Week 7

Chugging right along here. :)

I am trying to do at least one nice hike a week. This week we kept it simple after doing Monadnock last week. We hiked Purgatory Falls in Mont Vernon and we took along some friends. It was very pretty. Waterfalls are always fun to see.
Our October Mariposa class was about Native Americans of North America. The teacher Terry is always so excited to share with the kids. She is very knowledgeable of the cultures she presents. She has a passion that rubs off on the kids...It's great!

I am really hoping to get a new camera for Christmas.
My old one died after many years of faithful service and
now I am stuck using a cell phone camera which is very blurry
and has no flash or zoom. But it is better than nothing right?

Math: Quinn is on the last few lessons of Singapore 3b. I have also been giving him a couple long division problems each day so he won't completely forget how to do them. Evelyn is doing basic multiplication in 1b.

Spelling/Dictation: I messed up last week and reported that we were on list 19. This week was list 19.

Vocabulary: We added a few more words from Elementary Vocabulary Cartoons. The kids come up with their own sentences. Sometimes they are pretty funny. The bear in Evelyn's picture has a pumpkin basket filled with candy. I guess he has been trick or treating. Quinn's picture of a highly fertile garden has one flower in it suggesting some Quinn-ish sarcasm that is very fitting...



Handwriting: Evelyn has asked me to learn cursive which she says is very pretty. Coincidentally I inherited a mound of free homeschooling books from a friend recently and one of the books was the older version of A Reason For Writing: Transitions and Cursive. So I gave her the transitions book and she has been working through the cursive lessons on her own this week.

Art: Even though the kids both do art at co-op we still do art together here. I also inherited the book I Can Do All Things and decided to do that together this week. A friend also lent me the DVD lessons. This week we worked on some of the practice lessons before the actual lessons start.

Science: This week and the next couple are learning about the skeleton. We read pages on bones from Ouch! How Your Body Makes it Through a Very Bad Day. We are waiting for The Body Book to arrive so we can start making our paper model.

Bible: CBS lessons were done.
History: We didn't do history this week

CO-OP
Quinn
Public Speaking: This week was interpretive speeches. Quinn recited Click Clack Moo Cows That type. He did a great job of having different voices for the farmer and the cows. He had some good hand motions and great volume. His memorization was pretty good too. He only got lost a couple of times and picked himself right back up.
Drawing:
Rockets:Kids did some mathematical equations to determine the altitude and velocity of the rockets they blasted off last week. then they made straw rockets and played a game where each team had to try to blow their rocket into a bucket five times. Quinn's team won with Quinn scoring two of the points.

Evelyn:
Art:
Sign Language: Game
Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf

Other
Dance:
Soccer:Last soccer game this weekend. I got a picture with a friend's camera. Will post when I can.