bought curricula

I have heard that no-one spends money like a home-schoolin' mama, and I'm afraid that seems to be true. I am quite excited having just ordered Teaching textbooks math 7 and Apologia general science.

They are aimed at Ruby's age, but I am kinda hoping that Fred will follow along. Maths & Science are the subjects I feel I cannot adequately provide myself, most other things I am fairly confident, we will muddle through & eventually find our own simple methods & systems.
When I worry, it is generally because I have forgotten that our Lord is going to help!

timetable

Look! I made this cute timetable for the kids.

No doubt this isn't the final draft.

they can just tick or write a note in each category.

Cuisenaire Rods get their first outing

Today F was simply refusing to round 5's upward / or was he struggling with the concept of it? hard to tell.
We got out the Cuisenaire rods!
He had to play with them first, which was a little frustrating for me as we only had 3 questions left in today's maths unit.
But this is the joy of being at home - as well as doing all his maths in an australian accent, we just CAN take five minutes to play "minecraft" with the cuisenaire rods before using them as a concrete illustration for rounding upward!
Oh Joy!

p.s. little does he realise - he thinks he is making a colourful pattern - but he is actually finding number bonds to ten as i type!

that's something i had noted down to practice. He is doing it himself, yay!

planning / thinking out loud

thinking out loud - trying to plan for september.
Ruby:

1 or 2 units of busuu.com spanish
snork's division game on kidsnumbers.com
reading: a chapter of Heidi

Fred:

a unit of busuu.com french
his TT maths
reading: ? FIND SOMETHING

both:
cycling.
our BSF
2 lines of a hymn
a chapter of Our Island Story
a chapter of Children Of The New Forest

Steve spangler science experiements
Get Flylady involved!

r maths 7 diagnostic

Today R did the teaching textbooks diagnostic test for maths 7. she basically knew all of it but the division. so we should probably buy it for the division.

Monday 30 July 12

F did lesson 10 of his maths.  This book is too simple for him it really, i would love him to speed through and move on to the next one. But F, speeding?
We talked about literacy "I was the smartest in maths but the dumbest in literacy"
I explained that he isn't in the least dumb in literacy but that at school they were teaching it wrong. He was quite enthused and we only had a few Q's left of maths, and he picked up his pencil & did them!
the point here is He Picked Up His Pen, i am usually his scribe and that's the first time he has written in months!
R has done page 5 of CGP KS3 maths. We struggled with changing a fraction into a decimal, we need a little help. We googled it, 1st site was mathsisfun.com and we could understand the sums, but cannot do without a calculator. So i am wondering if we would need this for a GCSE without a calc.

Well, today we did Quiz 1 of Fred's maths (in the book, he answer the questions & I scribe 4 him). Ruby did up to p4 Q2 of her CGP KS3 maths. did v well.

We did the next two lines of Before the Throne of God above.
Ruby made gluten-free pizza base.

Planning to revise with Ruby all her spanish from Y8 book.
Fred insists on french. need to go back to square 1 OR just put languages off again for a bit!!!
I wrote and emailed a report on all our learning for Local Authority.