Homeschool catch up & family

  Whew, I need to catch up.  I was pretty much off the pc for awhile.  We had some family in for a few weeks last month.  Our cousin brought her mom down with her, so that was a huge surprise.  It was very nice to see them.
   Then some of my in-laws came for a visit.  They rented a beach house near us.  In all, it was a lot less stressful than I thought it would be.  Both women are former teachers, though one was an elementary teacher.  When they visited last summer, they were very against home school.  I'm sure they still are.  But, after looking at our Phonics Road, math and some of the things we have gone over, as well as just observation, the former elem teacher, was impressed.  She mentioned that what we are doing is good for right now.  We talked briefly about what we would do with our little guy if we had to place him in school.  Would he be bored?  How far ahead would he be?  Things like that.  And, my husband is coming around a little more.  He said we would continue with home school for now, though he'd have questions later on.  I am happy, but sad because it is causing friction between him and his folks.
  Anyhow, on to my review.  Last was week 16, and if you count the weeks, you'll see we took a small break.  I think I took 2 weeks to cover one of those weeks, and then with family here...But, that's the great thing about home school.  We can go at our own pace.  And considering we are technically kindergarten....

Home school co op starts

  We had a light week for schooling.  Both kids had colds, but the nice thing about home school, is that we are home!  No missed work.  No make up assignments.  No absent marks.  And though ill enough to have been taken out of school, the little guy was well enough to do some work.
  We started our comprehension stories from Phonics Road.  It was, "The little red hen".  He had to read the page, then illustrated what he read.  By Friday, he had his own five page, illustrated book.  It's a nice way to see if the kids understand what they are reading.  He'll be doing a weekly book now until the end of the school year. Along with the comprehension, there are still new spelling words for the week, and review of spelling rules, along with some other new things like compound words-which we will be doing next week.
   We did a little math review of addition and subtraction this week.
 Thursday was the first day of our local home school co op classes!  The kids were well enough to go, and I figured we could leave if they started to feel sick.  Wow!  So many families were at the co op.  And we didn't even see half of them, since they were taking other classes.  We singed up for four classes-math bootcamp, science, music and art.  Everything went well.  Both the science and art classes are very cool.  The science teacher had a bunch of neat animals for the kids to see and learn about.  In the art class they did wet on wet painting.
   In all, the day went pretty well.  The sun came out and started to dry off the play ground, which was good, since I was going in and out of the classes with my youngest.  I'll be better prepared for him next week, on things to do.

  Now of course, the cold in my youngest has progressed to a nice wet cough.  The eldest still has a slight dry cough, but since my youngest had a very odd cough back in December for 2 weeks, I figure some of the cilia in his lungs was probably effected, hence he is showing more coughing symptoms than his brother.  All is good though.  I'm mainly using high dose Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), along with Borion's cough syrup and cold calm.