Weekly Review - Wrapping Things Up!

This week has been so fun with the beautiful weather we've been having.  We've spent a lot of time outside.  It's wonderful!
In Our Home:
Baby G has really decided to grow up!  He can now walk across our back yard without falling (maybe 10 or so steps).  Mr N likes to imitate Baby G's walk and it is quite entertaining!  He even includes the usual fall at the end.  Miss O has continued to keep us laughing with her silly jokes - especially towards her Grandpa!  Miss R is ever the studious child.  She's been reading through The Chronicles of Narnia as well as The Adventures of TinTin.  Since she did so well on her needlepoint last week, I bought her a counted cross-stitch project.  She loves it.  She likes to do it while I read to her or while she reads TinTin.  I thought it might be too difficult, but she's been doing great, figuring out the patterns and making those tiny stitches.  She lost the needle though, so sewing is on halt until we find it or buy a new one.  I have a fear of stepping on it with my bare feet.  Hopefully we find it!

In Our Homeschool:
We're really wrapping things up for the school year.  Last week Miss R completed the last page in her math book.  She was quite happy!  We're also finished with History, Health, and Science.  We still have a few Bible lessons left for next week and we'll continue with our read-alouds, and adding to our Book of Centuries.  Other than that, we are preparing for our "Open House" which we hope to do next weekend for the Grandparents - just to have a place to show what we've been working on all year.  =)
Miss O has two days left of her preschool.  She's also continued to build with word-endings this week.  I brought out an audio cd I had gotten for her, Uncle Rick's History for Preschoolers, and she really enjoyed it.  She listened in her bedroom while I was doing read-alouds with Miss R.
Mr N has been asking me to read to him a lot more lately, so I've enjoyed that.  Everything is "read it again", over and over and over.  So, this week his reading has consisted of devotions from The One Year Book of Devotions for Preschoolers (which we love so much here - we're on our second copy!), The Seven Little Postmen (because there is a train in it!), and The Little Red Caboose.  (The last two were recent rummage sale finds....money well spent!)

Learning from Real Books: 
Miss R and I have been slowly reading through The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. (We won't finish by next week, so will continue it into "second grade").  Today as we read I found out that Helen Keller had at one time accidentally plagiarized a story.  (She doesn't remember ever having read the story she evidently copied...it had been read to her and forgotten, but the language apparently stayed with her and came out in her story...too closely, so she was accused of plagiarizing.)  It was very interesting and led to a discussion about plagiarizing and honesty.

All in all, it was a good week and I am very thankful for it!