SL Core D Week 18 "B" Sept 12-16th 2011

This is our 37th week on Core 3 and we are doing fine!  We have done 2 "left-over weeks" in a row.  We had a lot going on and I wanted to extend this historic period and not rush through the Revolutionary War time period.  There is too much to read and comprehend before I want to proceed.   This week we also started a new process - Dd having her own printed out schedule for each day's list of things we are to do and have her (and her clip-board) check off each item and keep us on our time schedule.  This has worked out well so far.

On Monday we had an exciting field trip to "Bar B and M" Horse Farm; where Dd got to ride a wonderful horse named "Paris".  There was a great tour of all the stalls with the many different kinds of horses.  It was really a lovely event with smiles all around.  The children each had the opportunity to feed a horse an apple too.  I really wish I had remembered my camera....

On Thursday our LHE co-op classes began again; which is a huge deal for dd.  She literally counted down the months, weeks, and days until her classes started back up.  She has 3 classes that last 45 minutes each, which are : Gym, Games, and Speech.  Then after the classes are over at 11:45 we go to a neighboring park and eat our packed lunches with many of the children from LHE.

We are currently on lessons 14 and 15 with MUS Gamma.  We do Times Attack website about 1x week.    We are enjoying listening to Steve Demme's Skip Counting Songs-right now we are working on the 7 family.

We are on lesson 10 with FLL (First Language Lessons-3).  We started IEW-Excellence in Writing Lesson 1 in the "A" program.  All About Spelling -level 3- and we've added in "Spellingcity.com" which is really neat and I like it a lot.  And Writing With Ease is going well too....Language Arts is covered.

We have been working on having Dd do one chore per day that is about 30 minutes of work.  She is doing well at this and enjoys having her own work to do to help out.

The books we have been reading this week are:
Om-Kas-Toe: Blackfoot Twin Captures Elkdog by Kenneth Thomasma as a Read Aloud


. . . If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution by Elizabeth Levy and Joan Holub


as an add-in there was:
They Called Her Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell and Cynthia von Buhler