I got a job this week! I am working in the afterschool care at the gym where Ashlyne does gymnastics. I actually applied for this job a couple of years ago, but at the time they were looking for someone who would drive a bus/van to pick up kids. And I didn’t want to do that. The program has grown now, and they needed some workers who didn’t drive. So, I’m working every afternoon from 2-5:30/6. The hours are good because we can do school before we go. The kids don’t actually have to go at all if they’d rather stay home since I have older kids now. And I’m at the gym several days a week with Ashlyne anyway. It will be a nice supplementary income. This week I only worked on Thursday and Friday, so we could have some time to adjust our schedules.
School went normally this week.
History: I’m still loving our curriculum, and the kids are enjoying it more and more. This week was project week for the unit. Kathryne wrote a puppet production about Abram and Sarai leaving Ur and performed it for us. Charles wrote a news story about the confusion at the Tower of Babel. And the little girls performed a play about the Tower of Babel.
Science: I LOVE the notebooks for the elementary Apologia science courses. We’re doing the astronomy notebook. This week was a continuation of our study of Venus. We did a project to illustrate how radar works. We set up a box with crumpled newspaper covered in paper mache. I covered the box with cloth and mapped a grid on it. Then we poked a skewer marked in different colors into the cloth in each square of the grid and mapped what we found on a paper grid. Using our results, the girls could guess what the paper in the box looked like.
Fun Friday: This Friday was our co-op. The big kids are loving their cooking class. This week they made pizza and fall bars (like a spicy brownie). The little girls worked on a Johnny Appleseed lapbook. That should tie in nicely with our trip to the apple orchard next Friday.
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