Homeschool Review....weeks 3, 4, and 5...

What a crazy couple of weeks! With Hurricane Ike came a bit of rescheduling which means we did some stuff we hadn't planned and are a little behind with a few things. Life lessons are sometimes the best ones though so I am not too worried. We heard that Hurricane Ike was coming so the week before it hit we skipped out on our science (the planets) and started looking up hurricane information instead. The girls checked out some books from the library and we followed the hurricane path on the internet. The night of the hurricane we took them outside to feel the winds start to pick up and woke them up that night so they could hear the storm outside. They got to help in our yard and the neighbors with clean up and then take thank you baskets to the firemen last Sunday.
We missed a week of school after the hurricane and only did minimal stuff for a few days the week of the 22nd but finally got back to a full schedule on the 25th. Eliora read her first book start to finish in the last couple weeks plus is still working every day on her Sing, Spell, Read, and Write Lessons which include spelling, dictation, and writing. Audrey is earlier on in the lessons and mostly doing sound reviews for the alphabet. We covered pronouns in Language Arts and I have had them circling words like me, mine, and I in the comics (Eliora loves the comics).
Just started multiplication tables with Eliora in mathematics while still doing addition and subtraction every day. Audrey does easier addition and groupings, patterns, shapes etc. I love our math blocks that Krestin gave me. I did figure out this last week that I really need to start teaching them money and time.
Eliora started piano lessons and we finished our history review of last year and did a big scroll/timeline with some of last year's work plus pictures I had taken. It is so funny the things they remember and the stuff they don't. They like the Magic Tree House series and whenever we did a project that had a coinciding book I would get it and read it to them. Out of the lessons they tend to remember the ones that were reinforced with Jack and Annie.
On the 25th we did a paper mache sun to start our solar system and I learned a very valuable lesson....just because there are mosquitoes outside don't move your big, messy, floury project to the kitchen floor. Husbands get a little upset when you do that. I did take some pics but haven't gotten around to downloading them yet. Will try and do that this week.