Wordless Wednesday

 

 

Planting his seedlings he grew for a Botany project.

Weekly Review

 

 

I did something different this week.  I wrote out all the work Kiddo had to do for the week.  I told him he could do the work in any order he wants to but it all has to finished before the weekend.  When he saw the list, you would have thought I took away all his Legos.  After a more than small amount of grumbling he got into it.  He started marking through the list as he finished.  It was fun to watch him pick his favorite things to do and leave the others.  Let’s just say he will be doing a good deal of handwriting and zoology on Friday.

I also made a list of what I want to have finished by May 10th.  The reason for May 10th, I made a deal with Kiddo, if we finish all of our work by then I will get him the new LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Wii game.  Talk about incentive or bribery.  I am ready for a break.  We will take May off for a small break and get back started in June with new curriculum. 

Speaking of new curriculum, my order came today from CBD.com.  It is so much fun getting in new books.  Kiddo promptly took off with the Anatomy book and started reading.  I looked through the Latin book and wondered if I could hire someone to teach it.  I will order the last of the curriculum we need in a week of so.  Then I can start reading the books and planning our schedule. 

 

Wordless Wednesday

Flower Dissection

I love my roses.  I have many roses in my yard and I love bringing them in to enjoy.  Today was a first, I brought in one of my newly blooming roses for my son to dissect. 

We are working our way through Apologia Botany and now that it is spring we can do many of the experiments and activities.  We have already started seedlings, gathered maple tree seeds, and today we dissected a rose. 

We are enjoying Botany but it is the hardest of the Apologia books so far.  It is slow going but we are both learning a lot. 

 

Ordering Curriculum

 

 

I did it, I placed my first order for next years curriculum.  I have one more order to place from amazon.com and I will be ready for next year.  I can not believe we will be starting our 4th year of homeschooling. While Kiddo will officially be in 2nd grade, we go by age, he will be doing mostly 3rd grade work.  If you ask him, he will tell you he is in 3rd grade because that is what his books say.  That is fun to explain when people ask.

 

Here is what I ordered from CBD.com

Prima Latin

Map Skills for Today Grade 3

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Junior

Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology Junior Notebooking

Easy Grammar 3

Sequential Spelling Book 1

A Reason for Handwriting Transition Student Workbook

Wordly Wise 3000 Grade 3

Pilgrims, Pirates, and Patriots Draw and Write Through History

Discovering America's Founders DVD – on clearance for $5.00

 

I still need to order

Story of the World 3 book, activity workbook and test booklet(we use at a workbook)

Telling God’s Story set

Piano Adventure

Logic Countdown

 

We just started Teaching Textbooks 3 for math, we will continue until done and then I will order Grade 4.  We will also continue to use Singapore workbooks for extra practice. 

I can’t wait to start getting books in.  I love school supplies.  It is so much fun getting in new curriculum and supplies.  Now if someone would make lesson plans for me, it would be great. 

Weekly Wrap Up

 

We are at the end of our curriculum so, there is not a lot to update.  We are working on zoology, math and Easy Grammar 2 workbook everyday. We are slowly working our way through Botany.  I am in the process of ordering new curriculum.  We will be taking a good bit of time off between now and June. We will spend time outdoors playing, enjoying the weather before it gets too hot for Kiddo.  Our school year officially starts in July, even though we have switched to a year round school with time off in the spring and fall.  Since Kiddo can’t handle the heat of summer, it is the perfect time to get schoolwork done, one of the many reasons I love homeschooling.

I am trying to get finished with Easy Grammar 2 so we can start on Easy Grammar 3 by July.  I just received the workbook a few days ago but so far it is easy and he is able to do 4 pages a day.  We started Teaching Textbooks a few weeks ago and when we finish it I will purchase grade 4 in it.  We are also using Singapore 2A, 2B and word problems workbooks for extra practice.  Botany will we work on through the summer, it is a difficult book and it is taking us longer than either Astronomy or Zoology.

I can’t believe we have finished so much and it is time to order new books. 

 

Have a good weekend! 

Wordless Wednesday–Working Hard