12/9/13

Read up on washing -- all links

Kipling autobiography

Good Friday from Baltimore Catechism, in Almayer there is a curtain blown down by the wind at a low point in Almayer's life

Finished Almayer's Folly -- very harsh book, pre-read for sensitive kids

Read one Kipling story

Watched one episode of "The Hanging Gale"-- absolutely not to be watched without previewing, and probably edits;  but the story is compelling enough and the history relevant enough to make it worth the work -- although they do stereotype (all the kids have dirty faces).


two kids do maths, one reading

12/7/13

Oldest worked five hours at national park

Local Christmas event

Cut Christmas tree

Listened to radio dramas

Individual reading -- now reading with husband Brian's Hunt with oldest, The Giver with middle, Sans Famille with youngest

With me, finished The Two Towers with middle (and kind of youngest) and last Kristen Lavransdatter book with oldest (and kind of others).  Little Women didn't get to today.

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