I know it has been a bit since I posted and it will be a bit longer still. My husband has requested a divorce and I am unsure how this is going to effect our family or my homeschooling our children. I will obviously have to get a full time job now to support me & my kids and right this moment while I still want to homeschool I am unsure if that is even possible in the future. We are, at the very least, going to continue on with our summer quarter. It will be greatly abridged, though. We need to pack, I need to job hunt, we need to contact lawyers and/or mediators, etc. Plus we have decided that my boys and I should go to New York to visit my family for a couple of weeks so we can have that support during this upsetting time. I should resume posting by the middle of April.
Right now please just keep us in your thoughts.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The Flash
Synopsis - Barry Allen, aka The Flash, aka The Fastest Man Alive is a police forensic scientist who has an alter-superhero ego called The Flash. He runs around Central City solving crimes and taking down super villains.
Wandering Falcon - "I'm not a huge fan of the Flash (I prefer superheroes without superpowers) but these books were pretty good."
Optimus Prime - "I really like Weather Wizard and believe me he did none of the crimes that day. I also liked Fire and Ice. Fire and Ice, they are opposites, but when Captian Cold and Heat Wave shot at each other and end up making a two story building don't you think about running through because half of you will become ash and dust and the other side will become so frozen and cold it will make you break into a hundred thousand pieces. So unless you have a force field you can't get through. And trust me a big suit of armor will not help one little bit because one side will melt and your shoulder will get burned a lot lot lot and the other side will freeze so much that your armor will break. But actually maybe by that point in time you could have gotten through to the other side and survived."
Bumblebee - "I liked The Attack of Professor Zoom! I liked when Captain Cold froze the volcano. And, I liked the robots."
Wandering Falcon - "I'm not a huge fan of the Flash (I prefer superheroes without superpowers) but these books were pretty good."
Optimus Prime - "I really like Weather Wizard and believe me he did none of the crimes that day. I also liked Fire and Ice. Fire and Ice, they are opposites, but when Captian Cold and Heat Wave shot at each other and end up making a two story building don't you think about running through because half of you will become ash and dust and the other side will become so frozen and cold it will make you break into a hundred thousand pieces. So unless you have a force field you can't get through. And trust me a big suit of armor will not help one little bit because one side will melt and your shoulder will get burned a lot lot lot and the other side will freeze so much that your armor will break. But actually maybe by that point in time you could have gotten through to the other side and survived."
Bumblebee - "I liked The Attack of Professor Zoom! I liked when Captain Cold froze the volcano. And, I liked the robots."
The Flash**
- The Attack of Professor Zoom
- Captain's Cold Arctic Eruption
- Gorilla Warfare
- Wrath of the Weather Wizard
- Captain Boomerang's Comeback!
- Trickster's Bubble Trouble
- Clock King's Time Bomb
- Master of Mirrors!
- Ice and Fire
- Killer Kaleidoscope
- Shell Shocker
- Shadow of the Sun
** These books are not numbered, so they are listed in the order that we read them. Also, for these books I have not listed an author since they are too much like comic books with multiple authors, illustrators, and creators.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Scooby-Doo Mystery!
Synopsis - Once again (after this series and this series) Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo go around stumbling upon - and solving - mysteries.
Wandering Falcon - "I gotta say, I was pretty bummed after we finished our last two Scooby-Doo chapter book series so I was so pretty excited to discover this one! Then I was bummed when I found out this series only had three books. However, I gotta say, they weren't as well written as the last two series we read so maybe that was why there was only three? However, despite that, they were pretty good. It was just a big letdown that there were not more. Maybe one day they'll make more - and if so we will read them - but I doubt it since the last one was written almost three years ago."
Optimus Prime - "The books are amazing."
Bumblebee - "I LOVED 'Pirate Cove,' the hotel was creepy, and Ice Giant (SPOILER) used salt."
Wandering Falcon - "I gotta say, I was pretty bummed after we finished our last two Scooby-Doo chapter book series so I was so pretty excited to discover this one! Then I was bummed when I found out this series only had three books. However, I gotta say, they weren't as well written as the last two series we read so maybe that was why there was only three? However, despite that, they were pretty good. It was just a big letdown that there were not more. Maybe one day they'll make more - and if so we will read them - but I doubt it since the last one was written almost three years ago."
Optimus Prime - "The books are amazing."
Bumblebee - "I LOVED 'Pirate Cove,' the hotel was creepy, and Ice Giant (SPOILER) used salt."
Scooby-Doo Mystery by Kate Howard
- The Hotel of Horrors
- The Frozen Giant
- The Haunting of Pirate Cove
Saturday, February 6, 2016
The Magic School Bus
I just gotta ask, who doesn't absolutely love Ms. Frizzle?!?!?!? I'm pretty sure "no one" is the correct answer!
Synopsis - This series follows around Ms. Frizzle and her class as they go on wacky, outrageous - and completely implausible, often overnight on the other side of the world - science-based field trips.
Wandering Falcon - "I loved Ms. Frizzle as a kid (even though I was a bit too old for her) and I love her even more as an adult! Some of the books were better written than others, and some seemed to overlap a bit (like "Twister Trouble" and "Electric Storm" which both covered thunderstorms and tornadoes in their own ways) but overall they were very enjoyable and even taught me some things I had no clue about. And the amount of random information my kids retained is unreal!!! Bumblebee STILL goes on about the first full moon after Christmas and how that's the only time of year some plant or animal in Australia's great barrier reef lays it's eggs - and we read that book months ago. Optimus Prime STILL goes on about their bat adventure even though we must of read that book almost a year ago now! They were very good books and my boys all loved them."
Optimus Prime - "They are good. Okay, they are great. I liked the bats!"
