Week in Review ~ the one with Snow

This has been a crazy week! Especially Wednesday! For those who don't know, we live just outside of Phoenix, Arizona and this is what it looked like here on Wednesday:

This is NOT normal! Click here for more photos of snow in Phoenix.

Also, on Wednesday, on Arizona State Route 89 this happened:

 This is a MAJOR route between Utah and Arizona about 25 miles South of Page, Arizona. Click here to read more about what happened!

On to the more normal occurrences. We are loving our new curriculum. We are loving the products we are reviewing (to see what is coming just peek at my sidebar). Unicorn (with help from Ladybug and me) is crocheting scarves to sell to raise money to go to girl's camp. She has sold 4 and needs to sell about 6 more (Email me if you are interested in purchasing one).

Playing a Latitude/Longitude game

Coloring by Sight Words

Writing a Thank You note to someone who purchased a scarf

Yarn to make scarves

White Knitted Scarf with Gold Trim ($20 plus $2 shipping)

Purple Knitted Scarf (it is a dark purple-$20 plus $2 shipping)

Burnt Orange, Burgundy, Deep Purple, Red Crocheted Scarf ($15 plus $2 shipping)

Chocolate, Ivory, Tan, Silver Crocheted Scarf ($15 plus $2 shipping)

Orange, Blue, Olive, Purple Crocheted Scarf ($15 plus $2 shipping)

Hot Pink, Pink and White Crocheted Scarf ($15 plus $2 shipping)

Week in Review ~ Week 33

~Family Accomplishments~

~Completed unit on Prayer

~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-6

~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 16 sentences complete)

~Completed our 155th day

~Completed our 2010-2011 school year...this is my last Week in Review post...I will be using The Homeschool Mother's Journal to track our accomplishments from now on.

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~ 

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Howard W. Hunter and Gordon B. Hinkley

~Continued working on Unit 2 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota and South Dakota

~Continued Reading The Secret Garden

~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

~Math Whizz she hit a brick wall…we will be taking a break from this

~Wrote in her journal

~Worked on Red Tides unit for Science (click here for my Review)

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Took a break this week!

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Turned 3!

~Took a break from school 

Week in Review ~ Week 32

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Prayer

~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-6

~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 16 sentences complete)

~Completed our 150th day

~Found a 3^rd pumpkin and some basil in the garden!

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Ezra Taft Benson

~Continued working on Unit 2 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for Oregon, Kansa, West Virginia and Nevada

~Continued Reading The Secret Garden

~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .05 this week and .53 since starting (she has gained .5 years in 3.5 MONTHS)!

~Wrote in her journal

~Worked on Red Tides unit for Science (I'll be doing a review for this unit by the end of the week)!

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .05 this week and .55 since starting

~Completed Unit on "Baby Animals” Unit from Mother Goose Time

~Continued using Starfall.com

~Started You Can Read lesson 2 sight words

~Used Education Cubes to practice sight words

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continues to watch Leap Frog movies, Signing Time, Dora and Thomas the Train and Dinosaur Train

~Counts to 15 all by himself

~Can identify 20 letters and sounds!

~Continues to show an interest in learning his colors and shapes

~Used Education Cubes to practice colors and shapes

Week in Review ~ Week 31

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Prayer

~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-6

~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 16 sentences complete)

~Completed our 145th day

~Went to the Park on Friday 

~Found tomato and jalapeño plants growing in our garden!

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Harold B. Lee and Spencer W. Kimball

~Continued working on Unit 2 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for Wisconsin, California and Minnesota

~Started Reading The Secret Garden

~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .02 this week and .48 since starting 

~Wrote in her journal

~Continued the Ladybug unit

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .06 this week and .50 since starting (she has gained .5 years in 3.5 MONTHS)!

~Continued Unit on "Baby Animals” Unit from Mother Goose Time

~Started using Starfall.com (she doesn’t like Click ‘n Kids)

~Learned sight words the, and, see and a using You Can Read! by 1+1+1=1

~Practiced sight words using Education Cubes

~Continued the Ladybug unit

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continues to watch Leap Frog movies, Signing Time, Dora and Thomas the Train and found a new show to watch: Dinosaur Train

~Counts to 15 all by himself

~Can identify 20 letters and sounds!

~Practiced colors using Education Cubes

~Continues to show an interest in learning his colors and shapes

Week in Review ~ Week 30

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Prayer

~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-6

~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 16 sentences complete)

~Completed our 140th day

~Started purchasing curriculum for our next year (which will start next month)!!!!

