It was a big week in la casa Roth. We took the Sunday before school started to explore a couple of the many parks in our neighborhood. There is no shortage of parks in Chile. The boys love pretending to be on American Ninja Warrior at the one park. So many things to climb on and now they have all mastered the monkey bars.
First week of School
We started back to school this week and had our annual "Not-Back to School" Breakfast. I decorated the table and the boys had a breakfast of muffins, scrambled eggs, and sausage. Then we jumped right in to our lessons. We started out with a school interview and the boys read them aloud to each other. Then I brought out a roll of toilet paper and asked them to take as much as they would like. Well, they think more is better, but in this case they had to share something about themselves for each square they tore off. It took a long time.
This week we started with about half of our lessons. I am still waiting on our shipment to arrive and that has quite a bit of my curriculum in it. The boys worked on handwriting. math, spelling, lots of Spanish, reading, 50 States, and grammar. We will be adding in everything else once we get it, which should be September 15th!!
For math, Britton and Lincoln are still using Horizon's math and Greyson is starting with Teaching Textbooks.
What we are reading
During our daily read aloud I am reading, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. I cannot put this book down. It is beautifully written and has such a sense of sadness and optimism all at the same time. I can't wait to find out what happens in this story.
At night I am reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick to Greyson and Lincoln. Do not let the size of the book turn you away because so much of this story is done through illustrations. I'm still not really sure where this book is going, but in a good way. It's such a mystery and I am intrigued to see where it is all going to end up.
I am reading Superfudge by Judy Blume to Britton. Britton and I have really enjoyed reading the Fudge series together. Just a classic!
Chang
Chang (elephant in Thai) is officially our dog. This week we bought him a collar, gave him his first bath, and the vet came to our house to give him his first check up. She told us he is around 3 years old and seemed very healthy. She gave him his vaccines and parasite medication. She was a little worried that he would bite her when she gave him his shots, but he was so good. I honestly don't know how this dog was not raised by someone. He is so calm. Listens when we tell him to sit or stay. And we can walk him around the whole neighborhood without his leash, even though there are a million dogs barking at him. He just follows along and never makes a sound. He really is a great dog so far. Besides tearing apart my garbage every few days.
Excitement this week
We got our new furniture this week. This guy custom builds and makes this furniture. I am really pleased with how it turned out.
We finished everything on our schedule for the week! Huge success!!
I made a big pot of applesauce for the boys. Want to guess how many liked it? One! Really, boys? It's applesauce.
I got my printer. I don't think the boys were as excited as I was.
We ended our first day of school with lots of smiles. One boy may have even claimed that he had fun! We ended our week by going out to dinner at a cute little place and had burgers, empanadas, and papas fritas. Yum!! And I didn't take any pictures!!
Chilean Celebrations
Next weekend is Dieciocho, which is the Chilean independence day. Ben will get a week off of school and there will be a ton of celebrations. Ben's school started the celebration off today with lots of Chilean activities. There was music, dancing, and horses. The boys even got to try and climb the greased pole. It was a lot of fun. We even had some yummy Chilean food. But forgot to order water without gas. We got carbonated water instead of flat water. Yuck.
Not one of my children
Lincoln
Britton
Greyson
The one and only Ivan is good we finished it just before summer. So neat that it is based on a true story. Looks like your art settling in and back at it. I only moved 12 miles and I still am settling it :) Dang farm an 1970's house!!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that book was based on a true story. I will have to do some research on it. We are slowly settling in. We have quite a bit of furniture to build yet. Ben is making all of our furniture. Hopefully on his week off he will be able to get quite a bit done. Then our shipment will be here this week, which is overwhelming. I have no idea where everything is going to go!!
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