11/25 school retro and planning

What Went Well
  • We completed most subjects
  • Started human body with lots of enthusiasm! 
  • Ate at home more, making bedtime successful and getting up early for school work better. 
  • Took advantage of our flexibility to take 2 mornings to count to 1000 out loud together in place of planned math.
Areas for Improvement
  • Did not finish the final day of spelling.
  • Did not successfully download Charlotte's Web
  • Did not do spelling bees most nights 
  • Did not recite poetry for the camera or mirror
  • Did not complete planned grammar.
  • Did not complete every action item.

Action Items
  • complete planning for the year
  • Download Charlotte's Web, and Trumpet of the Swan from the Library
  • create spelling words flash cards
  • get new headphones. 
Shopping/Library List:
  • The Magic School Bus: inside the human body
  • Uncover the Human Body
  • Melissa and Doug floor puzzle
  • Rookie Read about Science Series

Schedule for the week
  • Monday (11/25)
    • early
      • Math: Unit 20.2 and 20.3
      • Spanish: finish Unit  2> Lesson 1 > Core Lesson 
      • Grammar: Lesson 47 (You, your, yours)
    • morning
      • Swimming (A&L)
      • Spelling: finish lesson 10
    • afternoon
      • Composition, week 11, day 1, Trumpet of the Swan
      • Science: Read First Human Body Encyclopedia on Heart and Blood (48-59) and complete narration exercises. 
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history, needle felting, listening to audio books, reading
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Old Testament Stories 
  • spending 11/26-12/2 in Breckenridge
    • Memorize a poem with GranMiri?
    • Would like to continue Spanish Unit 2> Lesson 1> Core Lesson Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday off, Friday Unit 2> Lesson 1> Pronunciation, Saturday Unit 2> Lesson 1> Vocabulary, Sunday Unit 2> Lesson 1> Grammar, Monday off.  GranMiri might want to do this?
    • Math activities with GM?
    • Old Testament stories
  • Tuesday (December 3)
    • early
      • Grammar: Lesson 48 Pronouns
    • Kinderheart
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Wednesday (December 4)
    • early
      • Spanish: Unit  2> Lesson  2> Core
      • Grammar: Lesson 49 Pronouns
      • Math: Unit 20.4
    • morning
      • Spelling: Lesson 11
    • afternoon
      • Composition, Week 11, day 2, Trumpet of the Swan
      • Science: Play Some Body, play with Human Body model and discuss the heart. 
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history, needle felting, listening to audio books, reading
      • Gymnastics
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Thursday (December 5)
    • early
      • Spanish continue Unit 2> Lesson 2> Core
      • Grammar: Lesson 50 Pronouns
      • Math: Unit 20.5
    • Kinderheart
    • afternoon
      • Fabricate
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Friday (December 6)
    • early
      • Spanish finish Unit 2> Lesson 2> Core
      • Grammar: Lesson 51 Story Narration
      • Math: Unit 20 Review
    • morning
      • Circus Skills
      • Spelling: Lesson 12
    • afternoon
      • Composition, Week week 11, day 3, Trumpet of the Swan
      • History: Chapter 9, The first cities of India and complete review and narration exercise. 
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history, needle felting, listening to audio books, reading
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Saturday (December 7)
    • early
      • History: Chapter 9 map work, coloring sheet, read History Encyclopedia
      • Composition, Week week 11, day 4, Trumpet of the Swan
      • Spelling: Lesson 13
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Sunday (December 8)
    • Weekly planning
    • Pick a new poem
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 

11/22 progress

I finished Chapter 4 on sails and rigging in TMCS, and have made good progress in Chapter 5 on deck and cockpit layout and ground tackle.  We got a good start on evaluating candidates for our new home where we'll hunt for Lark.

11/22 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 10, Day 3,  Sacagawea, Copywork
  • Spelling: MCP SWB, lesson 8
  • Math: SKBT,  19.1, started 19.2
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 46, Introducing pronouns (I, me, my, mine) 
  • History: Read SotW1, Chapter 8: "The Assyrians"
  • Audrey started reading A Perfect Match aloud to Lorelei and Dad
  • Read to Audrey and Lorelei The Children's Illustrated Bible
    • "Abraham's Two Sons"
    • "The Sacrifice of Isaac"
    • "Isaac and Rebekah"
Lorelei

schoolwork 11.20.13

Audrey

  • Spanish: Unit 1, Lesson 4 review, Unit 1, lesson 5 milestone
  • Math: counted from 500 to 1000
  • Composition: Week 10 day 2
  • Spelling: Lesson 7
  • Science: colored cell worksheet in human body coloring book
  • Audrey read Caterpillar to Butterfly to the family

Both Girls

  • Gymnastics
  • Read Bible stories


11/19 schoolwork

Audrey and I counted aloud together to 500.

