Thanksgiving

I had originally planned to take the week off from school. It’s a short week with lots to do to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday. But we were getting on a roll! Maybe it’s a good time to catch up from all of those 4 day weeks… So we had school on Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday. I think I made the right call.

We finished our gratitude notebooks this week. They were a big hit! I’m definitely going to look into what we’ll do next. The biggest challenge for the boys was thinking of things to write/draw about each day. Continuing something like this may help spark some extra creativity. I’m especially interested in giving Jimmy some writing/spelling practice without it being a stuffy copywork exercise. Nothing wrong with copywork, but it is, well, work. Writing your own stuff is a little more fun.

This week was a bit of a review week. We continued on with new math lessons, History chapters, Psalms, and DISTAR reading assignments, but we didn’t add any new memory work weeks or catechism questions. I also kept Jimmy working on the same spelling list (number words one to twelve).

I might just do this kind of review week for the Christmas & New Year’s holidays, too. Everyone is enjoying school these days. Let’s keep up the momentum!