Cindy's Life as She Knows It

Yesterday and today, August 26 and 27, 2014, we did our first back to school activities, although today was deemed the "first day of 4th grade".  Yesterday my son made his back to school bulletin board, creating a Minecraft creeper and a cool saying.  I love letting him design his own board because it reflects who he is at this time in his life.  We also had already finished Who Is Roald Dahl? and he had started working on High Time for Heroes, a Magic Tree House book.  Both of these books are way too easy for him to read, but he enjoys reading them, so they were a nice starting point.  We also made up the agar for his Bacteria and Fungus chemistry unit.  He is really looking forward to doing lots of experiments. Today, after our traditional chocolate chip muffins hot from the oven tradition, he started off with his morning work, which encompasses a lot of language arts.  There is reading comprehension, writing and grammar included.  He is start...

Today is the beginning of the end of summer around here.  Two more weeks of summer camp left  here at our house and then back to school for the bigger kids and daycare routine for the younger kids.  I have been getting Dakota's 4th grade work ready to go for the past few months, but I have made serious progress in the last week as the pressure to get it all organized sets in.  He is doing A History of Us this year and I am very excited about it.  I have gone through book one and there is an activity there for every day that I think he will enjoy.  He will start health with recognizing behavior patterns and how to control his behavior, something he desperately needs.  Claude Monet will be our artist to study.  Math is all set with the Abeka curriculum and there is the latest Magic Tree House book to read, although it's too easy for him at this point.  He loves those stories and there is a fact book with this one that we can use to build on it....