Unschooling Moments of the Week 11/26/10

I was really bad at taking pictures this week.

Monday - Becky and I went to a class given by the National Building Museum called City by Design.  It was totally cool.  The kids learned all about what a city needs and then they built all kinds of buildings and put them out on a huge rug that had streets and blocks, a river and a lake on it.  Becky built this:

She brought it home and has built a little area in her room for fairies.

Monday afternoon - Becky had her American Heritage Girls meeting.  They worked on their nature notebooks and also learned Christmas carols to sing at a nursing home.  Becky was so proud that they were learning Adeste Fideles in Latin.  "Mommy," she told me excitedly afterwards, "we're learning Latin!"

Here's her nature notebook:

Sean was home all day with the other boys.  Josh had lots of high school work to do and Will was studying like crazy for his CLEP test on Tuesday.  I thought Sean would be really bored, but he did okay.  He read some more in St. Patrick's Summer Catechism and Li Lun, Boy of Courage and he did some of his next math lesson too.

Tuesday - Josh and I had Latin but there was no art class, so Becky and Sean wound up going over to play at a friends' house in the morning.  Josh and I both got A's on our Latin tests!

Josh didn't have Biology in the afternoon but he found out he got a 94% on his last test.  Yippee!

Will took his CLEP test on Literary Analysis and got a score of 76 out of a possible 80!

It was a good week for tests!

Wednesday was all about getting ready for Thanksgiving.  Except that Josh had a session with his math tutor a day early (they usually meet on Thursdays).  He was actually really looking forward to it.  She was going to teach him about logarithms which is something he was really curious about.  Becky had her VT.

Thursday was Thanksgiving.  I hardly took any pictures.  Here are the two youngest playing with their corresponding in age cousins.

One thing that has been developing lately is everybody is into Rick's ipad including moi!  I am obsessed with playing Scrabble on it.  Sean loves playing Rayman on it because the controls are so much easier.  Becky loves to play sundry things on it.  She's also gotten into Scrabble!

I realize this blog really focuses on Becky a lot!  I guess because she's the youngest.  Also, she tends to do things that are more easily photographic?  Anyway,  I must make an effort to include ALL my kids.

And finally, my oldest daughter, Hannah is home from college.  I don't even have a current picture of her.  I'm determined to take one and post it! But I have to wait for her to wake up!