Week 29

Back to school this week!  We had a good, quick break and started back with a visit from our supervising teacher.  We are already discussing the end of the year!!  Nathan started his research on WWI tanks, began his Donner Party reading and did the first portion of his lighthouse puzzle.  We also started our new read aloud, Lord of the Flies.  We had a full week!  We have a couple shorter weeks coming up for Good Friday and then the Monday after Easter so we'll see what we can accomplish!  
 

Week 28 Spring Break!

 This pretty much sums up our short break.  Oliver and I rested while Nathan stayed up playing games with Sam and a friend.  The weather started with a blizzard and ended with some sunny 70s so that was exciting! 

We did 2 days of school to wrap up our taxonomy lesson in Biology and to get a research paper topic narrowed down.  Nathan has picked tanks in WWI.  He also continued math lessons and rated our latest read aloud with 4.5/5 stars!  

We'll start back Monday with a visit from our supervising teacher!

Week 27

 Unfortunately, no pictures this week.  We had a full week wrapping up some things and we will finish others next week.  We have 2 more days of school before a shorter spring break.  We take off different days so we're not taking the whole week!

In biology, we started a unit on taxonomy.  It's pretty boring compared to the last few units but we'll wrap it up next week and move on!  We finished our poetry unit in literature so that was exciting.  We also finished our read aloud!  We'll probably have one more book for the year, hard to believe!!!  Nathan also started a research paper unit so he'll be brainstorming a topic next week, based on our history lessons.  

When we come back to school from break, we'll start with a visit from our supervising teacher.  Then it's a push towards the end of Nathan's sophomore year!!  Amazing!

Week 26

 This week we wrapped up Genetics with a punnet square activity that was Halloween themed so Nathan made fun of me for that but it was a free activity!!  We'll be moving on in Biology this week.  We kept up with every other subject but nothing major going on in any of them.  We are keeping up with the load and I've already been looking at next year.  I plan on using a lot of the same companies because it's all been a pretty good fit this year.  

Week 25

 History and Art combined this week as Nathan drew a tank and we read about the end of World War II.  We read a lot about genetics in Bio this week, I'm sure we'll be doing lots of activities about that soon.  Nathan read "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning and then wrote about a pig (his choice) hearing his own song.  He also started a new section of math, focused on fractions.  It's always nice to start a new unit because the review is a good break for him.  It was a full week of work!!

Week 24

 

We wrapped up meiosis this week, finally!  We'll start genetics next week. We also had our one and only snow day this week.  I like to take the first snow day the local schools take (not cold or ice days!) but only one! Otherwise, it was a pretty normal week.  

Weeks 22 & 23

I missed a week of updates.  We had celebrated Sam's birthday on Monday the 2nd so we had a day off of school. Then, I left on a retreat that weekend so we had another day off!  We were back on it the next week. We had a visit from our supervising teacher and continued on with all of our work!  This weekend, we celebrated Oliver's 4th birthday!! Back to regular schedules and a full work load this week.