Weekly Wrap-up 8/24/12

Well, the first week of the school year is done, and so far it's gone great. T loves the workbox concept, and it's really gone a LONG way towards getting her to work independently. She's happy to be in second grade and to get to work on Brownie Patches. She is also loving Sonlight Core B and all the extra reading. We are finally getting to all the great books I had on my want to read list but never got to! 90% of them are scheduled in a Sonlight Core, and we just use the others to swap out for books that are too religious for our tastes. We are tweaking the Core B IG slightly, as we don't do the bible portions and we are omitting Missionary Stories with the Millers and From Abeku to Zapotec due to their heavy religious content.

Here's what she completed:

Earned the Discover Key from the Brownie Girl Scout Brownie Quest Journey
Earned the Brownie Earth & Sky try-it
Read Clara and the Bookwagon
Completed pages 1 thru 10 in MCP Math B
Completed pages 1 thru 5 in Climbing to Good English 2
Completed pages 16 thru 23 in Zaner-Bloser Handwriting 1
Completed pages 2 thru 13 in Behold and See 2 learning about Simple tools, inclined planes and levers.
Read 3 poems from Favorite Poems of Childhood : "The Land of Nod", "Hurt No Living Thing" and "The Cat of Cats"
Read the first 6 chapters of Charlotte's Web
Read the first 5 chapters of More Days Go By Pathways Reader and completed pages 1 thru 10 in the workbook
Read pages 1 thru 11 of Usborne Peoples of the World {we are using an older edition with a white cover, not the newer internet-linked edition}
Read and completed pages 20 and 21 of Rod & Staff Proper Manners and Health Habits 2
Read chapters 1 thru 3 of The Long Way to a New Land

And a little artwork for the week! This is T's drawing of Wilbur meeting Charlotte:

And here are our workboxes with books inside! On the sectioned shelf below are all the rest of our books for the year, with the first section being Mama's teacher books & answer keys :). Under that shelf peeking out are our magnetic letters, some boxes that need sorted through {I've been working on cleaning the schoolroom while T works on schoolwork}, and other larger things like out cash register and electronic learning clock.