I haven't updated weekly the last couple of weeks.
*Monday, April 5: This was the last day of Unleavened Bread. I rented online "The Greatest Story Ever Told," but we watched a little over an hour (around a third), and it wasn't worth watching, in my opinion. At least I know of a movie about Christ's ministry, death, and resurrection that is not worth watching. Lesson learned. And of course we read our daily proverb.
*Tuesday, April 6: The boys learned two new butterflies (one new to me): Zebra Swallowtail and some sort of duskywing, I'm thinking probably a Juvenal Duskywing. We had the duskywings everywhere, congregating on muddy spots. We did two animal science lesson readings (arthropods and insects), and Jade did a reading lesson. Daily proverb and bible story.
*Wednesday, April 7: Daily proverb and bible story. Jade did a reading lesson. Then we dropped the Complete Curriculum writing section, at least for now, because Jaden hates it. For now I have him practicing on paragraphs--indenting, proper capitalization, and correct punctuation. This will also improve his spelling and of course his penmanship. He writes me notes and tapes them in places where I'll find them. I know he got this idea, b/c I leave sticky notes for my beloved husband sometimes and also sometimes for Jade. The notes are very simple for now, as he still has to ask me how to spell a lot of words. He keeps them usually to words he knows by himself. He also wrote my mother a similar note. After he gets more practice with the paragraphs, then I'll teach him how to write a proper letter so that he can write family and friends letters.
His daily instruction (except for sabbath, when he gets a break from this) is to pick a short paragraph to copy. He can choose any book, whether it be a children's book, an encyclopedia, or any book or magazine or anything else with paragraphs, and copy a paragraph from it. He then has to read it aloud to me, and I'll point out any errors he made. Today he chose to write from a book that I had since childhood, the first of two volumes My Fun with Words, which is a sort of children's dictionary that makes words fun. He chose the entry "black."
*Thursday, April 8: Daily proverb and bible story. Jade chose the entry "bad" from My Fun with Words. I was curious whether he knew how to spell "black," the previous day's entry, since the entries repeat the entry word throughout the entry. He spelled it correctly. I think this was a good idea. Jade also did a reading lesson today from Complete Curriculum for grade 2.
*Friday, April 9: Today was Nathan's birthday. He actually took off on this day! That was nice for all of us. He wrote out some invoices and job bids in the morning, and then we all went out together to eat for lunch. We then spent the rest of the day together at home.
*Saturday, April 10: Sabbath. Due to unexpected circumstances, I was unable to teach the boys' their sabbath school lesson this day.
Youtube videos this week: I didn't save them, but the boys watched videos on surfing, leafy sea dragon, some fire safety videos, some wilderness survival videos (collecting rainwater and making a deer snare), and some moral cartoon stories.
*Sunday, April 11: I have no idea what we did this day.
*Monday, April 12: We went to town to run some errands today. We finished the NT section of the Bible Stories book, and so we will leave that alone now. I have now continued the NT in the bible, where I left off. I'd read Matthew to them after some of the prophets, and for anyone who forgot, I stopped in Jeremiah, b/c it bored them to tears, and I can definitely understand why it would be boring to children. I think I will go back and read Daniel to them, though, at some point (not that Trusten will be listening). So, we started the gospel of Mark today, and we'll be reading through the NT daily in addition to the the daily proverb.
We got to see a scorpion today. I'd opened a window in Liv's future bedroom, and I'd gone to my bathroom to brush my teeth in preparation to go to town. Jaden came running in to tell me excitedly that he saw something that "looked like a scorpion," and he went on to describe it. I told him that it probably was. He and Trusten had been looking out that window, and apparently Trusten knocked out the screen. When Jaden stuck his head through, he saw the scorpion on the ground.
Here's a video of our scorpion discovery.
*Tuesday, April 13: We read from Mark and Proverbs. Jade wrote a paragraph out of a monster truck book, and he also wrote some book titles.
*Wednesday, April 14: Mark and proverb. Jade read a Rocket Readers book. He did a page of double-digit addition, and I printed off some clock worksheets, and I worked with Jade on his time-telling. He also played Time in a Bottle on Clever Island. He wrote a nursery rhyme from our Mother Goose book in paragraph form. I read an old issue of Wild Animal Baby to Trusten, and he also wanted to look at a shapes book, so I quizzed him on size and shapes. I also taught him how to draw circles. They also watched some Youtube videos, but I didn't track them this week.
*Thursday, April 15: Mark and proverb. Jaden wrote a paragraph from a Little Golden book entitled My Little Golden Book About God. He played with ice, as he did numerous days this week. I got the boys signed up for swimming lessons this summer, and we visited the recycling center, where Jade helped me sort through our plastic.
*Friday, April 16: Mark and proverb. Jade did an Explode the Code lesson, and I answered Trusten's questions about magnets. They watched some YT videos.
*Saturday, April 17: I read a proverb and taught the boys their thankfulness lesson.
We've done some fun things in nature since, but I will stop here and post this week's stuff at the end of this week.
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