Archive for March, 2006

March 31, 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006

The kids wanted me to read to them this morning so we didn’t start school until 11:45.
Warm-up: I wrote “My family is” on the whiteboard. Ani wrote one brother and me and one mother and one father.
Language Arts: Ani did one page in Spelling Workout B. She did lesson 39 in the McGuffey Second Reader. […]

March 30, 2006

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

We started school at 10:15 this morning.
Warm-up: I wrote on the whiteboard “When I am tired”. Ani wrote that she goes to bed. Cameron drew a picture of himself in bed.
Language Arts: Ani did a spelling test and one page of Spelling Workout B. She read lesson 38 in the McGuffey Second Reader. She did […]

March 29, 2006

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

We started school at 8:45 this morning.
Warm-up: I wrote “Fish” on the whiteboard. Cameron drew a picture of himself fishing. Ani wrote that fishing is her favorite thing to do.
Language Arts: Ani took a misspelled words test. She did two pages in Spelling Workout B. She read lesson 37 in the McGuffey Reader. She did […]

March 28, 2006

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

We didn’t start school today until 10:45.
Warm-up: I wrote “My favorite flavor of ice cream is” on the whiteboard. Cameron said his favorite is mint chocolate chip. Ani wrote her’s is chocolate and then she drew a picture of herself eating a 5 scoop cone.
Language Arts: Ani did two spelling tests marking the official completion […]

In principio erat verbum

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

The kids were out on the balcony playing. I wasn’t paying all that much attention and all of a sudden I realized just what they were chanting (at the top of their lungs): “In principio erat verbum, In the beginning was the word, John 1:1.” That was the chapter maxim we learned today in Latin […]

March 27, 2006 - Our Adventure Begins!

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Today was the beginning of doing all the classical ed stuff. We started school at 9:30. The kids watched a Magic School Bus video and a Signing Times DVD we got from the library right after they woke up and then we did Children’s Miracle Music before sitting down to school.
Warm-up: I wrote “This weekend” […]

Rock Project

Friday, March 24th, 2006

March 24, 2006

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Today was our last day for our unit study. All of the books we ordered are here and ready to be begun on Monday. Starting Monday we will be 100% classical education.
We started school at 9 this morning.
Language Arts: Ani took a misspelled words test and did one page in Spelling Workout A. She read […]