Week in Review- week 1

Well week 1 did not go as smoothly as I would like, although day one was awesome but it would not last. Day two was the victim of surging hormones but was salvaged and we were still able to get the whole days work done. Day three we had a little issue getting the garage door to come down and I had to be outside until dh got off at noon because it seems the little public school kids have nothing better to do than to get into trouble (the kids were able to finish their core subjects but no history or science). Day four was a weird day dh left for work late, the garage door guy came and the plumber came. So all in all it was a very atypical and weird week, and for me frustrating (at everyone else not the kids).


DD started her high school classes this week, she is finishing up her MUS and will move into Saxon PreAlgebra in another month or so but is moving along and is understanding so that is good(math is a very hard subject for her, just like her mom)! She is working a lot on her own and we have scheduled two "teaching sessions" per morning with mom but honestly she can get by with just one. It will probably change once we really get going! She also decide to tag along with our electricity unit and science and SHHH don't tell anyone she likes it, she is also decided to do a science fair project this year. She is thinking of doing a project along the lines of anatomy. Government proved to take more time than she budgeted so she is stuck working on it on Saturday.


This is from Trail Guide and instead of using an Almanac for all of this, you will be amazed at how quickly you can fill this out with the help of Google.

This is her assignment sheet for Government, she found that she definetly needs to allot more time for this subject than she was.(This picture came out really large I don't know why and can't shrink it) I am letting her plan some of her subjects out this year and it is definetly a learning curve, she ended up spending about 4 hours on Saturday working on things not finished from this week. She will do better I bet :)

Wacky Prince is working on a high school level health class, even though he is in 8th grade we are allowing him to do the Abeka 9th grade health for credit. He loves abeka science, in facts he jokes that he must be a geek because he automatically knew the name of the small clusters of endocrine gland cells that are located in the pancreas are, do you? He got an easy week in geography this week, it seems the chef got his worksheet and he got the chef's work. I wish sometimes the trail guide series codes for levels was a little easier to keep straight. He has one lesson in his MUS and will move to Saxon, He has been so bored in MUS for the last year it has been good for him but he does not like staying on one topic all year and I agree with him.


This is his first Health Quiz


This is his map work for Trail guide notice you can read the handwriting, that is big :)

The chef had a good week he is still getting hung up on long division but it is almost figured out. He can do it but just doesn't like it at all, the steps of divide, multiply, subtract and bring down just drive him crazy and the way MUS teaches it really confuses him. CQLA is going the same, they do it but they don't like it but would they really like anything? Nope probably not!


here is his handwriting, it is still needing some help. SIGH dysgraphia is very annoying

This is a worksheet for history, I am using it with TOG it shows all the different animals and how many really would need space on the ark. IT is very very neat.

So that is our week 1 in Review! Ohh and if you missed our pictures from the first day of school click here