11/2/13

Not a school day

Kids coming and going on colds, so skipping Mass, etc.

Oldest healthy, rode horse at horse rescue, watched part of play

Other kids, outside all day, cleaned out chimney with dad, stacked wood, tire swing

11/1/13

Donald Duck and math

Animals

All Saint's -- no Mass, one kid coughing and churches crowded, hit Confession and Adoration in empty Church instead, read Saint books

Bought jeans, Goodwill, and boots and socks for the winter, ate food as feast day

10/31/13

Co-op
Halloween
Carmen San Diego

10/31/13 Orange

Stone
Latin
Art- icon making
All Saints Day party
Reading

Bronze
Book club- Moffats
Latin
Party
Reading

Iron
Reading
Sorting
Party
Nigel Marven's Chased by Dinosaurs
Trick or treating

10/30/13 Orange

10/30

Papa bear

Math

Spelling- correction of organ grinder composition 

Violin lesson

Mitre making for All Saints Day at co op

Mama bear

Math

History- chapter 41 of SOTW2. One. More. Chapter. Then we'll actually start the book we were supposed to start 2 months ago. 

Wrote her own narration of John Cabot. Very good spelling and punctuation. 

Wrote three bits about St. Therese just to have in case she goes deer in the headlights at co op. 

Venn diagram about the two houses in the Moffats. 

Violin lesson

Baby bear

Read Geronimo Stilton, partly out loud to me. 

Did some writing exercises from getty dubais italics book. Mountains, circles, crosses, x's. 

Outside time for all.

10/30/13

Boris Karloff

Whales

Spectrum, this is a kick

Circuit board video for oldest

Math Mammoth, one hour writing, one hour reading

Letters Homesteader

Catch up on videos

Visit with friends

Quiz from Monday's work:

10/30/13 Quiz

1.  Write a short paragraph (200 to 400 words) explaining the conflict in the plot of “Sarah, Plain and Tall”, or describing the main characters.  Include all the important characters.

2.  Why did Cora Belle never seem to have enough money?

3.  What surprise did Mrs. Stewart have to tell her old boss, Mrs. Coney?

4.  Tell me two different ways we can keep track of the passage of time.

5.  What happens when you put white light through a prism?

6.  In the photo-electric effect, when ultraviolet light shines on a metal surface, it knocks

off some e_______________.

7.  Physicists once thought light was just waves, but now they believe it is made of

p________________.

Extra Credit:

If you combine red, blue, and green light, what do you get?

10/29/13

Not a school day, cleaned house
Friend over, kids made lunch, picnic

Shopping for Halloween costume
Library

Individual reading (Kristin, Little women)

Oldest made duct tape shoes

10/2913 Pics

10/28/13 Orange

Old
Ward method (music theory through singing)
Book club 20,000 leagues
Science- light
Some videos

http://youtu.be/FAivtXJOsiI
http://youtu.be/1pfqIcSydgE
http://youtu.be/Wp20Sc8qPeo
http://youtu.be/-zexOIGlrFo
http://youtu.be/xZ6XUk7QLbU
http://youtu.be/JGqsi_LDUn0
http://youtu.be/uucYGK_Ymp0

Math
Boy Scouts meeting

Not so old
Art- icons
Ward method
Science- same
Math
Violin practice

Not very old at all
Touch bags
Leaf collecting
Drawing- really coming into his own, still likes a fist grip though
Reading- kingfisher oceans

All- read aloud Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (about halfway through)

10/28/13

Very fabulous map of Africa with other countries fit inside it.

Math Mammoth, one hour reading (Chekhov stories, Little Women, various), one hour writing

several hours outside, tire swing, fort, property run

Finished Sarah Plain and Tall

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Einstein's Universe

Dance for middle