Good-bye September!

Another week is done!  Let's see what I remember.  I am not doing great at getting the camera out--too busy, I guess.  

Geography: We were in Israel this year.  Unfortunately, our souvenir didn't work out at all but the meal was the biggest hit we've had since the Chinese take-out.  :)  I made falafel and it was surprisingly good! 

Science: It was volcano week and that's always a hit.  Brian was up at 6am to dig holes in the garden for our volcano set up.  :)  Notice Lily is exploding her volcano with her ring pop on!  :)

Art: We are studying Van Gogh now and the kids picked an art piece to try their hand at.  Lily picked Sein with child on lap, which is a black chalk piece so very dark!  Hunter picked Wheatfield with Crows.  They enjoy painting so they love the days we do this assignment.  I'm not sure what Nathan was working on here.  Samuel was sick this day (his 1st sick day!) so he didn't join in.

English: A tough week as we move into a chapter on writing.  We worked on writing a paragraph to give game directions.  Lily chose Hide-n-Seek and Hunter chose Tag.  We got rough drafts done so far!

Bible/Cursive/Poetry/Read Aloud all uneventful subjects this week.  We are almost done with Pollyanna {finally!!} and we are excited to enjoy the movie next week.

Kindergarten: Samuel finished Part 1 of his All About Reading and still going strong.  Math has been pretty easy and he enjoys counting on his Lego counting chart.  His new handwriting came in the mail so we'll start that next week.

Hunter and Lily's Reading/Math/Spelling has all been going well.  Lily enjoys her Teaching Textbooks a lot and CLE Math is a great fit for Hunter.  

One last note: This school year started out with us running to therapy 4x week.  Samuel had speech on Mondays, Hunter had OT on Tuesday/Thursday/Friday and Nathan had speech once a month at home.  I was anxious at first how I was going to fit all of school in but it did work.  Well, now Samuel is done with speech (according to insurance) and Hunter is done with OT (again, according to insurance) so our week has opened up.  I'm excited to have less running around and more time to just get out and do fun things for school.  It's just crazy how it all worked out.  And, the boys will do well without therapy so I'm not worried. Nathan will get speech for another few months but he's talking more and more, anyway!

Some pictures of Hunter hard at work:

Camille, his last OT, gave me some great papers on how to help in the classroom so I'm excited to try some new things to help Hunter learn in the way that makes sense to him.