Hope everyone had a great week!
It's the last day of our first week of homeschool for the school year =) My oldest did an oral presentation of his short story using spelling words and we recorded it for family and friends to see- http://youtu.be/M-s6v-eIJpY (if you are vegan or vegetarian may not want to watch/listen). Our spelling words for the week are rock, stand, camp, plan, stop, crop, shot, plot, pass, track, shock and past. Tristian's assignment was to write a short story using at least 10 of the 12 words. I think he did a great job =)
The oldest is practicing cursive right now and the youngest is watching a Hermie the Caterpillar DVD.
I am TIRED. Not sure why but I just don't seem to have any energy. I haven't been biking lately so I think that is probably part of it. Then the having just been sick and etc... I'm going to try and get it set up so that I get to bike for an hour at the end of our school day. Our school day, tentatively, goes from 9am to 2pm or 3pm- depending on the day and how long the lessons took. The at the end of the day the boys get an half hour or so of 'Free Classroom Play' where they can play with President and US Flag blocks (pictured below)
or make pictures with the craft supplies, look at the globe, paint, do one of the puzzle books, etc... After half an hour they clean up. By then their friends are normally home from school or day care and they can go outside and play if it's nice or they can go to a friend's house or friends can come here. I'm going to try and start biking during Free Play time and clean up, which normally takes about an hour. My bike is in the basement with the classroom and family/play room. It's on the other end of the family room from the doorway to the classroom (so I could see into the classroom a bit while sitting on the bike if I just move it over a little). I don't feel comfortable biking while they are outside- because I can't easily check on them or watch them and an hour is too long for a 7 and 4 year old to be unsupervised.
Anyways, that's something to try next week.
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
