Wednesday, April 18, 2007

SCHOOL UPDATE

Our schedule was thrown off today because I had a strange, strange a.m. I woke up at 3 a.m. with Stacia. I got her back down around 4:30 a.m. I knew I had two handouts to finish by Saturday (for homeschool 101) and so I decided to work on them. I had a long list of curriculum resources that cyber friends and local friends had helped me compile...but I needed to find weblinks for each entry, phone numbers etc. I worked until 7 a.m. I had no idea how late it was getting. Mike walked through the library on the way to work and commented that he thought I had gone to Curves. Oops - I'd forgotten. So - he told me I should go catch a bit of sleep since the children were still down. I did.


In other words - we got a late start. While the younger two worked on their independent work, I worked on the handouts a bit more.


We had friends over for a bit after lunch and then finally began schooling at about 2:30.


Arielle read "From the mixed Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" to Nolan. I ate (which I'd forgotten to do until this). Then we read our TOG books.


This week we are studying Dragonflies and Damselflies in our Zoology book. I found a great book at the library with awesome photos. It's titled, "A Dazzle of Dragonflies" by Forrest L. Mitchell and James L. Lasswell. I don't agree with much of the text...but the photos are "dazzling". It compliments our science book well.
We caught a big, flying bug in a jar today. It was fun to study him and let him go. All in all a good day of school.

3 comments:

Jodi said...

Looks like a very pretty book.

Just say NO to things like homeschool 101. LOL

Kristine said...

We've hit that "get through" mode for Zoology, flying through bugs. Thanks for the recommendation, I just put it on hold at my library. It looks like the PICTURES will be good, lol!

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Jodi - I'm excited about Homeschool 101....and the lists are going to be great to have....I have lots of new books to look up. LOL