Roller Blades (147/180)

R went to parkour.

All the kids attended their MAHC classes.

W began his Computer Programming class at MC3.

D attended Staging Journeys and Circus.

J attended Tap, Hip Hop, and rehearsal for a spring ballet titled Carnival of the Animals.

All the kids attended their religious education classes.

D and J did a lot of roller blading!



W worked with Khan Academy for math, read independently, and walked for exercise.

R worked with Khan Academy for math, read independently, practiced multiplication facts, and finished Explode the Code/Book Four by Nancy Hall.

D read with support, and worked with Khan Academy math, Handwriting Without Tears, and Explode the Code.

J worked with Khan Academy math and Handwriting Without Tears.  She mastered The Train by Bobby Lynn Maslen.

I read to the girls: PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year by Virginia Loh-Hagan
The Promise by Pnina Bat Zvi
Princess Puffybottom . . . and Darryl by Susin Nielsen
The Snow Day by Komako Sakai
Sofi Paints Her Dreams/Sofi Pinta Sus Sueos by Raquel M Ortiz
The Secrets of Stonehenge by Mick Manning
This week included 6 days of instruction.

Nursery (141/180)

R went to parkour.

J went to ballet, hip hop, and tap.

All the kids attended their MAHC classes.

D attended Staging Journeys and Circus.

All the kids attended their religious education classes.  On Sunday mornings W works in the church nursery:

W worked with LOF and read independently.

R worked on multiplication, Explode the Code, Khan Academy 8th grade math, and read independently.

D worked with LOF, Explode the Code, Handwriting Without Tears, and read with support.

J worked on addition facts, and with Handwriting Without Tears. She mastered Bud's Nap by Bobby Lynn Maslen


I read to the girls:

The Little Green Girl by Lisa Anchin

Ball by Mary Sullivan
The Spacesuit: How a Seamstress Helped Put Man on the Moon by Alison Donald
A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis
Fairies by Annabel Savery

This week included 6 days of instruction.

R went to parkour.

J went to ballet, hip hop, and tap.

D went to Circus.

Each kid made a (very indicative of personality) gingerbread "house".  These are in age order from oldest to youngest:

W read independently, and began working with LOF, which he found very frustrating.

R read independently, worked on multiplication facts, ETC, and Khan Academy math.

D read with support, used Handwriting Without Tears and ETC, and LOF.

J practiced reading, did Handwriting Without Tears, and played addition games.

We went to Washington DC and visited the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Botanical Garden.  I had forgotten how much W and R despise museums.  They may not have gotten a lot out of this visit but they did eat some native-to-the-Americas food and mostly enjoyed it.  W and D were most adventurous while R and J stuck with food they already know (chicken and fries.)

Everyone enjoyed the Botanical Gardens a lot more.  It was a beautiful day!

I read to the girls:

The Bare Naked Book by Kathy Stinson
Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz

The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield

All the kids attended their religious education classes.

This week included 6 days of instruction.

Visiting in Austin (129/180)

This week was spent in Austin with family and traveling back to Pennsylvania.

D and J did a LOT of crafting of various sorts, including making an elaborate box fort with aunt and cousins, and fairy houses:




R did some puzzling with cousins.



D & J attended their religious education classes, their first Our Whole Lives classes.

This week included 2 days of instruction.