A Short Weekly Report...

Still pretty laid back this week, although we're progressively picking up the pace in preparation for a full return to academics the first week of September.

Elf:
He did a couple of pages of review work from Saxon Math 2 (pages we had previously skipped). One of them was an assessment page, on which I am proud to announce he got 100%.

He is now reading The Magic Finger, along with his daily dose of Calvin & Hobbes. He is writing a story (on the computer) about himself as a knight, and hand-writing in a Scholastic story-starter booklet about a lonely giant. He also completed another 3 pages in Explode the Code 4.

In addition, he has been collecting and trying to identify rocks of various sorts.

Fairy:
She has been working diligently on letter recognition. I printed out some basic letter pages from Learning Page, in hopes that writing the letters repeatedly will help her form that connection.

She has also done a couple of pages of math this week, both from a cheap kindergarten book I got somewhere and from Saxon Math 1. Her addition and subtraction skills are pretty sharp!

Both:
We finished reading the Gilgamesh Trilogy this week and are now shifting our focus to Ancient Egypt. We got Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs, along with Pyramids! 50 Hands-On Activities from the library and will start with those on Monday, plus we will have more books coming in soon. I am hoping we can go see this at the end of summer.

Scientifically speaking, the kids, and M, are having great fun playing around with projects from The Science Explorer (a great book from the San Francisco Exploratorium). So far the projects have been quite easy to do, with no special items needed - I really recommend this book!

And there's our week!