What We've Learned This Week

I'm hoping to start a weekly round up of what we are working on in school and life.  Sort of a way to keep be a tad more motivated and accountable.  I can remember planning lots of rather neat projects with the older kids when they were younger and I tend not to do that as often lately.  The current little ones deserve just as much fun stuff as the older kids did so I must get better.  And it is nice to give myself a reminder of what we actually have accomplished when it feels like Saturday night is ending with the same chaos and mess that greeted us at the beginning of the week.

This week everyone learned a bit about Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad.  Not a ton but a brief introduction. Katie and Liam started new math books this week. Kieran finished reading the Matchlock Gun and finished his current math book. He'll start the next one on Monday. Several kids went to Genesee Country Village with me for the Maple Sugar Festival.  We've done the maple sugar trips several times so the history of maple sugar in this area is not really new but we did learn a bit about the history of chocolate production.  The older 6 kids participated in the Homeschool Expo this weekend. Bryan built a computer, Sean did a project on car seat safety, Kieran did a project on space, Liam worked on rocket engines,  Katie studied dolphins, and Abby shared some of her projects from Little Flowers.  Bryan is starting to work on his second quarter tests for Kolbe.  Hopefully we will get those done this week.  So we are making progress. Maybe not totally on track but that really isn't too important in my book.