In my life this week...
It's been a crazy couple of days. Monday was my birthday, and it snowed just a tiny bit. But that was a really nice birthday gift for me! Callen and I have been sick... just a cold or something, coughing, lots of yucky drainage, etc. Well, it seemed we were getting better. Michael and I dropped the boys off to spend the night with Grandma on Thursday, so that we could have a date night. We used Christmas money my Grandma Evelyn gave us to go see the Dead Sea Scrolls in Fort Worth. That was a neat experience! We also found a revived Bennigan's and had dinner... oh, how many times we ate at Bennigan's back when we were dating, haha! Meanwhile, Callen threw up a bunch of times while at my parents' house... not sure what the real cause of that was, but... oops, sorry, Mom & Dad! Eep. Friday morning I turned Michael's TCCC grades in for him, dropped a present off for a friend who just had a baby (a month early!), stopped by Auto Zone to see why my check-engine light came on (no big deal, whew!) and then finally made it Chickfila in Southlake to set up for their last Women's Expo.
Half way through the event, I heard the news of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. I couldn't stop shaking and my eyes kept filling will tears... 20 sweet children killed along with 6 adults at the school. Plus the shooter's mother and himself. Unbelievable. I know that we can never understand such things... there is no "answer" for something like this. It's completely unfathomable and utterly heart breaking. Last night, as I watched classic Christmas tv shows and movies with my little ones, all I could think of was how there were so many families who weren't doing the same thing that evening. It's hard to celebrate a holiday after losing a loved one... but to lose a child so near to Christmas. Wow. Their precious ones were taken from them in what is supposed to be a season of cheer and goodwill. I can't do anything but pray for peace and comfort and that despite what they're going through right now... that the family and friends who have gone through this tragedy will turn TO God and not AWAY from Him with their grief. And as people scream and argue about gun control, better school security, etc....A friend of mine, Layne Rogers, posted this as his status yesterday and I just love it, and I pray we all remember it forever: "We do not eliminate darkness by destroying everything that casts a shadow, we push back the darkness by increasing the light."
Anyway, a quick recap of what we did earlier this week...
Half way through the event, I heard the news of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. I couldn't stop shaking and my eyes kept filling will tears... 20 sweet children killed along with 6 adults at the school. Plus the shooter's mother and himself. Unbelievable. I know that we can never understand such things... there is no "answer" for something like this. It's completely unfathomable and utterly heart breaking. Last night, as I watched classic Christmas tv shows and movies with my little ones, all I could think of was how there were so many families who weren't doing the same thing that evening. It's hard to celebrate a holiday after losing a loved one... but to lose a child so near to Christmas. Wow. Their precious ones were taken from them in what is supposed to be a season of cheer and goodwill. I can't do anything but pray for peace and comfort and that despite what they're going through right now... that the family and friends who have gone through this tragedy will turn TO God and not AWAY from Him with their grief. And as people scream and argue about gun control, better school security, etc....A friend of mine, Layne Rogers, posted this as his status yesterday and I just love it, and I pray we all remember it forever: "We do not eliminate darkness by destroying everything that casts a shadow, we push back the darkness by increasing the light."
Anyway, a quick recap of what we did earlier this week...
In our Homeschool this week...
Tot School: We continued the 1plus1plus1equals1.net "Tot School" printables this week with letter "N" for Net (insects)! We read a lot of fun bug-themed books:
Bible: This week's name of Jesus was Lamb of God. Preston's memory verse is John 1:29 and we looked up verses in The Discoverer's Bible that talked Jesus being a lamb. We also made a lamb out of the boys' hand prints and cotton balls. They did not... um.. come out as I had hoped... Preston has a bit of trouble writing that day (due to his bad attitude about it, mostly).
