Weekly Wrap Up - The Beginning of February

Grace just art doodling

The theme of the week had to be getting back in the swing of things. Last week the snow crippled everyone for 2-3 days. Classes were canceled, etc. This week the sun shone and we even got temperatures up in the 60s. Looking so forward to Spring. Spring not Summer. This is what we worked on this week:

What We Are Reading

White Fang

The Captives

House of Hades

King Arthur

Clockwork Prince

The Book of Romans

What We Are Learning and Studying

Famous Men of the Middle Ages - Peter the Hermit

Algebra 

The Scientific Method

Informative Speech Writing

Japanese

Classes Attended

Improv and Theatre Games

Pottery

4:12 Ministries Service Group

Stage Makeup

Speech

Art Class - charcoal

Reviews We are Working On

Mango Languages - Japanese

Motivated Moms - Household Planner

Finding Joy: A Christian's Journey to an Unschooled Life

Gluten free muffins

Grace spent a good bit of time this week working on her short novel/graphic novel. I am pleasantly surprised to see her stick with it. She has also illustrated a few of the characters and we have talked about who the antagonist, etc. are going to be in the story. I am also thrilled about the fact that she is now doing her Algebra completely independently. She reads the instructions for the new lesson and then does the lesson on her own. This is a huge step for her. Now that she feels more comfortable with Algebra, I wouldn't say she enjoys it, but at least no grumbling about getting it done. What used to take a good hour or more gets whipped out in 30 minutes. Going to the gym continues to take up a good part of the week with 3-4 trips for about 1 1/2 hours each time. We attended a great Super Bowl party on Sunday evening with our small group. Lots of good food and fellowship. I think, even though Grace and one other teenage girl are the only young folks attending, that she is getting a lot out of this small group.

Character from Grace's book