Our Homeschool Journey 2010/2011 Part 1

I am combining weeks 1 and 2 since we do start out slowly getting back into the swing of school work.

Week 1:

attended church on Sunday
2 pages in the Map Skills workbook
Bible study
learned how to do some different photo editing through gimp 2.6
mini-page--An Ocean of Oil (these come in the newspaper each Monday)
swimming
postcard trading (for the lapbook 50 States)

Week 2:

Church on Sunday
Bible study
swimming
learned how to sing opera (she told me this one, from some website she went to)
sewing club
played and built with Legos
postcard trading

In week 2 we had my grandson for the week.

Still the week before public school starts. We didn't get near done what I had hoped, but did get some done.

She chose her first book to read for the year, House in the Shadows, and read 2 chapters.
Church on Sunday
mini-page--These Horses are Wild.
work on the 50 states lapbook
2 day so math review problems on the dry erase board.

Now we are cooking and going well!--Despite a set back on Monday being away from home most of the day unexpectedly and not taking much work with us on the go.

Church on Sunday
2 pages in the map skills workbook
Read in her book, House in the Shadows
math worksheet--addition review
Bible study
3 days working in Everything You Need to Know About American History
3 days in the Earth Science Textbook
3 days in the Fitness for Kids booklet (rec'd free from Subway)
3 days in Managing Livingtime
4 days of math review problems on the dry erase board
grammar worksheet--superlatives and comparatives
math worksheet-adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals
vocabulary in reading textbook
Fixed lunch for the family
2 Math workshees on weights and measures
1 day working with the Lord of the Rings literature curriculum
Reading from The Kitchen Garden Book
Sewed some Barbie clothes

Church
made (sewed) Barbie clothes
tried working on making herself a dress
1 Map Skills workbook page
1 grammar worksheet on superlatives and comparatives
1 reading workbook page
2 math worksheets on weights and measurements
2 chapter read in her book-Hose of Shadows
2 days of math review on the dry erase board
2 days worked in the Earth Science text book
2 days in Fitness for Kids
2 days in Everything You Need to Know about American History
2 days in Managing Livingtime
Middle School Advantage CD--did subjects: theoretical probability, science, reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing.
cooked supper from scratch (see photo above)
math worksheet--check writing practice
Lord of the Rings literature curriculum
The Kitchen Garden
3 grammar worksheets on adverbs
math worksheet with word problems

Church
Bible study
3 days of Earth Science Textbook
2 days in Everything You Need to Know about American History
2 days in Fitness for Kids
2 days in Managing Livingtime
She did her own laundry
Math review on the dry erase board
We finished the book Will the Dollar Stretch book that we had started last school year (math)
The Kitchen Garden
2 math worksheets on check writing and percentages
Grammar worksheet on adverbs
Lord of the Rings curriculum, chapter review

This week was one of those strange, very little book work school week's.
The state fair was here. We spent 9 hours at the state fair on Monday, with 4 hours of that walking around with the Headstart class. That was the most educational time as we watched them sheer a sheep, learned about milking a cow, went to the petting zoo etc.
On Wednesday we went back to the state fair for another 5 hours. Jasmine stopped at a lot of the booths as we collected free stuff. Once home she said she didn't know how exhausting it was to actually pretend you were interested in learning about the products, or services these people were presenting. She did sit through an entire cooking demonstration, which included eating afterwards.

In other school work related:
church
choir practice
1 day in the Earth Science Text
1 day in Fitness for Kids
1 day in Managing Llivingtime, which included starting on a posterboard project.
1 day in Everything You Need To Know About American History
Math worksheet on division/less than and more than, subtraction and addition.
Sewing club for the month where we were learning to make the rugs with toothbrushes. She didn't show much interest in learning and just sat and watched and helped us cut material.

Church--where she is now in the choir
4 days in Fitness for Kids and we now have finished the book. (We started it last school year)
4 days in Everything You Need to Know About American History and we finished the book (another that we started in last school year)
Finished her poster board project on storage and space saving for Home Ec.
3 math worksheets on multiplication review
Added 2 postcards to the 50 States Lapbook
Bible study
3 days in Managing Livingtime
4 days in the Earth Science Text
Grammar worksheet on elaborating sentences.
2 days working in the Lord of the Rings curriculum
2 days reading in The Kitchen Garden
2 days of math review on the dry erase board
she both fixed entire meals and helped preparing meals all week
Choir practice

Church
Bible Study
Cleaning house at grandmas (this was our birthday gift to her)
cooked 1 complete meal and helped with 2 others
1 day in Hayes American History workbook
3 days of math review on the dry erase board
1 day in Managing Livingtime
2 math worksheets on check registers
2 days in the Earth Science Textbook
choir practice
1 math worksheet with clocks and word problems
(she was sick 2 days so I didn't push her too hard as she slept most all day)
Saturday we had a yard sale so she helped pack up, unpack, and collect money
confirmation class

Bible Study
name meanings and origins (she did this on her own and read many of them out loud to us)
2 days in Lord of the Rings curriculum
3 days of math review on the dry erase board
2 days in Hayes American History workbook
1 day with multiplication flashcards
1 day in Managing Livingtime
2 days in Earth Science textbook
2 reading worksheets
choir practice
1 day The Kitchen Garden
church
Romania history (also on her own and read out loud to me)
Friday I was busy with lots of things so I decided to make it more of a fun day for her and allow her to watch videos and then we discussed them. She watched:
Historical Places (we have a study guide that goes with this that we will go through at some point)
Tithing as a Way of Life
Learn at Every Turn (picked this up at the last library book sale and it was a lot of fun to watch--perfect way to show someone what unschooling would be like)
Fit for Fun!

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