Josiah here. I finished some of my Reader Box books, quite a bit in my Spanish Grammar and Sp. Phonetics, moved into a pre-Algebra book for math, and harvested some potatoes. Today I staked my pole beans and helped Levi in his garden. I planted beans, watermelon, cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes.

Hi, this is Branch. I planted beans and cucumbers. My peppers are doing well. In school I read quite a few Eng. readers and finished a 2nd grade math workbook. I need to practice violin more consistently, and my teacher is helping me with that. He gave me a checklist to follow. My chickens are growing. They haven't started laying yet. We started swimming again, and that's fun. We've been fishing with Daddy in the evenings, too.

Some of the kids aren't here right now, so I'll go ahead and post. We've certainly had a different week. #1 is going as well as it can with everyone staying even-tempered, no memory work right now until we catch up some of the books, 3 and 4 are about the same as before. But we're not going BACKWARDS!!! Whoopee!! Non scholae sed vitae discimus. I'm in a baking mood, which is good but fattening. We're really trying to be more consistent in so many areas. One new addition to our schoolroom: each child has a small basket for books read, pages finished, etc. so that we can see a visual sign of progress. This has worked very well this week. We're really looking forward to finishing up Band and guitar classes this month and get some of our time and life back. Of course, I have lots of big plans to fill those empty hours...hee hee....We really look forward to reading what you all are doing up there in the tundra. Teresa, Chan and I took all the kids swimming today...10 boys!!! and The Girl. Ufda! Also, the kids are going to give oral book reports on Fri.-on-Monday. We'll be doing essays next, focusing on persuasive, compare/contrast, and informative.

This is The Girl now. I finished lots of math sheets, some Eng. reader books, and some in Sp., too. I need to work on my piano piece more. Tomorrow Mommy and I are going somewhere together and we're going to eat lunch all by ourselves. I'm doing better in school and my room is staying pretty clean, too.

This is Anders. I finished all of my Sp. Phonetics workbook! I also finished my Saxon math book and I'm working in my pre-Algebra book that I had started earlier. I caught a jack and 3 bass and lost 2 lures. I've read some of my reader books, too. That's all for now.

Stennes now. I finished up Sp. worksheets that we found stuffed in my notebook. How did that get there? Hmmm....a mystery for Willie Boy. I finished planting Georgia Candy Roaster squash, pumpkin, okra, and sweet corn. I found 13 voluntary tomato plants in my garden, so I planted only 4. My potato plants are beginning to die, so I'll start harvesting soon. I read some reader books and I think that I've had a really good school week.