Week 16

Abby changed the name of our school this week to Bloom Prep. It suits her preferred style of learning much better & I love it. Chris likes it too, obviously.

Science this week was the typical BFSU melange. We did some work on nutrition labels for her Girl Scout Staying Fit badge, and then talked a lot about the difference between matter and energy. The painting is her abstract representation of what the world would look like without energy, and then without matter. We also did a brief overview of bones and muscles.

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This is ELA, I guess? The first picture is an Idaho history diary entry, and then two Tudor lapbook entries, and finally our word list from the week.

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I got a ProClick binding set and spent a very pleasant three hours binding all my curriculum. (I have a curriculum problem.)

We finished the third Zoey and Sassafras book and did a bedroom poetry teatime.

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Silas did his very first logic puzzle! We also made apple muffins, and he continues to love his “reading lessons”. We slowed down a little once we hit Lesson 23, so each lesson is taking us two or three days. No rush.

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Our house! Maybe it’ll actually be finished before 2021.

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Week 15

This was a fairly typical week with an atypically small number of pictures.

This water cycle demonstration was pretty neat, but it would have worked better on a day that got over 35 degrees.

I hauled out the math book to hit the “Numerical Expressions” Power Learning Goal.

The book of the week, a sort of updated Narnia.

“Nature” study: they’re looking at mule deer in the strip of land between our apartment building and the river. They come down from the hills every morning along well-worn trails and leave tracks (and scat, so much scat) by the river.

A finished Falcon!

This is my current reading. It would be a lot easier to get through if everyone weren’t named Mary or Henry.

Thanksgiving Week

This wasn’t an official school week, so it involved a lot of lying around under blankets with various snuggleable beings.

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I continue to buy thrift store games that my children mostly only tolerate playing.

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This week’s cooking project was a berry crumble that Silas enjoyed making–shirtless, of course–but refused to eat.

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Our little science museum got a fancy new dinosaur exhibit with a delightful display of coprolite.

This is the first time Silas has spontaneously wanted to write his name.

The biggest event of the week was the Costco Millennium Falcon. Silas is eerily good at Legos, which is both fun to watch and unfortunate for our bank account.

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