had hoped/planned. We have tried schooling from work but with space constraints it has been difficult. At times it is our only option so we do our best but it has not been very effective. We will be moving the business in a few weeks. Once we transition the business I am hoping that our schooling will get back on the right track. The new building will provide much more room- the kids will actually have their own "School Room"- which I am hoping will make things much easier. My expectations for the coming month are low as we will be out of state/town a lot and when we are home life will be consumed with moving.

I didn't keep good record of what we accomplished the last couple of weeks. But here is what I remembered to write down... and again no pictures :( Haven't had any extra time- or to be honest anything exciting or noteworthy to take pictures of...

MATH-
Both kids did a lot of math review
DS focusing on double/triple digit multiplication
DD working on all previously learned skills
Watched several episodes of "Cyber Chase"

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Both kids did a lot of review on parts of language
DS- Spelling- Lesson 13
Letter writing
DD- Reading 3 Wkbk- Page 2-3
DD-Phonics 3 Wkbk- Lesson 1.1
DD- Writing 3 Wkbk- Lesson 1
DD/DS- Wrote book review for "The Golden Goblet"
DD/DS- Oral presentation of book review in front of friends
DD/DS-Performed "Ground Hog Day" play
Watched several episodes of "Word Girl"


HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY/BIBLE-
Continued memorization of Books of Old Testament
Read SOTW Ch #23
Review Questions Ch #23
Designed their own "thrones"
Read aloud from "The Mythology Handbook"
Watched an episode of "Amazing Race"- Tracked their journey on world map
Continued to follow the Olympics
Read about Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson in honor of Black History Month
Listened to "History-Tunes that Teach" throughout the week
Continued our Presidents study- George Washington unit

READING-
Finished "The Golden Goblet"
I read aloud from "The Bronze Bow"
TONS of silent reading time (DS is still a reading machine, reading about 4 chapter books per week)

FIELD TRIPS/
Attended "Asian Celebration"

MUSIC/ART-
DS- Drum lessons 2x
Listened to Vivaldi's- Four Seasons throughout the week

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DD- Cheer Practice 5x
DD-Tumbling Practice-4x
DD- Cheer Competition- Nationals (Team took 1st! DD took 3rd for her individual!)
DS- Sleepover at our house
DD/DD- Playdate at our house
DS/DD- Playdate at friends house 2x
DD/DS- Playtime at the park
Church

Weekly Report # 25

What I remeber...wow it has been a crazy month!
MATH-
DS- Multiplication Review Worksheets (x3)
DD-Math Workbook Pg 6-7 (Place Value Review,More/Less Review)
Watched an episode of Cyber Chase

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
DS- Wkbk Pg 178-179 (Sentence Building)
DS-Spelling- Completed Lesson 12
DD-Wkbk #2- Pg 2-27 (Reading, Writing, Thinking Skills)
DD-Spelling- Pretest 3/10- Spelling wkbk Pg 90-91
Watched an episode of Word Girl

GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY-
Introduction to Roman Numerals
Read aloud from SOTW- Chapter #22
Review Questions Ch#22
Kids read aloud from Usborne Ancient History- (Athens)
George Washington worksheet

SCIENCE-
Spectrum Science 3- Lesson 1.7
Worksheet Lesson 1.7
Chapter #1 Test
Watched an episode of "Dirty Jobs" (termites)

MUSIC-
DS- Drum Lessons



SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
Cheer Competition
Cheer Practice 2x
Tumbling Practice 2x

Weekly Report Weeks #23-24

It has been difficult with no computer! I am going by what I remembered to write down and by what I remember... I miss having the ease of logging it in to the computer :(
We have had to find alternatives to a few of our regular studies as the instruction was on the computer- but we are getting by...
Lots more t.v. time than usual due to lots of time being stuck at work. Thank goodness for PBS and the history channel!

MATH-
DD- Saxon 2 Lesson 127- 130
DD- Math Review Workbook Pg 2-5
DS- Saxon 5/4- Lesson 80, Test #1-3
DS- Numerous division worksheets
Watched a few episodes of Cyber Chase (Fractions)
Listened to Multiplication Tunes that Teach throughout the weeks
Listened to Division Rap CD

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Parts of Language review
Introduced Homophones and homographs
Read aloud the book "Dear Deer"
Letter writing to friends
Played the "Spelling Game"
Wrote new vocab word in vocab notebook- reviewed and used word throughout the week
Memorized and performed "Groundhog Day" play
DD- Wkbk pg 122-125 (Adressing envelopes, postcards, review)
DD- Wkbk #2- Pg 22- (Reading, Writing, Thinking skills)
DD- Spelling- Pretest, Wkbk, Test
DD- Cursive Handwriting Practice- Letters H,I
DS- Wkbk pg 150-154 (Dictionary use review)
DS- Wkbk 2- (Possesive Pronouns)
DD-Spelling Lesson 12- Pretest, Test
Watched several episodes of "Word Girl"

HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY/BIBLE-
Continued memorizing the books of the Old Testament
Read the stories of David and Joseph
George Washington Unit Study (read several books, made timeline, lots of discussion)
SOTW chapter 20-
Review Questions Ch 20
Mao Work- Greece Civilized Again
Coloring Page- Cyclops
Read aloud from "What your 2nd Grader Needs to Know" (Greeks, Olympics)


SCIENCE-
Lesson 1.6 (Reflex)
Worksheet 1.6
Watched several episodes of "Man Vs. Wild"
Watched several episodes of "Myth Busters"


MUSIC/ART-
Introduction to Bach
Listened to CD "Bach's Life"
Listened to the works of Bach throughout the week
Made LOTS of Valentines!
Lots of coloring time

READING-
Read aloud "The Golden Goblet" Ch 1-9
Lots of silent reading time
DS found a new series he likes A LOT- Animorphisis, or something to that effect and has been speeding through them! He has been begging to go to the library constantly and picks up 2-3 a time! They are reading level 5! I am so proud of how far he has come with reading!!

