Day #95/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read Matthew 6:29-24
• Answer questions about verses
• Do MUS tests 23 & 24
• Write a sentence for each spelling word
• Play Big IQ Kids
• Practice piano

Conductor

• Read Matthew 6:29-24
• Answer questions
• AWANA verses
• Complete MUS 23E & 23F
• Spelling - p. 7
• Write each word twice
• Wordly Wise - p. 9-11
• Practice piano
• Greek - p. 25 & 27
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code Book B p. 60-67
• Alpha-Phonics Lesson 11
• MUS 15B & 15C
• Play GoGo Kabongo
• Practice the piano
• Copy 2nd Rule of Civility
• AWANA verses

Day #94/175 Days

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code Book B p. 54-59
• Alpha-Phonics - review all of Lesson 10 (3 pages)
• Happy was reduced to tears about having to do all three pages again. After some cajoling and teasing on my part, he came around and did wonderfully on this lesson. It was a confidence booster. 
• Watch Lesson 15
• Complete 15A
• Play GoGo Kabongo 
• Practice piano
• AWANA verses
• Copy "George Washington's First Rule of Civility"
• Piano lessons

Conductor

• Read Matthew 18:1-6
• AWANA verses
• Fix MUS problems p. 269 (#2) and p. 272 (#3)
• Complete MUS 23C & 23D
• Do two TenMarks worksheets
• Redo p. 6 from spelling
• Complete President's day lapbook
• Practice the piano
• Greek - finish what he didn't do yesterday
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book for 20 minutes
• Play GoGo Kabongo
• Copy first "Rules of Civility" (rule #1)
• Piano lessons

Lego-Man

• Read Matthew 18:1-6
• Do MUS tests 21 & 22
• Write each spelling word twice
• Copy "Rules of Civility" neatly (rule #1)
• Play Big IQ Kids for 20 minutes
• Practice Piano 
• Piano lessons

Day #93/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read Matthew 5:1-12 
• Watch Lesson 24 of MUS 
• Complete 24E & 24F
• Do last TenMarks worksheet
• Spelling - complete p. 12 (#13) & p. 14-15
• Play Big IQ kids for 20 minutes
• Watch first lesson Latin Alive (TOS Crew product)
• Practice piano
• Assemble and complete "President's Day" lapbook items
• Cut out planet photos and assemble poster

Conductor

• Read Matthew 5:1-12
• AWANA verses
• Watch Lesson 23 MUS
• Complete 23A, 23B, & 23C
• Do two TenMarks worksheets
• Spelling - complete p. 6
• Wordly Wise - go online and listen to the words for this lesson
• Complete 1E in WW
• Assemble lapbook for President's Day 
• Practice piano
• Greek (p. 21, 23 & 24)
• Cut out planet photos and assemble poster

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code Book B p. 47-53
• Alpha-Phonics Lesson 10c
• MUS 14E & 14F
• GoGo Kabongo
• Practice piano
• AWANA verses
• Cut out solar system and create poster

Day #92/175 Days

Today was the AWANA Grand Prix. This is very similar to a Boy Scout Pinewood Derby. The boys have been working on their cars over the last few months. There were over 60 cards raced today. None of my boys ended up placing this year. They still had a great time. Here are some photos from the day.

All the awards lined up and ready to go.

A selection of the cars. I'm always amazed at some of the designs. So very creative!

LOTS of yummy food!

Conductor's car is on the red track.

Check out these designs! Don't let the snowman fool you - he was fast!

In motion!! Lego-Man's car is on the red track. 

Yes, it's running backwards. He had so much weight in the back it was

having a hard time keeping the nose down!

Happy's car truck is on the yellow track.

Lego-Man keeps ducking the camera lately.

Here he is getting his participation ribbon. 

Day #91/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 20 (yes, again)
• Answer "Day 2" of the Bible study
• MUS worksheets
• TenMarks worksheet (He is happy that he finally earned his reward for doing 15 worksheets - a whoopie pie!)
• Spelling pg. 12 & 13
• Rewrite "Oyster" article using his KWO (IEW - TOS Crew product)
• Big IQ Kids for 20 mins (TOS Crew product)
• Science Weekly Level C (TOS Crew product)
• Practice piano

Happy

• Practice piano
• GoGo Kabongo for 30 minutes (TOS Crew product)

Conductor

• John Chapter 19
• Complete "Day 2" of Bible study
• AWANA verses
• MUS worksheets
• two TenMarks worksheets
• Spelling Test
• Wordly Wise - used the online book to review words. Completed 1B, 1C & 1D.
• Practice the piano
• Greek p. 13 & 16 (uncompleted and needed to finish), p. 17
• Science Weekly Level B - finish page 4
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book for 20 minutes

The boys also spent the afternoon painting their AWANA Grand Prix cars. I neglected to take photos. The boys designed and painted their cars. Race day tomorrow!

