Closing Day

While I still have pictures to post of our school year, here are some great pictures from our last day.

Warren had to work, but he showed up just in time to see the children knighted and then help clean up =)

 

Must Brag

Well, I guess it is not a must, but I really want to. There is so much to share, but today I want to brag about Isaac. Last month Isaac took a computer test for the charter school. He did reading first and scored a 9.9+ meaning, higher than a 9th grade 9th month level. then he scored a 5th or 6th grade math level (I don’t remember the month). He got stuck on the question ‘6ab + a + b =’ where ‘x=2 and y=3’. so, of course he asked how to do that when he got home and I verbally taught him in about 2 minutes and we haven't talked about it since! Unfortunately, Isaac took the test 3 days before the window for taking the test, so he had to test again today. So of course I expected him to do slightly better in math since I had told him how to do the hard question. So, Isaac wanted to do Math first this time… 45 minutes later he finished! He asked to do the reading tomorrow, but unfortunately that wasn’t an option. He finished reading 20 minutes later. Of course I knew his reading score couldn’t have been as high since he finished so quickly. Well, I was right on both subjects, sort of. Isaac scored a 6.5 in reading (middle of 6th grade reading level) and a 9.2 or something in math. I guess the quick lesson from a month ago stuck! Since we shouldn’t ever be proud, I will say that I am well please with Isaac’s test taking skills and all of his hard work!

Stained Glass

I have a lot to post, but I can’t wait for this!

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Beautiful Day

So, today we only left the house 3 times for quick 15 minute assignments. I feel like we are never at home =( I also feel that I spend a lot of time un-schooling my children. So today we did this for school….

Burn, Baby, Burn… or is it Well, Done Joan!

So in honor of Joan of Arc and FIRE we decided to do a chemistry experiment…

First we mixed chemicals in water

Then we soaked pine cones in the chemicals for 24 hours.

We waited for 48 hours for them to dry and then

tried to burn them and see wonderful colors.

So, that didn’t turn out so well. We think it is because the pine cones were still so wet =(

We will burn them later and then post again =)

Joan of Arc

We met Joan the other day. She was fabulous! I would guess she spoke for about 30 minutes…straight! She was so beautiful and exciting!

The children loved seeing her, painting banners with a Fleur-de-lis, brushing a miniature pony, and roasting meat and biscuits over an open fire. I think we ALL agreed that we enjoy our modern methods of cooking to those of Medieval Times =)

We drew pictures of Joan in our journals today and have started reading Mark twain’s book on Joan of Arc. The first 2 chapters were great! I can’t wait to read more =)

Thinking Bigger…

Isaac will take the California State Testing this year for the first time. I don’t really care a lot about it, but I want the funding from the charter school, so he has to take the test. Anyway, I was showing him on the calendar when the testing was and he said he wanted to know when the COUNTRY testing was too =) Oh boy.. I hope NOT EVER!