Monday, June 3, 2013

Last week we had some gorgeous weather. We took advantage and enjoyed a trip to the park.








We also had some super hot weather and met up with some homeschooling friends at the beach.




In school news, I was given the awesome opportunity to review a Spanish curriculum called R.E.A.L. Homeschool Spanish. We just started it last week and are working our way very slowly through unit one.



We put on a little puppet show with Thundercats Lion-O and Tygra, using the phrases we learned. We are also using the phrases throughout the day. 



Look for my full review later this month! :)

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Art Show

Last week the library had an art show. We stopped by to check out the work of the local students.


This was made from different bottle tops!
 










The kids were really impressed with the creativity displayed. Jayden decided he may even want to participate in next year's art show.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Library trip

We were stuck home for the second half of last week. Just before Jayden got conjunctivitis and Caitlin had an unexplained fever, we went to the library.



 
Caitlin got her very first library card! She proudly announced each letter of her name as she signed the back of her card.



Here is our collective haul.

Caitlin picked this book again
 
These are the books we will read together

The Spanglish book Juan will read to the kids

The books Jayden selected

We also borrowed three games and a move. Well the movie is for me.

 

Monday, May 27, 2013

Our books for Art History class have arrived! We will be making lapbooks with the FREE World's Greatest Artists curriculum here.


I can not stress enough just how happy Jayden is with his new math curriculum. His happiness means I'm happy. He always wants to start school with math and often wants to do extra pages. How can I not be happy with that? Right now all of his math work is review. That may be why he likes it so much. We'll see if he is still as enthusiastic about it when we learn new concepts.
We are nearly done with our Beginning Geography unit. Jayden completed the landforms and bodies of water portion. In the end he did an activity where he had to match the landforms and bodies of water to their pictures. The landforms he learned about are: mountain, plain, island, volcano, canyon, valley, and desert. The bodies of water he learned about are ocean, river, and lake.


 After correctly matching everything he took an end of the chapter test and scored a 96%!

Caitlin is still working through her kindergarten level of Time4Learning. In about 2 weeks our subscription will end. 

She also loves the FREE Salsa Spanish episodes. She has learned the words pastel and triste

Friday, May 24, 2013

Last weekend Jayden led his class in their warm ups.


 Afterward, they were all tested on the moves they have learned this semester.

They all earned their first patch, which is the school name. Apparently the parents have to sew it on. Not only do I suck at sewing, I don't even know where on his uniform it belongs. So even though his last karate class of the semester is tomorrow, Jayden's patch is sitting in my purse.

Next week there will be no class. The following week we will be moving to a new location for karate, possibly permanently. This buys me some time before I need to sew the patch on, right?


Last weekend's warm weather meant bike riding outside. 

During their time outside, Juan (at the insistence of the kids) took off their training wheels. It did not go as well as planned. There were scraped knees and blood involved. Luckily everyone is still in one piece!