Day #90/175 Days (over half way done!)

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 20
• Complete "Day 1" pertaining to Chapter 20 (I found a printable online Bible study & we're trying it out this week.)
• Complete MUS worksheets
• One TenMarks worksheet
• Spelling Test
• Key Word Outline on "Oyster" article (IEW - TOS Review product)
• Big IQ Kids (TOS Review product)
• pgs. 1 & 2 Science Weekly Level C (TOS Review product)
• Practice the piano
• Read:
• Robert Fulton from Submarine to Steamboat
• Napoleon: The Story of the Little Corporal

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code Book B pgs. 42-48 (He is flying through these - so nice!)
• Alpha-Phonics - Lesson 10b
• MUS 14C & 14D
• GoGo Kabongo (TOS review product)
• Practice the piano
• Practice AWANA verses
• AWANA club (2 hours)

Conductor

**I'm a bit frustrated with Conductor right now. While I enjoy using the checklist for the boys for their "independent" work, I'm finding that Conductor is continually skipping items and/or not reading carefully. In fact, under his "Spelling" I had put "Come give me a hug if you read this." It took three days and it was after I had pointed it out that I finally got my hug. I check the boys work and correct all papers at night while I am readying the next days checklists. At this point, the kids are usually in bed. It's too late for him to redo. I'm now checking his list as soon as he tells me he is "done." This is definitely an issue we will continue to work on.**

• Read John Chapter 19
• Complete "Day 1" Bible study page
• AWANA verses
• MUS worksheets
• Two TenMarks worksheets
•  Spelling  - some work was redone and he did write his words three times
• Wordly Wise - redid 1A (could not read answers)
• Practice the piano
• Greek
• Big IQ Kids (TOS review product)
• Science Weekly Level B (TOS review product)
• Read Owl's of Ga'Hoole book
• Read Robert Fulton book
• AWANA club (2 hours)

Day #89/175 Days

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code Book B pgs. 36-41
• Alpha-Phonics Lesson 10a (Lesson 10 is three pages - we're breaking it up.)
• MUS 14B
• Practice the piano
• Practice AWANA verses
• Science Weekly Level Pre-A on fractions (TOS Crew review product)
• Colored planet & sun pictures 

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 18
• AWANA verses
• MUS worksheets (I'm using the worksheet generator on their website to do some lesson reinforcement this week.).
• Spelling (He is having difficulty following directions and completing this checklist - much of what I assigned him today went undone as a result. This is definitely a skill we will continue working on.)
• Wordly Wise book (His first day using it - he had a hard time adjusting.) Read pgs. 1-2 (all the words and their definitions) and complete 1A
• Practice the piano
• Greek - again he did not follow directions
• Play on Big IQ Kids for 20 mins (TOS Crew review product)
• Read his Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 19
• MUS worksheets
• Wordly Wise review - I had him use the online book review.
• Play on Big IQ Kids for 20 mins (TOS Crew review product)
• Practice the piano
• Finish Swiss Family Robinson

Day #88/175 Days

Today we had our monthly art class. The children all glazed their previously made pottery. I think they had a blast painting. I know Happy really got in to it. As I was going through my photos I realized I missed getting a photo of Lego-Man or his projects. Next month when we go back (we'll be making masks!) and pick up our pottery, I'll be sure to get one of his things to share.

Happy is painting his "snowman." It looks like a melted one. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Conductor painting one of his many pieces. He's also sporting his new glasses. So cute!

To get to class it's about a 40 minute drive one way. After class we headed further south so I could pick up some ink cartridges. The store closer to me didn't have them. All told we were on the road for about 1-1/2 hours. We listened to "The Magician's Nephew" while we rode. We have the Focus on the Family Radio Theater versions and they are very good.

No piano lessons today - our teacher and her family are ill.

