Another week in the books

Well we had quite a busy week of schooling. As you can see in these pictures the kids were busy all week, and therefore, so was I. I did not post pictures of all the "after school" activities, such as ballet, hip hop, and jazz dance as well as soccer, swim team, and eventually they will start Catechism... although they get quite a bit of that at home, they want to go to class to be with the other kids they know from church.

Home school with the girls has been much more "manageable" than I thought. We do have our rough spots. But 95% of the time it runs very smoothly. And the kids do get alot out of the 1 on 1 time with their teacher, me.

Some highlights of the week have been: Emma built her Terrarium, and has been observing it daily. She thinks of the toads in the tank as her "pets" and even Elani has been writing down her observations of the tank... future scientists!! Then there is Elani, she has done well with everything she has been assigned, and she is quite creative when it comes to her learning. In one of the pictures of her she is sitting at the table writing her spelling words in a pan of flour. she had fun, and after that got a 100% on her spelling test. ( maybe the sensory part of her task helped), oh BTW it was her idea to study the words with flour. I should have taken a picture of her trying to clean it up, she somehow got flour everywhere. But that was OK. And then Elizabeth did a science experiment this week wit TUMS and water and vinegar. She was bummed we did not see some sort of explosion with the tums. We'll have to do the Mentos in diet coke thing I guess, she'll be happy with that!

8th grade work has been tough on her, so we take our time, I told her today that at our current pace, her school year will go through the summer. Maybe that will help to pick up her pace.

Elie managed to get a hold of the new macbook laptop and soon after I took this picture of her playing "webkinz", she managed to somehow mess up the computer, so momma Mary had to get the computer guy at work to fix it. I think he just had to change 1 command, but we couldn't figure it out.

The upcoming week is kind of up in the air. I was planning to give them a very light Labor Day, but Hurricane Gustav may have plans to lighten their days for a few days. We'll see how that goes.

As for me, I start my Religious Studies Institute (RSI) classes on Saturday 9/6, so I need to start getting my reading done for the first classes. i am taking Morality, Church History, and A study on the Catechism! this should be fun stuff for me!! Bring on the Theology!!!!