Saturday through Wednesday...

Saturday: Soccer was canceled as the field was too muddy. Spent most of the day running around trying to get my SUV fixed. We got a rebuilt alternator & had it put in, but it had a malfunction, so no luck. C.O. and C.J. spent another good portion of the day outside on their bikes, piling up leaves then riding through them to hear the crunching. We did some work on our nature table, and made pumpkin bisque, which turned out really yummy, although M won't eat any (he hates pumpkin anything, even pie!). We spent the evening watching Sword in the Stone together, and then the kids wanted to wear their crowns that we got last month or so at the Fairy Folk Festival.
 
Sunday: C.O. read one of his readers again, and did some math - he's getting really good at word problems - plus a couple of pages in Maps, Graphs, Globes. C.J. worked on matching numbers to groups of animals, and then she did some coloring. She also copied some of the numbers she was working on. We read A Year at Maple Farm. I even got some work done on my homework, while both kids drew pictures!
 
Monday: I got back a couple of C.O.'s projects from his art enrichment class - he did a gorgeous painting of mountains, a waterfall, a tree and some birds - I will try taking a picture of it to post; and his pinecone turkey. We worked on spelling short words (3-4 letters), math, HWOT, and of course practiced reading. C.J. wrote her numbers 1-10! Then we headed off to gymnastics. They worked on the long trampoline, which is C.J.'s absolute favorite, plus they had a race and did somersaults (another of her favorites), among other gymnastic activities.
 
Tuesday: Did our "school" work on my bed for a change. We listened to Mozart while reading, working on the letter "U", doing math (another assessment, i.e. Saxon Math lesson 20), and talking about worms. Soccer practice was canceled. This is the last week of the soccer season, and I am beginning to wonder if there will be another game or not! We also had the excitement of having my SUV towed off on a flatbed to get it fixed, since the malfunctioning alternator killed the battery completely. We read a short book about Thanksgiving, and then reread Johnny Appleseed. C.O. got a picture in the mail from a new penpal, which he was thrilled by!
 
Today; Picked up the SUV, all fixed! Right now C.O. is busily drawing trucks on his Magna-Doodle, and C.J. is playing with her "babies". We'll start in the the next reader in a bit, plus some spelling/sounding out practice, math and then we'll look up some more information on worms! C.O. may or may not have soccer practice later today, then I have my evening class. Our issues of Ladybug & Click came today too, so we'll spend some time reading those. I want to head over to an art supply store if I get the time to get supplies for our Family Tree project - I need light blue (or another light color) poster/matte board; green, red and brown construction paper, and some more glue sticks.