This week in review

The vomit monster visited our house again last night. And at the same time the extreme bloody nose monster visited also. Fortunately both the affected boys share a room, so we only had to disrupt one roomful of children at 2:00 a.m. instead of two. Another two of the children have fevers today. Our initial theory of food poisoning is now in question. And there is another mountain of laundry (why do these types of things always happen at night?). We're on our third day of the brat diet - banana, rice, applesauce, toast.

In spite of the illness, here is what we have learned about this week:

Separately: Each child continued in their appropriate math books. Daughter G got 100% on her multiplication test! And son G also got 100% on his addition/subtraction test. We love, love, love Math U See and only wish we had discovered it earlier. We began using this curriculum last March and have found it easy to use, easy to understand, and oftentimes fun to boot! It teaches for mastery, so you cover the same topics in depth for a long period of time rather than a huge mixture of new material/review material every week.

The 3 middle boys also worked in their phonics workbooks, and each child worked in their age appropriate copybooks. Daughter G learned more about limiting and descriptive adjectives. Sons G and L learned "nk" and "ng" words in spelling. Son C began learning about the letter "t" and wrote a page about corn in his book about fall (he dictated to me and I wrote what he said except for the word "corn" which he wrote himself).

Daughter G began learning about speech writing and picked a topic. She will be writing her first speech and presenting it at our unit celebration sometime before Christmas. She also had a sewing lesson this week (with the machine), more on that tomorrow for Sew Crafty Friday.

Son A learned that "A" is his special letter! It's so cute, he really knows it now. Whenever he sees an "A" anywhere he will say excitedly, "that's my special letter!"

The middle 3 boys worked on memorizing verses from their Awana books.

Together: We went on a nature walk and collected leaves. We learned about the Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Colonies (I learned so much!! This is one of my favorite things about homeschooling, I get to learn together with my kids!!). We worked on our history lapbooks, including a color coded map showing which of the 13 colonies were northern colonies, which were middle colonies, and which were southern colonies. We finished "Sign of the Beaver" for our literature selection (having sick kids is very conducive to reading aloud!). Great book! We took the week off from Science.

G putting leaves in her flower/leaf press.

The middle boys doing pizza math!