~Found carrots growing in our garden!

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Joseph Fielding Smith and started Harold B. Lee

~Continued working on Unit 2 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for Michigan, Florida, Texas and Iowa

~Finished Reading Caddie Woodlawn

~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .07 this week and .46 since starting 

~Wrote in her journal

~Continued the Ladybug unit

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .08 this week and .44 since starting

~Started Unit on "Baby Animals” Unit from Mother Goose Time

~Completed 3 Click 'n Read lessons with 100% average

~Continued the Ladybug unit

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to watch Leap Frog movies, Signing Time, Dora and Thomas the Train and found a new show to watch: Dinosaur Train

~Counted to 15 all by himself

~Can identify 20 letters and sounds!

~Started to show an interest in learning his colors and shapes

Week in Review ~ Week 29

~Family Accomplishments~

~Completed unit on Unity
~Started unit on Prayer
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5 and learned number 6
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 13 sentences complete)
~Stopped using Time4Learning (Great curriculum...just can't afford it right now)
~Started Math Whizz (again)

~Spent a lot of time outside (both for school and play)

~Completed our 135th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on David O. McKay

~Continued working on Unit 2 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for Alabama, Maine, Missouri and Arkansas

~Continued Reading Caddie Woodlawn

~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .09 this week and .39 since starting 

~Wrote in her journal

~Started a Ladybug unit

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Math Whizz improved Math Age .08 this week and .36 since starting

~Completed Unit on "Birds and Nests" from Mother Goose Time

~Completed 3 Click 'n Read lessons with 100% average

~Completed 2 Click 'n Spell lessons with 93% average

~Identified vowel sounds in the middle of words like "map"

~Started a Ladybug unit

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to watch Leap Frog movies, Signing Time,  Dora and Thomas the Train

~Counted to 14 all by himself

~Can identify 15-20 letters and sounds!

~Started to show an interest in learning his colors

Week in Review ~ Week 28

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Unity
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 12 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (See my REVIEW here).

~Planted our Garden!

~Spent a lot of time outside (both for school and play)

~Completed our 130th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on George Albert Smith

~Completed Unit 1 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed Notebooking Pages for New York

~Drew a picture of a Quail in Nature Journal

~Continued Reading Caddie Woodlawn

~Started Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts (19 lessons - 89% ave., 3 quizzes - 100% ave., 1 test - 97%)

~Math: Fractions, 2-digit Division, Division by 10 & 100, Long Division

~Language Arts: Author's Purpose, Compare/Contrast, Fact/Opinion, Writing Proposal Letter and Persuasive Essay

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Completed Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts (17 lessons - 98% ave., 3 quiz - 100% ave., and 2 tests - 100% ave.)

~Math: Graphs, measurement, fractions
~Language Arts: Read another decodable book (all by herself), isolated more phonemes, learned high frequency words (this, had, was)

~Continued Unit on "Birds and Nests" from Mother Goose Time

~Drew a picture of a Quail in Nature Journal

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to have an attitude but watched Leap Frog movies and Thomas the Train in addition to Dora!

~Counted to 14 all by himself

~Can identify 15-20 letters and sounds!

Week in Review ~ Week 27

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Unity
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 10 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (See my REVIEW here).

~Mama continued using Rosetta Stone Latin and Completed Unit 1!

~Spent a LOT of time rearranging things in the house and working on Unicorn's new bed...sorry no pictures this week!
~Completed our 125th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Heber J. Grant

~Completed 5 mini-lessons in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)

~Completed a lesson on Daylight Savings Time

~Completed a lesson on Butterflies
~Completed a lesson on Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

~Completed a lesson for Sid Fleischman

~Completed a lesson for St. Patrick's Day

~Continued Reading Caddie Woodlawn

~Started Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts (27 lessons - 89% ave. and 4 quizzes - 88% ave.

~Math: Multiples, Arrays, 2-digit Multiplication, Division

~Language Arts: Author's Purpose, Inferring, Compare/Contrast

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts (13 lessons - 98% ave. and 1 quiz - 100%)

~Math: coin identification, simple measurements, estimating measurements, reading a ruler
~Language Arts: Read another decodable book (all by herself), isolated more phonemes, learned high frequency words (look, for, am)

~Continued Unit on "Birds and Nests" from Mother Goose Time

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to have an attitude but watched Leap Frog movies and Thomas the Train in addition to Dora!

~Counted to 14 all by himself

~Started to point to letters and identify their names and sounds

Week in Review ~ Week 26

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Unity
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 8 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (See my REVIEW here).