11/18/2013 Schoolwork

Audrey

  • Math: SKBT, 19.5, and 19 review
  • Spanish:  RSHS continued Unit 1>Lesson 4>Speaking
  • Science: Read the introduction in DK First Human Body Encyclopedia, narration, played with her new model (put it together 3 times naming all of the parts)
  • Swimming
  • Composition week 10 day 1
  • Bible Stories: Jacob and Esau
  • Audrey read aloud Fancy Nancy
Lorelei
  • Bible Stories
  • Swimming
  • The Little Engine that Could

Our New Human Body, Ali

A couple of weeks ago we were shopping for a birthday present at Grand Rabbits and Audrey fell in love with a human body model. She spent at least 40 minutes oohing and awing over it and reading the entire box. After that she asked if we could please learn about the human body. We were in the middle of learning about animals in science, but that is the nice thing about homeschooling. Change of plans!

We originally planned to do 20 weeks of animals, 10 weeks of human body, and 6 weeks of plants and gardening. We had only made it through 10 weeks of animals, so we plan to go back to it before plants.

We started human body today, and after we had read the introduction of our new book we unveiled the pièce de résistance, the model!  She was so excited. We put it together several times, and then she even named it, Ali.


11/16 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 9, Day 3,  Charlotte's Web narration
  • History: SotW1, Chapter 7,  "Hammurabi and the Babylonians," mapwork, crossword, coloring

Weekly retro and planning, 11/16/2013

What Went Well

  • Memorized a new poem. Didn't get to recitation, but it was fun working on the memorization
  • Audrey read to me lots
  • Math was a success! Audrey totally grasps counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s
  • Audrey created a bunch of her own spelling flash cards

Areas for Improvement
  • Stayed out late too many nights, and only read before bed 2 nights
  • Only finished 2 days of spelling
  • Forgot to read the History Encyclopedia on Saturday
  • Didn't practice spelling

Action Items
  • complete planning for the year
  • Download Charlotte's Web from the Library
  • order 1st grade Singapore Math
  • create spelling words flash cards
  • Replace our current children's bible with the DK Illustrated Children's Bible
Shopping/Library List:
  • The Magic School Bus: inside the human body
  • Uncover the Human Body
  • Melissa and Doug floor puzzle
  • Rookie Read about Science Series
  • Somebody: 5 human anatomy games

Schedule for the week
  • Monday
    • early
      • Math: 19.5
      • Spanish: finish Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Writing
      • Grammar: Lesson 46, Introducing pronouns (I, me, my, mine)
    • morning
      • Swimming (A&L)
      • Spelling: Lesson 6
    • afternoon
      • Composition, Week 10 Day 1, Davy Crockett copywork
      • Science: read the intro to the DK First Human Body Encyclopedia; narration exercise
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Bible Stories 54-69 (Esau and Jacob)
  • Tuesday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 19 review
      • Spanish: Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Speaking
      • Grammar: Lesson 47 Pronouns (you, your, yours)
    • Kinderheart
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Bible Stories  70-81 (Joseph)
  • Wednesday
    • early
      • Math: 20.1
      • Spanish: Unit 1 > Lesson 5 > Milestone
      • Grammar: Lesson 47 Pronouns (you, your, yours)
    • morning
      • Spelling: Lesson 7
    • afternoon
      • Composition, Week 10 Day 2, Davy Crockett narration
      • Science: Play Some Body
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
      • Gymnastics
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Thursday
    • early
      • Math: 20.2
      • Spanish
      • Grammar: Lesson 48 Pronouns (he, she, him, her, it, his hers its)
    • Kinderheart
    • afternoon
      • Fabricate
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Friday
    • early
      • Math: 20.3
      • Spanish
      • Grammar: Lesson 49 Pronouns (We, us, our, ours)
    • morning
      • Circus Skills
      • Spelling: Lesson 8
    • afternoon
      • Composition, Week 10 Day 3, Sacagawea copywork
      • History: Chapter 8: The Assyrians. Read, complete review questions and narration exercise.
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Saturday 
    • early
      • History: Chapter 8: The Assyrians: map work, coloring page and read out of History Encyclopedia
      • Composition, Week 10 Day 3, Sacagawea narration
      • Spelling: Lesson 9
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 
  • Sunday
    • Weekly planning
    • Pick a new poem
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories 

10/14, 10/15 progress

Made headway in Chapter 4 on sails and rigging in TMCS.

