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Happy 2013!
Well, our first week of the new year is complete. It was quite productive, too. For history, we are taking a break from Story of the World and starting a unit study that covers 17th/18th century. It is called A Journey Through… the Centuries of America. So far, they are really enjoying it. In addition …
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Weekly Update – Week #2
Week #2 has come and mostly gone. It was a pretty good week, even though life is getting hectic with doctor and dentist appointments. The highlights of the week have been K having four 100% math assignments and one 97% math assignment, H doing fantastic at a trial gymnastics lesson, and the arrival of level …
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The First Week – So Far
We have been doing pretty good this week so far. We are not quite back to our normal “schedule” yet, but we have been plugging along with the school work. The girls have already gotten a lot of their work completed, and K has already had a math test, which she got 96% on. Tomorrow …
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Life’s Curve Balls
We’re trying to get back into the swing of things following a little family drama. School was about the only thing that didn’t suffer during our little hiccup. I’m just now starting to feel like our normal family life has returned, so I’m going to update my blog about my kiddos. Regarding their actual school …
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Weekly Report – Week #16
We had a very productive week this week. We were able to get a lot of science and history done for once, and we even had our first Jeopardy game. In history we were introduced to the Jewish people, and read the story about Abraham and Sarah and the story about Joseph, both from the …
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Weekly Report – Weeks #14-15
The new year has been very good to us from a school standpoint. For some reason, however, Fridays seem to be the day of resistance from my pupils so far. K has officially completed her faux standardized reading test. (The results for part 2 will be revealed in a different post.) We will continue with …
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Weekly Report – Week #10-11
With the recent holidays I have been very busy, so I’m now going to get caught up with a double weekly report. (We did not have school the week of Thanksgiving.) First of all, I don’t think I mentioned the report cards in my last post. For our first term K received E’s (excellent) in …
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Weekly Report – Week #9
We had a really good week this week. I’m very pleased with the progress we have made. First of all, we finally were able to get the Math U See blocks and student text for H. The day it arrived in the mail, she did 12 pages! She is in the Primer book and it …
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Weekly Report – Week #4
We had another great week of school. K got 100% on her spelling test, which included words such as scalp, throw, help, and calf.She also worked on telling time some more, with more emphasis on the concept of after and till. We only have another week or so of this chapter, but we’re taking it …
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Weekly Report – Week #2-3
First of all, I must apologize for getting a bit behind on the blog. We had 1-1/2 weeks of illness and another week to get back on track with life. But, we have now completed our third full week. The girls have both been doing wonderful. The workboxes are really making all the difference. We …
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