Weekly Not-Much-of-a-Report

I planned our homeschooling schedule around Moonheart’s college calendar this year. Since her spring break starts this Friday, I figured I’d be on the road for at least a couple of days this week and, therefore, planned no new work. I figured we’d use whatever time we did have this week to catch up on anything that needed our attention.

As is turned out, we were pretty much caught up. We were gone most Monday and took Tuesday to recover, then had light days Wednesday and Thursday. And I’ll be gone Friday for yet another to-Virginia-and-back road trip. RobotBoy will be home with Dad, but I’m assuming there will be no schoolwork done.

Because Moonheart will be home and RobotBoy will be very busy with his birthday and assorted show rehearsals, I’m not planning on any heavy schoolwork next week, either.

Math:
We did the left-over lesson from last week plus one more. He’s still on quadratic equations, but is now solving by factoring, which seems to be a bit easier for him. I'm really hoping we can get through several more lessons in the next week, because that would lighten his weekly load for the remainder of the year. Currently, he needs to do about six lessons a week in order to finish the course by the end of this semester. If he could do an extra eight or nine lessons in this two-week semi-break, he could bring the number down to a more normal five per week for the rest of the year.

History & Literature:
He watched the other two short Greek myths from Jim Henson’s The Storyteller.

Geography:
He’s still working on the North America module. The current lesson has him learning about demographics and population changes.

Other Stuff:
We did a quick Virginia trip last weekend to see Moonheart in the college’s spring musical, Wonderful Town. We made it back home on Monday afternoon with just enough time for RobotBoy to get into choir uniform and head out for a concert. That went quite well, but we didn’t get home until almost 11:00 that night. RobotBoy ended up sleeping until very late on Tuesday morning. He had a make-up music lesson on Tuesday afternoon, followed by his regular tap class and a show rehearsal, which again kept him out later than usual. We finally got some schoolwork done on Wednesday before running out for organ practice, ballet and another show rehearsal. He has another long run on Thursday afternoon, with his regular weekly organ lesson followed by choir and then one more show rehearsal.

All in all, it’s a good week to have a light academic schedule.

My 52-Book Challenge:
My “official” book for the week was the audiobook we listened to on the road, Larklight by Phillip Reeve. It was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the faux Victorian tone. Currently, I’m reading Q & A, the novel on which the film Slumdog Millionaire is based, and another book about dog training.