Week in Review 12/9/11

This week we celebrated St. Nicholas Day. We have been adding ornaments to our Jesse tree every night.

I  copied a lot of was very inspired by the ornaments here.

We are lighting two Advent candles every night now.


James is working on ratios in math and Sean has been working on fact families.

James is nearing the end of his life science unit. We are going to spend a couple of weeks reading from the library and then we'll move forward with physical science after the holiday break.

Sean has completed long vowels in his reading and will begin other vowel sounds next week. (oo, ou...)
I am thinking about adding more copywork because he finishes his copybook passage in a day or two. I may have him copy out some of the shorter poems he has memorized on the other week days.

Christopher has had an educational week as well. He learned how to climb out of his Pack n Play, and that his voice echoes when he shouts really loud in church. Needless to say, I am a little less excited than he is about these discoveries!

This weeks read alouds were the St. Nicholas book, another read through of Country Christmas Angels and

Last night we found out that karate nights are going to consolidate a bit which will give my husband two night a week to be home and spend some time with the boys.
They thought that was good news indeed.