11/15 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Math: SKBT, 19.3, 19.4
  • Spanish:  RSHS continued Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Writing
  • History: SotW1, Read Chapter 7,  "Hammurabi and the Babylonians," did review questions and narration
  • Circus skills class
Lorelei
  • Read LFO, "Abe's Wolf Story," and "Fresh Greens"

11/14 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Math: SKBT, 19.1, 19.2
  • Spanish:  RSHS started Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Writing
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 45: 4 types of nouns
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 9, Day 3,  Charlotte's Web copywork 
  • Kinderheart

10/13 progress

Made headway in Chapter 4 on sails and rigging in TMCS.

11/13 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Math: SKBA, Unit 18 activity 5.  Finished Unit 18.
  • Spanish:  RSHS 
    • Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Listening
    • Unit 1 > Lesson 3 > Review
    • Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Vocabulary
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 44 Nouns (ideas)
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 9, Day 2,  Charlotte's Web narration
  • Science, Reading: Audrey read DK First Animal Encyclopedia pp. 20, 21 on bears
  • PE: gymnastics
  • Reading:
    • to her: RLBSFONT pp. 37 - 55 (Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah)
    • by her: started reading DK First Human Body Encyclopedia
Lorelei

Now What?

We sold the house, started homeschooling, have set an end date to our time in Colorado....but now what? We aren't sure where we will go in June when our lease ends.

Here are some of the places we are considering:

  • Seattle
  • Portland
  • San Francisco
  • San Diego
  • La Paz
  • South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale?)
  • North Carolina
  • Chesapeake
  • Hawaii
  • New Zealand

This is a partially brainstormed list of the criteria we want to use to decide:
  • How big the boat market is
  • Boat Prices
  • Slip Prices
  • Can we live aboard year round
  • Job Market
  • Weather
  • How easy is it to practice our cruising
  • availability of cruising training
  • Cost of living
In other news, we are unpacking very slowly, but it is starting to come together. We will probably be done just in time to sell it all and move again. One of my big goals for the next move is to find a way to offer lots of stability to the girls. This last move from Nederland was harder on us all then we had hoped for. We were deeply connected to both the town/people and the house. Also, because the girls were acting so excited about the apartment, it never crossed my mind that it was the only home they had ever had.

The first few days in the apartment were wonderful for them. They loved the novelty of sleeping in the same room! It was like vacation. Then after a few days Audrey asked, 'Mom, can we go home now?' That was a little heartbreaking. I still believe that this all will be a wonderful experience for our family that will be incredibly bonding...but the transitions are hard. 





Riding her imaginary unicorn Starlight

practicing her gymnastics moves

Grampsy flew in just for Lorelei's birthday!

11/12 progress

Finished Chapter 3 on hull construction in TMCS.

11/12 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Math: SKBA, Unit 18 activities 1, 2, 4
  • Spanish:  RSHS Unit 1 > Lesson 3 > Speaking
  • Kinderheart
  • Spelling: MCP B, lesson 4
  • Reading:
    • Amelia Bedelia for Mayor
    • The Greek King and the Princess 
    • The Princess That Never Smiled
Lorelei
  • Reading: RLBSFONT through page 36 (creation, Eden, the flood, and the Tower of Babel)

11/11 progress

Finished the sections on fiberglass and wood hull construction in TMCS; started on metal.

11/11 schoolwork

Audrey
Lorelei
  • PE: Swim lessons
  • Reading: RLBSFONT through page 36 (creation, Eden, the flood, and the Tower of Babel)

11/10 progress

Read on fiberglass construction in TMCS.

Weekly retro and planning, 11/10/2013

Action Items
  • complete planning for the year
  • discuss how to offer kids more normalcy during our next move
  • log onto the library website and see if we can download Charlotte's Web
  • copy Narnia and The Tale of Despereaux to Audrey's iPod
  • research how to switch to Human Body for Science next week: What curriculum, manipulative?  (Audrey requested it)
  • order 1st grade Singapore Math
Shopping/Library List:
  • The Magic School Bus: inside the human body
  • Uncover the Human Body
  • Melissa and Doug floor puzzle
  • Rookie Read about Science Series
  • Somebody: 5 human anatomy games

