On Saturday afternoon Sophie got the sewing bug and Ben joined her. Sophie got some scrap fabric from an old pair of pants and made a little stuffed shark. We thought it hugely funny that she made a camouflage shark because Ben and Anthony have camouflage shark rainboots.
On Sunday Lucy and I took a walk around the block, enjoying the beautiful October weather. She was full of energy and joie de vivre.
Monday October 22
Anthony: math, copywork, read and narrated from People in History
Ben: was much more interested in drawing than in doing school work, but eventually I coaxed him into math, then copywork, and Explode the Code. He read the first few pages of the Little Bear story Birthday Soup
Sophie: math, copywork, French, geography
Bella: math, copywork, Latin, composition, read and narrate By What Authority. Reading Sir Launcelot and Companions by Pyle.
Little Plum, Magna Charta, St Louis de Montfort, lectionary readings.
Bedtime story: library book.
Tuesday October 23
Anthony: math, copywork, Child’s History of the World
Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, read Little Bear: Birthday Soup
Sophie: math, copywork, geography. Hyper-focused on making bracelets right now with a kit she got for her birthday and only just rediscovered this week.
Bella: Latin, read and narrate By What Authority and Abraham Lincoln’s World.
Afternoon stories: Little Plum; Magna Charta; St Louis de Montfort; Men, Microscopes, and Living Things; lectionary readings.
Bedtime: Mitchells Five for Victory
Wednesday October 24
Anthony: math, copywork, read and narrate People in History (Boudicca)
Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, read Little Bear: Birthday Soup
Sophie: math, composition (she wrote three and a quarter pages longhand in her notebook of a story she started telling me this morning. I let that substitute for copywork), read and narrated from This Country of Ours (Columbus’ return to Spain and death).
Bella: Latin, read and narrate George Washington’s World, math (Beast Academy).
Afternoon stories: Little Plum; Magna Charta; St Louis de Montfort; Book of Marvels (Gibralter); lectionary readings.
Bedtime: Queen Esther the Morning Star.
Thursday October 25
Anthony: math, copywork, read Child’s History
Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, read Little Bear: Birthday Soup
Sophie: math, composition (more of her story), copywork, Geography
Bella: Latin, read and narrate George Washington’s World, math (Beast Academy), composition (working on a story).
Afternoon stories: Little Plum, Magna Charta, St Louis de Montfort, Story of the World, Story of the Chosen People, lectionary readings. (We’ve been having some good discussions about Ephesians and about the Gospel readings.)
Bedtime: finished Mitchells Five for Victory
Friday October 26
Anthony: math, copywork, read and narrated from People in History
Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, read Little Bear: Birthday Soup
Sophie: math, copywork, read Geography
Bella: read and narrate Story of the Church, math (Khan Academy)
Afternoon stories: Little Plum, Magna Charta, St Louis de Montfort, North with the Spring, lectionary readings. (More really good discussion about Ephesians and about the Gospel readings.)
We all took a lantern-lit hike with the cub scouts in the town forest where we had a bonfire and roasted marshmallows. At their last den meeting the cubs made lanterns out of old water and milk bottles with glow sticks in them. They carried some of them, but most were hung along the trail to light the way, the colorful glows looked almost like will o’the wisps, quite enchanting.
Bedtime: Little Baa by Kim Lewis
