Just Passing Time

Here I am passing time until I hear from Dr. D what's up with my mother. An hour or so ago I got a call, "Hello, this is ..." (St. Nick said something and obliterated this part.) "Your mother has been in a car accident." I now know her car was totaled, she is fine (her wrist is hurt and Dr. D is taking her to the med center now), but she had left her keys in the ignition, so she couldn't get in the house. Hence Dr. D going over there. Makes me wish I had the van so I could have gone - I'm a little worried about her, but she sounded fine. Anyway, now I get the FUN of sitting at home and waiting. And Arthur is on, so the boys and girl are in the basement for their half-hour dose of animation.

Time for a homeschool update!

I have two weeks to catch up on, so rather than go day by day, I think I'll just list what we did in each area.

Discipleship Studies:
Read Leading Little Ones to God lessons 54-58
Read Genesis 35
Read Psalm 100

St. Nick did much of the reading, except of the chapter from Genesis.

Math:
Singapore 1B exercises 57-63

We're nearing the end of the book! But we need to do some of the Intensive Practice because this adding and subtracting within 100 is tough stuff. I keep my fingers hidden when checking answers. Note to self: Next year you're going to need the answer book!!!!

Language arts and whatnot:
Scholastic Success For 1st Grade, finished the section on maps
Worked on lowercase and capital letters
Reading Reflex page 315 on word chunks
Scholastic Success for 2nd Grade, Exclamations and commands and something else (forgot what)

I really thought St. Nick had a handle on capital vs. lowercase, but we needed some review. Syllables were easy, however, and we've pretty much exhausted most of Reading Reflex and the 1st grade SS workbook. See, we are making progress.

Reading in history and science:
Going to War in Roman Times by Moira Butterfield, which inspired St. Nick to make shields and swords from cardboard and have a war with his brother.
St. Nick read American Born Chinese, which is a graphic novel for teens. I couldn't believe he read it, but when I quizzed him on the details (I knew since I'd picked up the book for ME to read), he got every question. Wow.
Who were the Romans (Usborne)
A Walk in the Deciduous Forest (skimmed) by Rebecca L Johnson
What is Volume? by Lisa Trumbauer
What is the World Made Of? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (that was a looooong picture book)
Chapter in one of those Cleary Ralph books (Dr. D read it)

What else?
Made Ooblek
Went to the library, twice
Sold our house (last Thursday)
Toured a bunch of potential homes
Had a (small and rather unremarkable, if exciting) fire
Learned much about fire safety
Had home inspections
Un-sold our house (this Thursday)

Cute quote of the week: St. Nick said, while Pie was throwing a tantrum, "No one will ever be as cute as Mud Pie. And no one will scream as loud as her!"

True on both counts!