Mean Ol' Mama here. We missed it again, Vave family! Perhaps we should post always on Friday OR Saturday, as we can. Anyway, I'm alone again on the computer, but we discussed all week what we should post.
1. Memory work went pretty well this week. We're moving into Ancient Greece, so we'll be working in our history notebooks under a new time period starting Monday or Tuesday.

2. The switch back to Eng/Sp alternating school weeks went well. It's a lot less overwhelming.

3. The kids worked hard in math this week. The Girl and Branch are trying to finish up Saxon 2 by doing about 30 lessons a day w/ mommy, so we'll finish it up this week and move them into the 3rd grade book. They have all made good progress in their math skills lately.

4. We have a performance this Friday and another big one in 2 weeks plus company coming this weekend, so we'll be busy with those things on top of our "normal" routine. Normal? Define normal, anyway.

5. The Girl and Branch are really improving in Eng reading, and I'm looking forward to seeing how well they can alternate between the two starting Monday. I think they'll do just fine.

6. The boys have been fishing whenever possible, and we've enjoyed some fun swim time at the pool.

7. We discussed the basic 5-paragraph essay and I assigned the topic "What Comprises a Good Education?". These are due Monday morning, and it has been interesting to see how the boys "think" on paper.

It was a pretty good week considering that Monday (including Performance Practice in the afternoon), Thursday and Friday were pretty much no-school days because we were out of the home.