9/29/10
Awana Color Night
It's been three years since our Awana club had a color night. But the wait was ended tonight. In the past, we started a tradition of spray painting hair on color night. I think we've only ever had green. Tonight we had two blue team members and one red team member. Princess M wanted her hair done too, but I had to take her to Target and didn't want to deal with that one. I told her we'd do her hair tomorrow since we didn't have to go anywhere. I'm hoping she forgets about it! Princess L is with her friends from Our Family for His Glory. Princesses E and S are with our two neighbor girls. What a night!
9/25/10
9/24/10
TOG Year 4 Week 7
The Roaring Twenties - that is what we've been studying this week. But in our reality it has been more like the "Soggy Twenties (of September)" here. It was a rough week, however, due to our trip to ND which took one day away from our week; and then Princess E ended up catching some sort of bug (probably from the water park) and ran a fever for two days and threw off our week even more. But we got caught up and had our best discussion time yet! And to think it began with tears as she claimed she didn't understand anything and didn't have a clue how to start. But when she slowed down and did things in the order and manner I've been working with her on (gosh darn it mom is right!) then she did pretty well. We ended our discussion with a goal. She is getting better at finding the answers to her AQ/TQ questions in her reading. She also types up her answers in a neat format and turns them in. In turn, she is able to find the answers during discussion in either her reading or her AQ/TQ answers. But, as I pointed out to her, her goal to work on (realistically not to be realized completely until the rhetoric stage) is to not merely quote what the books say, but to "narrate" back in her own words and have it mean something to her.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A: Lesson 15 and 16 - at this point, we will be slowing down our pace a bit. She has reached a few new concepts that she didn't have last year. I haven't worked out the details yet but I hope to have her do one and a half lessons a week through the rest of Primer A.
Math-U-See Delta: Lesson 23
IEW: Due to her illness, we didn't do any IEW this week as I didn't want to do the next lesson without her.
MCT Language Arts: We finished Grammar Island. We will continue with where we left of in Sentence Island and will be starting the Practice Books in another week.
Spelling: Had a bee and every M&M was earned.
Science: Due to the same aforementioned illness, we did not do any science this week.
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Eric Liddell, Women's Right to Vote, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Idiot's Guide, The Gift of Music, Poetry for Young People Robert Frost.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
Growing With Grammar 4: Chapter 1 review to 2.2
Math-U-See Gamma: finish 22 and begin 23. She is having the same problem that Princess E had in remembering to shift over with the second digit in double digit multiplication. But today after she finished her worksheet but before she turned it in, she realized her mistake. She wasn't happy at having to redo it, but when I pointed out that it wouldn't affect her grade that way, she was a little more satisfied.
IEW, Spelling and Science: same as above
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Quizlet vocab; important people; SAPs; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, The 1920s, The Wind in the Willows, Eric Liddell
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Advanced K: Handwriting practice; Explode the Code - pgs 25-32; Reading - Fish Gift and Bill; played Concentration and Word Work games with -id, -ig and -ill word families.
Math-U-See Primer: She reduced her flashcard speed to 1:24 and got another trip to the prize bucket. She whizzed through lesson 21 - solving for the unknown. But she has the tendency to just count the spaces on the blocks rather than trying other blocks when she doesn't know the answer.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A: Lesson 15 and 16 - at this point, we will be slowing down our pace a bit. She has reached a few new concepts that she didn't have last year. I haven't worked out the details yet but I hope to have her do one and a half lessons a week through the rest of Primer A.
Math-U-See Delta: Lesson 23
IEW: Due to her illness, we didn't do any IEW this week as I didn't want to do the next lesson without her.
MCT Language Arts: We finished Grammar Island. We will continue with where we left of in Sentence Island and will be starting the Practice Books in another week.
Spelling: Had a bee and every M&M was earned.
Science: Due to the same aforementioned illness, we did not do any science this week.
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Eric Liddell, Women's Right to Vote, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Idiot's Guide, The Gift of Music, Poetry for Young People Robert Frost.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
Growing With Grammar 4: Chapter 1 review to 2.2
Math-U-See Gamma: finish 22 and begin 23. She is having the same problem that Princess E had in remembering to shift over with the second digit in double digit multiplication. But today after she finished her worksheet but before she turned it in, she realized her mistake. She wasn't happy at having to redo it, but when I pointed out that it wouldn't affect her grade that way, she was a little more satisfied.
IEW, Spelling and Science: same as above
TOG Yr4 Wk7: Quizlet vocab; important people; SAPs; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, The 1920s, The Wind in the Willows, Eric Liddell
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Advanced K: Handwriting practice; Explode the Code - pgs 25-32; Reading - Fish Gift and Bill; played Concentration and Word Work games with -id, -ig and -ill word families.
