Charlotte's Web

We are just starting Week 6 across all levels.  I am amazed at how well we are staying on schedule this year and I have to think it is all because of the 4-day BookShark schedules.  I've done the 5-day Sonlight schedule (and other plans), but this one seems to keeps us going. 

My 12 year old son exclaimed, "What? First you read history to us, then I read history to myself, and then you read some more history stories out loud? That's too much history!"  And that is the end of Week 5: an introduction to the Civil War, a biography on Harriet Tubman, and starting Across Five Aprils.  He'd much rather do science, not only because science is far more interesting, but having a strong background in science is far more important career-wise than a strong background in history.

Lucky for him, BookShark 7 Science came out.  I ordered it the first day, received the first five weeks of the Instructor's Guide, the books, and the science kit.  I think he has already read the robotics book, cover to cover.  I can't wait until Friday (experiment day) when he finds out he gets to build something!

Charlotte and her babies

My Level 1 group seems to need catch up on Thursday and Friday thanks to our ultra-busy activity schedule Monday through Wednesday.  We are in the midst of Charlotte's Web as our read aloud.  Most kids turn vegetarian and become animal rights activists after their first exposure to Charlotte and Wilbur.  My kids, however, have become spider rights activists and refuse to let me vacuum down the cobwebs in the corners.  They add that the cobwebs are perfect decorations for Halloween and why take down the natural webs and replace them with fake ones?  Why indeed?