Fractions are still giving her fits. I’m going to need to print out some more Math Mammoth sheets for practice. She still hasn’t quite gotten it, but I think with doing a few fraction problems a day along with the rest of math she should be okay. We’re moving on to tables next so I think she’ll do okay with those.

We finally got the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia in. I’d ordered it from Classical Conversation back in August, but they never shipped it so I finally ordered it from ebay. We had the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History, but it didn’t line up well enough and was too much of a struggle.

Latin is going a lot better. I’ve linked to each of the games and vocabulary mp3 on my home page so all Kaelee has to do to listen to the vocabulary each day is go to my home page which I keep up at all times.

Kaelee’s almost done with science. She’s managed to wiz right through it.

And as much as I love my Levenger circa punch, I think it’s not going to work out. The pages keep coming out on Kaelee. So we’ll see what we end up doing. Maybe not so many pages in one book.

I put all of Kaelee’s school stuff in one Circa binder. I did it because there were too many days that stuff wasn’t getting done because I/she forgot there was another binder somewhere. Even with a schedule it wasn’t working out like I wanted. Stuff was getting misplaced. So I tore up most of her workbooks and put them in. Some stuff, like History and Geography, I copied onto one sheet and then printed it out. So far it’s working pretty well. We both like it.

Math and Latin are giving us issues. Latin because it hasn’t been done in a while so we need to go back and review. Math because it’s finally getting hard (fractions and such). There was a complete meltdown this week, but hopefully we’ll both get better about it.

History: Lots of problems with history. I think it’s comprehension that’s a problem. We’re going to have to start talking about the questions as Kaelee does them, instead of after she does them incorrectly. She does fine with T/F and multiple choice, but not short answer. I could send Kaelee to public school if I wanted her to be able to recite facts. We homeschool so she can go the extra step and think for herself. You can see on her page one of our handwriting problems. Near horizontal writing.

Spelling: She’s almost done with her spelling book and then only one more spelling book until she’s done with her program. Then I’ll just find copywork/dictation to help her with spelling.

Math: Kaelee’s doing pretty well with Singapore. She likes it; she just does too much in her head. I’m afraid to start covering their “Mental Math” b/c she does so much of it already. And not all of it is right. Maybe being taught how to do it versus just doing it will increase her ability. We have problems with one thing. Not doing everything. You can see where she didn’t answer half of the questions for one problem. And with not writing anything down she often makes little mistakes. I’ve decided to force her to be more careful I’m going to make her go back and redo every problem she missed instead of it just being corrected. Hopefully, then she’ll slow down and get things right like I know she can.

Science: No science yet this week, we only just got Real Science 4 Kids.

Language Arts: More writing this week that was good. I had to remind Kaelee that you really do need to do every step the instructions say. She likes to skip things she thinks aren’t important. She gets this from her mother. Apparently, though we need to sit down and discuss punctuation some. She says she doesn’t know when to use quotes, even though she almost always get it right in her workbook.

Religion: Kaelee’s almost done with Book of Mormon Stories. I’d forgotten to print out more of the lessons for Book of Mormon Discovery so she did the drawing and read a lot.

Latin: We started on Lively Latin this week. Kaelee picked out her Latin name. It’s Arria. She rolls her rrrs very well. I can’t at all.

Art: I’d ordered Draw, Write, Now on a whim. Mainly because I was also ordering StartWrite software to make a copybook. Kaelee opened it up and sat down and started drawing. Of course she picked and chose what she drew and didn’t always do it like they said. Such as the lines to keep things in perspective. Once again, it’s the doing every step thing.

Math: After reviewing what’s left of Rod & Staff Math 3, I decided we’ll switch to Singapore for next year. I like R&S, but I think they’re lacking in teaching somethings and Singapore is heavily recommended so I’ve ordered that. R&S worked well for what I wanted it, which is a more student led learning. I needed that for my pregnancy and recovery. I figure we have about a month left of third grade so we’ve caught up pretty quickly.

Science: We’re not really doing science yet, still waiting on our books and to more or less finish up history, but Kaelee has been wanting to do some of the things I ordered. She chose an experiment from her Experiment book about dissolving washing soda, salt, and sugar in water and watching crystals form. It didn’t work so well. The salt worked, but the sugar only attracted insects, and the soda just didn’t work at all. Not sure what went wrong, but she liked checking them all out.

Language Arts: Growing with Grammar is going well. Kaelee’s picking up on everything pretty quickly and seems to be keeping it too. Kaelee wrote a story for writing. I’m impressed with how good the story was, but she’s always been really creative. It’s just the details, like punctuation, we need to work on. She also wrote it pretty well; we’ve been having problems with her handwriting sloping seriously to the left.

Religion: Kaelee’s been whipping through Book of Mormon Discovery. The way she’s going she should be done and ready for level 2 soon. She really likes reading the scriptures. I’m going to need to find something for the Old or New Testament for next year (5th) that’ll keep her interested also.

We really need to get our “extra” school stuff done as well, but for right now, these are all things that Kaelee can do mostly on her own. I’m hoping 4th grade can be more mommy taught again. Hopefully, about the time the house is done, Caleb will be doing better.