Week 16.  72 days into the school year.  Hot chocolate. 

Fires in the fireplace.  Snuggling.  Reading.  Copious learning.  Leaving the Engineer’s head spinning at the dinner table with all of our excited newfound knowledge.

You sure can get a lot done when you stay home!  {grin}

This week June, my Kindle Fire, entered the school room, ready to assert the claim that though she is still mine . . . I am sharing.  (Notice the pink cover.)

I love how such a fun gadget can become such an educational tool (besides the fact that typically June lures me into staying up late to read books!)  Some fun apps that we discovered this week are:

•  Connect the dots (free)
• Kids Match’em (Free)

• Let’s do the math (free)

• Letter Tracing

While finishing up some Story of the World activities, June joined us and helped to understand what seals were used for and looked like. 

And we then did our best to mimic Sumerian seals to be used in modern-day-times.

This project has yet to be finished as i
t is taking a long time for the clay to dry.

Additionally, I wouldn’t recommend having snack at the same time you work with clay.  Three year olds will accidentally eat the clay instead of their snack. Just saying.

We can now say goodbye to Sargon!

Asher left Saxon Math . . .

and entered the world of Teaching Textbooks . . . which he has been L.O.V.I.N.G.  This curriculum has worked well because Asher watches and interacts with his learning on the computer first.

Ezra is only allowed to stay behind him . . . looking on from a distance.  Anybody have this happening?

Once Asher finishes the lecture portion of the interactive DVD, then he can complete the practice work and homework either on the computer on in his textbook.  We have actually done both to reinforce the concept.  (Thanks for this recommendation, Jolanthe!)  I am enjoying this curriculum because it give me time to work with one of the other kids while Asher learns independently.

Other learning for Asher includes:

• A Wrinkle in Time read-aloud (I’m also reading it for book club).

• A Reason for Handwriting Cursive

• All About Spelling

• Rosetta Stone Latin Spanish

• Wordly Wise

• and some pretend bird watching with Apologia Flying Creatures of the 5th Day . . . lots of birds have been placed in random places in our house.  Gotta watch out for those bird droppings!

Phew!

And Sir Honey Ezra . . .

• All About Reading Level 1 (if you missed the set-up post, click over there!) I have been blown away by how quickly he has picked up on reading, after only using AAR for 2 weeks!!!

• Abeka Math

• Awana verses

• playing (and a few more school things that I don’t have pictures of)

Gabe was quite delighted to once again learn with his furry Zebra.

All About Reading Level Pre-1 continues to challenge Gabe and feed his brain with a desire to know and learn more.

He also piggy backed off of a few lessons, namely Worldly Wise with Ezra.

And Naomi . . . that girl is busy! 

She has been read to . . . (see the fingers?)

Protected by Ruth . . .

Helped with the dishes . . .

And has been signing,

• change diaper
• music
• car
• train
• more
• all done
• please
• night night

Like all of our children, Naomi is a TALKER.  A big talker.  We just don’t know quite all that she is saying.

What did you learn this week?

Linking Ezra and Gabe’s school with Preschool Corner over at Homeschool Creations.

And joining Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers for Kris’s WeeklyWrap Up.

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I’m ripping some carpeting out in the basement . . . I’ll post our week a little bit later!

What did you do?  Or What did you learn?  To see the original Elementary Round Up post, click here.  To see two ways to link up, click here.

If you don’t have a blog to link up with . . . leave a comment and tell us what your family did in the Learning Room!

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1. Write a blog post about your elementary aged child(ren), first through sixth grade,comprising the activities you did the prior two weeks.  You can include pictures, bullet points, tools used, learning gained, God moments, etc.   Or it can simply be a new thing Mom learned.
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5. You can combine this with other meme’s if that helps you to save time (as long as it is OK with the other blog owner).

BIG IMPORTANT HEART MOMENT:  This isn’t a blog post to WOW other moms . . . the point of this is to help YOU document on YOUR blog what you and your child(ren) are learning.  My link-up is only to provide some accountability.  I won’t come and leave nasty comments on your blog if you don’t link up.

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