Math-U-See Primer: She reduced her flashcard speed to 1:24 and got another trip to the prize bucket. She whizzed through lesson 21 - solving for the unknown. But she has the tendency to just count the spaces on the blocks rather than trying other blocks when she doesn't know the answer.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
9/21/10
TOG Year 4 Week 6
We finished up our study of WWI this week. It was interesting to notice how the world changed in so many ways as a result of this war. Having the benefit of hindsight, we looked at how the world was doomed to fight again two decades later as a result of vengeance and retribution instead of forgiveness.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A - Lessons 13 and 14
Math-U-See Delta: Begin lesson 23
IEW: We finished up our work on lesson three.
MCT Language Arts: Continue Grammar Island. We finished the parts of speech, the parts of a sentence and clauses. So now we know how to do a four part analysis of a sentence. We will begin our practice books next week.
Spelling: We had a spelling bee and almost every skittle was earned.
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Idiot's Guide, Anne of Green Gables, The Gift of Music, Usborne Intro to WWI; Read Alouds - The Story of the World Volume 4
Science: God's Design for Heaven and Earth Our Universe - Lesson 28
McCrabb: Book A Test 11 - we only got one in this week do to preparing for our trip to ND
She also gave her first mini-report for our co-op. She reported on Fritz Haber who is considered the father of chemical warfare, having created the first gas bombs and the first gas masks.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
McCrabb: Book A Test 11
Math-U-See Gamma: Lesson 22
Growing With Grammar 4: 1.15 to 1.17
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Quizlet vocab; Important people; SAPs; Read Alouds - same as above; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, WWI, The Wind in the Willows
IEW, MCT and Spelling - same as above
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Adv K: Handwriting practice; Explode the Code pg 17-24; Reading - A Pig, Pig Jigs; study -ig and -ill word families
Math-U-See Primer: We worked on building numbers with blocks as a review and counting by 2s. She also filled in a hundreds chart with the 5s and 10s included. We continued flashcards and she decreased her time to 1:42 earning another trip to the prize bucket.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
Latin for Children Primer A - Lessons 13 and 14
Math-U-See Delta: Begin lesson 23
IEW: We finished up our work on lesson three.
MCT Language Arts: Continue Grammar Island. We finished the parts of speech, the parts of a sentence and clauses. So now we know how to do a four part analysis of a sentence. We will begin our practice books next week.
Spelling: We had a spelling bee and almost every skittle was earned.
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Timeline; SAPs; AQ/TQs; Reading - Idiot's Guide, Anne of Green Gables, The Gift of Music, Usborne Intro to WWI; Read Alouds - The Story of the World Volume 4
Science: God's Design for Heaven and Earth Our Universe - Lesson 28
McCrabb: Book A Test 11 - we only got one in this week do to preparing for our trip to ND
She also gave her first mini-report for our co-op. She reported on Fritz Haber who is considered the father of chemical warfare, having created the first gas bombs and the first gas masks.
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
McCrabb: Book A Test 11
Math-U-See Gamma: Lesson 22
Growing With Grammar 4: 1.15 to 1.17
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Quizlet vocab; Important people; SAPs; Read Alouds - same as above; Reading - War, Peace and All That Jazz, WWI, The Wind in the Willows
IEW, MCT and Spelling - same as above
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Adv K: Handwriting practice; Explode the Code pg 17-24; Reading - A Pig, Pig Jigs; study -ig and -ill word families
Math-U-See Primer: We worked on building numbers with blocks as a review and counting by 2s. She also filled in a hundreds chart with the 5s and 10s included. We continued flashcards and she decreased her time to 1:42 earning another trip to the prize bucket.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
A Day in the Life of the School 4 Princesses
I attempted to take pictures of our day for several days last week. Unfortunately, they aren't that great. But hopefully it will give you some small picture of the craziness of our day.
First are some shots of Princess L doing her new chore. She has to rinse the breakfast dishes and load them in the dishwasher. Then she puts in the soap and starts it. Finally, she has to wipe down the counters, rinse out the sink and run the disposal. She is doing fairly well, though I dare say our water bill will go up for a while.
Next we have a shot of Princess E during her piano practice. Generally, while she is practicing, Princess S is doing preschool with Princess M and I am doing school with Princess L. So the next two shots are of Princess S reading to Princess M (though Princess L had to jump in while I was looking for the camera) and doing an activity from here. She has to match up the colored halves of caterpillars and Princess S helps her to say the right color. When the half hour is up and they switch who practices and who does preschool.
