Well, I tried blogging, but this is just a bit quicker for me and with life in the fast lane, I need quick. My dh had surgery on his shoulder this week so we had a bit of a different schedule. Lots of health and life skills for the kiddo's.
They even witnessed the stitches being taken out of Daddy's shoulder.
Anyway, with HOD the way it is written we managed to get lots done this week, Sunday before surgery, the morning of surgery, day of doctor's visit. etc. Than on top of that everyone came down with a cold!
except Daddy PTL
Preparing Hearts for His Glory Unit 4
Making the clay map for 'History Project" to show the area where early civilization began.
Map labeled with Rivers and Seas and seeing how the rivers run into the seas.
Everyone enjoying history reading this week and "Life in the Great Ice Age" is a favorite in our house. Ds can't wait till he can read it from cover to cover after we are through it for school!
Ds went ahead and traced some of the things this time. He ended up drawing the fungus and plant. His cursive is nicely improving. He is not yet done with all his capital letters, but wants to write as much in cursive as he can and adding the capitals as he learns them. This is not be the way it was intended, but it works for us.
I was so glad to read Julie's post on narration a while back. This week I ended up modeling narration to ds at the beginning of the week and we took turns at the end of the week. He had a lot of disturbed nights, getting up to check on Daddy and praying for Daddy at night for the pain to subside. He was such a blessing to Dh and I during the night season.
Little Hearts for His Glory Unit 21 finished up and than 3 R's
Because of the hectic week and ds 6 being in unit 21 of LHFHG, I decided this week to do 3 R's after finishing last weeks unit. We usually do 4 days a week of LHFHG to be in solidarity with older ds. in Preparing.
Ds continued to do his
Rhyme in Motion (
Take me out to the Ocean) all week and his Memory Verse!
Math still a favorite with ds, PTL
Learning the number combinations, here is learning the ones that make 8. Since we were in a different mood with colds and surgery etc. we used paper punched apples to do this activity, instead of fruit pieces
We finished off unit 21 with Pizarro and the riches he wanted to gain and how wicked he was to the king of Peru. Getting a room full of gold and ending up eliminating the King. For this activity we used rolled up balls of Play-dough and pressed coins in them for an imprint.
We finished lesson 15 of Reading Lesson and I am still very much blessed with the program. Ds loves to do his Reading Lessons with Daddy every chance he gets!
My Mr. Independent likes to read and follow the instructions for his Thinking skills pages and only needs help occasionally. His handwriting is coming along very nicely and he still continues to like ARFH and so do I.
Little Hands to Heaven unit 6
We had a head start on Sunday, knowing we would miss at least one day this week. We continued to have fun learning about the life of Joseph, how God took care of him and how forgiving he was toward his brothers, with the letter E and the number 6.
The number 6, using 6 pillows or blankets as Joseph was a great interpreter of dreams and to dream we must be asleep!
Little Pink E-E-Elephant was very popular this week and she walked nicely on the letter E. She went along to my friends house who watched the kids during surgery!
Hide and seek is going well and dd plays that game all day long, when we read books, when we drive! This week she did so well on writing all her numbers the "Count on Me" page without help (not a requirement at this time, just her personal goal)
. Her story telling with the picture is improving!
She also began skip counting by 2's on her own when we did the dramatic play with 10 "Little People" as Josephs brothers and she had to count them out for me. So we will start next week to skip count and work on writing those numbers as well.
Dd drew a picture of Joseph and we sprinkled salt around to make a dessert scene and folded a pyramid. She did well tracing her e's and wrote a couple of them as well.
She is really taking off with the handwriting and having fun just making letters. At the dr's office she copied little notes to her friends, from a model I wrote. My only girl and she's so different in her interest than the boys
Carrie has the idea to write with an ice cube on construction paper, since I knew the little princess would have cold fingers, I made her a popsicle to write with the night before. I used food coloring and H2O and it worked great, till it started melting too much, since dd wanted to continue for a while
Using washable tempera paint might work better to prevent staining of clothing etc.
We love doing the letters and my walls are still nicely decorated with the boys their letters that they decorated. We did e-e-erasers, that dd placed on all by herself neatly and organized, I might add. E-E-Egg shells that we d-d-dyed and c-c-colored the week before.
Thanks Carrie for such a great week. We did not finish Preparing all the way, but I was totally fine with how much we got done in this past week and I'm still sane
WE start our school break for a couple of weeks now 
I guess I have to relax a little lol. Tamara picked up where she left of on day 4 unit 5 of CTC, after letting Keri get acclimated for the first three days of this week. The days all went very smoothly, and we were finished by 2pm-I'd prefer1:30, but 2:00 isn't bad!
