Homeschool Week: 6/21-6/25

 When you homeschool, there are weeks like this.  😐 

Monday = new carpet installed throughout the house.  Surprisingly, we DID get a bit of schoolwork done. The usual suspects: world geography, creative writing, literature, etc.  Also, hours of moving all of our earthly possessions from the garage back upstairs and into the bedrooms.  And our family just owns way, way too many books.  I had to carry thirteen years of schoolbooks up a flight of stairs and organize them onto the bookshelves.  

Tuesday

Impromptu fishing trip.  We caught 10 fish - 1 catfish and 9 bluegill.  6 year-old boy is a very good fisherman.  Four were his catches.

Wednesday

Boy, the success of Tuesday's fishing trip really encouraged us to ditch the books and fish again.  We hiked out to a waterfall and fished IN the waterfall (lol) and caught 7 fish - all bluegill.  I know there were bass and catfish in there...  You could look into the water and see a catfish and all of his bluegill friends.  The only reason we stopped fishing is because we ran out of bait.  This particular lake had a massive algae bloom and you just can't fish anywhere on that lake unless you follow the creek that it flows into.  

Thursday

A lot of reading...  We started The Wave by Tod Strasser and The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank).  The Diary of a Young Girl is obviously excellent reading for high school.  We are about four chapters in The Wave and so far, I like it.  It's a short, quick, easy read.  For geography, we started A Long Walk to Water.  Excellent.  Also a short, easy read, though.  

Friday

We took friends with us to a water park.  Afterwards, we did some more reading and I read-aloud.  We are all enjoying this round of books.