The next four shots are of Princess L doing her school. (Notice the day she put on a Piglet costume which is about three sizes too small but she had to wear it anyway.) The one with her head on the table was because she had just finished putting the words from the -ill family in alphabetical order. There is also an example of copy work I made with her Awana verses.
Finally, there is a shot of Princess E doing her individual work. The last shot is an example of what you get when you have a kid with ADD and SPD who cannot remember to turn in her work to Mom's "IN" bin and leaves it on her desk along with markers for her little sister to decorate for her. Every. Single. Day.
First are some shots of Princess L doing her new chore. She has to rinse the breakfast dishes and load them in the dishwasher. Then she puts in the soap and starts it. Finally, she has to wipe down the counters, rinse out the sink and run the disposal. She is doing fairly well, though I dare say our water bill will go up for a while.
Next we have a shot of Princess E during her piano practice. Generally, while she is practicing, Princess S is doing preschool with Princess M and I am doing school with Princess L. So the next two shots are of Princess S reading to Princess M (though Princess L had to jump in while I was looking for the camera) and doing an activity from here. She has to match up the colored halves of caterpillars and Princess S helps her to say the right color. When the half hour is up and they switch who practices and who does preschool.
The next four shots are of Princess L doing her school. (Notice the day she put on a Piglet costume which is about three sizes too small but she had to wear it anyway.) The one with her head on the table was because she had just finished putting the words from the -ill family in alphabetical order. There is also an example of copy work I made with her Awana verses.
Finally, there is a shot of Princess E doing her individual work. The last shot is an example of what you get when you have a kid with ADD and SPD who cannot remember to turn in her work to Mom's "IN" bin and leaves it on her desk along with markers for her little sister to decorate for her. Every. Single. Day.
9/13/10
TOG Year 4 Week 5
This week we continued learning about WWI. This was also the first transition week to our new schedule. It is beginning to help. Princess E still, however, has an attitude about doing school work on the weekends. And she refuses to do it. I explained to her that she is in middle school now, and if she were going to a PS, she would have homework every night and on the weekends. She doesn't believe me, however. It doesn't help that one of the neighborhood girls (who was held off on K until she was six but is also a very gifted student) finishes any and all homework before she ever leaves school, and the other (who is ten months older but in the same grade) has a study hall at the end of the day and has so far finished all her schoolwork during that hour. With our new schedule change, however, she will not be able to get away from it as she will have to tackle some of her reading on the weekends, or else do some of her other subjects in order to have her history reading and AQ/TQs done for a Wednesday discussion.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
McCrabb: Book A Test 10 - her ten test average came in at 4.92. She wasn't very happy, and I explained that it showed me that she is still trying to speed through her reading. She finished most tests with 30 to 40 seconds left. But she would make silly errors on the questions. So I told her she needs to slow down a little and make sure she understands what each sentence is saying before going on.
Latin For Children Primer A: Lessons 11 and 12. In two more lessons, we will change our pace from two days per lesson, to four days per lesson, as there is a bit of new material mixed in with things she learned last year.
Math-U-See Delta: Finish lesson 22
IEW: We skipped lesson two, as both girls seem to understand the process of writing a KWO quite well. We went on to lesson three, and did a KWO, rough draft and final draft on a fictional short story. They were assigned another story to begin the process with again.
MCT Language Arts: Continue Grammar Island. We took a quiz on labeling the parts of speech for four sentences and they did quite well. They are really enjoying this series, as am I, for it's humor and originality.
Spelling: Did our first spelling bee during group time. Earned two skittles for each correctly spelled word out of ten words.
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Timeline; Student Activity Pages (SAPs); AQ/TQs; Reading - Anne of Green Gables, Home Run to Heaven, Usborne Intro to WWI, Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th Century; Read Alouds - Pollyanna, The Story of the World Vol. 4. We finished Pollyanna and I broke down and purchased the DVD at Sam's Club. The girls were so excited to watch it, but were very disappointed because of all the changes to the storyline. I reminded them that, "That's Hollywood for you."
Science: God's Design for Heaven and Earth Our Universe - lesson 27 and quiz on planets
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
McCrabb: Book A Test 10. Her ten test average was 5.01. This was a big boost to her (especially when here older sister got a lower average.) I'm hoping that it helps her to see that she can do well when she applies herself.
Math-U-See Gamma: Finish lesson 21 and begin lesson 22
Growing With Grammar 4: 1.13 and 1.14
TOG Yr 4 Wk5: Quizlet vocab; Important People; SAPs; Read Alouds - same as above; Reading - Fanny Crosby, Where Poppies Grow, WWI, The Railway Children, War Game
Spelling, IEW and MCT: same as above
Science: same as above
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Adv K: play Memory game with -an, -ap, and -at; Handwriting practice with sentences; Read - Jack, Crab Trap; Explode the Code - pg 9-16
Math-U-See Primer: Lesson 19F - Lesson 20E; flashcards - on Friday she reached her goal and earned a trip to the prize bucket, we'll be adding in new cards in another week or so.