FOREIGN LANGUAGE-
No formal lessons as our computer is gone but we made due-
Watched episode of "El Perro Y el Gato" x3 (GREAT show!!)
Several worksheets (Numbers)
Used our Spanish vocabulary reguarly throughout the week

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DD-
Cheer Practice- 4x
Private Lesson- 2x
Tumbling Class 4x
Cheer Competition- 2x
Cheer Exhibition
Princess Apearance
Playdate at our house
Playdate with friends
DS-
Drum Lessons 2x
Book Club
Playdate at friends house 3x
Playdate at our house
BOTH-
Pizza Playdate with cousins
Pizza Playdate with friends

Weekly Report #22

Still no computer (It had to be sent back to the factory- so it will be a while)


MATH-
DD/DS- Saxon Math
DD/DS- Math review worksheets


ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
DD- Spelling Wkbk Pg 80-
DD-Spelling Test 9/10
DD-Spelling Pre-test 5/11
DD- Wkbk Pg 119- (Thank you notes,Invitations)
DD-Wkbk #2- Pg 14- (Reading, Thinking, Writing Skills)
DS-Spelling Review Lesson 9-11
DS-Wkbk- Pg 133- (Common and Proper Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns)
DS-Wkbk #2 Pg 142- (Review, Homophones)
DS/DD- both worked creating their own blogs- they now have their own accounts :)
DD/DS- posted to their blogs (hoping to make this a regular thing to practice writing/typing/communicating skills)
DD- Master Reader Lesson #24
DS- learned about email and got his own email account. He has been having fun writing to friends and relatives all week. (Great writing and typing practice!)


BIBLE/GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY-
Continued our memory work- Memorizing the books of the Old Testament
SOTW- Ch#17-19
SOTW-Review Questions Ch 17-19
Read from Usborn Ancient World- Life on Crete
Map Work- Life in Early Crete
Activity- Theseus and Minotaur

SCIENCE-
Spectrum 3 Lesson 1.5- Hot colors
Worksheet 1.5
Continued our Animal Study- Adding Walruses and Wolverines to our notebooks


MUSIC/ART-
DS- Drum Lessons
Listened to our new favorite classical compilation CD throughout the week

READING-
LOTS of silent reading time
Finished reading "The Melodian" aloud- (It was supposed to be our Christmas reading book but we didn't end up getting to it- better late than never!)


FOREIGN LANGUAGE-
DS- Rosetta Stone- Core Lesson 2.1, Pronunciation 2.1
DD- Rosetta Stone- Speaking 1.1, Review 1.1 (Going to have her redo this entire lesson- she is struggling with it)

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DD- Tumbling Practice
DD- Cheer Private Lesson
DD- Cheer Practice 2x
DD- Cheer Competition
DD- Sunday School/Church (DS and I were home sick)
DS- Road Trip with Dad
DS/DD-Playdate with friends

Computer Crash :(

I won't be updating my blog for a while (Nor will the kids be updating theirs) Our computer had to be sent back to the factory so we will be without for quite some time. I may be able to check in from time to time at work but there usually aren't too many spare moments when I am working so... So long for now blogger friends!

Weekly Report #21

Started the week with sick kids and ended the week with a sick Mommy!(Figures- just as I felt we were back to normal from our break!) We made the most of it. LOTS of reading time= more snuggle time- documentaries and talking :)

MATH-
DS- Saxon 5/4 Lesson 78

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS-
Introduction to oral reports-
Practiced oral reports for our MLK study
MLK Jr. Study-
Read numerous MLK books
MLK worksheet
"I have a Dream" Worksheet
DD-Spelling Pretest- 10/10
DD-Spelling Test 10/10
DD-Spelling Pretest (next weeks words) 4/10
DS- Finish Lesson 11
DD- Master Reader Lessons 22-23
DD-Wkbk #2- Pg 10-13 (Reading, thinking,writing skills)

GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY/BIBLE-
Watched video "Joseph and his brothers"
Began memorizing books of the Old Testament
Listened to Nic at Night - A musical play about Nicodemus
Studied the book of Malachi-
Memory Verse- Malachi
Continued our Mummy project- Still waiting for it to dry out- I think we are almost there- thank goodness! Getting tired of hiding it from the dog!
SOTW-Chapter 16
Review Questions- ch #16
Map Work- The Return of Assyria

SCIENCE
Watched the documentary- "Raging Planet- Lighting"
Specrtum Science Lesson 1.4 (the Metric System)
Spectrum Worksheet 1.4

MUSIC/ART-
Listened to our new CD "Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker" and our other new classical compilation CD throughout the week
Made book marks and pencil toppers
DS- Drum Lesson

READING-
Finished reading aloud from "Among the Imposters" Ch #22-36 - The kids are still very intrigued with the series and excited to pick up the next but we are going to take a break (Not to their liking) from them to continue on with our planned reading that goes along with our history studies.
Began reading "The Melodian" (Thanks Fred for letting us borrow it!)
Lots and lots of silent reading time!

SPORTS/EXTRA CURRICULAR-
DD- Tumbling practice
DD- Cheer Private Lesson
DD- Cheer Practice
DD- Cheer Competition (Team took 1st and DD took 2nd for her individual routine)
DD/DS- Playdate at friends house
DS- Sleepover at friends house
Church
DD- Sunday School