Weekly Wrap Up...& a Special Day...

First, a quick weekly report. We are almost, but not quite, wrapping up our year. This was a decent week as far as work done!

Language Arts
Cyrus worked on several assignments from a great free resource, Scott Foresman Reading: Teacher Resources. This week, he covered nouns, and imperative and exclamatory sentences. He also finished book 5 in the Percy Jackson series, and wrote creative dialog for an animation program he's been working with.

Cassia worked in Explode the Code, and returned to using ClickN'Kids. She also read from an old Dick and Jane book, and a couple of the Pigeon books. What I loved this week is that she would go back over the pages until she was comfortable enough to read them with expression!

Math
Cyrus continues to work on division and multiplication. Math Mammoth, along with some supplemental printouts, is working well for this. He did 4 lessons this week.

Cassia continued with addition, subtraction, and place value. She did 5 lessons, using manipulatives to reinforce the concepts.

Science
A good week for science! All of Cassia's ladybugs hatched, and we actually watched one emerging from its casing. We were in awe that as they hatch, they are pale yellow, and don't have the characteristic red with black spots for several hours. We plan on letting them free in the garden today. We're still waiting for the praying mantises to hatch.

Both kids watched several episodes of Meerkat Manor, learning quite a lot about these funny little animals. And they watched some Mythbusters, and an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy (all about invertebrates).

Cyrus also read more about water dragons, since he got one as an early birthday present. Cassia continues to care for her blue bellied lizard.

History
Umm, not so much this week.

Other
See below.

And now.. a Special Day. Tomorrow marks the first decade, yes decade, of Cyrus's life. At 4:07 tomorrow morning, he is officially TEN! I look at him with awe each day--he is an amazing person and I feel blessed to be his mom. He's funny, curious, intelligent... and stubborn like his mom. It is hard to believe ten years have flown by already, and believe me, I am so glad we homeschool and I get all this precious time with him, because damn it goes fast. Ten years ago tomorrow, I held my baby boy for the first time, and now he's up to my chin when we stand side by side. I love him with all my heart and soul.










I look forward to the next decade with my guy! It had better just slow down a little...