Week 11

This week was busy with map drawings, valence electron review pages and Nathan writing about his observation of his Grandma PJ.  Our read aloud is pretty interesting but the above picture is how we've all felt this week during reading time.  We are so tired--whether from the time change or gloomy skies, I'm not sure!  Nathan has started the driving portion of drivers education so he is busy!

 

Week 10

This week was pretty uneventful for school.  We just continued on with the usual.  We did, however, have some family Halloween fun on Wednesday because that was the evening everyone was home! We had pizza and the boys carved pumpkins.  Lily was the only one that dressed up this year because her work had a Halloween dance party for the kids!

 

Week 9

 

This week was a busy one for Nathan.  He had a chemistry test, a grammar quiz and a math test.  In geography, he made a constellation paper as we learned about early geographers learning through the stars.  We also started our new read aloud, which is The Graveyard Book. 

Week 8

The only pictures I got this week were from our Friday outing for dinner and Halloween drinks.  We did have a full week of school, though.  We finished our read aloud and Nathan gave it 3 out of 5 stars. Nathan had a writing assignment about a pet and he wrote about Teddy so that was this week's writing work--sloppy copy, revisions and a final draft.  

 

Week 7

This week, we experimented with making parallel and perpendicular lines for maps. In chemistry, we started learning orbital notation.  We are also getting so close to discovering the murderer in our read aloud!  It's a pretty busy time in school right now but that's a good thing!!

 

Week 6

In writing, Nathan felt inside bags and used adjectives to describe what he felt.  No weak words allowed!  

In chemistry, we started the Do-Wopp board which shows the placement of electrons in whatever element we're looking at.

For geography, Nathan made a clay to use the stamps we had made weeks ago and then baked the clay tablet.

Attempting math with Teddy's help.

It was a full week of active learning and we ended the week with school picture day!  It's hard to believe it's already been 6 weeks!!

 

Week 5

This week of school was only 3 days so Nathan got a nice break!  Brian and I took off for a fall trip to visit my nephew and his wife at their home.  It was a  really fun time together!  Back to school on Monday!