Wednesday, Thursday & today...

Wednesday - First I met with C.O.'s teacher. We handed in a few sample pages of his work, and got back a bunch of the arts & crafts he's been doing in his enrichment classes. We also picked up a beginning reading guide (I'll look at the name later) and 4 beginning readers to work on over the next month.
After that, we went to a pumpkin patch, with the local homeschooling group. First time we did anything with them, so as usual, I felt pretty shy around them. Groups are always a bit uncomfortable for me. Not the kids though! There was a small hay bale maze with a tunnel thing, and a bunch of kids, so mine had loads of fun! C.J. met another girl with her name, and about the same age, which she thought was pretty funny. What I liked was watching all the kids playing together, and hearing the parents (mainly moms, but one dad was there) talking about their approaches to homeschooling, and a lot of them seem to be at least semi-unschooling, much like us! We also went in a corn maze and on a tractor-hay ride of sorts. Both kids picked out pumpkins too, and both have said they can't wait to "play with all those fun kids" again!
As far as schooling goes, C.O studied the heart and blood vessel system, etc. in his enrichment class. At home we read a few stories, and worked on pattern sequencing with his math manipulatives.
 
Thursday - More pattern sequencing, and we worked on HWOT. Then C.O. suddenly threw up, everywhere, so that was the end of that. He fell asleep for about 2 hours, then woke up and threw up all over my bed, and me. After that he was fine, and he's still okay today!
 
Today - We're going to do lesson 15 in Saxon Math (which is a written assessment), some HWOT and some HM Phonics, after the kids watch an episode or two of Little Einsteins. C.O wants to finish a sticker sheet he's been working on for sequencing. C.J. is working on the letter E now, so she'll probably color a couple of pages in her giant alphabet coloring/work book. We're also going to check on the growth of our catnip, and I am hoping to read them a book about family trees I picked up last week at the library, so maybe we'll get into that!
C.J. had gymnastics again today too, the second to last of the series we signed up for. She wants to continue with it rather than move into ballet, so I guess we'll be signing up for another 4 week session.