Did this week go by really fast for you guys? It did for us. So quickly that suddenly it was Thursday afternoon and realized that I hadn’t written down any notes since Monday. Whoops.
There’s construction going on on our street, and the ongoing noise is making it hard for me to concentrate. Pete is concerned that they took the stop sign down, but other than that it doesn’t seem to be bothering the kids at all.
Poppy asked me a few minutes ago if I’d written this post yet, and she wanted me to be sure to tell you that she and Pete will be testing for their next tae kwon do belts later today. Poppy’s been working toward her blue-green belt, and Pete’s aiming for yellow-green.
Here’s a bit of what we did this week!
Monday
Pete started memorizing “The Cat of Cats,” which I’m pretty sure he also memorized last year. That ought to make it easy for him this time around. Poppy was still stumbling on a few lines of “Invictus” last week, so she’s still working on that.
In other Pete news: He finished the Boba Fett book! It was his very first chapter book. Way to go, Pete!
Poppy is nearly finished with “The Borrowers,” and she will be happy to finally reach the end of it. Monday’s literature worksheet involved looking up definitions, and I realized that the outdated children’s dictionary she’s been using isn’t quite up to the task anymore. Her new Intermediate dictionary arrived yesterday, and if hashtags worked here we would call the preceding clause a #BoringHomeschoolStory.
We also had co-op on Monday, and my little Astronomy / “Star Wars” guys were disappointed that I didn’t have a “Star Wars” activity for them this week. Instead, we used coffee filters, markers and water to make “newly discovered planets” and then made a little booklet about said planet to go along with their art.
Tuesday & Wednesday
We did school. I know we did. But I didn’t write anything down, so … handwriting, math, history, etc. Probably.
Thursday
Some days the kids are ultra-motivated. Yesterday was one of those days, and it was awesome. They were completely finished with their work by lunchtime.
Friday
Poppy was happy to stay behind with Rockford — who was working from home for a few hours — this morning while I took Pete to a doctors appointment. She’s been doing a great job working independently lately, so I left a stack of schoolwork for her to do and asked her not to spend the entire morning playing on the computer. And she listened! Pete and I were only gone for about an hour, and she was finishing up when we got home.
We finished Kate DiCamillo’s “Because of Winn-Dixie” this afternoon, and Pete was disappointed to hear that there weren’t any other books about Winn-Dixie. I helped him write a letter to DiCamillo suggesting that she remedy that.
A little history and grammar and some math for Pete, and we finished our school day shortly after lunch.
I haven’t decided what our next read-aloud will be, but I think we’re going to go to the library in a bit. It’s becoming slightly more difficult to find things that appeal to both a 9-year-old girl and a 6 & 11/12ths-year-old boy. Any suggestions?
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