And It Is Friday...

I love that I have been off work 2.5 days already and still have 2.5 to go!

We had a good, relaxed Thanksgiving. Some good reading, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, plus the Charlie Brown version of the Mayflower journey/Pilgrims. Lots of good food!

And a chance to reflect, plan, and tinker.

Our schedule for now:

Sundays:
~ Read-aloud(s) from A Picture Perfect Childhood, mythologies, Harry Potter
~ Language Arts (PLL/ILL, spelling/phonics, reading)
~ Math (Life of Fred and/or Zacarro)
~ World history, with work in our Books of Centuries (Builders of the Old World, World in Ancient Times)
~ Introduction to our science topic of the week (BFSU) through a book or video
~ Art and/or Music
~ Geography with Richard Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels

Mondays:
~ Read-aloud(s) from A Picture Perfect Childhood, mythologies, Harry Potter
~ Language Arts (Grammar with either Grammar-Land or The Sentence Family, spelling/phonics, reading)
~ Math (Life of Fred and/or Zacarro)
~ Reading and/or video for BFSU science topic
~ Independent work with The Boy on Story of Science, while The Girl watches a video on a country (we like the Families of the World series)

Tuesdays:
~ Read-aloud(s) from A Picture Perfect Childhood, mythologies, Harry Potter
~ Language Arts (PLL/ILL, spelling/phonics, reading)
~ Math (Life of Fred and/or Zacarro)

Wednesdays:
~ Read-aloud(s) from A Picture Perfect Childhood, mythologies, Harry Potter
~ Language Arts (word families work for The Girl, free writing with Unjournaling for The Boy, spelling/phonics, reading)
~ Math (Life of Fred and/or Zacarro)
~ American history, and Books of Centuries (Rainbow Book of American History)
~ The Boy will work on his Main Lesson Book of Greek myths, while I read a story or two, along with an excerpt from Just Like Me, to The Girl for her world cultures studies

Thursdays:
~ Read-aloud(s) from A Picture Perfect Childhood, mythologies, Harry Potter
~ Language Arts (PLL/ILL, spelling/phonics (spelling tests), reading)
~ Math (Life of Fred and/or Zacarro)
~ Hands-on day for our science topic
~ Nature journaling/Outdoor Hour challenges

Wishing You All a Very...

I hope everyone has a safe, peaceful, and enjoyable day!

We'll be eating a smallish dinner here at home (plans changed a little!), and, since the weather looks iffy, we'll be watching a movie we haven't yet seen instead of heading to the coast...

I've heard it is really good, so we're looking forward to it!


And of course, we'll be watching this...

See you all after the holidays!