Keeping It Simple

After another crazy week, I enlisted the boys to help with our highlights. They were more than happy to assist. From Paul and Mark: On Spanish: All of our friends come over to do Spanish on Thursdays. We take turns going to class in groups. We got some homework- we don't like that. Senorita Joyce read us a really fun story about "el raton" (the mouse). At the end, she asked us questions in Spanish from the story and we answered them in Spanish- like how old the mouse is- "diez"- and how old is his friend. We are going to get our own copy of the book so that we can read along with her. On Geography Class: For our geography class, we went to a nearby park ; we saw a monstrous frog, 2 damsel flies, fish, several ducks, and a bird trying to steal a fish from another bird. We read Paddle-to-the-Sea, and we made our own Paddles-to-the-Sea and set them sailing in the pond. From James: On Reading: I read my book with Grandma. This story was much harder, so...

Spelling - We are still plugging along with All About Spelling . I can't help but mention it because it has changed our school day! I am usually suspicious of someone who claims to have "built a better mouse trap"- most of the time, the old one did the job.   But, this program works for us in a way that no other program has. Part of it is that all I have to do is get out my card box, open my book, and go! This program is teacher intensive, but all the brain work is done for me. Plus, it works for my boys!! :) James loves his reader that goes with AAS. FIAR -  Because it is a short week, we did not begin another FIAR book. We finished the few lessons in Wee Gillis that we did not complete last week- this book is pretty light (not too many lessons), so we did all the lessons under all of the subjects. That does not happen all that often.                ...