Day #87/175 Days- Fine Arts Co-Op

My sister and nephew came up to spend the day with us today and we worked on our music and art together. This has been a nice to do as it's helping to make sure these two subjects are adequately covered. Today we studied the harp, the double bass, Beethoven, and John Constable. 

Music

• Read about the harp in Story of the Orchestra
• Listened to Track 18 to hear a harp being played
• Listed four things about a harp on the chalk board & the boys created a mini-book
• Read about the double bass in Story of the Orchestra 
• Listened to Track 17 to hear a double bass being played
• Listed four things about the double bass on the chalk board & the boys created a mini-book
• Read about Beethoven in Meet the Great Composers and Story of the Orchestra
• Listened to two tracks to hear some of his music
• Created a notebook page about Beethoven
• The boys did a coloring page while they were being read to.

Art

•  Watched Lesson 7 from "God & the History of Art" about the Gothic Period
• Watched "Fundamentals Part 2" from the "Beginning Drawing" lessons and drew a teapot. 
• Discussed
• Plumb line
• Negative space
• Watched two videos on YouTube about John Constable's paintings
• The Wheatfield
• The Haywain
• A slide show of paintings 
• Read about Constable in Discovering Great Artists
• Created a "cloudscape" painting

And the final products:

Lego-Man

Conductor

Happy

We used blue painters tape to tape all four sides to the table. Once they were dry we pulled that off and ended up with the crisp "frame." The clouds didn't quite work as we had hoped, but it was still fun to paint.

Day #86/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 18
• Math worksheets (MUS worksheet generator)
• Spelling - write a sentence for each spelling word
• Play on Big IQ Kids for 20 mins (TOS Review product)
• Practice piano
• Science
• Color planet pictures (used a pattern online with coloring suggestions)
• Created mini-books for Chapters 1 & 2 in the astronomy notebooking journal
• Read - Finish Swiss Family Robinson

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 17
• AWANA verses
• Math worksheets
• Spelling workbook p. 5
• Practice piano
• Science
• Color planet pictures (used a pattern online with coloring suggestions)
• Created mini-books for Chapters 1 & 2 in the astronomy notebooking journal
• Greek pgs. 13 & 15
• Play on Big IQ Kids for 20 mins (TOS Review product)
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Happy

• Practice piano
• Tiny Planets

Day #85/175 Days

Together

• Calculadder Drill
• Finished chapter 2 of Astronomy (The Sun chapter)
• Curiosity Files

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code book B pgs. 30-35
• Alpha-Phonics - Lesson 9
• Watch Lesson 14 of MUS
• Do 14A
• Practice the piano
• AWANA verses

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 17
• MUS online drill
• Spelling Skills book (pgs. 8, 10-11)
• Wordly Wise pgs 5-8
• Practice the piano
• Finish salt dough map (he drew black-line roads)
• Read next 4 chapters of Swiss Family Robinson
• Writing: Rewrite "Starfish" paragraph

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 16
• AWANA verses
• Test for Chapter 22
• Spelling pg. 4
• Practice the piano
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole

Day #84/174 Days

Together

• Calculadder Drill
• Writing - Lesson 2 IEW (Lego-Man is doing well with this but Conductor is definitely struggling.)
• Science - First half of chapter 2 - notebooking pages
• Curiosity Files
• Painted salt dough maps

Conductor's graph of favorite jewels.

Part of our Curiosity Files study on Blue Diamonds.

 Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 16
• MUS drill online
• Spelling Skills book pgs 10-11
• Wordly Wise 1B & 1C
• Practice piano
• Read Swiss Family Robinson

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 15
• AWANA verses
• Redo 22E & 22F
• Spelling book p. 4
• Practice piano
• Greek workbook (TOS Review item)
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code book B pgs. 24-29
• Alpha-Phonics Lesson 8
• MUS 13E & 13F
• Practice piano
• AWANA verses

Day #83/175 Days

Together

• Calculadder Drill (I'm glad we're being more consistent with this. I'm seeing a big difference in all the boys.)
• Curiosity Files (TOS Review product)
• PE (walked laps and did wood)

Happy

• Get Ready for the Code book B pgs. 18-23
• Alpha-Phonics - Lesson 8
• MUS - 13C
• Practice the piano
• AWANA verses
• played George Washington's World

Conductor

• John Chapter 14
• AWANA verses
• Redo 22C & 22D in MUS
• Spelling workbook
• Practice piano
• Play George Washington's World for 30 mins.
• Read Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Lego-Man

