Back in the saddle...

so to speak. We've actually sat down and done lessons this week! Tuesday, in math, Elf did a couple of pages of review, some of which included adding up the value of x # of dimes and x # of pennies. Warning - brag here! He's doing it all in his head, and getting every one right! He read aloud another book, drew some silly pictures for geography (how people alter the landscape), and colored a page on Ancient Sumeria while I read chapter 6 from SOTW out loud. Then he and Fairy made "vests of many colors" out of grocery bags. We also finally stopped our apple mummification project. The mummy apples are like very salty dried apples now, and the "control" apples molded completely inside their ziploc bags. Eeeeeeeewwwwwww. We finished up with a spelling test I meant to get to last week. Elf got one word sort of wrong because he made the "p" in "stop" backwards, so afterwards I had him go back and rewrite it. During all this, Fairy also colored, worked on a couple of pages from ETC, did a shape-matching work sheet, and played with math manipulatives.

Yesterday, we had a meeting with Elf's IST, so we spent the morning prepping, which mainly meant printing pictures of Elf at work (ex: picture of him working on his clay tablet) and having him copy over a sentence about each thing that I wrote in highlighter. After the meeting, he had Spanish, and then we had art class. This week's subject was the Snowy Egret, which we painted using feathers to get a nice wispy look.

I've been studying hard myself. Algebra is getting increasingly difficult, naturally. Plus I missed two essays from Political Science when I was having some computer trouble, so I've been working on making those up. Then the Child Development project, etc. I did register for spring classes this week - more algebra, World History (to 1500), and biology.

Well, off to work on another essay!