Schedule for the week
  • Monday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 18 review
      • Spanish: finish Unit 1 Lesson 3 writing
      • Grammar: Lesson 40 (months)
    • morning
      • Swimming (A&L)
      • Spelling: Lesson 4
    • afternoon
      • Composition, week 9 Charlotte's Web day 1, copy work
      • Science: Bears, pages 20 and 21
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Bible Stories through page 24 (Creation and Eden)
  • Tuesday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 18 activity 1
      • Spanish: Unit 1 Lesson 3 speaking
      • Grammar: Lesson 41 (months)
    • Kinderheart
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • reading
      • Bible Stories through page 36 (The flood and the Tower of Babel)
  • Wednesday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 18 activity 2
      • Spanish: Unit 1 Lesson 4 listening
      • Grammar: Lesson 43 months
    • morning
      • Spelling: Lesson 5
    • afternoon
      • Composition: week 9 Charlotte's Web day 2, narration
      • Science: Bears
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
      • Gymnastics
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories through page 48 (Abraham and Isaac)
  • Thursday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 18 activity 3
      • Spanish: Unit 1 Lesson 3 review
      • Grammar: Lesson 44 ideas
    • Kinderheart
    • afternoon
      • Fabricate
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories through page 58 (Esau and Jacob)
  • Friday
    • early
      • Math: Unit 18 activity 4
      • Spanish: Unit 1 Lesson 4 vocabulary
      • Grammar: Lesson 45 4 types of nouns
    • morning
      • Spelling: Lesson 6
    • afternoon
      • Composition: week 9 Charlotte's Web day 3, copy work
      • History: Chapter 7 Hammurabi and the Babylonians, read, review and narration
      • Quiet time (self directed time)
        • options include, correspondence, handwriting, art for science or history
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories through page 70 (Esau and Jacob)
  • Saturday 
    • early
      • History: Chapter 7 Hammurabi and the Babylonians, map work, coloring page and crossword puzzle, page 132 in the history encyclopedia. 
      • Composition: week 9 Charlotte's Web day 4, narration
      • Spelling: Lesson 7
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories through page 81 (Joseph)
  • Sunday
    • Weekly planning
    • Pick a new poem
    • dinner time
      • Poem practice 
      • Spelling bee
    • Reading
      • Bible Stories through page 98 (Moses)

11/8 schoolwork

Spanish: RSHS, U1 > L3 > writing

11/7 progress

Started Chapter 2 in TMCS on hull construction and materials .

11/7 schoolwork

Math 18.12-18.14
Kinderheart
Fabricate
Finished TWO with both girls
Audrey read Lo and me the story of Jacob and the goatskins from her Bible stories book

11/6 progress

Plugging away at TMCS.  Finished Ch 1.  Need to write up notes on form and reserve stability, stability curves, capsize indexes, etc.

11/6 schoolwork

Math 18.10, 18.11
Spanish U1 > L4 > Grammar
Science: Read three books on wolves, did a narration and dictation excercise
Wrote a letter to GranMiri

11/5 schoolwork

Spanish with Audrey
Read Little Farm in the Ozarks, "Theif!" to both girls
Read TWO, "Slaying of the Suitors" 

11/4 schoolwork

Math 18.6, 18.7
Grammar 38
Spanish U1 > L3 > Listening
Read TWO, on the archery contest

11/3 retro and planning

What went well:
Two long lessons in Spanish this week that went well. It meant postponing two days of math, but that is the nice thing about homeschooling -- you can focus on what feels important in the moment.


Areas for improvement:
We still haven't gotten back on schedule with our poem memorization. We are behind on correspondence, mostly because we can't find our envelopes in all of the unpacking mess. We still haven't made it to our new library.


Action Items:
  • Hear Audrey read to us daily
  • Go to the library by Friday morning
  • Pick a new poem on Monday night at dinner
  • Look into switching to the human body for science next week. Audrey is really interested in it, so we are thinking of postponing the second half of biology (animal studies) until after human body.


Schedule for the week

    Monday
        early
            Math
            Spanish
            Grammar
        morning
            Swimming (A&L)
        lunch
            reading with Lorelei
        afternoon
            Spelling
            Composition
            Science
        dinner
            Poem practice
            Spelling bee
        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey
          
    Tuesday
        early
            Math
            Spanish
            Grammar
        daytime
            Kinderheart        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey
          
    Wednesday
        early
            Math
            Spanish
            Grammar
        lunch
            reading with Lorelei
        afternoon
            Gymnastics A&L
            Spelling
            Composition
            Science
        dinner
            Poem practice
            Spelling bee
        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey
                 
    Thursday
        early
            Math
            Spanish
            Grammar
        daytime
            Kinderheart        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey
         
    Friday
        early
            Math
            Spanish
            Grammar
        lunch
            reading with Lorelei
        afternoon
            Gymnastics A&L
            Spelling
            Composition
            Science
        dinner
            Poem practice
            Spelling bee
        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey
                 
    Saturday
        early
            History            Composition
            Grammar
            Spelling
        dinner            Poem practice
            Spelling bee
        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey

    Sunday
        Weekly planning
        Pick a new poem
        bedtime
            reading to Audrey
            reading by Audrey

Activities for self-directed time:

  • correspondence
  • handwriting work book
  • history/science coloring sheets
  • copy work of poems/picture of poem

11/2 schoolwork

 Audrey
  • History: Narration and review on Judaism, finish map work from Jewish People chapter, and word search. 
  • Reading: A Little Princess
  • Grammar: Lesson 37 
Reading to Audrey and Lorelei: finished TWO, "The Beggar in the Corner" 

11/1 progress

Read more on hull form in TMCS.

