School Week 23 Photo Diary

Another week in the books. Can't believe that it is the end of January. May will be here before we know it. I am starting to get that feeling again that they are not learning all that they need to know before they go on to their next grades next year. I am definitely going to be planning longer days until the end of the year and on our days off, we are going to be reviewing what we learned and all that. I didn't take many pictures this week and on Friday, there were no pictures taken.

Monday: Started the morning off with our usual work and they finally took their spelling test on the words that they have been doing for the last two weeks. I had a kitchen accident this morning and so what I did have plan, was pushed back and we didn't get much done. After their tests, Ariana did reading time and Samantha got one days worth of lessons done on Easy Peasy.

After the hour, they switched and Ariana only got a days worth of lessons done on her Easy Peasy and it didn't help my mood at all and that was when the doubts started for the week. To end the day, we started reading book 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Tuesday: We had an early start to the day because I was still recovering from my kitchen accident and we watched 4 episodes of The Magic School Bus after they got their morning work out of the way.

Of course, after each episode we discussed what it was about and then they drew pictures of things from the episode and they are getting better with their drawing. Then they did reading time together.

To end the day, we read three more chapters of The Austere Academy. It is getting good. They like this one better than The Miserable Mill.

Wednesday: I let the girls decide what they wanted to do to begin our day. Ariana wanted to finish some worksheets that I had completely forgotten about and Samantha worked in her adult coloring book. The night before, they were siting at the kitchen tables and making letters for everyone and pretending to mail them. Well, during breakfast, they asked if we could learn more about the post office and how mail gets delivered and so we watched 30 minutes worth of videos on Postal Office workers on YouTube. After we got done with the videos and discussing it, they had their reading time.

After their reading time, we read chapters 7,8, and 9 of The Austere Academy. To end the day, Samantha did some more lessons on Reading Eggs Mathseeds and Ariana did some pages in her workbook.

Thursday: We had another early morning, so morning work was done and then we watched 4 episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy. They loves Bill Nye!!

laughing at one of Bill Nye's many jokes.

We also watched another YouTube video on Pocahontas Revealed and they really liked learning what is really true and what was not real in the cartoon. They talked my ear off with comparing the movie and the documentary. After the YouTube video, they had reading time and then we ended the day with reading the last 4 chapters of The Austere Academy.

Friday: I didn't take any pictures today because today just was not a good day. We all had attitudes and ugh. It was a hell of a day! We did start the day with reading Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses while we were eating breakfast. After we finished reading that, they did their morning work and then wanted to learn more about pirates. So we watched a video on Blackbeard because he was the most famous pirate and the book mentioned Blackbeard and his ship Queen Anne's Revenge.  They then did reading time and Easy Peasy separately. That is where our attitudes ran high and nothing went right.

I am going to be doing so thorough planning on Sunday for the upcoming week. We will be having a 4 day week because the girls will be having Tuesday off for dentist appointments.