Total Disarray!

That is what my house is in right now. I have decided that Drake needs his own space. It is not fair to him to have to deal with Kyllian and have no place to escape too. So despite what the boys claim to want, I have made the parental decision to separate their rooms.

This is not as easy as it sounds! This means relocating Kristian's office to the livingroom, moving my stuff to accommodate his, moving the boys computers into their rooms, relocating all the craft/art/sewing supplies, relocating a bunch of paper and trying to figure out how to keep the business stuff in Drake's room but not make it look like his bed is in the office. (still working on the last one!)

My house looks like one of the tile puzzles where there is one empty space and you have to move the tiles around to complete the picture. Only, I am not sure we have an empty space! LOL

Oh, and let's not forget, my computer has been relocated but I am now separated from the network until we play "musical wireless cards" so I am on Drake's computer right now and these IKEA chairs are really UNCOMFORTABLE!!!

So this week has been...

fairly unproductive!

I have decided to back off on math with Kyllian for a bit. He is SO far ahead in math that I don't see the point in fighting with him. I think we will go back to Math U See after the first of the year. Until then we will work with telling time and Math Wrap-Ups to practice math facts. I think part of why I fight with him so much is that he doesn't know his facts. He has to think about each problem, every time. So we will work on facts for a while and then pick up regrouping later.

Drake is reading Peter Pan right now and both the boys are obsessed with RuneScape. So we will be taking a break from our Ancient History study and study the Middle Ages for a while.

So what have you been up to this week?

Probably more than us! LOL

We had electrical work done on Monday so we had no power for much of the morning. SO that meant no computer, no lights and no copy machine. We goofed off mostly and started a few knitting projects. After the electrical work was done it was really nice and breezy outside so we went bike riding.

Tuesday was equally productive. Just as we were sitting down to start school work I got a phone call reminding me of PennySavers. Not that I had forgotten! The man who runs the route never called me to tell me I was doing it. :0 It was no problem. I wanted to do it, it just took me by surprise! So we spent the afternoon dropping PennySavers in Seminole County.

Yesterday, Carey took me, by force I might add (LOLOLOL), to the bookstore. After we were done with that we picked up Alex and Mandy and had a playdate. No school work done yet!

Today we had co-op so at least something educational was done today. I have the boys math and logic printed out but I don't know if we will get to them!

Tomorrow we have hope for a productive day. The first of three art days is tomorrow afternoon and hopefully a bunch of people will show up to work on art projects for the Fall Festival of the Arts!!

So that's our week so far. I think we need to start taking the first week in the month off instead of the last. The same thing happened during the first week of last month as well.

A Recap of our week

Monday we attended co-op. This week was on alligators and the boys made a very cute pop up book. On Tuesday we made an impromptu trip to the zoo to see the alligators. They finished rebuilding the exhibit a few months ago but it has been too hot to go to the zoo. We were there pretty early and most of the animal were out and active so the boys got to see a lot more than usual.

We spent the rest of Tuesday and Wednesday finishing up our unit on Mesopotamia. The big hit of the day was learning about the invention of the wheel. The boys also made clay sculptures of make believe Mesopotamian gods. Kyllian sculpted a ladybug, of course. Evidently, if he was a Mesopotamian ruler everyone would have worshiped the Ladybug God! Not that that comes as a shock to anyone that knows him! LOL We started reading the "Epic of Gilgamesh" but no one was very interested in it and we decided to revisit it later.

Thursday brought the wrap-up of the series of co-ops on Tolerance. The Curriculum Trunk went back to the Holocaust Museum last week but we had one more week of activities. This week we read "Is There Really a Human Race" by Jamie Lee Curtis and talked about community service. Then we set off into the crafting paradise and made butterflies for the HMH Butterfly Project. All together, we made 70 butterflies for the exhibit.

Today we started our first book in the Florida Fun Books series of unit studies. We planned on reading two chapters in "Panther Glade" but only managed one because we were distracted by a very cool art site. Paul Hansen does some amazing stuff. The boys and I spent close to two hours on his website and YouTube site today. I even caved and signed up for YouTube so I could subscribe to his site. We were also supposed to finish up our unit on Canada today but Drake was inspired by Paul Hansen's stuff and decided to make art with all of the pencil erasers. I now have no erasers on any of the pencils but it was a cool art experience anyways! LOL

We don't have co-op on Monday so we will catch up on our Geography then.

Other things for the week...Kyllian is reading "The Poky Little Puppy" and Drake is reading "The Phantom Tollbooth". I am reading "Panther Glade" to them on Fridays and next week we will begin the "Burgess Animal Book" on Mondays. Archery is going well. Both of the boys are having fun and Drake is getting really good. I am going to try to take Drake shooting an extra day each week so we can work one on one.

Okay I think that is it. Well, all I can remember at least, LOL!!