MFW-CtG Weeks 32, 33 and, 34

Here are a few highlights from our week...

I have to admit, we didn't finish the year off quite as strong as we had hoped. Our steam had pretty much run out...lol! 

We did manage to get in a Drive Thru History video. "Greece and the Word" Episode 1 would be great to watch the last few weeks of CtG.

We had good intentions on completing the last few art projects, doing the note-booking pages, and even had hopes of putting on our own Pentathlon, BUT... none of that really happened. 

INSTEAD, we worked a lot in the garden, got a bee hive going, went camping, and lots of other things.

I promise, we did the assigned reading, we just never got to the last few projects listed in the teacher's manual. It all turned out ok though and the kids didn't seem to mind one bit ;)

We did complete ONE art project :)

My brown-eyed girl giving her oral creating writing assignment. It was about cats...hence the cat 'prop'.

My blue-eyed boy giving his oral book report

The swarm we caught

Our garden in its beginning stages....

And a few months later....

How about you? Did you finish off the year strong?

Have a great summer everyone!

The big week is almost here :)

Well, in just a few short days we will kick it into high gear in school.

Starting Monday, we will add in the last thing...MFW-Creation to the Greeks. This includes art, music, history, and Bible. 

We had lots of fun this week getting ready for next week though.

The kids made a challah (bread) cover. We just used some old fabric we had left over from a different activity my daughter did over the summer and some fabric markers. I drew the Hebrew letters for Shabbat (Sabbath) on the fabric and the kids drew all sorts of pictures of their choice onto the fabric. We got the idea for our challah cover here...although we didn't do our challah cover the same way they did.

One other thing the kids enjoyed doing this week was giving our old doggie, Puddles, a bath. She's been lonely ever since our other dog, Midnight, passed away and they wanted to give her some extra special attention. They played with her, fed her treats, and even watched 101 Dalmations Sing-a-long Songs with her...lol! They called it Puddle-dud's Day :)

They also had fun building a few new things with their legos. They love to build, but rarely ever want to take their creations apart. Needless to say, we are running out of display space in their bedrooms.

We hope you had a great week as well :)

Week 1 Down

The first week of school actually went well despite all the extra things that popped up each day... which was great b/c with lots of family coming into town this weekend, a baby shower, an anniversary party, and a birthday that weekend....I needed somewhat of a low-key, good school week.

I don't start the kids back to school full steam. Instead, I ease the kids back into the whole routine. We usually try to start the first full week in August and most weeks are just 4 day school weeks to allow for appointments, field trips, and other things that may surprise us from week to week.

We started with just the basics - math, reading, and language. By the end of the week, we also added in spelling.

The kids LOVE the Math U See we are using now. My son finished all his math for the ENTIRE week in just ONE day. He is loving that! My daughter still likes to take it slow and spread hers out, (a nice way of saying procrastination ;) but she LOVES all the hands on stuff and is doing quite well. She is grasping the multiplication concepts much better that I thought she would.

Language is going well also. My son will read just about anything, but my daughter was not thrilled with her required reading for the first week of school. There really was no way around that though (after all, George Washington was a pretty important person in history - LOL ;). I try to counter this by allowing her to read whatever she wants during her free time and before bedtime and it seems to be working for now.

Next week, we'll add in Spanish and typing as well as get a head-start on a few of our projects in preparation for the Biblical feast of the Sabbath we are going to experience in a few weeks through our MFW-Creation to the Greeks Curriculum.

Have you started back to school yet? If so, how did it go?