Week 9

What we are reading this week:

 Aloud Together: The Sign of the Beaver 

Walk the World's Rim

The Story of The USA

Quinn: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

39 Clues #s 4, 5 & 6

Evelyn: The Skippack School

American Girl Series: Addy

Memory work: We added John 1:1-4, The Ingenious Little Old Man and The Yak.

Math: Evelyn finished Singapore 2a. She starts 2b on Monday. Quinn is at the very end of 5a and will finish it this coming week.

This week we visited Apple Crest Farm's Fall Festival

 We Hiked Ponemah Bog. The color is well past peak at this point but it was still a beautiful day. The geese and ducks were sunning themselves. The dragonflies were very friendly and playful.

 

On the way home from the bog we were rear-ended  at a stop light. Everyone was alright but Quinn decided to take the opportunity, while waiting for the police to arrive, to finish his math work so that he could cash in some video game time.

 We cashed in our first Book-it tickets for the year and met some friends to enjoy the buffet with.

 Evelyn always does interesting drawings. Here is one I found in her CBS homework this week. Maybe I am biased but I just think all of the little details and perspective are just great! Notice the words on the t-shirts, the facial expressions, etc...  Very cute in my not-so-humble opinion...

A friend brought lots of homemade hula hoops to playgroup. Evelyn had great fun hula hooping around for hours.

The rice tray and sandpaper letters have always been a big hit with the preschool crowd at this house.Leah, our latest childcare addition, is no exception. Hey, even I enjoy running my hands through the rice. 

 Last week of soccer. Evelyn really enjoyed herself and made great strides in her game this year. Her coach took the whole team and their families our for pizza afterwards.

Weeks 6, 7 & 8

I have been a bit behind lately! So here is a summary of the last two weeks (or so!).

• ...Evelyn played a lot of soccer and scored a goal.  

• ...We completed reading aloud The Birchbark House  and began Walk the World's Rim and Incas, Aztecs and Mayans. The first two were great! The last one the kids aren't too happy with. I had been warned that it is quite graphic! 

• ...both kids memorized The Jabberwocky and added it to their memory box which is getting pretty full!

• ....We hiked Temple Mountain 

• ...and Dutton Brook Trail

• ...The girls baked my friend's  Whole Wheat Carrot Snickerdoodle Cookies...They really are good!

• ...we went apple picking

• ...Evelyn worked on multiplication. She is just about done with 2a and will be starting 2b within a couple of weeks.

• ...Quinn completed 15 math lessons. He is working on multiplying fractions and finding the area of a triangle.  He only has another week or so before he starts the next book (5b) I also ordered him Life Of Fred Decimals & Percents. I am hoping that the humorous nature of the book will appeal to him and that it will be a great supplement to Singapore 5b.

• ...Evelyn read The Courage of Sarah Noble , The Matchlock Gun and Vostaas

• ...Quinn finished reading The Hobbit and wrote a book report using the IEW 5 paragraph (!!!) model. He did well! I did not realize that this was Unit IX until after we started. I then checked with the knowledgeable folks over at the WTM forum and they encouraged me to plow ahead with a simplified version. They were right. He did just fine and even spruced up his writing on his own at several points. I imagine that after this week a three paragraph model will be a relief for him! I required two each of who/which, "ly" and quality adjective.

 

• Quinn read the last two Percy Jackson books and book #3 of The 39 Clues.  

•  Both kids worked on the french verbs "to be" and "to have". They also did much translating back and forth with the vocabulary they have learned so far. 

• Did lots of art...