~Week 2 ~

I have a goal to post at least once a week this school year, so let's see how I do.   So far, I'm two for two.  

Nick and the girls were off for three days of archery hunting as soon as Hermoine finished with her Girl Scout FIRST LEGO League meeting tonight.    They couldn't wait to get up to the mountains.   I had plans to post pictures of schoolwork, but they took the camera with them.   I'll just give some brief updates instead.  

School is always much easier for us when we have little else going on.  Things are going to get hectic in the next few weeks when all of their activities are in full swing again. 

As for school this week, all went well.   No tears, no tantrums, no fussing at bedtime or in the mornings.   The only out of house activities we had were Hermoine's Lego team and Book Club.    For Book Club we met at a local splash pad and had a great time with friends.

Hermoine's math moved on from Pre-Algebra to some basic Geometry.   Her Language Arts is going smoothly, her literature selection is currently Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.  Art History was about mosaics and she started a project making her own mosaic that will cover four lessons.  History covered the beginnings of Australia and New Zealand, her music lesson was all on Handel, and her Science was all on Biological Classifications.   That was right up her alley, let me tell you, the girl started learning Latin three years ago simply because all the books on plants she checked out of the library had so much Latin in them due to the classifications.   She's been moving quite quickly through both of her Latin programs after stagnating last week.   I think taking the entire summer off of Latin made her forget quite a bit, but she picked it up after repeating several lessons.

Ramona's math is still in first-of-the-year review mode and so is going quickly each morning.  Spelling, Grammar, and Essay Writing all going well.  I'm buckling down a bit more on her handwriting and she's not loving me for that.  (She tends to put capital letters in the middle of a word, a very bad habit.)   She's reading The Long Winter for Literature and is almost finished with it.    She's loving her Logic, this is her first year doing it for a subject and she wants to do it every day despite the fact that it's only scheduled three times a week.  Her music is fun, but silly, not much learning going on there.   History was the same as her sister.   Her Art was about perspective and she did several sketches of stuffed animals from different views.    Her Science was all about food chains and webs.   She made a little ecosystem complete with crickets, etc.  She's moving along in Spanish at a snail's pace, but that's the way she likes it.