11/1 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson36
  • Math: SKBT, Unit 18.6
  • Spanish: RSHS, Unit 1 > Lesson 2 > Listening
  • Spelling: MCP B lesson 3
  • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced through p.60
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 8, Days 3
  • Science: Read and Color on Anteaters
Read Lorelei Ch. 6, 7 from Stuart Little

10/31 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Spanish: RSHS, started Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Core Lesson 
  • Math: 18.4 
  • Kinderheart

10/30 progress

I made some progress in TMCS.

10/30 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Spanish: RSHS, started Unit 1 > Lesson 4 > Core Lesson
  • Grammar: Lesson 34
  • Spelling: started SWB lesson 2
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 8 Day 2
  • Science: Reading and narration on anteaters
  • PE: gymnastics
  • Reading
    • to both: TWO, started "The Beggar in the Corner" 
    • by Audrey
      • anteaters page out of DK Animal Encyclopedia
 Lorelei
  • PE: gymnastics
  • Reading

10/29 progress

I've been learning lots about lateral hull form -- full and fin keels, attached and spade rudders -- from The Modern Cruising Sailboat : A Complete Guide to its Design, Construction, and Outfitting.  Our next steps at this point are:
  1. to continue to reduce our load 
  2. to figure out where to go next 
  3. to complete out first aid training project
  4. to continue training and educational efforts in cruising skills -- celestial and coastal navigation; diesel and electrical maintenance and repair; sail and deck maintenance and repair, etc.
  5. working and sustaining while we're out
We'll forge ahead on those while continuing to learn all we can about about boats and boat design and cruising and continuing to press ahead with school, and continually reevaluating and adjusting of our approach it.

10/29 school

Audrey
  • Math: 18.2, 18.3
  • Spanish: Unit 1 > Lesson 3 > Vocabulary
  • Grammar: Lesson 33
  • Kinderheart
  • Reading to her: TWO, "Return to Ithaca" 
Reading to Lorelei and Audrey: Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

School retro and planning for the week of 10/27

What went well
We managed to fit in a small amount of school in the midst of our chaos. We finished Spelling Workout A, enjoyed our chapter on Jewish People in Story of the World. Audrey really wanted to do Spanish lessons, so we found time for it, and she had her first writing/spelling assignment, which she ACED (93%)! Finished unit 17 in math.



Areas for improvement
Get morning school started again, which means getting the girls to bed on time. Find our new local library and start library trips again.  Audrey is fed up with nouns.  48 lessons is a little much.



Action Items
Getting the girls to bed on time means we need to plan more effectively for evening routines.   Get back  on the horse with poems and spelling bees. skip some of the repetitive lessons in the grammar book.

Schedule for the week

  • Monday
    • Poem practice 
    • Math - Unit 18.1
    • Spanish - 
    • Grammar - lesson 31
    • Swimming (A&L)
    • Spelling - SWB lesson 1
    • Composition - Week 7 day 4 and week 8 day 1
    • History - Narration and review on Judaism, finish map work from Jewish People chapter, and word search. 
    • Reading
      • to Audrey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Tuesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Math  - Unit 18.2
    • Spanish - 1 piece
    • Grammar - lesson 33
    • Kinderheart
    • Reading
      • to Audrey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Wednesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Math - Unit 18.3
    • Spanish - 1 piece 
    • Grammar - lesson 34
    • Spelling - SWB lesson 2
    • Composition - week 8 day 2
    • Science - Anteaters, Read and Narration Question 
    • Audrey and Lorelei Gymnastics
    • Reading
      • to Audrey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Thursday
    • Poem practice
    • Math - Unit 18.4
    • Spanish - 1 piece
    • Grammar - lesson 35 (1st 1/2 only)
    • Kinderheart
    • Reading
      • to Audrey
      • by Audrey
      • to Loreleip
      • TYCTR
  • Friday
    • Poem practice
    • Math - Unit 18.5
    • Spanish - 1 piece
    • Grammar - lesson 36
    • Spelling - SWB lesson 3
    • Composition - week 8 day 3
    • Science - Read and Color on Anteaters
    • Poem practice
    • Reading
      • to Audrey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Saturday 
    • Poem recitiation
    • History - Read about Judaism in the Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions. Make a notebook page. 
    • Composition - week 8 day 4
    • Grammar
    • Spelling - SWB lesson 4
    • Grammar
  • Sunday
    • Weekly planning
    • Pick a new poem




Schoolwork, week of 10/20

We've been completely derailed by this move, and we've missed lots of what we'd planned.  April and Audrey have made good headway nonetheless and Audrey and I did a few things ourselves.  Here's where we now stand:

Spanish: RSHS working on Lesson 3 of Unit 1
History: SotW1, Read Chapter 6, "The Jewish People." Need to do map work.
Math: SKBT, finished Lesson 17
Spelling: finished MCP A
Composition: WWE: 1, Week 7, finished Days 1 and 2
Grammar: FLL: 1, finished Lesson 29
Science: studies moles 
Reading: TWO, "The King's Daughter"

10/23 progress

Moving has rocked our worlds but we are starting to get back to our routines and back to feeling like ourselves.  April and Audrey did school today, and the girls both did PE. 

