I had a few pictures from last Friday on my camera that I had forgotten about.  Luckily everyone was feeling better on Friday because we had a Halloween party to go to with our homeschool friends.  First we had to get some school work done though.

Gavin was given word problems like, "If Mary has three shirts and four pants, how many outfits does she have?".  Gavin used tiles to figure out the answers.  I appreciated that he was confused at the beginning because he said the colors didn't match so they weren't outfits.

Austin is working on the letter R this week.  We read a book about Roo, of Winnie the Pooh fame, and today we read a book about raccoons.  He is doing a great job with his letters and is reading blends with no problem.  He has even read a few words.  He is very good at identifying the beginning sounds that he has learned and he is even telling me when a word has a certain letter he knows in it at other times during the day.

He is working on his second book that he gets to read.  It's mostly blends but has a couple words as well.

Gavin is going to learn how to find the area of a shape tomorrow.  Today he reviewed subtraction strategies and then he measured a rectangle and had to figure out how many tiles would fit inside.

We started China today in geography.  He opened his package from Little Passports.

He was very excited to get chopsticks!

I made beef and broccoli for lunch so he could try them out.  We have been very multicultural this week because yesterday we went to an Indian restaurant for lunch to try Indian food.  I was very proud of the kids because they all tried lots of new foods and ate well.

Austin wanted his picture taken too!

After Gavin was done with school he was playing ball with Adelaide.  They had a great time!

I read this book today with Austin.

Gavin read this book about the ancient Maya.  We are starting ancient Greece tomorrow.

He read a chapter about the Maya in this book.

And he read this chapter book about the Maya.  It's a short chapter book.  He did not read all three books today!

We finished Chemistry.  I had planned another week but felt like it was starting to drag a bit and so I decided to wrap it up for now.  I think he learned a lot.  Now we are starting an short oceans unit.  These are the books he's read so far.