My Weekly Notebook: Life is good

Life this week...

Another one bites the dust! The weeks are flying by. March is almost upon us now and before we know it we'll be hitting summer. Yet it still does seem so far away. I sure am ready for warmer/sunnier weather. 

Homeschool this week...

The boys have started a lot of their new Bookshark curriculum. I have to say I am loving it too. The curriculum is so rich in reading and literature. Alex kinda stressed at first about having to read so many books at once. It'll definitely be a challenge for him since he doesn't like reading.

It was also a long week of MAPS testing for our charter school. By Friday Alex was so done that he was trying to rush and the test catches that and makes the student stop for a few minutes. They have to enter a special code to continue. 

What our table looked like most of the week when the boys were testing.

We finally started the boys on their new Math-U-See curriculum that came with our Bookshark package. It looks very intimidating with all the manipulatives, but their first lessons went pretty smoothly.

Alex watching the video for his first Math-U-See lesson

 

Helpful homeschool tips and advice to share...

Let your kiddo type with Grammarly! Alex had a strange request to use Grammarly on his computer one day (he had seen ads for it) so I signed into my Grammarly account for him and he just typed random things in google docs to see what he spelled wrong and how Grammarly would  help him. It's both a grammar lesson and a spelling lesson for the day! I love little accidental lessons like that. I'm sure he'll do it again because he thought it was so cool that Grammarly would catch so many of his mistakes.

Places we're going and people we're seeing...

All we had this week for going places was Parkour and the grocery store. Oh and co-op. Just the usual, but here's a picture of Parkour PE toward the end of class. They were playing a nerf game with the lights out. I guess when they got hit with a dart they had to put a ball in the cup.

My favorite thing this week was...

Eating inside a restaurant for a date lunch. Restaurants are starting to open back up again, and it felt good not to have to have our date food in the car again.

The first time we've been inside Red Robin since the pandemic started

My kids' favorite thing this week was...

Part of one of Alex's lessons this week was to find his very own personal journal. At first he was like meh, whatever, I don't need a journal. But then I started showing him sone of the choices on Amazon, and he started getting excited about it when he saw that he could get ones with a lock or a leather cover with string. In the end he chose the lock one. He was super excited by the time we ordered it, and could hardly wait for it to come. It came a few days later, and he has already written in it a few times and added pictures.

 

Things I'm working on...

• Still working on a LEGO minifig puzzle. Almost done!
• Getting a curriculum post up for each boy
• Eating better and moving each day

Random things the kids worked on...

Alex is reading about bridges right now in his science lessons. We are reading the Diary of an American Boy, and in it Noah and his father are building a new bridge on their homestead. So, Alex was inspired to build a bridge out of popsicle sticks while we read. He's still working on it so no final picture yet.

          

Movies we watched... 

No pictures for this one. We watched Karate Kid (it was my first time even though it was a movie from the '80's). I also watched Cinderella (non-animated) with April, and The Lion King with Alex.

I'm grateful for...

A warm comfortable home.

That wraps up our week!