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HR Ascension Report #2

Posted on | October 4, 2008 |

Can anyone say road-trip? Well, that was pretty much our week. We spent the majority of it on the road. Field trips on Tuesday to Montna Farms and Thursday to The CSRM, and a co-op on Wednesday made for a very busy week. We did manage to get some book learning completed and all of us are slowing getting our rhythm of the school week.

We hit the library again and added to our already growing collection. It’s amazing how quickly one can check out 50 books. We didn’t make it that far yet, but give or take another ten plus books and 50 we will have. If we come across any really special ones, then we will share them at the Homeschool Roster.

N.B.’s vocabulary words study went more smoothly this week. For now, he will learn five a week and we will see how he does. Every time I asked him the definition of one of the words he learned, his face would light up as he told me the definition. He also enjoyed sharing the new words with Dad.

Minna Beana studied the sound “an” this week. At first, she had trouble grasping the concept of pronouncing the letters and starting with the first letter in each word. She would pronounce the letters, but when she would go back to say the word, she would start with the second letter sound. I used the tutorial on Starfall, which helped it make better sense to her. After that, she did fine.

We started our math program RightStart Mathematics, which uses an abacus as a teaching tool. That is what convinced me to purchase this curriculum. We haven’t used the abacus yet, but the manipulatives are great. The older two children played dump truck and a few others.

Next week, I will be adding the remainder of our subjects we will be studying this session. Everyone is getting use to the change in schedule. Typically, we don’t do two field trips in one week, but I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity for either. I am trying to keep the field trips to no more than two per month. Although we enjoy getting out and going, it does sometimes interfere with a quiet school week. I think we all needed to recover after all of the running around.

Meanwhile, with summer gone and the arrival of fall, we’re trying to enjoy the remaining days of summer. Our warm weather continues through the first of November, so we’ll be hanging outside and may bring the pencils, notepads, and books along with us.

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