Our week at a glance

This week has been a little unusual for us. We are still settling into living in another state, a new time zone, and dealing with the loss of many of our things. It makes for a few road bumps in our schooling days.

I had to revamp a lot of our schooling due to our books getting lost in the shuffle. Which to be honest I wanted to ditch a few things and try out some new things anyway so it has not been all bad.

This week Sunshine worked on printing her name which she clearly is just not ready for.
A. She just doesn't want to do it
B. Gets all the right letters written but not in the correct order then tells me how wrong I am lol.
I am going to take a step back, remind myself that it is not a race and go back to working on some fine motor skills and more fun approaches to writing.
She does enjoy marking up workbooks though she is not really following directions but very proud of how she things they should be done. My mom guilt comes out when I'm totally fine with this because I just need her to be busy. I am still very proud of her ability to recognize letters and knowing her letter sounds.

Moonbeam is moving along nicely in FLL, every time I pull out the book she starts reciting poetry. I love that! We are Starting MEP math next week and I showed her some of it she is excited. These last few weeks since the move we have just worked on addition and subtraction drill with a little money math mixed in. We are still doing copy work her handwriting has improved but its still not where I want it. I hate to compare I really do but our nephew living with us who is just one day younger than her (and in PS) has much neater handwriting. We worked on Proverbs this week which I feel are good moral lessons even if you are not a bible believer.

Starlight and Rainbow are pretty much doing a lot of the same. Evan Moor daily lang. practice, some Math review Algebra for Rainbow and Multiplication for starlight. A little journaling, and some math story problems. Evan Moor Cursive for Starlight as well.

This week I also had the 3 eldest work on writing names in cursive. It occurred to me to do this after we joined the new library and none of my kids singed the applications in cursive. I'm not a big pusher of cursive (lets face it this day and age typing is more important) But there is just something beautiful about cursive.

As a group we do SOTW, Earth science, State History, Art & Music. Which was all sort of neglected this week. We will be "Sunday schooling" this week to make up for some lost time. We had too many outside obligations this week that made my time with them limited. I am hoping next week is a bit better when dh starts his new job and I can focus 100% on the kids.

We did manage a chapter of SOTW, and a video but we generally try to fit in a bit more.