Weekly Report: Week 26
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…
I’m still beating my head on that wall that seems to be caused by having the end of the year in sight. We have just two more weeks until we are taking a week off for spring break, so I hope to be re-fueled by the end of the break!
Lindsey read Regina Silsby’s Secret War (historical fiction about the American Revolution), and she’s doing a literature study on a contemporary Christian fiction book (a favorite of mine!) Where the River Ends. She is not loving Wordsmith or Wordly Wise, and is desperately hoping I won’t require either one next year. I think we’re all “hitting the wall” in varying degrees right now.
As part of her history studies, Kathryn wrote in Cherokee!
Kathryn finished reading The Captain’s Dog and Minn of the Mississippi, and enjoyed them both. She is trudging through math, but has made peace with Wordly Wise and wants to do it again next year — partly because next year’s book is hot pink. {I love her logic!}
We still haven’t made much progress on our ocean boxes for our biology study. There’s always next week.
But we did measure whale lengths in our yard. In the iPhone picture below, Kathryn is standing about 60 feet away; this is the length of a sperm whale if it was laying in our driveway. After that, we measured the length of a blue whale: 110 feet. It’s a bit mind-boggling to see how HUGE a gray whale is!
Other Activities:
Kathryn and the other GA girls visited with and sang for the folks in a nursing home across the street from our church. She earned a “Senior Friends” badge for this activity; I count this as community service as well as a blessing for both the girls and the residents. Also this week, Kathryn began a Bible class (3 times per month) at a nearby Messianic Jewish church where her dad sometimes attends. This class includes Hebrew language instruction, and since I’m interested in this myself, she has promised to teach me what she learns.
Lindsey is still participating in choir at our church each week, and has been attending training classes for her upcoming mission trip to the Dominican Republic. This trip will include many first for her, including her first time on an airplane!
See what other families have been up to this week at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers “Weekly Wrap-Ups”!
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Love the hot pink logic 🙂 And I have never thought through the size of a whale – wow! Yes, what a big deal the Dominican Republic trip is for Lindsey – including the plane trip. Your girls are really involved in so many learning and faith building activities. Wonderful.
write in Cherokee – that is so interesting!! What fun!!
So cool she’s learning some Hebrew. My aunt can speak it and she loves to recite the Psalms in Hebrew, much more poetic. I love the whale length picture. They are huge!
Looks like a lovely week! The mission trip sounds exciting. Can’t wait to hear about it when it happens.
Minn of the Mississippi is one of my favorites. Paddle to the Sea is also a favorite because it is about the Great Lakes. “I think I can” is a great motto at this point of the year.
Nifty things goin on over there! The whale-measuring activity was eye-opening for me, too. Words/numbers on a page take on new meaning when applied to real life, don’t they? And I love Kathryn’s Cherokee writing, particularly since I am of Cherokee descent (although you wouldn’t guess this by looking at me!).
I dont always take time to comment but I wanted to say that I enjoy your weekly wrap ups! i love that you put the good with the bad! It is disheartening sometimes to read a weekly wrap ups and the moms “look” like they have it all together and the kids are doing AWESOME and you feel like you had such a bad week!
I also LOVE the logic of the pink book! I say re bind all the books if need be! I am also looking into the book Regina Silsby’s war!