This week...

I have high hopes for this week, including getting my computer back, in working condition. Yesterday I turned it on, to research science projects for my class on Tuesday. It started up with no problem, I left the room to grab a cup of coffee, and came back to the dreaded white crash screen. Luckily I have a friend who is a computer whiz, and he came over a couple of hours later to strip the hard drive. He managed, we think, to get all my files downloaded to an external hard drive... I hope, and has taken my computer home with him to repair. In the meantime, at least I have M's laptop! Lesson learned? I really should back up everything - photos onto disks, files onto disks, and all my homeschooling e-books either to disk or Google Docs.

Luckily, I had spent part of Saturday prepping everything for homeschooling this week. I am hoping we will:

• Get through all the language arts/phonics I have assigned for the week
• Finish another section of multiplication (Cyrus) and revisit addition (Cassia).
• Do lessons 2 and 3 in Colonial Life, and watch a video as a supplement - I am also picking up some library books today to broaden our studies.
• Start a unit from Mr. Q's Classical Science on rocks and fossils. In addition, we'll be building our own weather station equipment for my 4H Science class.
• Read some more in The Four Story Mistake and The Phantom Tollbooth. Cyrus is really looking forward to starting the fourth Percy Jackson book, and Cassia and I hope to finish Little House in the Big Woods.
• I think we might have 4H Nature Crafts too?
  
  

Meanwhile, the sun is shining, really shining, for the first time in over a week, so I hope to get outside, maybe for a creekside walk. And we are eagerly awaiting various habitats in the mail - we're going to raise ladybugs and praying mantises. Maybe butterflies a bit later when the weather is warmer. We now have a real ant farm too... just waiting for ants in the mail. I have been meaning to buy these kits for years, and finally got around to it because Amazon was nice enough to give me great credit for a used textbook!

I hope you all have a good week too... AND

HAPPY SPRING!!!