Our homeschool co-op starts back up in a few weeks, and we registered for classes this week. Pete is signed up to take a science-experiments class and a gardening class, and Poppy is registered for bookmaking and a DIY toy-making class. As of yesterday evening the science class had too many kids signed up, which could mean that Pete will get bumped from it. I signed up to teach an art class based on Mary Ann Kohl’s “Great American Artists.” We have to have at least four students for the class to “make,” though, and so far I only have two students. We’ll see if that changes after the overloaded classes bump some kids.

Here’s a little of what Pete and Poppy worked on this week:

Spelling

Amazon Prime has completely ruined me for normal shipping. It took about 12 days for Pete’s All About Spelling to arrive, so we weren’t able to start it until Wednesday afternoon — and only after I spent a good long while punching out cards and setting up the system. We’ve just been reviewing letter sounds, but he’s been enjoying it so far.

History

This week we read about inventors and innovators like Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford. There were several projects that we could’ve done, but I’ve been sick all week so we didn’t get them done. The kids have enjoyed the books, though, so we might stick with the inventors next week, too.

Extracurricular

Poppy will be testing for her yellow-green belt today at tae kwon do. She didn’t have quite enough classes to test as of Tuesday afternoon, so we knew that she’d have to take two classes yesterday. Apparently we’d counted wrong, though, because we found out after her first class yesterday that she was still two classes short. So she ended up taking three classes yesterday! That’s nearly three hours of exercise, which is more than I’ve gotten in the last three weeks, probably.

Et cetera

Et claude osmium, we finally started Latin again.

Poppy has been diagramming sentences and learning about direct and indirect quotations, and today she will take her very first grammar test. (We aren’t big on tests around here, but the tests came with the book so we’re going to give it a shot.)

We’ve been reading “The Penderwicks at Point Mouette” aloud, and yesterday Pete guessed the Big Reveal a few chapters before we reached it. The expression of dawning realization on his face was priceless.

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