A New Path to Follow: Week in Review: Week 9, September 27- October 3, 2015

You can always tell when you or your kids are getting burnt out. I felt like school this week was being forced and just not happening naturally. It was difficult and frustrating and none of seemed to being enjoying our lessons, so we took the day off Wednesday. We all needed a little breather. The boys have not had one day off since we started 9 weeks ago, so they deserved a day to relax and play. That made us all feel better. I know we are all looking forward to our week off in October. The boys do not even know that we have a surprise trip in store or them!!

Virtue

We were still working on perseverant this week and, and it was a good lesson for us. School was really hard and we didn't want to do it, but we pushed through as much as we could this week. We did manage to check off at least half of the goals for the week. I'm counting that as a success, because I didn't even think we would accomplish that much!

Morning Work

The boys did manage to complete all of their morning work this week.

Tea On Tuesday

We didn't even get to our normal Tea on Tuesday activity this week, but we did read a fun book that was written in verse. Britton was learning about mud this week and this was the perfect book to go along with it. The boys made their own "disgusting" Wombat Stew and had so much fun. I also made homemade chocolate pudding for the first time and could not believe how easy and way better tasting it was than the box. I won't ever be buying box pudding again.

100 Book Challenge: Book #51 & #52

Book #51 was this fun short story called, Stuart's Cape. The boys loved Stuart's imagination. I loved how this booked had you stuck in the middle trying to decide if the cape really was magic or just in Stuart's imagination. If you want a fun, quick read this book is a great one to add to your list.

Book #52 is Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. This book has had all three boys laughing hysterically. They love all the trouble Fudge caused. I do not find too many books that can keep all three of my boys interested, but they have been begging me to read more of this book. It looks like we have found another series that my boys will want to read through.

Reading/ Phonics

We are so proud of Britton this week. He finished up his Kindergarten Hooked on Phonics and has moved up to Grade 1! He keeps asking if he is in Grade one yet. He is pretty close. Probably after Christmas, he will have all his Kindergarten work complete. So proud of how hard he is working.

Geography

This week we visited Florida. The boys learned about the Kennedy Space Station and made their own Space Shuttle. We talked about Citrus fruit and made our own key lime pie. Now, I am pretty sure the pie I made was no where near to what a key lime pie should look or taste like. My oven has been acting very strange and it has not been baking evenly. I was so worried that it wouldn't be cooked that I overcooked it and turned it into a caramel type of pie with a lemon taste. So, not a key lime pie, but still delicious.

FIAR- Mr. Gumpy's Motor car (Britton)

Britton started Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car this week. It is a little along the lines of a Little Red Hen story. Britton has really enjoyed it so far and we will finish it up next week. Funny story...for years I have read this book and always thought it was Mr. GRUMPY, and finally read that it was Mr. GUMPY and my mind was blown. I cannot believe I had been reading it wrong all these years. Britton wanted me to still call him Mr. Grumpy.

We learned about mud and how important it is to come cultures.

Teeny tiny frog in my yard. My yard is covered in these little frogs. Anyone know what kind it is? It could fit on the end of my index finger. They are so small.

Turning our soil into mud.

Looking at the different types of dirt we have in our yard.

Just being Britton.

Cloud ice cream sundaes to do along with the nice fluffy clouds in the story.

FIAR- Albert (Greyson & Lincoln)

The boys are still working through Albert. We decided to write postcards like Albert, except we are mailing them out.

Extra Curricular Activities

Lincoln played in his first basketball game today. He is a little timid, but does a great job blocking.

Co-op

Weekly co-op, our favorite day of the week. Britton is having story time.

Lego class for Lincoln.

Art about Jackson Pollock this week. So much fun!

Music for the big kids.

Team building for Lincoln. Greyson had cooking & team building also.

Special Moments

We stopped at the Gold Bar and the sweet owner gave all 3 boys their very own soap lollies. They were all very excited!

Ben was in Manila, Philippines from Wednesday to Sunday this week. It was a bit crazy, but we managed without him. I took the boys to the movies and a fun outing to the mall. Here is one of Ben's dinners.