mohaus: Mohaus Schoolhouse Week 23

We started our week with donuts due to a #momfail. I had thought I placed an order for groceries, but the order never went through. Since we went out of our way to get the groceries, we decided donuts were in order.

Besides donuts, this week looked a little different from our previous weeks. The main difference being that Valentine's Day fell in the middle of the week and we invited homeschool and preschool friends over to celebrate the holiday with us.

This was our second year to host this type of Valentine's Party. I hope it's a tradition we keep up.

We were supposed to host a similar party at Christmas, but Daniel and I got really sick the night before and it kind of derailed our entire December month in terms of school.

Such is life, sometimes you have to roll with the unexpected.

Since we had spent Wednesday with our friends (20 kids plus six moms! in our house), we opted to meet Daniel to go to the Chattanooga RV show instead of trying to coordinate a Friend Friday. Again, we are flexible and Friend Friday can happen any day of the week, we just try to be purposeful in meeting with other families when we can.

So the kids and I met Daniel downtown and he led us through a series of passages over the street and through parking garages to get to the convention center. I think the kids thought that was a grand adventure in and of itself.

After taking the time to look inside almost every RV at the show, we were all exhausted but also excited and anxious to get our own camper out of storage and start our camping season!

We read through several great books this week, including the Jack Tales (our Jack is fascinated that there are so many stories about "Jack" and Isaac is probably annoyed for the same reason!).

We are learning a lot from reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, including a brief overview about submarines, Papua New Guinea, and the Great Barrier Reef. Jack asked if he and Isaac could go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef when they were bigger. I love how the world of books is opening up the world to him!

In Math, he has been learning how to multiply and divide with 2s and 3s this week, and has got perfect scores on all his work. Math continues to be his favorite subject. Along with math, we are all loving the game of Battleship. We play as much as possible.