I love looking at different blogs to see what other homeschoolers are doing. I would love to have a regular share on here if any of you are interested. I would love to see how you are all using the different resources. What do you think?
Leave a link to your blog or add details of week below if you are interested.
Mine is anne-homeschooladventures.blogspot.com
Hey Anne....I have you linked on my home page. I really enjoy your recipes. 
Our blog is http://reflectionsfromdrywoodcreek.blogspot.com/
I don't always do a week end review, but I do blog 3-5 days a week on several different homeschool programs/methods/curriculums, etc., as well as food and our daily life on the farm. I'm hoping to do a Charlotte Mason post over the next week. I will be speaking at a local homeschool mom's meeting on Tuesday regarding the CM method, so I'm gathering resources and will post them when everything's set.
Blessings,
Melissa
nerakr
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I don't have a blog; how about a lengthy post here?
Here's what ds8 (2nd grade) did this week (that I've recorded, anyway):
Bible: 1 Samuel 2, 3, 8; Matthew 18:21-35, 21:1-11; Isaiah 52:13-15; 53
Language Arts: Worked SLOWLY on Romans 10:9 for copywork; 4 poems by Walter de la Mare; Holiday Handwriting School by Robin Pulver; read True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Sciezsca) to me; Literature (I read to him): finished Ralph S. Mouse and began Socks by Beverly Cleary; watched episode 118 of Salsa Spanish
Character: Sermon to the Birds from Children's Book of Virtues; Let's Talk about being a Bad Sport by Joy Berry (not exactly CM but both dc love them)
Geography-Oregon. B is for Beaver; Picture Book of Lewis and Clark (Adler); Picture Book of Sacagawea (Adler); Fourth of July on the Plains (Van Leeuwen)
Fine Arts-Monet and Rossini
Math-worked on multiplication tables, 1s, 2s, and 3s
Here's what I remember that dd4.5 worked on (not doing anything formal):
Built words with letter tiles. Saw some new words this week. She does these on her own. If I try to suggest one, she loses interest.
Played a counting game with Mommy. We can get past 100 if I say the even numbers and she does the odds
Did a lot of scribbling and water color painting. Wrote some words (again, on her own)
Played hopscotch on the carport (had nice weather most of the week)
Listened as I read from our Bible story book, Poems and Prayers for the Very Young, Tops and Bottoms (Janet Stevens), The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza (Simms Taback)-even tried to retell them, May I Bring a Friend, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. I know there were more, but I can't remember them right now.
Is that what you're looking for?
Karen
I usually try to do a week in review on my blog, but have found that with life lately it has turned into 2 weeks in review instead. =) Here is the link to the last one we did, which was actually an off week:
http://snowfallacademy.blogspot.com/2012/03/our-off-week-update.html
Thanks ladies...this all looks great. I will be hopping over to take a look.
Karen that is a great run down of the week
. You were very busy, I'm going to check out some of those book titles.
What do you think about doing this weekly?
zillymom
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I've been using the Early Years Guide (which I LOVE!!) with my 2 1/2 year old since the beginning of the year. I blog at the beginning(ish) of each month with an outline of what we'll be doing that month. Periodically in between, I'll post about resources I've come across or something that's on my mind (I also post on preemie and bilingual topics). I change the Bible reading, read-aloud, and poem weekly. Everything else changes monthly. This is really helping me find my own groove and way of keeping track of things, which I'm sure will be helpful when DD is a bit older and we're using the regular curriculum guide.
This week we're reading McDuff Moves In by Rosemary Wells, Calico Pie by Edward Lear, and The Ten Commandments out of the Spark Story Bible (published by Augsburg Fortress, we follow Lectionary Year B, and Spark publishes a schedule online that lines up with the story Bible).
My blog is: Slices of Life.
Anne - I love the idea of doing this weekly!
Hey, my post got deleted. That's really funny. I understand about the problem from Doug's post. I won't retype my entry here, but mabye I'll join in again next week.
