This year is going to be challenging for all three of the kids. The coop lessons are a little more intense as far as assignments than they are use to but they seem eager to get them done.
Literature: They are reading Around the World in 80 days. I have chosen the Illustrated Classics and the had to read 4 chapters. On top of this, they had 2 worksheets to fill out and a list of 12 words they had to look up in the dictionary. Altho' they were suppose to copy the entire definition and pick out/underline the appropriate one for their story, I adapted that to where they only have to write the pertinant definition. As we go on I will start to incorporate more of their writing.
This was for only the older two
The youngest is thrilled, for his "homework" he has to chose a hobby and bring it in for "show and tell" so he is finishing up a lego project that he recieved for his birthday.
History we are struggling a little with because the coop is using Story of the World, and we have Mystery of History. I ordered the book for SOTW but did not get it until today. It is to difficult to try to coordinate the two, and we will still run into some problems in the beginning because the coop is using vol 1, the last few chapters and we now have vol 2 which they will be starting in a couple of weeks.
The Science is the apologia Botany, which the kids are loving. We walked down to my mothers yesterday and the oldest was picking out/spotting all the "Angiosperms" ...he likes saying that word.
Math/Language arts they are quickly falling into the swing of things...again.
Today I had to run out to buy food (cant believe how much these little people can eat!) and we stopped by the mall and I had them get some of the small photos from the photo booth. They want homeschool id cards so this weekend I shall try to pull them together for them.
We still are having "time management" problems with the kids as they are taking all day to complete their assignments, but they are getting better with each day.
All in all a pretty good week and I am grateful for the opportunity to homeschool them.
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Sounds like you are having fun with the kids. You will have to keep posting about the co-op.. Would love to hear how it goes this year. We may join in next yr but we'll have to see :)
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