We closed on the house yesterday, and with that we are debt free.  Those are big steps.

Here's a picture of Audrey and our moving truck.  Cool, right?  Though I wouldn't recommend U-haul to anyone ever after our experience.  Remind me to tell you about that sometime.

10/23 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Days 3, 4
  • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 35
  • PE: gymnastics 
Lorelei
  • PE: gymnastics

Driving and crying

Well that was fun.  The movers didn't show so we were left scrambling.

We are in the new place for the second night but still have a truckload of stuff to deal with. 

Everyone's sick but me.  School has been on the back burner.  Tomorrow I hope we'll be able to turn in the moving truck finally, and take a breather.

Closing is Tuesday.  

We all had a good cry looking at the places we spent our first days and nights home with our babies, and rocked them to sleep, and changed their diapers and watched them learn to walk, and enjoyed the company of family and friends.  I could start crying again right now.  

So anyway, now we have 8 months to continue to cut mercilessly at our load.  We thought we'd cut pretty deep but we need go way deeper, as two 24-foot truckloads attest.

So yeah.  As expected,  we built a lot of character.

our last picture of the view at 252 Switzerland Trail

10/18

Well, we had another big packing day, and no school. 

Len and Audrey picked up the U-haul but we didn't really do anything with it.  It will be good to be able to get started loading it first thing in the morning.  

Len told me a funny story about how Audrey took off her socks and shoes and put them in the glove box.  It was her first time riding in the front seat (since it only has a front seat).  He said, "I see you put your socks and shoes in the glove box," and she said , "Is that what they call that? I thought it was for socks and shoes."

We had a really nice last visit to the Backdoor Theatre, and Kayla made a nice little spectacle of us.  That was nice.

This Nederland weather is not doing anything to put me in a nostalgic mood.  With this crazy cold and howling wind, it's really more like it's saying, "... and don't let the door hit you in the ass."  Thank you, wind, we won't. 

10/17 progress, sorta

So yeah, now we're all sick and it's snowing just as we are picking the U-haul tomorrow.  We're all about to build a lot of character with this move. 

With the pupils and teachers all sick we pretty much took the day off of school.  We did finish the Telemachus chapter in TWO, and Audrey went go to Kinderheart and Fabricate, where all the other kids are all sick already too.

Packing, moving, schooling, ailing

Thanks so much to our wonderful circle of friends in Nederland who organized a sending-off party for us and said so many nice things to us and offered so much encouragement and excitement for our big adventure, not to mention contributing so generously to our boat fund.  You guys are really wonderful friends and we feel so lucky to have you in our lives.

We had good success with our moving sale this weekend, both in reducing our load and in funding our adventure.  We have been packing furiously for days.  Saturday is moving day.  Len flew all the way out just to help us this weekend which will be a tremendous help.

Audrey continues to make great daily progress, while we continue to gain confidence in ownschooling

April and the girls having been trying with mixed result to overcome a tenacious bug which has finally begun to breach my immune defenses as well, just in time for moving weekend. 


Audrey climbing trees at Kinderheart

10/16 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Poem practice 
  • Math: SKBT 17.6-17.7
  • Spanish: RSHS 
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 29
  • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 33
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Days 3, 4
  • History: Finish Ch. 5
  • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
  • Reading
    • to Audrey: TWO, began "Farewell to Calypso"