Bumblebee - "I LOVED all of them! Especially the dinosaur one!"
Synopsis - This series follows around Ms. Frizzle and her class as they go on wacky, outrageous - and completely implausible, often overnight on the other side of the world - science-based field trips.
Wandering Falcon - "I loved Ms. Frizzle as a kid (even though I was a bit too old for her) and I love her even more as an adult! Some of the books were better written than others, and some seemed to overlap a bit (like "Twister Trouble" and "Electric Storm" which both covered thunderstorms and tornadoes in their own ways) but overall they were very enjoyable and even taught me some things I had no clue about. And the amount of random information my kids retained is unreal!!! Bumblebee STILL goes on about the first full moon after Christmas and how that's the only time of year some plant or animal in Australia's great barrier reef lays it's eggs - and we read that book months ago. Optimus Prime STILL goes on about their bat adventure even though we must of read that book almost a year ago now! They were very good books and my boys all loved them."
Optimus Prime - "They are good. Okay, they are great. I liked the bats!"
Bumblebee - "I LOVED all of them! Especially the dinosaur one!"
The Magic School Bus Chapter Books by Eva Moore (EM), Jennifer Johnston (JJ), Anne Capeci (AC), Rebecca Carmi (RC), Judith Stamper (JS), Nancy White (NW), Martin Schwabacher (MS), and Gail Herman (GH)
- The Truth About Bats (EM)
- The Search for the Missing Bones (EM)
- The Wild Whale Watch (EM)
- Space Explorers (EM)
- Twister Trouble (EM)
- The Giant Germ (EM)
- The Great Shark Escape (JJ)
- Penguin Puzzle (EM)
- Dinosaur Detective (JS)
- Expedition Down Under (RC)
- Insect Invaders (AC)
- Amazing Magnetism (RC)
- Polar Bear Patrol (JS)
- Electric Storm (AC)
- Voyage to the Volcano (JS)
- Butterfly Battle (NW)
- Food Chain Frenzy (AC)
- The Fishy Field Trip (MS)
- Color Day Relay (GH)
- Rocky Road Trip (JS)
Friday, February 5, 2016
Concept Weeks #52-55/21-24: New Years Day and the Chinese Lunar New Year, Rainforests, the Inca, Maya, and Aztec, & Robots
Like I said in my last post, this is our final Concept Week post. For a while now these posts have been out of date but I've been clinging to them out of habit. I'm not sure what direction the new posts will go in but I'll hopefully have it figured out by the end of February.
Now, this month, together Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, & Scooby-Doo worked on four Concept Weeks. They were New Years Day and the Chinese Lunar New Year, Rainforests, the Inca, Maya, and Aztec, and Robots.
For each Concept Week they had a lapbook filled with information and fun worksheets and each day I read them a book (or two or three) pertaining to the topic. Some of the books were fun story books, others were full of information about the topic. It depended on what the library (and we) had.
Now, this month, together Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, & Scooby-Doo worked on four Concept Weeks. They were New Years Day and the Chinese Lunar New Year, Rainforests, the Inca, Maya, and Aztec, and Robots.
For each Concept Week they had a lapbook filled with information and fun worksheets and each day I read them a book (or two or three) pertaining to the topic. Some of the books were fun story books, others were full of information about the topic. It depended on what the library (and we) had.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Month in Review: January 2016
This month we finally, finally, FINALLY got our act together! I'm so proud of us!
Optimus Prime and Bumblebee worked on Math (Optimus Prime on 2nd grade math with a little bit of 3rd grade math, Bumblebee on 3rd grade math), English (phonics, consonant blends, alphabetical order, logic problems, riddles, comparing and contrasting, and reading comprehension), and Spelling & Reading (see this post for Optimus Prime and this post for Bumblebee).
Scooby-Doo worked on Handwriting (the alphabet, letter sounds, numbers, and counting), Art (coloring), and Logic (same and different, mazes, dot-to-dots, look and find, etc).
Together they worked on four Concept Weeks. They were New Years & the Chinese Lunar New Year, Rainforests, the Maya, Inca, & Aztec, and Robots - all of which I will cover in the Concept Week post (hopefully) tomorrow.
Also, I have decided that this is our final Month in Review post - and tomorrow's Concept Week post is our final one as well. I'm not sure what I'm going to do instead. I'm thinking of maybe doing posts about each unit after they are completed. I haven't decided yet. What I do know is for a while now these posts have been pretty obsolete and I've been clinging to them out of habit. I need to let them go. I'll let you know when I've decided what I am going to do instead.
Optimus Prime and Bumblebee worked on Math (Optimus Prime on 2nd grade math with a little bit of 3rd grade math, Bumblebee on 3rd grade math), English (phonics, consonant blends, alphabetical order, logic problems, riddles, comparing and contrasting, and reading comprehension), and Spelling & Reading (see this post for Optimus Prime and this post for Bumblebee).
Scooby-Doo worked on Handwriting (the alphabet, letter sounds, numbers, and counting), Art (coloring), and Logic (same and different, mazes, dot-to-dots, look and find, etc).
Together they worked on four Concept Weeks. They were New Years & the Chinese Lunar New Year, Rainforests, the Maya, Inca, & Aztec, and Robots - all of which I will cover in the Concept Week post (hopefully) tomorrow.
Also, I have decided that this is our final Month in Review post - and tomorrow's Concept Week post is our final one as well. I'm not sure what I'm going to do instead. I'm thinking of maybe doing posts about each unit after they are completed. I haven't decided yet. What I do know is for a while now these posts have been pretty obsolete and I've been clinging to them out of habit. I need to let them go. I'll let you know when I've decided what I am going to do instead.
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