Spelling: same as above
TOG: Read alouds - same as above; Reading - The Velveteen Rabbit.
We also began teaching her to load the dishwasher. Each morning from 8:15 to 8:30 she will rinse and load the breakfast dishes, then start the dishwasher. Then she has to wipe down the counters around the sink, rinse our the sink with the sprayer, and run the disposal. For now, she is excited to do it. I hope to have her master this task by the end of the year so that we can start 2011 with three kids able to load the dishwasher. Then she will be the loader for every meal and her sisters will split the unloading and putting away task. Princess L is too little to reach up and put them away.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
Princess E - 6th Grade - Dialectic
McCrabb: Book A Test 10 - her ten test average came in at 4.92. She wasn't very happy, and I explained that it showed me that she is still trying to speed through her reading. She finished most tests with 30 to 40 seconds left. But she would make silly errors on the questions. So I told her she needs to slow down a little and make sure she understands what each sentence is saying before going on.
Latin For Children Primer A: Lessons 11 and 12. In two more lessons, we will change our pace from two days per lesson, to four days per lesson, as there is a bit of new material mixed in with things she learned last year.
Math-U-See Delta: Finish lesson 22
IEW: We skipped lesson two, as both girls seem to understand the process of writing a KWO quite well. We went on to lesson three, and did a KWO, rough draft and final draft on a fictional short story. They were assigned another story to begin the process with again.
MCT Language Arts: Continue Grammar Island. We took a quiz on labeling the parts of speech for four sentences and they did quite well. They are really enjoying this series, as am I, for it's humor and originality.
Spelling: Did our first spelling bee during group time. Earned two skittles for each correctly spelled word out of ten words.
TOG Yr4 Wk5: Timeline; Student Activity Pages (SAPs); AQ/TQs; Reading - Anne of Green Gables, Home Run to Heaven, Usborne Intro to WWI, Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th Century; Read Alouds - Pollyanna, The Story of the World Vol. 4. We finished Pollyanna and I broke down and purchased the DVD at Sam's Club. The girls were so excited to watch it, but were very disappointed because of all the changes to the storyline. I reminded them that, "That's Hollywood for you."
Science: God's Design for Heaven and Earth Our Universe - lesson 27 and quiz on planets
Princess S - 4th Grade - UG
McCrabb: Book A Test 10. Her ten test average was 5.01. This was a big boost to her (especially when here older sister got a lower average.) I'm hoping that it helps her to see that she can do well when she applies herself.
Math-U-See Gamma: Finish lesson 21 and begin lesson 22
Growing With Grammar 4: 1.13 and 1.14
TOG Yr 4 Wk5: Quizlet vocab; Important People; SAPs; Read Alouds - same as above; Reading - Fanny Crosby, Where Poppies Grow, WWI, The Railway Children, War Game
Spelling, IEW and MCT: same as above
Science: same as above
Princess L - K - LG
Winter Promise Adv K: play Memory game with -an, -ap, and -at; Handwriting practice with sentences; Read - Jack, Crab Trap; Explode the Code - pg 9-16
Math-U-See Primer: Lesson 19F - Lesson 20E; flashcards - on Friday she reached her goal and earned a trip to the prize bucket, we'll be adding in new cards in another week or so.
Spelling: same as above
TOG: Read alouds - same as above; Reading - The Velveteen Rabbit.
We also began teaching her to load the dishwasher. Each morning from 8:15 to 8:30 she will rinse and load the breakfast dishes, then start the dishwasher. Then she has to wipe down the counters around the sink, rinse our the sink with the sprayer, and run the disposal. For now, she is excited to do it. I hope to have her master this task by the end of the year so that we can start 2011 with three kids able to load the dishwasher. Then she will be the loader for every meal and her sisters will split the unloading and putting away task. Princess L is too little to reach up and put them away.
Princess M - PreTOGger
Fun and games with big sissies.
9/11/10
Princess L Funnies
So this morning DH was getting ready to leave to go to the men's breakfast at church. Before he walked out the door he said to Princess L who was sitting at the kitchen table coloring, "Hey (Princess L), before I leave can I have you spell a word for me?" Last night at dinner we were teaching Daddy how to give spelling words the way we do them for our spelling bees. It took a lot of practice. So Princess L looks up and says to him, "Mop - M O P - mop." And then she goes back to coloring. We looked at each other and lost it.
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