Weekly Planning 10/14 - 10/31/2013



Schedule for the weeks
  • Monday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 17.4 - 17.5
    • Spanish: RSHS Unit 3 Core Lesson
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 28
    • Swimming (A&L)
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 33
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 2
    • Science: Moles
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "Sea Perils"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Tuesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 17.6 - 17.7
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 29
    • Kinderheart and Aspen Grove
    • Reading
      • to Audrey:  TWO, "Telemachus Seeks His Father"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Wednesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 17.8
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 30
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 34
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 3
    • History: Finish Ch. 5
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Grampsy arrives
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "Farewell to Calypso"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Thursday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT Unit 17 review
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 31
    • Kinderheart
    • Fabricate
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The King's Daughter"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Friday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBA activity 1
    • Spanish: RSHS
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 32
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The Phaeacian Games"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Saturday 
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Moving Day
  • Sunday
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "Return to Ithaca"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Monday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math:  SKBA activity 2
    • Spanish: RSHS
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 33
    • Swimming (A&L)
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The Beggar in the Corner"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Tuesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 18.1
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 34
    • Kinderheart and Aspen Grove
    • Reading
      • to Audrey:  TWO, "The Archery Contest"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Wednesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 18.2 - 18.3
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 35
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 35
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 3
    • History: Ch. 6, section 1, read, review qsts, narration
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The Slaying of the Suitors"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Thursday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 18.4 - 18.5
    • Spanish: RSHS 
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 36
    • Kinderheart
    • Fabricate
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "Peace in the Islands"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Friday
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • Math: SKBT 18.6 - 18.7
    • Spanish: RSHS
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 4
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 37
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 36
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • History: Ch. 6, section 2, read, review qsts, narration
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The Fall of Troy"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Saturday 
    • Poem practice 
    • Spelling bee
    • History: Ch. 6, map work, coloring
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "The Wanderings of Aeneas"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Sunday
    • Weekly planning 
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: TWO, "A Storm and a Welcome"
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
    • Film poem

10/14 schoolwork


We'll Rest When We're Dead!

Or maybe just after we finish this move.

What a weekend! My wonderful aunt, uncle and cousins had the girls over to spend the night, and Jacob and I worked, worked, worked. We had a pretty successful moving sale, although we still have a few things left to sell/give before we move. We also packed our asses off. Tackling Audrey's room was a super huge challenge. I think we hauled two giant trash bags out. Jacob wanted to report her to the T.V. show Hoarders. She loves price tags, twist ties, buttons, ribbon scraps, you name it and she saves it! I know where she gets it from! I have been working for 37 years to be able to throw things away.

The good news, I think we will be ready to move next Saturday!

Some recent pics:
Audrey listening to audio books while she works on writing letters


Lorelei smelling the flowers

schoolwork

Audrey
  • Spelling bee
  • Math: SKBT 17.1-17.3
  • Spanish: RSHS L1, begin U1, L3, Core Lesson
  • Composition: catching up on correspondence
  • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
  • Reading
    • to Audrey: TWO, ch. 5

10/10 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Kinderheart
  • Fabricate
  • Reading
    • to her: TWO, ch. 4, Circe
    • by her: April and Audrey took turns reading page in her Beauty and the Beast book
Lorelei

It's a funny thing

Blogging is a funny thing.  Unless you're a famous blogger, you assume that no one reads what you write.   Then you run into someone you haven't seen for six months and they're fully up to speed on your life. 

10/9 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Math: SKBA Unit 16 Activities 1, 2
  • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L2, Vocabulary
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 27
  • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 32
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 1
  • Science: moles
  • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced, through p. 28
  • PE, Art: Dance class
Reading to both

10/8 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Poem practice
  • Math: SKBT 16.3-16.4, Unit 16 Review
  • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L2, Grammar
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 26
  • Kinderheart
  • Reading to her: Prologue and first 2 chapters of The Wanderings of Odysseus
Lorelei

10/7 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Math: SKBT 16.2
  • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L1, Listening and reading
  • Swimming lesson
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 25
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 5, Day 4
  • History: SotW1, Read Chapter 5, answer review questions, and do dictation
  • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced through page 19
  • Reading
Lorelei

10/6 school retro, planning

What went well
  • Good progress in all subjects.
  • A full lesson of spelling 3x/week rather than 1/2 a lesson 5x/week works well.
  • Ad hoc spelling bees using the flashcard app are fun and motiviating.
  • Librivox audio at midday rest is great.
  • Learned our poem.
Areas for improvement
  • Didn't do the work planned for Saturday due to packing.  
  • Didn't film poem recitation.
  • Library trips and returning books on time.
Action Items
  • Pick a new poem
  • Film recitation on Saturday
Schedule for the week
  • Monday
    • Math: SKBT 16.2-16.4
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L1, Listenting and reading
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 25
    • Swimming (A&L)
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 32
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 5, Day 4
    • History: SotW1, Read Chapter 5, answer review questions, and do dictation
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: Finish the Iliad
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Tuesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Math: SKBT Unit 16 Review, SKBA Unit 16 Activities 1, 2
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L2, Grammar
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 26
    • Kinderheart
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Wednesday
    • Poem practice 
    • Math: SKBA Unit 16 Activities 3, 4
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L2, Grammar
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 28
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 33
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 1
    • Science: Read about moles, dictation, copywork
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Audrey dance
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Thursday
    • Poem practice
    • Math: SKBA Unit 16 Activity 5, 17.1
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, U1, L2, Vocabulary
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 29
    • Kinderheart
    • Lorelei dance
    • Fabricate
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Friday
    • Poem practice
    • Math: SKBT 17.2 - 17.5
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, begin U1, L3, Core Lesson
    • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 30
    • Spelling: MCP A, Lesson 34
    • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 6, Day 2
    • Science: mole stuff
    • Handwriting: ZBH1, self-paced
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Saturday 
    • Poem recitiation
    • History: SotW1, Chapter 5 mapwork, coloring
    • Spanish: RSHS L1, finish U1, L3, Core Lesson
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
  • Sunday
    • Weekly planning
      • remember to return to Math 17.4
    • Pick a new poem
    • Reading
      • to Audrey: the Odyssey
      • by Audrey
      • to Lorelei
      • TYCTR
Audrey's latest sewing creation. A pillow with a hand embroidered mermaid. 

