Thursday with Photos

Began the day with a game of store which involved the kids buying folded stacks of laundry and putting them away.
C did some copy work and caught a snail in the back yard. She also did Spanish on Duolinguo and Khan Academy math and played a poety game with E and I.
E did 3 pages of phonics while pretending to be a 20 year old college student. she also did a sentence making game and wrote  sentence. E also did a reading lesson on the computer. C read some Calico Captive and Cinderella.

Later in the day E did a math game and addition page with numbers fro 20-900,  the girls listened to some Robin Hood. I read some Egyptian Mythology to E.  C read some Hobbit and a book about Hawaii. For PE we walked to the pocket park and played for about 45 mins. We had races on the way there. The girls drew the snail C found for nature study. Now we are going to read some Swiftly Tilting Planet.

Monday

I need a schedule for each day of the week. So far this Monday we have done the following: tidying in kitchen and kids bedroom, listening to Suzuki violin CD
C did math and Spanish on the computer
we read some Wind in the Willows
listened to 2 chapter of the gospel according to St. John
read morning prayers and worked on scripture memory
E listened to kids poems= memory work
listened to Robin Hood while doing beading= handicrafts
checking on the garden... noticed peas coming up.

Feb 18, 2016 school day

I Posted about some games we did recently on google plus. E and I did a phonogram game and rolling dice math game to teach place value. Right now C is playing a geography quiz game on the tablet. E is making rubberband jewelry to match a new owl t-shirt I got for her.
i keep thinking that I should post daily about what school activities we do so that I can see how much we are accomplishing.

This morning C worked on Java script computer programming, E did her reading lesson I read Much Ado About Nothing from Lambs Tales From Shakespeare. Emily retold the story.
We walked a mile to a cafe. (Physical Education.)
We did some cafe schooling next: we worked on poetry memorization. E did quick lessons for spelling, phonics, math, cursive, copy-work and a sentence making game. C did cursive, copy-work, spelling, Latin, writing about books she's read. Later I read two chapters of Tree in the Trail by Holling Clancy Holling aloud to E. C is working on learning the 50 states

The girls also practiced violin and C also practiced piano.

2016 The year of Games

I am going to try to post regularly about games we play because games are a great way to learn about many things. Today we played Rock On! for the first time. This is a hands on geology game with rock and mineral specimens, information cards and bingo like cards. This was our first time playing and we all enjoyed the game and learned some geology lingo.

Some other games we played recently were Red 7 and Category 5. Both are card games. Red 7 requires paying attention to multiple facets of the cards on your canvas and in your hand ie: color and number. Category 5 requires comparing numbers relative values so that you can play your cards in the appropriate place so as not to gain unwanted points. Mark payed this game Sunday with the girls and their friend James. Claire also played a game of chess with David at church last night.