Joy
nerakr
Member
OK, installment 2:
Ds8 (2nd grade)
Had one sick day this week
Bible: 1 Samuel 9-10, Matthew 21, 26:1-13
Language Arts: three poems by Walter de la Mare; 1 chapter of Socks (Cleary); Salsa Spanish 119
Character: Let's Talk about Being Forgetful by Joy Berry; Someone Sees You from Children's Book of Virtues
Geography: Kansas. S is for Sunflower (Scilian); Wagon Wheels (Brenner)
Fine Arts: Monet; finished Linnea in Monet's Garden
Math: Multiplication 2s and 3s
Dd4.5 (preschool)
She was sick for two days and wasn't interested in her school-type play for a couple of days. Here's what we've done since she felt better:
Lots of hopscotch, word building with letter tiles. More new words
Sat in on some of her brother's schoolwork
Did dot-to-dot with help
Listened to:
Bible story book--working our way through stories about Daniel
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young
Make Way for Ducklings
Mr. Brown Can Moo (Seuss)
The Napping House
O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone (Galvin and Villnave)
Old Macdonald Had a Woodshop (Shulman)
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See
Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear
Over in the Meadow (Ezra Jack Keats version)
I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly (Westcott)
No Roses for Harry (Zion)
Ten Apples Up on Top (LeSeig)
Goodnight Moon
Curious Furious Chipmunk (Jane Thayer)
amandajhilburn
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some pics of our week: http://teachthemdiligently-amanda.blogspot.com/2012/03/projects-and-experiments.html
Thanks ladies I am really enjoying hopping around looking at what you have all been up to!!!
Here is our week..lots of science activity!! Or maybe I only had my camera during science, lol!! Adele really enjoyed reading Letters from Egypt!! She hasn't enjoyed history much up until now but she surprised me by asking for more...:)
I discovered what a Century Plant was this week and we both enjoyed reading the Scrapbook of the Desert.
Any way here are our photos... http://www.anne-homeschooladventures.blogspot.com
This week we have been busy doing circus and animal workshops. I have full pictures on my blog.
We also have been learning about clouds. And discovering what our names mean!
You can find all photos on my blog anne-homeschooladventures.blogspot.com
Laura.bora
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Here's our week! (Nathaniel is 9, Ainsley is 6 and Ephraim is 4)
As a family, we read the day's 365 bible story. Then we read from Jon Courson's Comentary about the passage we just read. Then we read Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends. We read only a little section at a time. We are currently working on chapter 3. Then we read the Proverb chapter of the day and relate what we hear back to the scripture story we read earlier. Lol - Ainsley tries hard, but she tends to relate a scripture based on a word in the sentence rather than the meaning of the sentence. Like if the sentence has the word "King" in it, she'll say it reminds her of the story because there was a king in the story, but the whole proverb verse wouldn't actually apply to the story. But she tries hard, and that's all I ask! She'll get it eventually! They watched their French lesson of the month from here: http://www.knowitall.org/instantreplay/content/LanguageIndex.cfm They've been working on "Going to the Doctor" which is great since we're going to the doctor today. :P Nathaniel stepped on a rusty nail, so it's time to update that tetnus shot!! We worked on lesson 3 of Simply Handicrafts - Crocheting. We LOVE this. I knew Ainsley would enjoy it, but I was completly surprised to see Nathaniel crocheting every spare minute he could!! Can't wait to start the pot holders next week!! For history, we have been reading the chapter on the revival and circuit riders in the book Sea to shining sea. I picked up the movie Sheffey so that we can watch that after we finish this chapter. It's always fun to put in a movie!! We;ve been reading Swallows and Amazons and we are all loving it! I found out there was a movie made of it in the 70's, going to see if I can track it down to watch when we finish! For Gym, we played outside a LOT!! I don't know about where you guys are, but here it's been a sunny 80! Which is unheard of here!! I even got burnt being outside yesterday! Summer in March! I love it! We've been learning about the circulation system, so I had the kids count their resting heart rate, jumprope and run for a few minutes and then check their heart rates again and observe how their bodies felt, then we put it in our science note books.
Ephraim and I continued reading Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. We read it 5 times (once a day) and sometimes do an activity with it. It's hit and miss if I do something with him or not. If he's in the mood, and it works with our schedule we do his schoolwork. We got 3 days of "school" in with him. :) Pretty good considering we have a 4 day school week! We do the same thing with a book to read, so this week we read Carl's Snowy Afternoon every day we did school. His favorite part of the book is the love note from his Nan and Pop to him at the start of the book! So cute!
