Homeschool Week 3

We are already on week 3 of our school year! Now that I am getting my schedule down a little better and managing to balance things out, I want to start adding a weekly update on what we have been doing. Partly for fun, and partly for record keeping's sake I think it will be fun to look back on later on.

This year will go down as the worst start to a school year yet for us. With me being hormonally "nuts" and the boys having MUCH too long of a summer break, none of us were exactly enthused to get started.

This year Sean is in 6th grade (shock!) and Ryan in 3rd. We are studying Early American History and Animals/Plants in science with My Father's World. Everything else (math, LA, and Bible) with Abeka.

History: This week we learned about King James and the Jamestown colony. It has been very interesting. The boys have to write in their History notebook 1 or 2 sentences about what we have learned that day. Today we watched a History Channel video about the hardships the Jamestown colony faced. (Netflix stream videos are GREAT!!) If we have time tomorrow we are going to try and make a wigwam for a hands on project!

Science: We have learned out scientific classification. And now learning about Vertebrates - looking at all the different Vertebrates in God's Kingdom! We also took a field trip on Tues to the National Aquarium seeing some amazing vertebrates and invertebrates too. ;)

Math: Sean is reviewing long division and divisibility rules. Ryan is learning his 2-4 multiplication tables.

Lang Arts: Sean is working on using his senses for Creative Writing. Ryan is learning types of sentences and capitalization rules.

Bible class: We are reading about David hiding from Saul. His ups and downs and how God always provided for him and kept him safe. We are emphasizing on the difference between David and Saul. David waits on God to take care of things while Saul tries to take matters into his own hands.

Reading: Sean is reading a book about Squanto, which he will be writing a book report on next week. Ryan is reading about Vikings. He has proved his reading skills to be good enough that most of the time he is reading on his own! For a read-a-loud, I'm reading a book called Almost Home it is about the pilgrim's persecution and hard voyage across the sea and eventually setting up their colony in America. A very good book that is summing up a lot of what we are learning in History class.

OH! and let's not forget Elizabeth. This week she has been learning to go on the potty!! She is doing such a great job!! She stays dry all day thanks to her motivation to "don't pee on the Princesses" (her princess decorated pull-ups). Though we have some work to do with getting number2 in the potty. ;)