We have successfully completed four weeks of homeschool for this school year! It's really flown by, and I hope it will slow down some so I can really enjoy it.

Zeke, grade 3

AROUND THE WORLD GEOGRAPHY

We visited Canada this week in geography! Zeke learned about inukshuks, drew one, and built one with Legos.

He completed all of his worksheets:

We ate pancakes and syrup for breakfast (it wasn't maple syrup, but that's okay!).

EXPLORING GOD'S WORLD WITH THIRD GRADE SCIENCE

We are enjoying this science from Schoolhouse Teachers! This week, Zeke read all about plants, photosynthesis, and habitats. Zeke reads the daily lessons aloud and completes any activities. Some are hands-on while others are written or oral. It's painless and he is really retaining a lot of information!

MATH WITH CONFIDENCE

He completed Unit 2 this week, where he learned multiplication by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's.

GRAMMAR

In Abeka grammar, he has continued working on sentences and structure as well as commas.

LITERATURE KITS

He finished reading "Charlotte's Web" this week! He is moving on to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." We liked the Literature Kit workbook, but I wish there was more hands-on activities, so we may do something different after this one. There are a lot of vocabulary words and comprehension questions, and it gets a bit tiresome for him.

BIBLE STUDY GUIDE

We are still loving this Bible curriculum! Zeke has memory work and lots of reviewing previous lessons, so there is lots of retaining! The lesson worksheets are quick and easy, and both Zeke and Zoey love completing them each morning. (Review coming soon!)

Zeke's

Zoey's

INDEPENDENT WORK

He loves the Math Mysteries from Schoolhouse Teachers, and he's working on his third one! He also does hand-writing each day and will start transitioning to cursive soon.

Zoey, preschool

LET'S EXPLORE LETTERS

Zoey learned the letter Dd this week. Here are a few of her activities:

LET'S EXPLORE MATH

We are finishing up our review of shapes and colors.

LET'S EXPLORE BOOKS

We read "Make Way for Ducklings," "The Fuzzy Duckling," and "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?" this week. She stamped dinosaur footprints in her journal and make a cute handprint duck.

CO-OP

Each Thursday, we will be attending Co-Op! We had orientation this week. They both enjoyed getting to see their classrooms. Zeke will be taking four classes: Wild Kratts, Torn Paper Art, Story Time Fun, and Legos. Zoey will be taking: Little Problem Solvers Science, Play Time Pals, Little Problem Solvers Math, and Story Time.

They all got a pair of sunglasses and took a picture because they're too cool for school!

It was a great week! I'm really enjoying this school year.

We finished up our third week of homeschool this week! It's been a great three weeks, and Zeke and Zoey have really fallen right into a good routine each day. I tweaked our schedule once, but it takes us from 8:00 to 11:00 each day to complete our schoolwork. Here are some of the things we've done!

Zeke, grade 3

AROUND THE WORLD - GEOGRAPHY

Week One - We learned about the deciduous forest biome to introduce the kids to North America. Zeke learned about food chains, the forest strata, the four seasons, and all about soil.

Week Two - We kicked off our geography lessons with the United States! Zeke drew a bald eagle, made a magazine flag mosaic, and blow-painted some fireworks over a New York City silhouette.

Week Three - We went to Mexico this week and got our first passport "stamp." We read all about monarch butterflies and made monarch butterfly mosaic, made some maracas, and made our own pinata! We ate tacos, rice and beans to conclude our trip to Mexico.

SCIENCE

Week One - We learned all about matter this week!

Week Two - We learned about organic and inorganic matter.

Week Three - We learned about Carl Linnaeus, binomial nomenclature, and classification.

MATH

Zeke reviewed many concepts the first two weeks and was introduced to multiplication this week, which he is super excited about!

LANGUAGE ARTS

Zeke is reading "Charlotte's Web" and will finish it up next week. He would have read it in a day, but I'm having him complete a Literature Kit along with it.

He reviewed the four types of sentences and how to fix a run-on sentence.

We've been reviewing consonant digraphs in Language Smarts.

He worked in handwriting each day.

BIBLE

We have completed seven lessons in Bible Study Guide for All Ages, breaking the lessons into two days each. We love this! I read the verses from the Bible and they complete their worksheets. We have memory work and timeline questions. I really like how this is set up! The kids are learning quite a bit. I even made an Instagram reel!