~Mama continued using Rosetta Stone Latin and Completed 2 mini-lessons
~Completed our 120th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Joseph F. Smith

~Completed 4 mini-lessons in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)
~Completed a lesson on Peanuts for National Peanut Month
~Completed a lesson on Names for Celebrate Your Name Week

~Completed a lesson for Genealogy Day

~Continued Reading Caddie Woodlawn
~Finished Reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

~Started Reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science

~Math: Subtraction w/regrouping, Estimation, Multiplication

~Language Arts: Main Idea, Fact & Opinion, Charts/Graphs, Cause & Effect

~Science: Electrons, Electricity, Volts, Ohm's Law, Watts

~Social Studies: Zhou Dynasty, Confucianism/Daoism/Legalism

~Drew a picture of the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

~Practiced time and money flashcards (without being asked)!

~Watched the construction guys survey, measure, dig a trench, lay rebar, and pour concrete for our block wall

~Sewed two pillows

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts

~Math: Calendar (Days, Months, Date), Time to the hour, Sequencing and Temperature
~Language Arts: Read her first decodable book (all by herself), isolated phonemes, learned high frequency words (and, in, the, has, can, her)

~Continued Unit on "Birds and Nests" from Mother Goose Time

~Drew a picture of the endangered Arizona Hedgehog Cactus

~Watched the construction guys survey, measure, dig a trench, lay rebar, and pour concrete for our block wall

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to have an attitude but watched Leap Frog movies in addition to Dora!

Week in Review ~ Week 25

~Family Accomplishments~

~Finished unit on Love
~Started unit on Unity
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 7 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (See my REVIEW here).

~Mama continued using Rosetta Stone Latin and Completed 4 mini-lessons
~Completed our 115th day

~Took Monday off for Unicorn's Birthday

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Completed Discover the Scriptures lesson on Lorenzo Snow

~Completed 3 mini-lessons in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)
~Completed a lesson on Grand Canyon Day (Feb. 26)
~Completed a lesson for Polar Bear Day (Feb. 27)

~Completed a lesson for Iwo Jima Day (Feb. 23)

~Learned about Dr. Seuss (Mar. 2)

~Learned about Patricia MacLachlan (Mar. 3)

~Completed a lesson for National Anthem Day (Mar. 3)

~Completed a lesson for Mt. Rushmore Day (Mar. 3)

~Completed a lesson for the Iditarod (Starts Mar. 5)

~Continued Reading Caddie Woodlawn
~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
~Continued Time4Learning for Math

~Due to World Math and World Spelling Days she didn't do any Language Arts, Social Studies or Science
~Math: Rounding, Addition and Subtraction
~Participated in World Math Day (Mar.1) She completed 3 out of 5 levels. Each level has 20 rounds.

~Participated in World Spelling Day (Mar. 3) She completed all 5 levels. Each level has 20 rounds.

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts

~Math: Comparing Numbers, Graphing and the number "0"
~Language Arts: Letter "A"
~Continued a Unit on Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose Time
~Completed "Twinkle, Little Star"and "Little Miss Muffet" activities

~Started new Unit on "Birds and Nests" from Mother Goose Time
~Completed some fun activities for Dr. Suess' Birthday (including measuring things with her feet)!

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued to have an attitude but watched Leap Frog movies in addition to Dora!

Week in Review ~ Week 24

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Love
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 6 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (I am doing a review for this product in exchange for 1 month free).

~Mama continued using Rosetta Stone Latin and Completed 7 mini-lessons
~Completed our 111th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Finished Discover the Scriptures lesson on Wilford Woodruff

~Completed 3 mini-lessons in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)
~Completed TTL4 (21 WPM and 99% Accuracy)
~Completed a lesson on John Glenn Day (Feb. 20)
~Completed a lesson for President's Day (Feb. 21)

~Completed a lesson for Iwo Jima Day (Feb. 23)

~Learned about authors born in Feb. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jules Vern, John Steinbeck)

~Learned about some famous people born in Feb. (Norman Rockwell, Charles Lindbergh, Thomas Edison, Galileo Galilei)
~Started Reading Caddie Woodlawn
~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts, History and Science
~Math: Comparing & Ordering Numbers, Number Lines & Inequalities, Rounding
~Language Arts: Plot, Main Idea
~Social Studies: Shang & Zhou Dynasties
~Science: Scientific Investigation - Atoms, Matter, Elements, Periodic Table of Elements
~Started a mural using oil pastels

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts

~Completed Time4Learning Science 1st grade
~Math: Matching Numbers
~Language Arts: Letters "D"
~Continued a Unit on Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose Time
~Completed "Old Mother Hubbard", "Little Jack Horner", "There was an Old Woman", "Hot Cross Buns" and "Little Boy Blue" activities

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Developed an attitude and didn't want to do anything except Dora this week!

