In years past Spring Break has been taken when family was coming to visit. That way we did not have to take an extra week and miss school. I thought this was a good plan, kids would have preferred the extra week off, lol. This year we have no family visiting in Spring, but rather they are coming in the Summer. Summer is a rough time to visit Florida, so we will see how it goes, but we will be done with school. Basically, anyways, both kids will do Math, our Geography game, and DJ wants to learn to make a video game.
This week we are Spring cleaning. I love Spring cleaning, sure I do. I have some homeschool books I need to find, for another homeschooler to borrow, and I need to weed out books I will not be using. This weekend I finally got to sit down and grade papers, plus check out the new books I bought for next year. I told DJ I think he is going to like Math U See, he just laughed. The Apologia Marine Biology, looks really awesome, and some of the experiments we have actually done before, so replicating them shouldn't be hard.
I have been thinking about Caitlin, and her progress. She has made great progress, but I still feel she is not where she needs to be for Math and Writing. History, Science and Reading are all very good. With that in mind, for fifth grade, she will be doing only Math, Reading and Writing. She did not want a blog, like her brother, but I think I am going to give her one anyways. I also have decided, that she will start Easy Peasy day 102, fourth grade, to better get her organized where I need her to be. Also, we will be doing more on CWIST, one of my favorite websites of all, but that I have to work into our lessons. I am always tweaking and evaluating what we do, and where we are. Caitlin learns completely different than DJ, and they both love Science, and neither likes Math, so I have to adapt to both of them. I have to say fourth grade, into fifth grade, was an exceptionally hard transition time for DJ as well, so the fact Caitlin is having a hard time is no surprise to me.
We have our Earth Kids meeting on Wednesday, and I can not wait to share the fun Science experiment and art project we will be doing.
Happy St Patrick's Day too!
This week we are Spring cleaning. I love Spring cleaning, sure I do. I have some homeschool books I need to find, for another homeschooler to borrow, and I need to weed out books I will not be using. This weekend I finally got to sit down and grade papers, plus check out the new books I bought for next year. I told DJ I think he is going to like Math U See, he just laughed. The Apologia Marine Biology, looks really awesome, and some of the experiments we have actually done before, so replicating them shouldn't be hard.
I have been thinking about Caitlin, and her progress. She has made great progress, but I still feel she is not where she needs to be for Math and Writing. History, Science and Reading are all very good. With that in mind, for fifth grade, she will be doing only Math, Reading and Writing. She did not want a blog, like her brother, but I think I am going to give her one anyways. I also have decided, that she will start Easy Peasy day 102, fourth grade, to better get her organized where I need her to be. Also, we will be doing more on CWIST, one of my favorite websites of all, but that I have to work into our lessons. I am always tweaking and evaluating what we do, and where we are. Caitlin learns completely different than DJ, and they both love Science, and neither likes Math, so I have to adapt to both of them. I have to say fourth grade, into fifth grade, was an exceptionally hard transition time for DJ as well, so the fact Caitlin is having a hard time is no surprise to me.
We have our Earth Kids meeting on Wednesday, and I can not wait to share the fun Science experiment and art project we will be doing.
Happy St Patrick's Day too!
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