12/6/13 Orange

Magnesium
Math
Grammar
Logic
Writing- finishing a flower's story from The Snow Queen
Christmas concert
Connections

Fluorine
Math
Copywork
Reading
Concert

Boron
Reading
Wild china on Netflix
Coloring

12/6/13

Non-school day -- Orthodontist appointment in town, other kids watched hours of Carmen SanDiego

Individual reading

Making of Christmas presents

12/5/13 Orange

Sequoia
Mass
Latin
Art- icon painting
Reading
Choir
Fencing

Oak
Mass
Book club- phantom tollbooth
Art- icon painting
Piano lesson
Reading
Choir

Japanese maple
Reading
Co op fun

12/5/13

Cold hits, snow, subzero temps yesterday

Dentist appointment today in town, took two hours to get there, almost as much back, so not a school day

Visit with friends in town

Grocery shopping, clothes, Christmas craft material

Individual reading

12/4/13

Lots of Almayer, trying to finish to get to Thika

Free astronomy study on youtube (looked up videos on youngest's suggestion) and ran quickly through Abeka reader while oldest does general science for co-op and makes lunch

On Pluto not being a planet (the NASA guy is wrong, though;  Pluto will always be a planet in this house).

Fun video of replacing the moon with planets -- I'm assuming they put the edge of the planet at the distance of the moon's edge from the Earth, not center/center

Fun video about rings

12/3/13

Watched Maths Challenge, number patterns and integers, working problems during show
Little Kipling
Independent reading

Went to friend's house for tea with couple families, got ready for storm

12/3/13 Orange

Bassoon
Dentist
Latin homework
Math
History- reading, spread of Islam
Latin
Violin practice

Oboe
Dentist
Math
History
Narration
Copywork
Violin practice
Hedgehog quill discussion
http://www.hedgehogcentral.com/quills.shtml

Clarinet
Dentist
Reading
Played piano

All had time outside
Started The Snow Queen

12/2/13 Pics

12/2/13 Orange

Jupiter
Art- icon painting
Book discussion
Science- colloids, microns, started vision
Mass
Math
Scout meeting

Venus
Art- icon painting
Choir practice
Mass
Science
Math

Mercury
Played food shop
Read
Legos
Little bit of writing

Finished starry river!

12/2/13

Verne illustrations

museum field trip, out of town, with friends

listen to Adventures in Odyssey

12/1/13

First Sunday of Advent

Lots of Hank the Cowdog, individual reading

Campfire with marshmallows and instruction in using hatchets on small sticks

Bike riding in the snow

11/30/13

Independent reading
Almayer
Cleaning gutters at grandparents' house
Library
Errands
Mass
Confession

Oldest finishes NaNoWriMo, 8,864 words.