Weekly Wrap-up #2

No school this week but I have pictures to share. We spent Wednesday at a lake and just enjoyed the outdoors.

Blue Heron

Great Egret

We also saw some kind of sandpiper birds, but I couldn't get a good picture. 

Weekly Wrap-up #1

I'm going to start doing these "Weekly Wrap-ups" each week, as a way to record what we have done. 
We actually started our new school year this week. Everyone else is enjoying their summer break, and we are doing school work. The kids would not hear of this summer break thing. We got our new books, and they were begging to start them right away. Joel even said in his whiniest voice, "Mom, If we don't do summer school, we will forget everything." I love that they love to learn so I gave in and let them so some work. 

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What we learned:

Trista 

x Genesis 1 to 3 - read to Joel

x Rod and Staff english - 3 lessons

x Editor in Cheif - 1 lesson

x McGuffey Spelling - 10 spelling words

x Khan Academy Math - 20 minutes

x Math lessons - 3 exercises

x Daily Word Problems - 3 days 

x This Country of Ours - Ch. 29 - The Founding of Connecticut And War With the   Indians 1636-39

x Child's History of the World - Ch. 71 - Charles I

x Trial and Triumph - Ch. 28 - Richard Cameron, Lion of the Covenant (1644-1680)

x Minn of the Mississippi - Ch. 1

x Daily Geography - 3 days

x Spectrum Science - Lesson 1.1 

x Storybook of Science - Ch. 1 - The Six & Ch. 2 - The Fairy Tale and the True Story

x Building Thinking Skills - 6 pages

Word Roots - 1 page

PLUS - Notebooking and Timeline activities!

Joel

x Genesis 1 to 3 - listened to Trista read

x Missionary Stories - Introduction

x Primary Language Lessons - Lesson 1

x Phonics Pathways - 2 pages

x The Boxcar Children (RA) - Ch. 1-2

x Real Mother Goose - 1 page

x Math Lessons - 2 exercise

x An Island Story - Ch. 1 - The Stories of Albion and Brutus

x Paddle to the Sea - Ch. 1

x Discovering Nature: All Nature Sings - 2 exercises

x Building Thinking Skills - 4 pages

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Mom's Education

I started Don Quixote exactly one month ago and am now on Chapter 26. This is actually my third time reading it, and I am seeing things in a different perspective. It is slightly difficult to motivate myself to read it everyday, since I have already read it, but I am still enjoying it.

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We had fun roasting marshmallows over a bonfire Thursday night!

Quote from John Taylor Gatto, former New York (Public School) Teacher of the Year, and promoter of homeschooling

I read this today and had to share: 

"What you should be doing is exactly what you are doing now: spending about 90 percent of your time solving the problems of rearing your family decently and bringing the best out of your kids, and giving them a sense of religious purpose and civic purpose and personal power and strength. I've come to believe that most of the power that this other side has is not through their armies; it's through our fear that if we don't do what they tell us to do that somehow we'll lose out. Ignore these people's attempts to infect you with fear. If your kid knows how to read well (I think that's very important), count well, has a good attitude, loves work (sees that work is a grace and not a curse), your kid is practically impregnable."

- from an interview published in Homeschooling Today magazine, January/February 2001

I also wanted to share this post for anyone doubting that they can educate their children:

You are Qualified to Homeschool!

Enjoy!