Week in Review ~ Week 23

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Love
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 4 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (I am doing a review for this product in exchange for 1 month free).

~Mama continued using Rosetta Stone Latin and Completed Unit 1 Lesson 3
~Completed our 107th day

~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Finished Discover the Scriptures lesson on John Taylor

~Started Discover the Scriptures lesson on Wilford Woodruff
~Finished reading the February Friend
~Completed Unit 1 Lesson 3 in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)
~Completed lesson 33 in TTL4 (23 WPM and 91% Accuracy)
~Completed a mini-unit for American Heart Month
~Completed a lesson on Ferris Wheel Day (Feb. 14)
~Completed a lesson for Valentine's Day (Feb. 14)

~Learned about authors born in Feb. (Judith Viorst, Fred Gipson, Charles Dickens, Norman Bridwell, Wilhelm Grimm, Henry W. Longfellow)

~Learned about some famous people born in Feb. (George Herman Ruth, Jr., Nicolas Copernicus, William Fredrick Cody, Michael Jeffrey Jordan)
~Completed Reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond
~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts, History and Science
~Math: Standard, Expanded and Word Form to the Hundred Thousands Place
~Language Arts: Summarizing
~Social Studies: Phoenicians
~Science: Scientific Investigation - Control Groups and Atoms
~Spent a LOT of time coloring!

~Made Cookies

~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts

~Completed Time4Learning Science 1st grade
~Math: Counting, Shapes and Perspective
~Language Arts: Letters "M" and "S"
~Science: Jane Goodall, Water Cycle and Earth's Crust, then she started 2nd grade science with the Life Cycle
~Continued a Unit on Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose Time
~Completed "Old King Cole" and "Pat-a-Cake" activities
~Played board games and put puzzles together

~Made Cookies

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Preschool Level 1
~Completed Unit: Alphabet
~Worked on Matching (using a board game)

Week in Review ~ Week 22

~Family Accomplishments~

~Continued unit on Love
~Continued reviewing Articles of Faith 1-5
~Continued memorizing "The Living Christ" (First 4 sentences complete)
~Continued using Time4Learning (I am doing a review for this product in exchange for 1 month free).
~Completed our 102nd day
~Mama started doing Rosetta Stone Latin again. Unit 1 Lesson 2 is complete (a total of 29 activities)
~Took Monday off of school because Unicorn had a rough weekend (click here to read about it). We rode bikes together as a family.





~Unicorn's Accomplishments~

~Started Discover the Scriptures lesson on John Taylor
~Continued reading the February Friend
~Completed Unit 1 Lesson 3 (a total of 46 activities) in Rosetta Stone Latin (94% overall)
~Completed lesson 31 in TTL4 (23 WPM and 85% Accuracy)
~Completed a mini-unit for National Cherry Month
~Completed a mini-unit on Jell-O for Jell-O Week (Feb. 6-12)
~Completed a lesson on Laura Ingalls Wilder (born Feb. 7)
~Sent a card to a friend for Send A Card to A Friend Day (Feb. 7)
~Completed a lesson on Jules Vern (born Feb. 8)
~Continued Reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond
~Continued Reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
~Continued Time4Learning for Math, Language Arts, History and Science
~Math: Place Value, Order/Compare Numbers, Rounding (Then we switched to level 3 Math and she did Place Value - Level 4 was just a little too hard for her)
~Language Arts: Suffixes, Homophones, Idioms and Greek/Latin Roots
~Social Studies: The Olmec and The Phoenicians
~Science: Scientific Investigation - Collect/Organize Data, Record Observations, Unexpected Findings
~Played board games and Wii Sports





~Ladybug's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Kindergarten for Math, Language Arts and Science
~Math: Position Words (over, under, beside, between, etc.)
~Language Arts: Rhyming, Syllables and Story Details
~Science: Classifing Animals, Weather/Seasons, Thunderstorms
~Continued a Unit on Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose Time
~Completed for "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", "Humpty Dumpty", "There was a Crooked Man", "Itsy, Bisty Spider" and "Hey Diddle, Diddle" activities
~Played board games and Wii Sports

~Monkey's Accomplishments~

~Continued Time4Learning Preschool Level 1
~Completed Units: Numbers and Food