Weekly Wrap-Up: Ready or Not. . .

Today was our first week back at home, and we hit the ground running.  Almost all of our activities started this week, too.  Not only that, we had new replacement windows installed one day, which made everything ever so much more exciting round here.  Still, we somehow managed to have a good week.

We are pretty excited about some new things we have going.  Here are some highlights:

Miss Priss is enjoying her new math curriculum, Mathematical Reasoning, from the Critical Thinking Co.  So fat, it's been a review for her, so what's not to love?  Tiny Girl was, in fact, a tad jealous of Sissie's math program and expressed a dislike of MEP.  She proclaimed it "too easy."  Since MEP is a challenging program and a perfect fit for Tiny Girl's mathematical mind (IMHO), we decided to skip Year 3 and jump forward to Year 4.  And we had a great time in math this week.  Woo hoo!

Both girls began a new grammar and writing program, Scott Foresman Grammar and Writing Handbook, available FREE here, for grades one through six.  I plan to schedule grammar two days per week and writing activities two other days.

We're studying anatomy in science, using the book Uncover the Human Body as our spine (no pun intended).  This week, we learned about the dermal system.  Since this subject is full of new vocabulary words and new ideas, the girls are going to keep very basic notebook pages as study aids.

For our Bible study and prayer time, we are back together after a season of individual study. I'm using a fantastic devotion book for kids called Keys for Kids, which the girls received at our church in Maine. The stories are well written, and I also like the discussion at the end of each story. We've had a good time delving into the scriptures together.

In other subjects, we began reading Heidi; we learned about the discovery of Canada; we completed the Mind Benders Warm-Up book; we started Minn of the Mississippi.  French rolls on, as does piano practice, copywork, poetry, and reading. 

After much discussion, Miss Priss is now the proud owner of a betta, which she named Indigo.  She paid for it and all its paraphernalia from her saved-up allowance.  I strongly stipulated that I will not, in any way, be responsible for this fish; I've cleaned enough fish bowls in my life.  I just hope it lives longer than five minutes, for her sake.

That's our week!  How was yours?