Weekly Report June 22-28

Three of the kids visited their paternal grandparents last Sunday. They worked in the garden as well. One of the children remained with me and we worked on remedying a moral issue.

James and Suzy went to a Veggie Tales Vacation Bible School two days this week. (They missed the 3rd (final) day.)

David started making a suit of Mandalorian armor - totally on his own and at his own desire. (In case you are in the dark, Boba Fett and Jango Fett wore Mandalorian armor. In case you are still in the dark, it's a Star Wars thing. lol David is designing his own armor in the Mandalorian style, rather than copy an existing set.) I will have photos when it's done. I am amazed at his determination and skill!

We finished our read-aloud - The 21 Balloons by William Pene du Bois. I love this book! It's a compelling story and David was fascinated by the inventions in it. It is 10 chapters and each time I read, I read one chapter, but we didn't do it every day, so it took several weeks to complete. Trying to decide on our next read-aloud.

Math - Slower week
David - 24C Pre-Algebra Math-U-See
Emily - 20C Gamma
James - 4A Gamma
Suzy - 4E Alpha

Reading -
Suzy, James, and Emily did some reading for the library reading program and kept track of it. They didn't write anything in their literature journals this week though.

David read a lot more in his Star Wars books (The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology and The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels) and wrote 3 more paragraphs.

Writing -
Emily wrote a nice letter to her soccer coach. The rest were encouraged to do so, but did not. (They will be!)

They all did lots of jobs, including cleaning their rooms. The rabbits get a lot of attention and we are learning a lot about what to do (and not do) with cockatiels.

We went to the beach with our homeschool group on Thursday and some garage sales on Friday. We went to the waterpark on Saturday and the girls went with me to Walmart to buy groceries and a baby gift.

I am pretty sure that the low payout for this week will encourage the kids to do more reading and writing this coming week. Plus we don't have VBS or anywhere to go at all except FIREWORKS!

I saw back-to-school stuff in Walmart yesterday! ACK!