spring term wrap-up

Our second term has been 10 weeks through the spring - March, April, and the beginning of May.

1. 1000 Book Challenge: get to #750.
We got to 639. Apparently I'm not reading to the little girls as much as I thought I was.

2. Language: 20 spelling lists each for Sunny, Posy and Birdie.
I use this website to get the lists, and we're working with 1st, 3rd and 4th grade right now. Sunny got through 15 lists and the other two got through all 20. I'm willing to let it slide for Sunny though, because her lists have twice as many words.

3. Literature: 10-week poetry unit.
I found this short curriculum and even copied it into a Word doc so I could edit and print it. Never happened. Sunny did build her annual poet-tree, though!

4. History: Finish Story of the World Vol. 1.
DONE! To wrap up the book, I printed the chapter review cards out of the back of the Activity Book, and we used them to start a timeline on the wall.

5. Four field trips.
SEVEN! The New York Hall of Science, Staten Island Children's Museum, the Trash Museum in Hartford, the Ecotarium in Worcester MA, a local commercial dairy, the Liberty Science Center in NJ, and the Bronx Zoo. My target is always 24 in a year - 2 per month - this year, we might actually make it!

6. Math for Birdie: Complete Life of Fred - B.
Done. Now to find book C. A and B were borrowed.

7. Math for Sunny and Posy: Pet Shop Business math, 5 questions per day.
Nope. I think I need to find something else for Posy for math - this seems to be out of her range still. It's targeted 3rd-6th grade and she's just now in Year 3, so it wouldn't hurt to hold off for another year or so for her. Sunny can do it, she just mostly refuses to do math at all. Still.

8. Art Lab book - painting section.
I do not understand why my children want to do art art art art all the time, but as soon as I show up with a book with some ideas, they have a meltdown and haaaaaate it. ????? We have done no painting at all. On the other hand ... we had a marker ban for awhile last year because Azalea would either chew on the tips, or leave the caps off so they dried out. We gave them all new markers for Christmas and in the past 5 months, they have drawn with the markers constantly (with a side of Magnolia hacking the paper to bits with scissors) and gone through an astronomical amount of paper. They need new markers already because they're worn out.

Dance class and STEM Scouts continued through the spring - they're almost done. The dance recital is on June 4 and the last night of STEM is June 6. Sigh!

And spring means co-op! Which already got its own posts. I think if we didn't go to co-op, the girls would stage a revolt.