Missing Tooth

*C* saw that his friend had lost a tooth, so he decided that it was time for his to come out.

Adventures in MFW ~ week 8

We strayed from the path a bit. I decided to read D'Aulaire's Benjamin Franklin instead of Exploring American History (which can be a bit dry sometimes.) The kids loved it!

I also love the D'Aulaire books!

They really enjoyed all of the sayings at the bottom of the pages.

In Science, we finished up Lesson 1 in Zoology I. They are loving it! They did the first two notebook pages and then decided that they'd rather do their narrations and drawings in Composition books. I guess they feel that they have too many binders.

(Like that could ever happen.)

I made the covers (PDF Download, if interested) 7" x 9" and printed them on sticker paper.

(Technically they're 8.5 x 11 labels.)

We're trying something a little different for Language Arts.

*B* and *C* are doing Primary Language Lessons. I am going to try to keep them together as long as possible. As soon as one of them needs to slow down, they will separate.

In addition to PLL is daily copywork. *C* copied the Matthew 7:15 Mon-Thu and on Friday wrote it from dictation. *B* copied a poem/prayer that had 4 stanzas. She copied 2 per day Mon & Tue. On Wed & Thu she copied Mt 7:15 and from dictation on Friday.

They both begged me to start using regular wide ruled paper. So midweek (I hate starting anything midweek!) we switched our copywork to regular notebook paper.

*B* on left and *C* on right

(Sorry it's blurry.)

Math is going great. *B* skipped from Singapore 1B to BJU 3. So, we're finding a few minor issues within chapters 1 & 2, but nothing major.
*C* is still working through the pretests in CLE.
*T* absolutely loves EM, but I'm going to have to stop and work a little more on his number recognition.

K Review ~ /s/, /m/, /l/

I saw these ABC Notebooks at Homeschool Share, and decided they'd be nice for reinforcement. We didn't do MFW K this week, we just did the notebook.

Almost Wordless

(Previous Post explains the picture.)

Fire Next to Andrew Johnson Home

Here's the only pictures I could find of what it looked like.
It's the building in the background, not the one we're standing in.



The creek ran under the warehouse. I thought that was neat.

This is what happened to it a few weeks ago.



This was taken after most of the clean up was finished. They had the streets closed off for about 10 days.