HURRICANE!!!!!

or......This is the I've used so much paper for school this week I'm afraid to go near a forest. The trees might try and get their revenge.....BLOG!

We've finished week 4 and everything has been checked! I'm feeling really good about that!

The first read aloud was awesome. The kids LOVED it. They are afraid Sign of the Beaver is going to be lame. The reasoning is that Naya Nuki was so good because they could trick us into thinking the next one will be good too....we'll see. Right now we can see that that last sentence was just.... awkward.

                                               read it! I command you!


In other Language Arts news....Stuffie was supposed to fill in the blanks of a story with her spelling words. She decided to do it "Mad Libs Style" and just put her spelling words in any spot that struck her fancy. Then she read it aloud to us and was very pleased with it's ridiculousness.

 and really...who cares as long as she's practicing her spelling words? Plus she did get an A on her test....

                                                        YAY!

And guess who the lucky recipient of the Bible verse is for the 2nd week in a row....

I'll give you a hint...it starts with 'L' and ends in 'eigh'.


Now we can get to the parts where I made trees weep. Time Traveler is the spine of our History this year and they have a huge amount of projects to reinforce what we're reading. This week we made a game called 'High and Dry' it started out like this.....

Handy thing that laminator.....did you know laminator isn't a word? It's true my spell check just told me. And I told my spell check to shut it!
Anyway the game board is super cute with spaces like this

                                           YIKES! Cannibals!
 And like this......

                                     Stuffie the non eater is afraid she's going to get The Scurvey....(spell check says that scurvey isn't a word either....stuff it spell check!)

So I was at that point when I realized I didn't color the board.....DANG IT! So I started all over again and this is what we got.....

We haven't played yet. we're saving it for when the power goes out. So I'll review it another time.

I also made an enemy of the trees by printing out 2 card stock (2 words ) Pueblo's......

It's the gun toting, disease carring Spaniards vs. the peaceful people of the Pueblo.....the kids couldn't wait to play "Pueblo Wars" after supper and I have the picture to prove it!

The Spanish kicked ass and took names...poor Puebloians (also not a word). I bet they'd give those conquistadors a run for their money if they tried that crap now. Bust a cap Pueblo....bust a cap.

We studied Venus this week in Science. They made an awesome volcano of facts about Venus. I love the blank spaces where they can really let their creative juices flow....

Caution Hot! That place is covered in LIQUID HOT MAGMA! for realz.....

I'm just about to the point where I'm going to toss not only the State Study but also the Bible.... Look at what he had to read this week....

2nd Timothy 4:9-22 you should read it and then tell me if it makes any sense on God's beautiful Earth to assign that passage...OUT OF ALL THE PASSAGES IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE.....for a 10 year old's Bible study. I had to help him with the questions.

I don't mind helping my child however I do mind that WP picked such a weird passage to emphasize "Helping Others" After all they do know they are writing for children....don't they??? Maybe  not??? I dunno?

Look at how cute the illustrations are in Stuffie's Catechism.....

 I should break out Kung Fu's catechism and let him read it again....at least he'd learn something.....

Kung Fu's getting some Bible references in Math. Thank goodness the other subjects can help pick up the slack...

He's a good mathematician that boy.... just sits down with the book and plows right through....

thank you precious child for understanding fractions....and asking Papa when you're stumped!

Thank you for gluing the figures into the Timeline book as well....

you're my new favorite son! For realz.

We also murdered a few trees to make out 3D Maps of the French Explorers....

This one is Stuffie's because she LOVES Beavers and it had a Beaver to color and she colored it red!

Kung Fu chose the smallest one with the least need for multiple colors. That's my boy!

What did't get mentioned in the above information is that we have 2 printers. One to print on card stock (2words) because our laser printer doesn't like the thick paper. SEVERAL times I printed something on regular paper that was supposed to be printed on card stock (2words) because our laser printer is the default printer and I forgot to select the other one....SEVERAL TIMES- poor poor trees...sorry trees.

So that's our week. Stuffie declared the "New School" -FUN!- today....I love the positive feed back. 4 weeks down 32 more weeks to go!