Lorelei and her friend Rory in position and ready for dance class to begin




10/6 progress

We packed for hours and have hours and hours of packing still to do.  We did make good headway in the garage and upstairs.

We also signed a lease through spring, when we'll catch the first train for the coast.

10/4 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Spanish: RSHS Level 1 Unit 1 Lesson 2, Pronunciation
  • Math: SKBA Unit 15, Activities 3, 4,  5, Subtraction
  • Grammar: FLL: 1, Lesson 24, Picture narration: "The Family"
  • Composition: WWE: 1, Week 5 Day 3, Copywork, Grimm brothers 
  • MCP A, Lesson 31

10/3 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Spanish: finished Level 1 Unit 1 Lesson 2, Core Lesson
  • Math: Unit 15 Review, Activities 1, 2, Subtraction
  • Reading
    • to her: Iliad "Poisoned Arrow"
  • Grammar: Lesson 23, Common nouns (things)
  • Kinderheart
Lorelei: dance

Lots of balls in the air

Wow, we're kind of overdue for a post, aren't we?

Though it's been quiet here on the main blog page, more for lack of time than for lack of news, we are making daily updates to our school and progress journals, and plowing ahead with the project to take our little family to sea and escape the Empire.

We are moving in 17 days and closing in 20.

I finished TSOS and have returned to BOS. That was great book and so is this one. 

We are cruising with Lorelei and Audrey's schoolwork.  Lorelei is intermittently working on TYCTR as she requests. We are 3 chapters from finishing the Iliad with Audrey and will pick up the Odyssey next week.  She finished her kindergarten handwriting curriculum and we've just received her first grade curriculum.  She's 2 weeks from completing her first of 2 spelling workbooks for the first grade, and we'll wrap up her Singapore Math kindergarten curriculum by Thanksgiving, so we'll also be diving into the next set of curricula for each of those.  She's also been studying a new family of animals each week; learning about the first farmers in the Fertile Crescent and about ancient Egypt;  doing lots of copywork and narration in her composition curriculum; and learning about nouns, common and proper, in excruciating detail.  Pronouns won't be until lesson 48, if you can believe that.  Wax on, wax off.

The wilderness first aid project is on hold until we can get moved and settled.

Other projects in flight but mostly on hold include figuring where to go find a boat in spring, getting passports current again, and gathering lots of evidence of work history in support of work visas at various stages in our journey.




10/2 schoolwork

Audrey
  • Spanish: started Level 1 Unit 1 Lesson 2, Core Lesson
  • Math: 15.8, Subtraction
  • Reading
    • to her: Iliad "The Death of Achilles"
    • by her: Mittens 
  • Grammar: Lesson 22, Story Narration, "The Little Girl Who Wanted to Be Dirty"
  • Composition: Week 5 Day Two, Narration, "The Frog Prince"
  • Spelling: Lesson 30, "y as a vowel,"
  • Science: Coloring, narration and copywork on apes 
  • Memorization: worked on "For Katrina's Sundial," Henry van Dyke
  • PE, Art: dance class
Lorelei:
  • TYCTR, Lesson 2

10/1 progress

All our inspections and appraisals and everything are complete and all our buyer's inspections and appraisals and we are a go. Move out should be on the 19th.  Now if only we could motivate to pack.

I'm progressing through BOS.  Cap'n Fatty said that you should sign up for the West Marine catalog, so I did, and that came today.  Not that I'm going to start buying $3000 winches or $17000 roller furlers, but just for the educational content.  There really are a lot of interesting little sidebars and stuff.

10/1 schoolwork

Audrey

  • Reading:  
    • to her: Iliad, "Women Warriors"
    • by her: Biscuit's Picnic
  • Composition: WWE: 1, finished Week 5 Days 1 (Narration and Copywork, on the brothers Grimm)
  • History: SotW1 finished map work, coloring page, cleaned up narration and copywork for Chapter 4, "The Old Kingdom of Egypt", sections 1, 2 "Making Mummies," and "Egyptian Pyramids"
  • PE: swimming