Zoey and I ended up both getting really sick here this past week and a half or so. Not fun...sore throat, congestion, hacking cough, etc. Yuck! The good thing though, is that hopefully this means we won't be sick for the upcoming holidays. Zoey is still fighting the cough...but is on her way to full recovery soon, barring any setbacks.
This past week was kinda crazy. Our garage door broke which caused all sorts of interesting issues all on it's own (including my husband being late for work). We had work done on my car and discovered we needed even more work done on it upon picking it up. Zoey had a routine dentist appt. which ended up in making another dentist appt. to get a filling on her first ever cavity and then being told that we need to make a visit to an orthodontist now for some other areas of interest. Blah. It was the kind of week that you just wanted to have be over and done with. Thankful that it now is!
Zoey worked diligently on her election unit despite not feeling the best. We covered a lot of ground using this guide for young people written and shared by a fellow homeschooling parent. We added in suggested books from Build Your Library's election unit (we really enjoyed the book, See How They Run), along with some additional ones that I found at our local library and added in some videos and other fun things from our paid Brain Pop! subscription. I also had requested (for free) some materials from kids.usa.gov and they got here in time for us to use them which was great. For printables and worksheets I used free downloadable ones from Time for Kids. On the day of the election Zoey finished up her project board and that night she filled in her electoral map as the states were called one way or the other. She ended up going to bed a bit after midnight, as did I. Something that never would have happened if she was in public school! But sleeping in the next day and picking up where she left off was just fine. She watched Donald Trump's speech as well as Hillary Clinton's concession speech and a bit of news and we spent the rest of the day enjoying time outdoors and taking full advantage of this unseasonably beautiful weather we've been having. We also talked about a bit of poetry on this day...
We are wrapping up a few loose ends here with this current unit these next couple of days and plowing through her math, handwriting and grammar at the same time. Next week we start our unit study of winter holidays around the world and we're both so excited!!
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