it's all fun and games: school!

i started reading this textbook and i love it! it lines up with what i feel and im learning to embrace this new world of charlotte mason!

nate had an appointment, so i sat in the waiting room and read some more!

we are almost back to full school. i am still waiting on 2 more courses for nate but we have enough books on hand to start the yr!

For the first quarter of nate's gr 9! HIGH SCHOOL! he is studying astronomy. apologia came out with a new course/text book. i love it! it's updated, and so shiny and new. i asked him to please take care of it! his sisters will be using it as well!

he's finishing up grammar from last yr and ive decided that i will find something else for him grammar/language arts wise. im moving away from work sheets and endless pages of questions and moving towards living books....but until then, its pace style work books for grammar!

he's also taking the art of argument and is enjoying it!

writing will be "the power in your hands"

geography

his literature list for this yr is big! For this month he's reading the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Old English is so much fun to read! actually, he is enjoying this book!

his math is math u see. but i passed that on to his dad. ha

that's his slow start back to school...ill be adding courses as they arrive in the mail

the girls!

my plan/flow of the day is this

each girls has one on one with me for their core subjects. math, spelling, grammar, reading and what ever else they are struggling with. it usually takes an hr and 1/2 each

then we come together for our joint classes for this quarter its morning time-we read a story/poem and devotion, then science and our read out loud books

joey is working on alpha for math

and im using last yr's spelling as a review, next wk ill pop her up to level 2

we read charlottes web last week. i simply loved it! i have never read this book before and i was thrilled to read it with the girls. great book!

ellie's working on gamma

grammar and spelling

science is flying creatures. we finished up the unit on birds and are studying bats

read out loud. but im switching it. i think it's too child like and the words are too simple. i rather read something that has more meat on it

book club books for the yr. not sure what will happen with book club. but i decided to keep with the plan and then do activities with the girls. this is an addition of our school read out louds

oct's "fun" read out louds

i started the little prince but the girls were not interested so i shelfed it for another time

joey working on her science

joey's read out loud pile

my cleaned out book shelf!

nate's 2 and 3 quarter books for the yr. i have them waiting for him. bawahhhh

the girls! but ill be switching this up and out as i find new stuff to do with them

late night book club crafting. with book club on pause, i decided to spent the evening with the girls working on the fun things i had planned for book club. the book was "because of winn-dixie" we made a book about them and "littmus lozenges"