homeschooling howsitgoing

Since people often ask "how's it going" related to our homeschooling adventure, I figured I'd attempt to do a weekly/bi-weekly/at-the-very-least-monthly recap. Plus it will help me remember everything once I need to prepare our portfolio for assessment.


Overall, a good week, though not as intense with school work. I was excited to get the new materials I ordered - a math curriculum for Reese and a more challenging mult-subject workbook for him. New math practice workbooks for Brie and a preschool activity book for Luke. Luke loved being able to watch his "daddy tape" this week - Dave chose to read Luke's new "Cars" book.

What we accomplished this week:

• Field trip to an apple orchard - we picked a half bushel and enjoyed sampling many varities of apples
• Went on a hike last Saturday and gathered leaves for an upcoming art project
• Brie and Reese went to classes at Tim and Lauren's church. Brie loves her class, Reese was a little disappointed there wasn't a "better" snack
• Brie started ballet last Saturday (it counts as PE ;) )
• Brie attended an author's book club program at our local library where they learned about Mo Willems and did some games and art projects around his books