Weekly Wrap-Up

Happy Friday homeschool friends!

It was a good week here. Not only did we get to do some shopping at the Scholastic Warehouse sale, we finished all of our work for the week, plus some extra. Not bad considering the interruption. Can you tell we're eager to finishe the year?

Let's start with the things that are finished for the year.

We'll start with Stick Starz. It is sponsored by the USA Field Hockey Association and the girls got to play on the official USA field hockey turf because we live down the road from the National Training Center. It's an 8-week clinic that introduces the sport and develops some the skills of the game.

Their main coach, Nick, is on the Men's Olympic team. Yes, men actually play field hockey. Who knew? Not me. I'm from Michigan and I'd never even heard of field hockey until I moved to VA. And even then only because I have a friend who's into it. But, apparently, men's field hockey is the #2 sport in the world. Just not here so much. It was a learning experience for all.

Next thing that we crossed off of our list was Brownies. We are done!!! They bridged this week and it's one less thing I have to drive to during the week. Woot! Actually, we are finished with Girl Scouts forever. I've decided, for a variety of reasons, the GS program is no longer for us. Mackenzie is bummed but they are starting to make changes that are no longer in line with our family values. I heard that there's an American Heritage Girls club somewhere around here so I might look into that. Or not.

Anyhow, here's some shots of the Bridging Ceremony.

In academics...

We learned about the Erie Canal in The Landmark History of the American People and The Story of the Erie Canal. Good book. We finished it in one sitting. Now we're three days ahead which means we're 3 days closer to our end date. Woot!

She learned a bit about Marie Curie in Marie Curie's Search for Radium. Finished that early too. Yay!

In match, she's suddenly stumbling a bit. 3-digit muliplication is suddenly giving her a hard time. Partially because she can be sloppy and partially because she's suddenly forgotten single-digit mulitplication. So I bought Times Tales and we'll be using that to beef up her facts.

We were studying the California tribes this week in The American Indian Prayer Guide. There was a Native American History Pocket on one of the many California tribes, the Maidu. So we worked on that.

Her favorite activities were the Seed Beater and the Bear Rattle.

Well that is our week! Be sure that you pop on over to Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and check out what everyone else is up to.