• John Chapter 15
• MUS online drill
• Spelling book
• Worldly Wise book (pg. 1A)
• Practice piano
• Read Swiss Family Robinson - 4 chapters

Day #82/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 14
• MUS online drill
• Finish all TenMarks worksheets
• Type up Boston Tea Party "KWO" from yesterday.
• Do a KWO on the paragraph about Henry Hudson & type up the paragraph
• Practice piano
• Go and play this game for 30 minutes
• Read four chapters in Swiss Family Robinson

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 13
• AWANA verses
• Math: I had neglected to correct all of Chapter 22 this past week. When I sat down to do this last night so that Conductor could take his chapter test today, I realized it was a new concept and he did not understand it at all. This morning I explained it to him and he quickly grasped the concept. As a result, he will be redoing Chapter 22 this week. Today he did 22A & 22B.
• Practice piano
• Go and play this game for 30 minutes
• Read the Owls of Ga'Hoole book for 20 minutes

Happy

• Go and play this game for 30 minutes
• Play Tiny Planets for 30 minutes
• Play Roman Town for 30 minutes

Day #81/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 13
• MUS online drill
• TenMarks worksheets
• Practice Piano
• We've begun using Institute for Excellence in Writing. Lego-Man is doing well with it so I gave him some a couple paragraphs out of the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History to do a "key word outline" on. He did very well with this.
• He watched a video at this site on George Washington and the Continental Army
• He solved the mystery at this site regarding George Washington.
• I had him pick three articles from this PBS site to read.
• He played this really neat "Patriot Spy" game at the National Park Service website.
• Read pages 330-331 in the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History
• Read four chapters in Swiss Family Robinson

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 12
• AWANA verses
• Math 22E & 22F
• Day 9 of Sequential Spelling
• Practice the piano
• He watched a video at this site on George Washington and the Continental Army
• He solved the mystery at this site regarding George Washington.
• He played this really neat "Patriot Spy" game at the National Park Service website.
• He went here and did an online word search.
• Read for 20 minutes - Owls of Ga'Hoole book

Happy

• Play Roman Town for 30 minutes
• Play Tiny Planets for 30 minutes

Day #80/175 Days

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 12
• MUS online drill (we're working on getting his math facts down a bit better)
• TenMarks worksheets
• Day 9 of Sequential Spelling (this finished our freebie - I'll be figuring out something else for him to use next week)
• Practice piano
• Read four chapters of Swiss Family Robinson

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 11
• AWANA verses
• MUS pgs. 22C & 22D
• Day 8 of Sequential Spelling
• Practice piano
• Read Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Capture for 20 mins

Day #79/175 Days

Together School

• CalcuLadder Drill
• Work on 17th Century Lapbook
• Worked on Science notebook journal and created their mnemonic phrases to remember the planets

Lego-Man's: My Vascular Elephant Moved by Jumping So you can count on Us to Nap Please.

Conductor's : My Victim Escaped My Juicy Silly Umpire N9's Plan.

• (and the boys favorite) Created salt dough maps for our geography lesson. I'll have photos of the finished product next week.

Happy

•  Get Ready for the Code Book B pages 8-17
• Alpha-Phonics Lesson 7
• MUS 13B
• Practice piano
• Practice AWANA verses

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 11
• MUS online drill
• TenMarks worksheets
• Day 8 of Sequential Spelling
• Practice piano
• Read Swiss Family Robinson - four chapters

Conductor

• Read John Chapter 10
• AWANA verses
• Watch Lesson 22 in MUS and do 22A and 22B
• TenMarks
• Day 7 of Sequential Spelling
• Practice the piano
• Read Valley Forge for 20 minutes (finished)
• Work on Greek with Mom (review product)

Ended the day playing Trans-America. Our new favorite game.

Day #78/175 Days

Together School

• CalcuLadder Drill (I actually own the MasterPak 1 CD with CalcuLadder 1, 2, 3 & Ready Writer.)
• Began working on a 17th Century Lapbook (This is working as a preview for out TOG study.)
• Restarted our science study. We reviewed Chapter 1. The boys created "starry night" photos with star stickers.
• Piano Lessons
• American History - listened to Adventures in Odyssey CDs

Lego-Man

• Read John Chapter 10
• MUS online drill
• TenMarks worksheets
• Day 7 of Sequential Spelling 
• Practice Piano
• Read Swiss Family Robinson - next four chapters