Our Week

We had a productive week again.  Monday was not the best day even though I had spent Sunday getting everything ready.  I had hopes of getting all our lessons done Monday morning but that just didn't happen for various reasons.  It actually ended up being a very long school day.  Morgan was in a mood and didn't want to work.  She insisted on arguing with me about everything, including 14 - 7 = 8.  She eventually got over the mood and finished.  After that, I was working with Aaron on geometry and it was really tough and we were both getting really frustrated.  Needless to say, it was not a picture perfect day.  That evening, or rather night, around midnight, Momo and I were laying in bed and she decided she would do some of her lessons for Tuesday then.  Well,  I sure wasn't going to stop her so at midnight she managed to work through her math, spelling and history lessons in about 30 minutes!  It is funny to me how she likes to drag it out during the day but then when she decides to work at midnight, she can get it done in no time flat.  I came to the conclusion that Momo is like the geometry proofs we were working on, no rhyme, reason or logic!!  She worked really well the rest of the week and continued doing some of her lessons at night all week too.  It's working so I am not complaining! 
We had all of our normal weekly activities.  Kristen's small group, Momo's TKD class, church and I babysat Jacey.  We also spent some time playing outside and enjoying the weather.  I didn't have my small group Thursday night so we just hung out and watched a movie. 

Momo and Kristen working at the table.

Momo finished up the lapbook on North America she has been working on.  Here she was gluing all the activities into the folder.

Momo also wrote her first real story this week.  She was working on her plot pyramid here as part of her story planning.

Ian used some foam beads to do some sorting and patterning.

Kristen has been enjoying reading a lot lately.  She had her nose in this book every chance she could get all week.

She is also working on a basic sewing unit in her home ec.  She was learing how to sew on different types of buttons.

Jacey just takes it all in and adds more sweetness to our days!

Aaron's work is just not as much fun most days but here he is working on some history one day.

Momo working on a science lesson.

Ian played some file folder games.  This one is matching letters.

This one is a patterning game.

Ian and Momo also had lots of fun playing with magnets in the colored rice we made a couple weeks ago.  They are really enjoying this rice!

Momo enjoyed measuring with the rice too.  She counted how many 1/4 cups it took to fill a 1 cup measuring cup and also how many TBS it took to fill the cups.

Jacey even had a chance to get her hands in the rice.

Momo typed her story on the computer as her final copy.  I will share her story on here soon.  She was very excited about writing it.

Thursday we had fun having Lil'Rob come over to play.  He spend the whole afternoon with us and he and Ian had a blast! 

That sums up our week of school.  Stay tuned for the excitement we had Friday night and Saturday morning!