This week Ainsley continued reading Yussel and the Gefilte Fish to me. She is LOVING the book. She's also loving All of a Kind Family. We're getting towards the end of the book. :( She did copywork from her McGuffy reader three times. She has been memorizing the poem "The Swing" by Robert Lewis Stevenson. I'm thinking of finding it on youtube and putting it on her squidoo page. It helped her to memorize Psalm 100 last time. She worked on Speech 3 times this week. She's currently working on words ending in "b". Ainsley is still working on Addition with Xtramath.org It's WONDERFUL for practicing math facts! She's steadily improving! Ainsley has started learning the song Jackson Blues on the piano, and is VERY excited. Not Ainsley, but here's the song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPPAGyxOHM It's through a program called Simply Music.
Nathaniel worked on memorizing a quote by Alice Cary - one of his favorite poets. He had one day of time on his squidoo page. http://www.squidoo.com/Nathaniel-Jacob I change it up pretty regularly to focus on things we are learning along wiith a few fun things that he is interested in. He worked for 3 days on typing, which links can be found on his squidoo page. Nathaniel is a few pages away from finishing Gentle Ben. He has been loving it! Has anyone seen the movie of Gentle Ben made in the 90's? Is it any good? He really wants to see a movie adaptaion of the book to compare. Nathaniel has almost mastered addition on xtramath.org and is working his way through the review on Ray's Arithmetic. He has finally hit the last lesson on the First part of Simply Music. He can't wait to start the next group of lessons!! For Nathaniel's science reading, he finished Owls in the Family. He loved it! I just ordered the biography about Eugenie Clark for him to start next week. And Nathaniel FINALLY moved onto a new spelling lesson in his McGuffy reader! It took him FOREVER to master the words on his past list.
So that was our week! We acomplished a lot! I'm glad we're writing this all out! I was feeling discouraged at not doing a lot this week and feeling guilty that we spent a lot of time outside. Looks like I didn't need to feel like that!!!
nerakr
Member
Here's our week:
ds8: Reading about Saul and David in OT and the Easter story from Matthew. Two picture book versions of the Easter Story (Heyer and Wildsmith). Working slowly through The King of Prussia and a Peanut Butter Sandwich for geography. Poems by Walter de la Mare. Working on 3s times tables again. One episode of Salsa Spanish. Began our study of Van Gogh with The First Starry Night (Isom). For character study, Let's Talk about Feeling Defeated by Joy Berry and The Honest Disciple from The Children's Book of Virtues.Read Library Lil by Suzanne Williams. Finished Socks by Beverly Cleary. Rosie's Walk (Hutchens)
dd4.5: Lots of play with letter and number tiles, colored chalk, and watercolors. One thing notable was the number tiles. They go up to 100, but I had the 20s and 30s separated and in her school box. She put them in order with very little help from me. She even left space if she couldn't find them in sequence.
Reading through stories about Daniel in her Bible story book. Going to Town and Going West (My First Little House books), Harry by the Sea (Gene Zion), Peter and the Penny Tree (Thomas James), Pizza Party (Sharon Gordon), A Pocket for Corduroy, A Picture for Harold's Room, Peter Rabbit, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
Both dc: lots of outside time, especially on their bikes. It was unseasonably warm here, too.
Tecrz1
Member
My kids - ds7, ds5, and dd4. As a family we are reading the story of Jacob and Rachel. We are memorizing John 1:1-5 and The Swing by Robert Louis Steveson. We are singing All Hail the Power, America the Beautiful, I've Been Working on the Railroad, and a song in Spanish.
We are reading The Trumpet of the Swan, Robin Hood, Starry Messenger, Pagoo, Pilgrims Progress, and Tree In the Trail. My youngest is on a Berenstein Bears kick so we add those in too. In Math we worked on money concepts and played a lot of store. We did copywork and my oldest did a lesson in EFTTC.
We are practicing vocabulary pertaining to the house in Spanish like kitchen, chair, etc. We learned new songs on the recorder and my oldest on the piano.
We also painted our own Impressionist pictures after viewing Monet's Impression Sunrise. We listened to Mendelsohn.
We found blossoms from trees to put in our nature books and we are planning a stargazing. Ought after reading Stargazers by Gail Gibbons. My son made a dinosaur swamp in the backyard, and we all enjoyed being outside a lot as it was in the 80's and sunny all week.
My oldest son is also reading On the Banks of Plum Creek and Marco Polo. I picked up two books, one on ancient Greece and one on ancient Egypt at the thrift store, intending to save them for when we get around to that time period but the two older ones read them this week. Out of rotation but fun anyways :-) they all also read their library books but I'm not going to type them all out!
It was a great week, and we only did school three days of it! Today was Co op and yesterday was a mommy-needs-to-catch-up day.
Tara
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