Tot School: We continued the 1plus1plus1equals1.net "Tot School" printables this week with letter "N" for Net (insects)! We read a lot of fun bug-themed books:
Bible: This week's name of Jesus was Lamb of God. Preston's memory verse is John 1:29 and we looked up verses in The Discoverer's Bible that talked Jesus being a lamb. We also made a lamb out of the boys' hand prints and cotton balls. They did not... um.. come out as I had hoped... Preston has a bit of trouble writing that day (due to his bad attitude about it, mostly).
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| Not exactly what I had hoped for. |
Reading/Writing: We continued Spelling by Sound & Structure. Continued with lesson 40-42 in Primary Language Lessons. We finished our read-aloud, Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Preston wrote a short book review on it. We have been reading a ton of Christmas books as well to go along with our Advent/Christmas countdown.
History:
This week Preston learned about Johnny Appleseed, moving to Ohio and the state of Ohio. We recreated a New England Primer, and Preston stumbled over the use of the letter "f" in place of an "s."
Math: Preston continued Part B of Math Mammoth, Second Grade. Working on hundreds and skip counting by different numbers, using addition and subtraction. He is zipping right through this stuff.
Science: This week's theme was animals, so we read from the First Encyclopedia of Science on different kinds of animals. We also played the Memory Match game included in MFW, helping to categorize different types of animals. Oh, and we checked on and threw out our milk/bacteria experiment from last week... nasty!
Music/Art: Skipped music and art this week.
Spanish: Continued with the next episode of Salsa. We reviewed words having to do with "LaGente" in our First Thousand Words in Spanish. Unfortunately, I just realized that the box set of La Clase Divertida was incomplete and did not, in fact, include the second DVD with the last half of the lessons. It had two audio CDs in it instead. Oops! So, we're on pause with that type of Spanish lessons for the moment till we figure out what to do about it. We can order the Lesson 1 DVD set (of two discs) for $40, but dang... that's a lot of money right now. So, considering my options and will hopefully have something figured out before we start up again after New Years.
We will take a break from MFW lessons, and do "Christmas School" next week, which will be fun things like crafts and simple lessons using the holiday theme. And then we'll have a two week break off of school!
We are using Adventures in My Father's World. See our curriculum here.
[This post contains affiliate links for Usborne Books & More and Amazon.com. By clicking on those links and purchasing items, you are helping me continue to be a SAHM so that I can focus on homeschooling my children! Thank you!]
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| Writing the Farmer Boy review. |
History:
This week Preston learned about Johnny Appleseed, moving to Ohio and the state of Ohio. We recreated a New England Primer, and Preston stumbled over the use of the letter "f" in place of an "s."
Math: Preston continued Part B of Math Mammoth, Second Grade. Working on hundreds and skip counting by different numbers, using addition and subtraction. He is zipping right through this stuff.
Science: This week's theme was animals, so we read from the First Encyclopedia of Science on different kinds of animals. We also played the Memory Match game included in MFW, helping to categorize different types of animals. Oh, and we checked on and threw out our milk/bacteria experiment from last week... nasty!
Music/Art: Skipped music and art this week.
Spanish: Continued with the next episode of Salsa. We reviewed words having to do with "LaGente" in our First Thousand Words in Spanish. Unfortunately, I just realized that the box set of La Clase Divertida was incomplete and did not, in fact, include the second DVD with the last half of the lessons. It had two audio CDs in it instead. Oops! So, we're on pause with that type of Spanish lessons for the moment till we figure out what to do about it. We can order the Lesson 1 DVD set (of two discs) for $40, but dang... that's a lot of money right now. So, considering my options and will hopefully have something figured out before we start up again after New Years.
We will take a break from MFW lessons, and do "Christmas School" next week, which will be fun things like crafts and simple lessons using the holiday theme. And then we'll have a two week break off of school!
We are using Adventures in My Father's World. See our curriculum here.
[This post contains affiliate links for Usborne Books & More and Amazon.com. By clicking on those links and purchasing items, you are helping me continue to be a SAHM so that I can focus on homeschooling my children! Thank you!]
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